roxette

《》（駕遊玩、兜）專輯源，保羅·卡尼句：“約翰·儂歌途兜”。譚詠麟的那首《你知我知》，正是Roxette在89年《Look sharp》里的“the look”，老牌港台只是做了重新填詞。

  :

:  '

Artist:Roxette

Album: Pearl of Passion

Review/專輯評論

1997 EMI reissue of their '86 debut with eight bonus tracks:'Pearls Of Passion', 'It Must Have Been Love (Christmas For The Broken-Hearted)', 'Turn To Me', 'Neverending Love' (Tits& Ass Demo 1986), 'Secrets That She Keeps' (Tits & Ass Demo 1986), 'I Call Your Name' (Montezuma Demo 1986), 'Neverend- ing Love' (Frank Mono - Mix 1987) and 'I Call Your Name' (Frank Mono - Mix 1987). 20 tracks total

Tracklist/曲目列表

1 Soul Deep

2 Secrets That She Keeps

3 Goodbye To You

4 I Call Your Name

5 Surrender

6Voices

7 Neverending Love

8 Call Of The Wild

9Joy Of A Toy

10 From One Heart To Another

11 Like Lovers Do

12So Far Away

13 Pearls of Passion

14 It Must Have Been Love (Christmas for The Broken-Hearted)

15 Turn To Me

16 Neverending Love (Tits & Ass Demo)

17 Secrets That She Keeps (Tits & Ass Demo)

18 I Call Your Name (Montezuma Demo)

19 Neverending Love (Frank Mono-Mix)

20 I Call Your Name (Frank Mono-Mix)

Artist:Roxette

Album:Look Sharp!

Original Release Date: 1988

Label: Capitol

Catalog: #91098

Review/專輯評論

1988 年Roxette推出第二張專輯「Look Sharp!(當心留意)」，這張專輯在瑞典造成更大的迴響，但Roxette仍然沒有打入國際樂壇。不過，千里馬終究會有伯樂賞識的。當年有一個美國交換學生自瑞典回國後，力促明尼蘇達州的廣播電台KDWB播放The Look這首爆發力/感染力極強的歌曲。從此The Look的拷貝錄 音帶便流傳到美國其他的電台，一夕之間，Roxette一炮而紅！他們在美國有了第一支熱門單曲，所謂打鐵要趁熱，他們旋即於1989年在美髮行The Look單曲，一飛衝天到了排行榜冠軍，而且在其他24個國家也紛紛登上了排行第一名。同年10月，Roxette以Listen To Your Heart拿下第二個全美冠軍，並在歐洲展開巡迴演出。緊接著，Per重新譜寫It Must Have Been Love，拿掉了原有的Christmas For The Broken Hearted的字樣，在1990年成為Roxette的第三首全美排行冠軍曲，在全美電台的點播率始終居高不下。這首歌並收錄在賣座電影『麻雀變鳳凰 Pretty Woman』的原聲帶當中，而這張原聲帶也締創了900萬張的銷售佳績。

Tracklist/曲目列表

1.Look

2.Dressed for Success

3.Sleeping Single

4.Paint

5.Dance Away

6.Cry

7.Chances

8.Dangerous

9.Half a Woman, Half a Shadow

10.View from a Hill

11.(I Could Never) Give You Up

12.Shadow of a Doubt 13.Listen to Your Heart

Artist=Roxette

Name=Joyride

Label=1993

EMI

Date=1993

Catalog=CDP7960482

Review/專輯評論

1991 年Roxette發行第三張專輯「Joyride」，專輯同名曲亦是該輯首打單曲再度於美國等地登上排行榜冠軍，同年九月，Roxette於芬蘭首都展開「Join The Joyride」世界巡迴演唱會，足跡踏遍歐美澳洲等地，直到1992年於家鄉瑞典畫下句點。在這108場的巡迴演出之後，「Joyride」專輯銷售量突破一千萬張。

