[杂谈随感]ABBA·Roxette 瑞典的音乐传奇（）

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ABBA

　　来自瑞典的disco-pop四重唱组合abba一直到目前为止都是整个世界最受欢迎的流行音乐组合之一--从澳大利亚到俄国,ABBA音乐广泛流行.他们的歌长期被欧洲各国夜总会和迪斯科舞厅播放.

　　虽然ABBA1982年解散了,但是它的四位成员在单飞后各自在瑞典仍取得了巨大的成功,而ABBA的唱片每年在全世界仍然有上百万的销量.

　　ABBA于七十年代早期成立于斯德哥尔摩,当时ABBA的成员Bjorn Ulvaeus在一个名叫Hootenanny Singers的流行民谣摇滚乐队担任吉它手和主唱,而他的朋友,Benny Andersson则在一个流行乐队The Hep Stars里担任键盘手.那时,他们经常在斯德哥尔摩的Polar Studio和Polar Studio的老板也是ABBA后来的经纪人Stig Andersson写歌,聊天,商量成立一个新的组合.这时Ulvaeus和Andersson各和一位极富才华的女歌手陷入了爱河.Ulvaeus爱上了流行女歌手Agnetha Faltskog,而Andersson的伴侣则是挪威出生的爵士女歌手Anni-Frid "Frida" Lyngstad.出于对合作的渴望,这两对情侣在一起录制了他们的处女作"People Need Love",这首歌在欧洲一炮打响,也帮助他们赢得了参加1973年在瑞典举行的欧洲音乐电视大赛的机会.在此次大赛上,他们用了"Bjorn, Benny, Agnetha and Frida"这个听起来很可笑的名字,并演唱了后来在欧洲极为流行的"Ring,Ring",但在当时他们并没有获得任何奖项.尽管有这次挫折,这只组合并没有就此停步.Bjorn和Agnetha在当年晚些时候结了婚.在开始新的音乐尝试之后,他们先把自己组合的名字改成了ABBA,它是取了乐队几名成员名字的第一个字母组成的.

　　1974年,ABBA带着新歌"Waterloo"参加欧洲电视网音乐大赛.和他们大多数作品一样,这是一首英文作品并由Faltskog和Lyngstad演唱.ABBA获得了瑞典赛区的冠军并闯进了在英国举行的国际区总决赛,在那里,他们获得了瑞典到目前为止第一个也是唯一一个大奖."Waterloo"也传遍了整个欧洲,甚至登上了美国和英国单曲榜的前十名.但是,接下来的几首单曲都遭到了失败.1975年,ABBA狭新单曲"S.O.S"卷土重来.这首歌在几乎所有国家(当然,不包括中国)都登上了排行榜冠军的位置,并由此巩固了他们国际极巨星的地位.在接下来的三年里,ABBA精心制作和出版了无数精彩之作,像"Mamma Mia" "Fernando" "I Do I Do I Do I Do"和"Knowing Me, Knowing You".他们有13首单曲登上英国的单曲榜前五名,其中六首先后夺得了冠军.他们最成功的单曲"Dancing Queen"即使在顽固的美国市场也取得了销量第一.并被邀请在瑞典国王的婚礼上表演.1978年,ABBA的专辑"The Album"在美国榜进入前二十名并在其后的六个月内迅速达到白金销量,单曲"Take a Chance on Me"同时再次登上英国单曲榜冠军宝座.同年,一部有关ABBA的电影在全世界范围内发行,Lyngstad和Andersson也步入教堂喜结连里.但不幸的是,三个月后,Bjorn和Agnetha离婚了.把个人问题放在一边,ABBA继续他们的演艺生涯.1979年,ABBA发行专辑"Voulez-Vous",这张专辑中有五首单区进入英国榜前五名,在美国则成为金唱片.

　　到了1980年,ABBA的专辑"Super Trouper"虽然在世界范围内仍然取得了不俗的成绩,但它已经标志着ABBA在美国成功的结束.1981年Lyngstad和Andersson的婚姻也破裂了.由于两对昔日的恩爱夫妻已经几乎不再相互交流以及Disco音乐的衰落,ABBA于1982年初发布了他们的最后一张专辑"The Visitors"后宣布解散.两位女成员Agnetha和Frida继续她们的个人演唱事业.虽然她们的歌曲在瑞典和欧洲大陆都取得了一定的成绩,但再没有能够进入美国乐坛.Andersson和Ulvaeus则与诗人Tim Rice一起为百老汇撰写音乐剧.Frida1992年退出乐坛,而Agnetha则早在1989年就正式结束了演唱生涯.在如今的九十年代末,ABBA仍然是全世界最流行的乐队之一.ABBA的单曲以及向ABBA致敬的一些乐队如Abbacadabra和Bjorn Again pack houses的歌曲特别是混音版仍然在一些俱乐部被频繁播放.而ABBA的歌也被很多modern dance-oriented乐队如Information Society, Erasure和U2翻唱.

