POLLride - Roxette Singles Poll

i was already an aspiring college rocker so i didn't find him wanting roxette any more absurd than the other kids in the class loving Another Bad Creation and Color Me Badd.

aw!

I got Joyride a week after Consolidated's Friendly Fascism. How's that for punk rock?

It Must've Been Love. Few pop ballads are ever that lovely anymore.

Son of a Plumber is an album released by Swedish pop-rock singer and composer Per Gessle. It is the first album by Gessle to use a different artist name; Son of a Plumber. The album, which was officially released on 23 November 2005,[6] is a double CD album packed with deeply personal and highly inventive music according to Gessle[citation needed].

Apparently they released a single this year called "She's Got Nothing On (But The Radio)"

played in my local pub every lunchtime this summer. my violent teenage antipathy to roxette has barely abated in the intervening years.

Had to go with Fading Like A Flower. Very tough though.

Tough in a good way, not because they're all terrible.

is Son of a Plumber a concept album? plz say yes

btw this is "The Look" and fuiud

voting Almost Unreal for irrational sentimental reasons, but there's actually a lot of good stuff on here. Fading Like a Flower!

I really like Dangerous and The Look.

the centre of the heart!

get out of my way
get out of my life

Listening to "The Look" and I am actually tearing up, it's so good and so evocative of the way the world sounded for half a second

Blubbed like a child this afternoon when my a/c station played "Fading Like a Flower."

she's got a club on the moon :')

badass performance. taken way too young

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN-S2lIINeM

pop shows in the 80s/90s look like they were so much fun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J801Dd-UmE

have just learned that It Must Have Been Love is in fact a Christmas song, originally titled "It Must Have Been Love (Christmas for the Broken Hearted)" and was written at the behest of their record label to "come up with an intelligent Christmas single"

was a big hit in Sweden and then three years later the producers of "Pretty Woman" asked them for a contribution to the soundtrack, so they replaced the only instance of the word "Christmas" with "winter" and robert's your father's brother, massive international hit

love old school record biz stories like this, with clueless producers/investors just throwing money and promo energy at people hoping for "a hit" whatever that means anymore

anyways great song, will add the original to the holidays playlist in a few months

it must have been Christmas
but it's over now
I got lots of gifts
but they sucked anyhow