One would be forgiven for thinking that a group which peaked ten years ago probably isn't all that good. However, when the peak is Joyride, it can easily be understood that it was a hard act to follow. While later efforts have proved almost as successful (especially 1994's Crash! Boom! Bang! and 2001's Room Service), nothing has yet managed to beat the thrashing guitars and catchy tunes of Joyride (1991). The singles are great, of course - Joyride, Fading Like A Flower (Every Time You Leave), (Do You Get) Excited? - but it is the other tracks which really carry this classy album: Keep On Knockin' On Every Door is as compelling as they come, with Perfect Day, the album's closing track, taking your breath away as Marie reaches every note pitch perfect - no mean feat given that this song ranges across three full octaves! This is, quite simply, a masterpiece, and nothing has yet come along to beat it, whether from Roxette or any other group. If you want the early 90s in a nutshell, look no further than Roxette's Joyride.

簡介：

人們能理解十年前，即使是一個頂尖水平的樂隊都不一定是很好的。不過Joyride是唯一的一個例外！因為他當時的水平即使放到今天也是非常之高的！在那以後Roxette不斷的努力並取得了進步和成就（特別是1994年的“Crash! Boom! Bang!”和2001年的“Room Service”）築就了Joyride，那種獨特的沉重的吉他和詭異的曲調是無人能及的。Joyride的偉大的單曲“Fading Like A Flower (Every Time You Leave)”和“Do You Get”，有誰聽到能不為之振奮？其實這張優秀唱片的真正精髓在於別處：“Keep On Knockin' On Every Door”就如同Joyride本身那麼引人注意，唱片壓軸曲“Perfect Day”甚至能將你的呼吸帶走，就象Marie達到的每個音符都能趨於完美，能穿越滿滿三個八度的歌，那種美妙已經不能用語言表述了！這，就是著名的傑作，至今無人能及的，不論是Roxette或者是別的樂隊。

Tracklist/曲目列表

01. Joyride

02. Hotblooded

03. Fading like a flower (every time you leave)

04. Knockin' on every door

05. Spending my time

06. I remember you

07. Watercolours in the rain

08. Big L

09. Soul deep

10. Do you get excited

11. Church of your heart

12. Small talk

13. Physical fascination

14. Things will never be the same

15. Perfect day

Artist:Roxette

Album:Tourism

Original Release Date: October 6, 1992

Label: Capitol

Catalog: #99929

Review/專輯評論

92年Roxette接著推出第四張專輯「Tourism」，此輯收錄他們在世界巡迴演出期間的現場錄音以及定點錄製的歌曲，其中的How Do You Do更成為該輯的熱門歌曲，作為開場曲總能帶來極佳的熱場效果。

Tracklist/曲目列表

1. How Do You Do!

2. Fingertips

3. The Look

4. The Heart Shaped Sea

5. The Rain

6. Keep Me Waiting

7. It Must Have Been Love

8. Cinnamon Street

9. Never Is A Long Time

10. Silver Blue

11. Here Comes The Weekend

12. So Far Away

13. Come Back (Before You Leave)

14. Things Will Never Be The Same

15. Joyride 16. Queen Of Rain

唱片 : Unplugged

藝人 : Roxette

發行日期：1993

唱片公司: EMI唱片公司

Review/專輯評論

1993年——Roxette成為第一支受邀請參加MTV Unplugged演出的非英語國家樂隊。同年Marie成為未婚母親。而Per Gessle則娶妻成家。

Tracklist/曲目列表

01_The Look

02_Watercolours In The Rain

03_Hotblooded

04_I Never Loved A Man

05_Dangerous

06_Cry

07_It Must Have Been Love

08_Fingertips

09_Queen Of Rain

10_Heart Of Gold

11_Church Of Your Heart

12_Listen To Your Heart

13_Here Comes The Weekend

14_Joyride

15_So You Wanna Be A Rock 'N' Roll Star 16_Perfect Day

Artist:Roxette

Album:Crash! Boom! Bang!

