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plectrum said on January 20, 2005 15:27:
i know everybody here loves roxette but i just wanted to know what was the first song you heard & saw & what was your first impressions?
at the time my girlfriend now wife started to dress abit wierd you know ’cowboy style’ boots,ripped jeans leather jacket etc.... then she played this song called dressed for success & told me how much she loved this group.my first impressions were ’wow’ the song kinda grew on me as did roxette & here we are 16/17 years later still playing/buying their records.
LaDolceVita said on January 20, 2005 15:37:
the first one I heard was The Look or I Call Your Name I suppose. I didn´t call myself a fan until Joyride era.
RobS said on January 21, 2005 05:30:
I had the look, dangerous and one other song that my cousin taped for me, but HDYD was the one that started it all for me.
RoXoR said on January 21, 2005 06:03:
I hated Roxette so muuuuuuch!!!! The entire class loved them, i said marie looks like man and per like a ugly woman and their music is crap. The song i hated most was hello you are cool i lough about you com’on join the toy bride! ;)
Two weeks i get 5 anonym packeges with 5 tapes where was written on, we have to say you something! After those two weeks i had got two copies of Look Sharp and 3 of Joyride. My parents played them over and over again, that was really horror! The third week we had a party with just roxette songs from those two cds and a few from pearls of passion!
A got my first kiss on this party while listening listen to your heart! Than i asked her what hello you are cool i lough about you com’on join the toy bride means, everybody loughed at me. i was nine!!!! two days later in english we translated the song, just for me. Some days later i loved roxette and i am the only from those people who still likes them!
mbatalla said on January 21, 2005 09:22:
The look. I remember I was 15 years old and I don’t have enough money to buy Look Sharp, so I bought the Maxi-Single (it was cheaper...) Then I saved enough money to buy the whole record. I remember I liked Paint much than The Look, interesting point of view.... :-)
ally77 said on January 21, 2005 09:27:
I know I said this before, but oh well...
It was The Big L in 1991 that got me hooked! the rest as they say is history!
Max-Tob said on January 21, 2005 09:39:
I was 12. Couldn’t affort the whole LS album. So I got the maxi-single from Germany (i live in France).Meanwhile, my cousing bought the whole album but she didn’t like it. so I got it as a “second hand” present. “Dressed for success” and “Dangerous” cought me right from the start. I couldn’t stand Per - he looked like an old lady. i kind of liked Marie, but she also looked too “mature” for me back then. Then of course, i kissed a girl while dancing on “Listen...” and that was it. Never stoped. The girl went away. But I am still sticking with rox as if it’d be my first day of listening to LS.
and btw, meanwhile, i also changed my opinion on their physical presence. I think they both look awsome. Esp. Per.
cheers.
Max.
Dizzy_Miss_Lizzy said on January 21, 2005 16:52:
My story is fun. I went crazy for “The look” went I was 10, but I didn’t know who sing this. After, I liked very much “LTYH”, it was aired every Friday on the radio, between 7 and 10 p.m., on top 20. Then, I fell in love with “Dangerous”, but I still didn’t know who is the singer, and I thought, stupidly, that it’s a woman who sings all the piece ;). So I loved the music, but I didn’t care about the performers. I realized it was Roxette after the release of “Joyride”, when I bought “Joyride” and everything else I could find released by Roxette (The Look, Pearls of Passion). I was attracted by the music, but also by the visual image of Roxette, they were like a contrast: blond/black, man/woman. I had no internet those days, so I collected all the reviews about the music I could get (Bravo, etc.) to find some info about Roxette. I have it today because it has a sentimental value for me.
plectrum said on January 21, 2005 18:21:
very interesting stories thanx again for sharing them
mark.
roxlad said on January 21, 2005 21:19:
With me it was ’The look’. I saw the video (Swedish version) on TV in 1989 and I thought that the song was good, Marie was nice and Per was crazy! After a while I bought ’Look sharp!’ on tape and liked it so much that I kept on rewinding the A-side and it took a month before I listened to the B-side!!! And when I did I was caught forever....
MrBurns said on January 21, 2005 22:09:
I heard Joyride when I was nine or so. I loved watching MTV back then and it was number one seven weaks in a row in some kind of a chart. I was really impressed. I used to be a fan until CBB then I lost the track somehow. I even missed HAND. I bought RS though but the magic was over. Few months ago I discovered my old Joyride album, played it in the car and got hooked again.
biggestfan said on January 24, 2005 18:08:
The first song I ever heard wes “Listen to your heart” I found it great. And between a short time I bought all albums!! And I’m NOW 14! Is here anbody too who is 14 or 15?
jetjet said on January 27, 2005 19:56:
I first heard The Look and liked it, but nothing really happened then. Half a year later I heard Listen to your heart and that was it.. I was a Roxette fan!
Crev said on January 28, 2005 21:53:
I first saw a concert in Helsingborg pre The Look and thought the group was pretty cool. However, it was only when I heard IMHBL a couple of years (?) later back in UK that I realised who the group were. Loved LS and Joyride, just went from there............
Anarem said on January 29, 2005 00:41:
The single that made me really sit up and notice was “Dressed For Success”, because the vocals were so powerful. When someone told me it was the same band that did “The Look”, I was quite surprised!
eBay said on January 20, 2005 15:32:
Joyride was the first song that caught my attention as I was delivering the saturday morning newspapers in my hometown. I was only 12 years old at that time and this young dude in his car was driving by, his radio blasting out Joyride and tothis day I remember how much I liked it.
Germany was probably the country Roxette were the most famous in. (Grew up in Germany) Joyride (the Album) sold much more than 2 Million Copies in Germany alone!! Abba has never even achieved anything like that with any of their Albums! When Joyride the single was kicked of the number one spot after like 3 months, fading like a flower and Joyride were in the top 3 at the same time! Thise were the days!!!!!