POLLride - Roxette Singles Poll

I wasn't going to list their six dozen late nineties minor singles.

DANGEROUS

I have not heard anything after "Almost Unreal" (from Super Mario Bros the movie).

Yeah I don't even recognize most of those tbh.

Dangerous or It Must Have Been Love

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

so here's the tracklisting to Per Gessle's 2005 double CD Son Of A Plumber
DISC 1

1. "Drowning in Wonderful Thoughts about Her"
2. "Jo-Anna Says"
3. "I Have a Party in My Head (I Hope it Never Ends)"
4. "C'mon"
5. "Week With Four Thursdays"
6. "Hey Mr DJ (Won't You Play Another Love Song)"
7. "Late, Later On"
8. "Ronnie Lane"
9. "Are You an Old Hippie, Sir?"
10. "Double-headed Elvis"
11. "Something in the System"
12. "Speed Boat to Cuba"
13. "Come Back Tomorrow (And We Do it Again)"

Tracks 9-13 are mixed together as a medley and named the Junior Suite.

DISC 2

1. "Kurt - The Fastest Plumber in the West"
2. "I Never Quite Got over the Fact that the Beatles Broke Up"
3. "Substitute (for the Real Deal)"
4. "Waltz for Woody"
5. "Carousel"
6. "I Like it Like That"
7. "Something Happened Today"
8. "Brilliant Career"
9. "Burned out Heart"
10. "Drowning in Wonderful Thoughts about Her" (reprise)
11. "Making Love or Expecting Rain"

nothing against marie really but

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWaH3SFjzes

Can we poll best song title on Son of a Plumber?

Shortlist nominations:

5. "Week With Four Thursdays"
7. "Late, Later On"
9. "Are You an Old Hippie, Sir?"
10. "Double-headed Elvis"
12. "Speed Boat to Cuba"
1. "Kurt - The Fastest Plumber in the West"
2. "I Never Quite Got over the Fact that the Beatles Broke Up"
7. "Something Happened Today"
11. "Making Love or Expecting Rain"

Amazingly, none of the above even have parentheses!

12. "Speed Boat to Cuba"

from the Miami Vice sounddtrack.

My picks:

Rocker: "Dangerous" (YOUR MOUF IS ALIIIVE!)
Ballad: "Fading Like a Flower" (unexpected guitar fills)
Crap: "Listen to Your Heart"

We had so many joke Roxette songs at school when I was about 9 years old. "Listen To Your Fart", "Undressed For Some Sex" etc. etc.

oh man "listen to your fart" just made me lol heartily

They were one of those acts whose popularity was unquestioned (four #1's in the US!) but I didn't know a single person who listened to them willingly or bought their singles.

A friend in 5th grade refused to tell me what he wanted for his birthday and then wrote "Roxette - Joyride" on a note during class when I asked again. I bought the tape and gave it to him at his party, only have him shouting "oh my god, dude, I was joking!"

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