Original Release Date: October 4, 1994 Label: EMI Int'l

Catalog: #28727

Review/專輯評論

1994年——Roxette推出第4張大碟“Crash! Boom! Bang!”。秋季,Roxette展開第二次全球巡演，其中在歐洲演出47場。

1. Harleys & Indians: a kinda weak song to start the album, but it's funny, it might grow on you quite well. 6/10

2. Crash! Boom! Bang!: probly my absolute fav Roxtune of all time. Marie's voice is so full of emotions, the instrumentation is perfect, the songwriting is excellent. An all-time classic for me. 10/10

3. Fireworks: a very catchy upbeat song, with lots of fun in the lyrics and great background vocals. I think it isn't weak to be a single, it's always been doing fine by me. 9/10

4. Run to You: a very romantic typical Roxette-ish song with strings arrangement and, again, Marie's incredible

singing (which is true throughout the album). 8/10

5. Sleeping in My Car: perhaps the heaviest rocker in Roxette history, constantly played on the radios. It blows you away, so powerful and rocking. Easy 10/10.

6. Vulnerable: nice song, but way too sappy for me. The strings sound good, though, and the whistling at the end is lovely. 6/10

7. First Girl on the Moon: very enjoyable little tune, Per and Marie's voice match perfectly, the harmonica adds a good folky feeling to it. 9/10

8. Place Your Love: one of my favs on this album, a wonderful acoustic piece with winds arrangement. 10/10

9. I Love the Sound of Crashing Guitars: good rocker tune, good guitars (well, the title speaks for itself) 8/10

10. What's She Like?: it's a kinda upbeat, but still painful and sad song. 7/10

11. Do You Wanna Go the Whole Way?: good upbeat song with incredibly catch strings, nice acoustic interlude by

Per. 9/10

12. Lies: a very fun song with some good ironic lyrics. 7/10

13. I'm Sorry: a typically '90s sounding ballad. It gets a lot of praise from other Roxfans, with my agreement. Roxette also recorded it on the album of their best ballads sung in Spanish (just to show how really great this song is). 9/10

14. Love Is All (Shine Your Light on Me): a soaring hymn to love, with some experimental features not so often used in popular music. Probly their longest song. 8/10

15. Go to Sleep: a good way to finish this great work of up to par pop-rock music. Beautiful ballad, can be taken as a lullaby as well. 9/10

Tracklist/曲目列表

1. Harleys & Indians

2. Crash! Boom! Bang!

3. Fireworks

4. Run to You

5. Sleeping in My Car

6. Vulnerable

7. First Girl on the Moon

8. Place Your Love

9. I Love the Sound of Crashing Guitars

10. What's She Like?

11. Do You Wanna Go the Whole Way?

12. Lies

13. I'm Sorry

14. Love Is All (Shine Your Light on Me)

15. Go to Sleep

Artist: Roxette

Album: Don't Bore Us Get to the Chorus: Roxette's Greatest Hits

Original Release Date: November 1995

Label: EMI Int'l

Catalog: #35466

Review/專輯評論

All of the best from the hit Swedish pop/ rock duo, 1987-1995. 18 tracks, including the-then previously unreleased songs 'She Doesn't Live Here Anymore' & 'I Don't Want To Get Hurt' alongside smashes like 'The Look', 'Listen To Your Heart' (Swedish Single Edit), 'Dangerous' (Single Version), 'It Must Have Been Love', 'Fading Like A Flower (Every Time You Leave)' and 'Sleeping In My Car'. 1995 release. The full title is 'Don't Bore Us - Get To The Chorus! Roxette's Greatest Hits'.

Tracklist/曲目列表

1. June Afternoon

2. You Don't Understand Me

3. Look

4. Dressed for Success

5. Listen to Your Heart

6. Dangerous

7. It Must Have Been Love

8. Joyride

9. Fading Like a Flower (Every Time You Leave)

10. Big L.

11. Spending My Time

12. How Do You Do!

13. Almost Unreal

14. Sleeping in My Car

15. Crash! Boom! Bang!

16. Vulnerable

17. She Doesn't Live Here Anymore

18. I Don't Want to Get Hurt

Album: Baladas en espanol

Artist: Roxette

Publish: 1996

Lable: EMI

Ling 西班牙

Review/專輯評論

1996 年——Roxette在這一年的前半段進入休整，沒有任何活動。而Per倒為Gyllene Tider樂隊寫了4首瑞典語歌曲並推出EP。Gyllene Tider的重組成為該年瑞典樂壇的熱點，樂隊推出了精選碟、舉行了全國巡演、佔領了排行榜、捧走了多個獎項。到了年底,Gyllene Tider功成名就，退出樂壇。另一邊,Marie也沒閑著，她推出了第5張個人大碟，並生下第二個孩子。該年秋季，又推出一張西班牙語唱片“Baladas En Espanol”, 在西班牙、阿根廷、智利、墨西哥等國家受到歡迎。