　　roxette

　　Roxette来自国际流行音乐重镇瑞典，由男成员Per Gessle和女成员Marie Fredriksson组成。per和marie78年相识于哈尔姆斯塔德市的一家摇滚俱乐部，俩人都爱好美国60年代的摇滚乐。1986年，他们正式走到了一起，组建了Roxette。首张专辑《Pearls Of Passion》的推出便在瑞典一炮而红。可以说说《Joyride》（驾车游玩、兜风之意）这张专辑名字的来源，来自保罗.卡特尼所说的一句话：“和约翰.侬一起写歌就像是进行了一次长途兜风”。谭咏麟的那首[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词。

　　1986 Roxette┊Pearl of Passion

　　Original Release Date:

　　1986

　　Label: EMI Int'l

　　Artist:Roxette

　　Album:Pearl of Passion

　　Review/专辑评论

　　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)

　　1988 Roxette┊Look Sharp!

　　Artist:Roxette

　　Album:Look

　　Sharp!

　　Original Release Date: 1988

　　Label: Capitol

　　Catalog: #91098

　　Review/专辑评论

　　1988 年Roxette推出第二张专辑「Look Sharp!(当心留意)」，这张专辑在瑞典造成更大的迴响，但Roxette仍然没有打入国际乐坛。不过，千里马终究会有伯乐赏识的。当年有一个美国交换学生自瑞典回国後，力促明尼苏达州的广播电台KDWB播放The Look这首爆发力/感染力极犟的歌曲。从此The Look的拷贝录音带便流传到美国其他的电台，一夕之间，Roxette一炮而红！他们在美国有了第一支热门单曲，所谓打铁要趁热，他们旋即於1989年在美发行The Look单曲，一飞沖天到了排行榜冠军，而且在其他24个国家也纷纷登上了排行第一名。同年10月，Roxette以Listen To Your Heart拿下第二个全美冠军，并在欧洲展开巡迴演出。紧接著，Per重新谱写It Must Have Been Love，拿掉了原有的Christmas For The Broken Hearted的字样，在1990年成为Roxette的第三首全美排行冠军曲，在全美电台的点播率始终居高不下。这首歌并收录在卖座电影『麻雀变凤凰 Pretty Woman』的原声带当中，而这张原声带也缔创了900万张的销售佳绩。

　　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

　　1991 Roxette┊Joyride

　　Artist=Roxette

　　Name=Joyride

　　Label=1993

　　EMI

　　Date=1993

　　Catalog=CDP7960482

　　Review/专辑评论

　　1991 年Roxette发行第三张专辑「Joyride」，专辑同名曲亦是该辑首打单曲再度於美国等地登上排行榜冠军，同年九月，Roxette於芬兰首都展开「Join The Joyride」世界巡迴演唱会，足迹踏遍欧美澳洲等地，直到1992年於家乡瑞典画下句点。在这108场的巡迴演出之後，「Joyride」专辑销售量突破一千万张。

　　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.

　　简介：

　　人们能理解十年前，即使是一个顶尖水平的乐队都不一定是很好的。不过Joyride是唯一的一个例外！因为他当时的水平即使放到今天也是非常之高的！在那以后Roxette不断的努力并取得了进步和成就（特别是1994年的“Crash! Boom! Bang!”和2001年的“Room Service”）筑就了Joyride，那种独特的沉重的吉他和诡异的曲调是无人能及的。Joyride的伟大的单曲“Fading Like A Flower (Every Time You Leave)”和“Do You Get”，有谁听到能不为之振奋？其实这张优秀唱片的真正精髓在于别处：“Keep On Knockin' On Every Door”就如同Joyride本身那么引人注意，唱片压轴曲“Perfect Day”甚至能将你的呼吸带走，就象Marie达到的每个音符都能趋于完美，能穿越满满三个八度的歌，那种美妙已经不能用语言表述了！这，就是著名的杰作，至今无人能及的，不论是Roxette或者是别的乐队。

　　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

　　1992 Roxette┊Tourism (live)

　　Artist:Roxette

　　Album:Tourism

　　Original Release

　　Date: October 6, 1992

　　Label: Capitol

　　Catalog: #99929

　　Review/专辑评论

　　92年Roxette接著推出第四张专辑「Tourism」，此辑收录他们在世界巡迴演出期间的现场录音以及定点录制的歌曲，其中的How Do You Do更成为该辑的热门歌曲，作为开场曲总能带来极佳的热场效果。

　　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

　　1993 Roxette┊Unplugged

　　唱片 : Unplugged

　　艺人 : Roxette

　　发行日期：1993

　　唱片公司: EMI唱片公司

　　Review/专辑评论

　　1993年——Roxette成为第一支受邀请参加MTV Unplugged演出的非英语国家乐队。同年Marie成为未婚母亲。而Per Gessle则娶妻成家。

　　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

　　1994 Roxette┊Crash! Boom! Bang!

　　Artist:Roxette

　　Album:Crash!

