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Fans of "Always Breaking My Heart"?
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animalkingdom said on April 11, 2005 13:15:
Are there others who just love this song?
I got Gessle’s “Do You Wanna Be My Baby?” single just last weekend and immediately started liking Always Breaking My Heart. Isn’t it just great?
I wonder what the reasons were for why it didn’t make the album back then...In my opinion it easily could have replaced songs like Saturday or There Is My Baby.
In addition, I think a revised Roxette recording of the song would have been a blast! I can’t understand why they chose “Stupid” to be re-released...o_0 The sound world of ABMH would have partly fit even Room Service - I can imagine it bringing more life to the album if it had replaced Jefferson, for instance, and its non-sensible and crazy lyrics. ;)
Hehe...I know I tend to get a little wise afterwards..
animalkingdom said on April 11, 2005 14:16:
Oh ok...didn’t know she recorded it. And after checking, seems like her single got quite popular (peaking at 8 in the United kingdom)...
Zargo said on April 11, 2005 14:35:
It’s really great, but no way would I want it outing ’Saturday’ or ’There is my Baby’, two kickar*e tracks!
James_Earp said on April 11, 2005 15:49:
It is one of the best songs Per has ever done. And I really like his “rock” version more than the one Belinda does. I don’t like her version at all. The lyrics are also better in Pers demo.
Jud (moderator) said on April 11, 2005 18:05:
Love doesn’t live here is great, also ABMH but LDLH.. woohooo! Together with She doesn’t live here anymore... Per did create some pearls back then :D
Btw, it wouldn’t be that weird if he would have recorded them himself.. he also gave Varmt igen to Peter Jöback and later included it in Mazarin :)
Staffany said on April 11, 2005 18:07:
I don’t like any version of that song, Per’s nor Belinda’s :-S
KixGuy said on April 11, 2005 19:07:
In my opinion, “Always breaking my heart” is a f***ing great song! I wish it was a Roxette song! And yes, back then (1994-1997) Per did some of his best songs. I wish we could get more and more of those in the next Roxette albums.
rox-kuryliw said on April 11, 2005 20:42:
I love belinda carlisle best, top 10 in UK, but she is good ;-) i bought that single on cassette , my last one i bought.
coyboyusa said on April 12, 2005 00:34:
sometimes per makes me scratch my head when he gives great stuff away
girl7twenty7 said on April 12, 2005 09:08:
The song is great. I like both Per’s and Belinda’s versions, Per’s a bit more ;)
@KixGuy Well yes, it seems in 1993-1997 he wrote songs better than ever, everything was extremely good, it’s the best period of his i think. It’s about Rox/Per/GT sound, too. Breathetaking years!
RobS said on April 12, 2005 11:50:
Yeah i love ABMH as well. Belinda’s version sounds abit boring to me, but maybe coz i heard Per’s version first.
And LDLH is a great one as well. I have to agree that Per wrote some of his best songs during 93-97.
Jutze said on April 12, 2005 12:41:
I tend to agree, although 1993 (read CBB) sounds like a transitional thing. After all, Joyride was just huge. The material was really, really strong and the success well deserved.
Tourism was a (very) good intermission, but CBB couldn’t up the ante. Sorry, to few single hits - actually just one (SIMC). Eventually, the popularity of Roxette declined (while the loyality and internationality of their fans still grew).
So to me the magic year were 1995-1997. Ironically, I learned of Gyllene Tider only in late 1996. Nevertheless, GT as well as TWATG contain excellent, timelss songs. They rock and are pop at the same time. Gessle never achieved the same density songwriting- and production-wise after that.
HAND saw the demise of all this, even though the album is not that bad. RS made up for it with its singles but still lacked guitars and rock songs. (The only glimpse of hope was the 7Twenty7 demo.) Mazarin was good, but its diversity prevented it from being as tight as TWAGT (incl. b-sides) and the short GT-releases. (Oh, how I love eps!) All this is, of course, a matter of taste. The (Swedish) public loved Mazarin and bought F5F like there was no tomorrow. Speaking of which, ESVESIES was a cool song that raised my hopes. But just like Mazarin, F5F was a rather loose and relaxed album. With the GT-mania set aside, the disc in its entirety reminds me a lot of the Lonely Boys-album, (which was nice and fun, but not as compelling as the other material from those days).
I still think every (new) album released after 1997 could have been turned into a brilliant ep each. This is especially true for RS as the survivor poll made clear.
Too bad there was no Tour According To Gessle. Breathtaking years, anyway.
Jutze
(back to lurking)
Zargo said on April 12, 2005 15:00:
If Per’s releasing another English solo album this year than a Tour According To Gessle is certainly on the cards!
Of course, I won’t be at any shows, I’ll just get the live dvd :P
lonely_girl said on April 12, 2005 19:29:
could anyone send me the songs or tell me where I can download them? thx!
Bunio said on April 12, 2005 20:03:
http://www.roxette.pl/audio3.php
check this site :)
I think that per’s version really rocks, belindas’s is much worse :( I don’t like it.
carbon_boy said on April 13, 2005 08:23:
Seriously one of Per’s finest moments.
Just a quick note: If Roxette/Per releases an album soon, i hope it will fit this format. Has anyone noticed that pop has gone back to pop-rock? Even the Pop/American Idol winners and contestants have gone that route instead of commercial Britney pop. The UK charts are saturated with BritRock again (YEY!), the US charts are seeing more pop-rock/rock than a couple of years ago.
The guitar is back! Hope to God Per dusts his Rickenbackers and Gibsons off!
Cheers ;o)
coyboyusa said on April 13, 2005 14:42:
wel lyou have to admit guys anyhting after joyride was roxette, it wasn’t per doing the beatles or having the pressure of writing for a tour which is exactly what joyride was, what was a bit of a disappointment was that so many of these songs were left off his solo album, maybe on purpose, but i look here at the tracklist of TWATG and i wonder how different the feel of the album would have been with LDHA on it or it takes you no time to get here, he sacrificed them for some stuff that was, well commerical poison in my eyes
lonely_girl said on April 13, 2005 19:38:
I can’t download zipped datas... could anyone send me the song in a mp3 file?
address in my profile ;-)
coyboyusa said on April 14, 2005 13:09:
stupid, it has no hook to it at all, the roxette verion proves how bad the song is, it s the only one on there aside from possibly i want you to know that were bad album tracks, the production values on watg are over the top, alot fo critics pointed that out, and fro all the peopel that complain about hand , hand came about because per an marie agreed with you that twatg should have been a roxette album so you can’t colain that much about the album :)
lonely_girl said on April 14, 2005 20:06:
I only have slow internet connection and it takes AGES until it is downloaded - secondly, I can’t open zip files...
Cerchio said on April 11, 2005 13:42:
I think the reason it wasn’t on a Roxette/Per Gessle album is because it was written for and made by Belinda Carlisle (as was Love Doesn’t Live Here). It would’ve been wierd to have those songs on a Per Gessle album after they were on Belinda’s. And yes, Always Breaking My Heart is a great song. Would have been big if it were released on some OST in 1996 and made by Roxette. :)