Tracklist/曲目列表

1. Un dia sin ti (Spending my time)

2. Crash! Boom! Bang! (Crash! Boom! Bang!)

3. Directamente a ti (Run to you)

4. No se si es amor (It must have been love)

5. Cuanto lo siento (I'm sorry)

6. Timida (Vulnerable)

7. Habla el corazon (Listen to your heart)

8. Como la lluvia en el cristal (Watercolours in the rain)

9. Soy una mujer (Fading like a flower (every time you leave)

10. Quiero ser como tu (I don't want to get hurt)

11. Una reina va detras de un rei (Queen of rain)

12. El dia del amor (Perfect day)

Album: Have A Nice Day

Artist: Roxette

Publish: 1999

Lable: EMI 499461

Ling 西班牙

Review/專輯評論

Review by Jason Damas In the five years between Roxette's last album, Crash, Boom, Bang, and this, their "comeback" album, pop music had changed considerably. Crash, Boom, Bang failed, in part, because it was completely out of step with the times; in 1994 grunge, alternative, and rap ruled the charts, but Roxette always produced a relatively crisp and clean brand of pop/rock. In the five years since then, however, Brit-pop brought alternative rock back towards pop, electronica made dance music "cool" again, and bubblegum pop bands like the Spice Girls made unabashed pop fun again. Also, Per Gessle was fresh off from his very rock-oriented 1997 solo album. What resulted, then, was really rather ambitious. Have A Nice Day is an effort to encapsulate Roxette's trademark sound with Brit-pop and electronica, and, by gosh, it works. It's easily as good as any other Roxette album, save maybe only the stellar Joyride, and it shows that artistically the band is still on top. There's a good deal of emphasis on dance music here, but instead of the indistinguishable dance-pop of the band's early days, the beats seem to be borrowed straight from Fatboy Slim records. That, mixed with Gessle's gritty guitars, makes for a good deal of up-tempo rockers ("Crush on You," "7Twenty7," "Stars"). There are also some excellent pop songs, such as the single "Wish I Could Fly" and Gessle's unforgettable "You Can't Put Your Arms Around What's Already Gone," quite possibly the best song he's ever written. As is the case with any Roxette album, however, there are flaws, namely the presence of filler, mostly in the form of pace-destroying ballads. It's a small price to pay, however, for the return of one of the best mainstream pop bands in the past decade.

1998年——1月,Roxette重新上路，樂隊飛往西班牙開始第6張大碟的錄製。最終在11月完成。

1999年——大碟首支單曲“Wish I Could Fly”於2月1日推出。之後，大碟“Have A Nice Day”發行。

Tracklist/曲目列表

1. Crush On You

2. Wish I Could Fly

3. You Can't Put Your Arms Around What's Already Gone

4. Waiting For The Rain

5. Anyone

6. It Will Take A long Long Time

7 Twenty7

8. I Was So Lucky

9. Stars

10. Salvation

11. Pay The Price

12. Cooper

13. Staring At The Ground

14. Beautiful Things

Album : Room Service

Artist: Roxette

Original Release Date: April 3, 2001

Label: EMI

Int'l

Review/專輯評論

“Room Service”專輯延續昔日舊風，依然洋溢著無限激情，火爆的動感節奏與高亢動情的演唱交輝生映，全集開篇以具有與往日不同的電子合成旋律的“The Centre Of The Heart”開始，儼然具有Disco的風韻，一開口完全就是我們的老相識的Roxette，專輯歌曲多為急促快板的Roxette式的搖滾節奏，但也有象“Bring Me Down To My Knees”這樣的慢板柔情歌曲，12首歌曲各具千秋，各自表達一種心境…十幾年的黃金組合走過了燦爛輝煌的音樂歷程，如今更顯得老到成熟，音樂製作水準更是不同凡響。

