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HAND Vs Room Service?
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chrisjankunas said on April 15, 2005 19:54:
I was listening to these on my way to college when I finally realised I like HAND better. I love “Arms..gone”, “Waiting for the rain”, “Pay the Price” and “Staring at the ground.” Unnuasual ones i knwo but still.
What do other people like?
girl7twenty7 said on April 15, 2005 21:59:
i choose HAND, too.
Quote: “Unusual ones”
Don’t think so ;) Waiting for the rain and Staring at the ground are from my HAND favourites.
Some time ago there was a discussion about HAND/RS, not exactly the same but with lots of thoughts
http://www2.dailyroxette.com/smalltalk/thread.php/12388
Roxette-atic said on April 15, 2005 22:44:
For me its “Have A Nice Day”. But it took me a while to find out how great it really was. However, I still always skip ” Pay The Price”, “Cooper” and “Staring At The Ground”.
RobS said on April 15, 2005 23:55:
You don’ t like PTP or SATG, sometimes i play that cd just to listen to them songs. :-)
For me probably HAND, don’t know why?!
Zargo said on April 16, 2005 04:21:
HAND is a long long way ahead of room service for me... and I just love YCPYAAWAG (except I hate typing the title), PTP and SATG :D
Rox-Van said on April 16, 2005 22:28:
I like much HAND ( brings to me very good memories close to the FC and the last visit that Roxette did to him to the Argentina, where they signed me and I met them in person :)
marcusvandeursen said on April 17, 2005 13:28:
Room Service has two truly outstanding songs... Real Sugar and Milk And Toast And Honey. Have A Nice Day though has many highlights; Wish I Could Fly, YCPYAAWAG, Crush On You, I Was So Lucky, Stars, Beautiful Things.... guess the choice is obvious... HAND, to my opinion actually the best album that rox ever made.
ncurran said on April 17, 2005 20:53:
HAND is better overall, though there are some gems on room service aswell
girl7twenty7 said on April 18, 2005 11:29:
Wasn’t HAND known as the most “hateable” album and what he have now? ;)
regn said on April 18, 2005 12:55:
HAND Grows with the time(Good songs+Fresh Sound) .-. RS For me is just Lazy
MiracleMan said on April 18, 2005 18:15:
HAND hands down. I think s lot of people will choose C!B!B! & HAND as the best Roxette albums.
harriej said on April 18, 2005 21:45:
Difficult:
HAND has as great songs:
Crush on you, Stars, 7Twenty7, Wish i Could Fly
but also the songs I always skip: Anyone, Salvation
RS has also some great ones:
My World, My Love My Life and Real Sugar.
The other songs aren’t that special, but no real “skippers” here.
Overall, they are of comparable quality, although it are totally different albums.
KixGuy said on April 19, 2005 14:27:
In my opinion HAND is one of the best albums Roxette ever did. My personal problem with it is the electronic arrengement in some songs, like “Stars”, “7twenty7” and “Crush on you”. I also think that there are too many ballads, but after all this is one of the best.
RS, even being a weak album in my point of view, it’s really great tho. I mean, I really like “Real sugar”, “Jefferson”, “Looking for Jane”, “Try [Just a little bit harder]”, “Fool”, “It takes you no time to get here” and “My world, my love, my life”.
Both are good, but HAND is stronger. :-)
Sparvogamarie said on April 20, 2005 08:50:
How funny...for the last 6 years everyone has trashed HAND and now most people are liking it more than Room Service!!! I think I like RS a little more than HAND though neither of them will ever be my favourite.
Rox1_4ever said on April 21, 2005 19:48:
Have a nice day is better.... I love You cant put your arm around whats already gone. Pay the price, Crush on you and of course the WONDERFUL I was so lucky..........
AURYTE said on April 23, 2005 06:57:
I also prefer Have A Nice Day. It’s more fresh, but I have to admit there is too much techno in some songs, for instance, Stars. And the cover is quite strange.
CrashGirl said on April 24, 2005 04:29:
The both are very good, but I prefer HAND.
This is the album who makes me fell in love with Roxette music.
Mitya said on April 26, 2005 15:15:
I‘ve noticed a curious thing- HAND appears to be the most “singable” Roxette-album for me through the years, no other album drives me to sing so crazily like HAND does! maybe TBH also, but there‘s a number songs from HAND there.
gessleism said on May 5, 2005 17:19:
sorry, but i prefer RS...
In my opinion, HAND was something like an experiment with new sounds & tecnhologies and RS the right result of them.
amigone said on May 17, 2005 14:54:
Hmm.. I can’t choose. But..Bringing me down to my knees have a special meaning for me, so think I’ve got to say Roomservice..
perishot said on June 3, 2005 03:02:
no i looove room service you people should be glad to actually have it easy to buy it (australia)
Staffany said on June 3, 2005 06:29:
I prefer HAND, since the the first time I listened to it. It has loads of good songs. The only one I don’t like that I always skip is ’Staring At The Ground’. All the rest is superb!
On the other hand, I never play RS. I find it very boring. And it contains the worst song Roxette have ever recorded: ’Make My Head Go Pop’. I don’t undertand when some people say HAND is too electronic, when ’The Centre Of The Heart’ is even more electronic than any song on HAND.
RoxyJane said on June 4, 2005 06:17:
I Like Room Service better. My favourite is “My World, My Love, My Life”. The Best On HAND is “Wish I Could Fly” I think. Room Service is more powerful with more guitars. HAND sounds a bit technical.
Bibi said on June 5, 2005 09:43:
I still think that RS is a great album! In the recent time I was listening quite often to it!
AddeColciago said on June 8, 2005 11:20:
Njae. I like Room Service. TCOTH, It Takes You No Time..., My World. Great songs.
But I really like HANDs electric sound. Really great!
And I seems to be the only one who doesn’t think that there are to many ballads.
I just love Cooper. . .
HAND the best album, tight followed by Joyride.
animalkingdom said on April 15, 2005 21:40:
HAND is better, imo...