　　Boom! Bang!

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

　　Catalog: #28727

　　Review/专辑评论

　　1994年——Roxette推出第4张大碟“Crash! Boom! Bang!”。秋季,Roxette展开第二次全球巡演,其中在欧洲演出47场。

　　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

[杂谈随感]ABBA·Roxette 瑞典的音乐传奇（）

　　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

　　1995 Roxette┊Don't Bore Us Get to the Chorus

　　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/专辑评论

　　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

　　1996 Roxette┊Baladas en espanol

　　Album: Baladas en

　　espanol

　　Artist: Roxette

　　Publish: 1996

　　Lable: EMI

　　Ling 西班牙

　　Review/专辑评论

　　1996 年——Roxette在这一年的前半段进入休整,没有任何活动。而Per倒为Gyllene Tider乐队写了4首瑞典语歌曲并推出EP。Gyllene Tider的重组成为该年瑞典乐坛的热点,乐队推出了精选碟、举行了全国巡演、占领了排行榜、捧走了多个奖项。到了年底,Gyllene Tider功成名就,退出乐坛。另一边,Marie也没闲着,她推出了第5张个人大碟,并生下第二个孩子。该年秋季,又推出一张西班牙语唱片 “Baladas En Espanol”, 在西班牙、阿根廷、智利、墨西哥等国家受到欢迎。

　　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)

　　1999 Roxette┊Have A Nice Day

　　Album: Have A Nice

　　Day

　　Artist: Roxette

　　Publish: 1999

　　Lable: EMI 499461

　　Ling 西班牙

　　Review/专辑评论

　　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,乐队飞往西班牙开始第6张大碟的录制。最终在11月完成。

　　1999年——大碟首支单曲“Wish I Could Fly”于2月1日推出。之后,大碟“Have A Nice Day”发行。

　　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

　　2001 Roxette┊Room Service

　　Album : Room

　　Service

　　Artist: Roxette

　　Original Release Date: April 3, 2001

　　Label: EMI

　　Int'l

　　Review/专辑评论

　　“Room Service”专辑延续昔日旧风，依然洋溢着无限激情，火爆的动感节奏与高亢动情的演唱交辉生映，全集开篇以具有与往日不同的电子合成旋律的“The Centre Of The Heart”开始，俨然具有Disco的风韵，一开口完全就是我们的老相识的Roxette，专辑歌曲多为急促快板的Roxette式的摇滚节奏，但也有象“Bring Me Down To My Knees”这样的慢板柔情歌曲，12首歌曲各具千秋，各自表达一种心境…十几年的黄金组合走过了灿烂辉煌的音乐历程，如今更显得老到成熟，音乐制作水准更是不同凡响。

　　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

　　2001 Roxette┊The Ballad Hits

　　Artist=Roxette

　　Name=The

　　Ballad Hits

　　Label=EMI 2001

　　Date=2001

　　Catalog=427982

　　Review/专辑评论

　　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可以说是Roxette这支成功的乐队的代表作。辛勤的工作是他们成功的唯一途径。在沉默了一段时间之后，Marie Fredriksson又开始释放出那恐怖的声响，暴烈的鼓点，广阔的吉他，及具攻击性的键盘；等等的这些让Roxette爆发出了一种滑稽的，但又令人难忘的合声！他们在爱情的折磨中的狂欢无人能及。从1989年到1991年，他们在美国的事业有了一联串极富戏剧性的变化。“Listen to Your Heart”，“It Must Have Been Love”，“Fading like a Flower”这些经典的杰作也纷纷被收录进来！对Roxette来说，情歌并不总是以重唱的方式来表达的，就象是“Don't Bore Us, Get to the Chorus”。“Queen of Rain”那走走停停的双簧管的演奏和“Crash! Boom! Bang!”的弦乐的演奏都象是能把时间带走一样。当然，也不能说全是好歌。与冠军制造者Desmond Child共同创作的“You Don’t Understand Me”是唯一不怎么理想的歌曲，却被Fredriksson给拯救了过来；而“Salvation”这首歌却又感觉象是Robbie Williams风格的拼凑起来的作品。幸好，两首超强新曲“"A Thing About You”（由创作型歌手Gessle演唱）和“Breathe”的甜美及时弥补上了这些缺点。带给人无数惊喜的Ballad Hits的出现，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

　　2002 Roxette┊Myths

　　Artist: Roxette

　　Album:

　　Myths

　　Review/专辑评论

　　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)

　　2003 Roxette┊The Pop Hits

　　Artist: Roxette

　　Album: The

　　Pop Hits

　　Audio CD (April 22, 2003)

　　Label: EMI

　　Review/专辑评论

　　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