If proof were needed that Roxette are the new ABBA, the lack of critical respect should be enough. Like Abba, Roxette is a masterful pop band (with just the right amount of kitsch in its armor) that routinely gets slagged off for lacking substance, whatever that may be. Room Service showcases a band at the top of its form with its feet firm on the pedal: this album is a case study in songcraft and pop smarts. With its na-na-na choruses and sparkly guitars, Room Service is also trademark Roxette, a mostly no-surprises package that divides its time between the soaring, emotive power ballads and the rife-with-hooks rock-dance stompers that the band pretty much took patents out on back in the '80s and '90s. This is a group that has gotten really good at what it is doing, without getting bored doing it. Result? Probably the best Roxette album since Joyride. Opening tracks "Real Sugar" and "The Centre of the Heart" with their now-rock, now-disco, always-pop attack are effortless up-tempo smashes that deliver an unstoppable one-two sucker punch. On the other hand, "Milk and Toast and Honey" and "Bringing Me Down to My Knees" are big-ticket slow-burners that are as good as adult contemporary gets. "Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)" burgles the "Just a little bit" refrain from Aretha Franklin's "Respect" and uses it to spike the sort of lush, half-pensive ballad that Roxette can toss off in its sleep by now. "You Make My Heart Go Pop" is a noisy, overproduced Top-Ten-here-we-come sparkler that'll zoom straight to the trash-magnet center of your brain and stick there for weeks on end. This album also shows a lyrically sharper Roxette, less eager than before to compromise the words for the hooks. Sure, they may occasionally slip into cliché and overt sentimentalism, but they're never less than tuneful. Both Per Gessle and Marie Frederiksson are in fine vocal form, especially Marie, who's equally proficient

whether she's doing elegiac laments or burning the house down. Room Service is an exciting, immediate, high-gloss pop gem that contains very little filler indeed. On it Roxette may not be making any great leaps forward, but when you're

in such a great place why bother moving?

Tracklist/曲目列表

1. Real Sugar

2. The Centre Of The Heart (Is A Suburb To The Brain)

3. Milk And Toast And Honey

4. Jefferson

5. Little Girl

6. Looking For Jane

7. Bringing Me Down To My Knees

8. Make My Head Go Pop

9. Try (Just A Little Bit Harder)

10. Fool

11. It Takes You No Time To Get Here

12. My World, My Love, My Life

Artist=Roxette

Name=The Ballad Hits

Label=EMI 2001

Date=2001

Catalog=427982

Review/專輯評論

Roxette's Ballad Hits demonstrates what it is that's made their band successful. It's a simple formula, but it works every time. After a quiet, exquisitely maudlin verse, Marie Fredriksson unleashes that shockingly big voice, the drums crash, huge guitars and keyboards attack and Roxette burst into another ludicrously memorable chorus. No one can match their jubilant revelling in the torment of love. From 1989 to 1991, they dominated the US charts with a string of super-dramatic hits. "Listen to Your Heart", "It Must Have Been Love", "Fading like a Flower", classics all, and they're all here, along with much else. For Roxette, ballads don't always follow the duo's own comic dictum--"Don't Bore Us, Get to the Chorus". "Queen of Rain", with its moving oboe breaks, takes time to grow, as does the string-laden "Crash! Boom! Bang!"

And it's not all great, either. "You Don't Understand Me", cowritten with hit-maker Desmond Child, is a weak song only just rescued by Fredriksson, while "Salvation" sounds like a Robbie Williams-style collage of other people's work. Fortunately, the two new tracks, "A Thing About You" (sung by songwriter Per Gessle) and "Breathe" are sweet and strong enough to repair the damage. Thus, despite the enormous power of those early smashes, the surprisingly varied Ballad Hits is consistently brilliant throughout. --Dominic Wills Ballad

Hits可以說是Roxette這支成功的樂隊的代表作。辛勤的工作是他們成功的唯一途徑。在沉默了一段時間之後，Marie Fredriksson又開始釋放出那恐怖的聲響，暴烈的鼓點，廣闊的吉他，及具攻擊性的鍵盤；等等的這些讓Roxette爆發出了一種滑稽的，但又令人難忘的合聲！他們在愛情的折磨中的狂歡無人能及。從1989年到1991年，他們在美國的事業有了一聯串極富戲劇性的變化。“Listen to Your Heart”，“It Must Have Been Love”，“Fading like a Flower”這些經典的傑作也紛紛被收錄進來！對Roxette來說，情歌並不總是以重唱的方式來表達的，就象是“Don't Bore Us, Get to the Chorus”。“Queen of Rain”那走走停停的雙簧管的演奏和“Crash! Boom! Bang!”的弦樂的演奏都象是能把時間帶走一樣。當然，也不能說全是好歌。與冠軍製造者Desmond Child共同創作的“You Don’t Understand Me”是唯一不怎麼理想的歌曲，卻被Fredriksson給拯救了過來；而“Salvation”這首歌卻又感覺象是Robbie Williams風格的拼湊起來的作品。幸好，兩首超強新曲“"A Thing About You”（由創作型歌手Gessle演唱）和“Breathe”的甜美及時彌補上了這些缺點。帶給人無數驚喜的Ballad Hits的出現，一定是你所期待已久的！

Tracklist/曲目列表

01. A Thing About You

02. It Must Have Been Love

03. Listen To Your Heart

04. Fading Like A Flower

05. Spending My Time

06. Queen Of Rain

07. Almost Unreal

08. Crash! Boom! Bang!

09. Vulnerable

10. You Don't Understand Me

11. Wish I Could Fly

12. Anyone

13. Salvation

14. Milk And Toast And Honey

15. Breathe

Artist: Roxette

Album: Myths

Review/專輯評論

The 1st double-compilation featuring many unreleased tracks and demos that were stolen from Per's compagnon Mats M.P. Persson (Gyllene Tider) a few years ago. All this goes accompanied by internal EMI celebration-recordings, cover

versions and an 'nearly' antique tour Souvenir from the old days.

Tracklist/曲目列表

CD1

01 The Look (dem 29-03-1988)

02 Cry (dem 1987)

03 Dance Away (dem 1987)

04 Dangerous (dem 1987)

05 Dressed For Success (dem 1987)

06 Shadow Of A Doubt (dem 1987)

07 Listen To Your Heart (dem 1987)

08 Joyride (dem 1990)

09 Fading Like A Flower [Every Time You Leave] (dem 1990)

10 Spending My Time (dem 1990)

11 Perfect Day (dem 1990)

12 Never Is A Long Time (dem 1987/1992)

13 Here Comes The Weekend (dem 1987/1992)

14 Whats She Like? (dem 1990/1993)

15 Waiting For The Rain (dem 1997)

16 Beautiful Things (dem 1998)

17 Looking For Jane (dem 15-02-2000)

CD2

01 The Voice (demo)

02 Love Spins (demo)

03 Reaching High (demo)

04 You Turn Me On (demo)

05 Drowning In You (demo)

06 From Head To Toe (demo)

07 Under Your Magic Spell (demo)

08 Dancing On The Nightwire (demo)

09 Don't Believe In Accidents (instrumental dem spring 1988)

10 Stay [At Home, At Work, At Play] (dem 07-1995)

11 Do You Wanna Go With Me? (dem 1998)

12 Always The Last To Know (dem 1998)

13 All I Ever Wanted (dem 1997)

14 Remember (dem 1997)

15 New World (dem 1997)

16 Bad Moon (dem 1997)

17 I Do Believe (dem 24-07-1999)

Artist: Roxette

Album: The Pop Hits

Audio CD (April 22, 2003)

Label: EMI

Review/專輯評論

2003 Collection of their Pop Hits. Includes Two 2003 Recordings, the Previously Available Only on Single, "Opportunity Nox" and "Little Miss Sorrow".

Tracklist/曲目列表

1. Opportunity Nox

2. Look

3. Dressed For Success

4. Dangerous

5.Joyride

6. Big L

7. Church Of Your Heart

8. How Do You Do

9. Sleeping In My Car

10. Run To You

11. June Afternoon

12. Stars

13. Centre Of The Heart

14. Real Sugar

15. Little Miss Sorrow

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