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your rection when you first heard C!B!B! album
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tavo said on May 3, 2006 14:50:
*reaction*, i mean...
it was just great. everything was so different. first of all, it was the first roxette album in which both per and marie changed their looks for the sleeve. and the sound had changed completely, too. i really loved “sleeping in my car” from the very beginning, i had already bought the single and surprisingly, the album version was longer (since the one on the single was a radio edit version). it was also surprising to find out that the title-song was a ballad performed by marie (it was the first time a roxette album got its name from a song sung by marie only). what else? my favorite song from the album was “I´m sorry”, so simple and so great at the time. “oh, you know i´m sorry, i had to go/i´m really sorry it had to die (... you´re hurt inside)/i´m really sorry i made you cry, cry...”
what a fantastic song. is there any other song in which the lead singer says “oh”? i think that made this song more tragic or something. we need another album like this! so per, i´ve told you this many times and here i go again: please, release a new album! and this is for you marie: you are the best singer ever! everybody agrees, rox fans and those who are not, too. whenever somebody listens to a rox song, they´re shocked. only you, marie, can convey meaning through a song, and that is so hard to achieve, and yet you did it and you do it every time you sing, so please, don´t prevent us from going on listening to your songs... i love roxette, what else can i say?
what about you?
tavo said on May 3, 2006 15:06:
harleys and indians, i love the sound of crashing guitars, lies, fireworks, sleeping... they all sound so good. once i heard somebody who had a radio program on a radio station (that only broadcast rock music) say that CBB was the best rox album so far. i agreed at that time.
davidc4 said on May 3, 2006 15:17:
it used to be my favourite album i still love it but i moved onto tourism favorite tracks in order
1.Run To You
2.Sleeping In My Car
3.Fireworks
4.Crash Boom Bang
5.Lies
6.The First Girl On The Moon
7.Harleys And Indians(Riders In The Sky)
8.Whats She Like?
9.I Love The Sound Of Crashing Guitars
10.Vulnerable
11.Place Your Love
12.Im Sorry
13.Go To Sleep
14.Do You Wanna Go The Whole Way?
15.Love Is All(Shine Your Light On Me)
davidc4 said on May 3, 2006 16:52:
yeh i love run to you its a great song it was the first song by roxette that i loved when it was out on the radio in 1994 of course wen i got dont bore us in 2000 i realised that i knew others from before as well
carlosconnelli said on May 3, 2006 19:21:
i took it home and listened to it most of the day, may do that tonight too
Room_service said on May 3, 2006 21:18:
Both “Lies” and “I Love The Sound Of Crashing Guitars” are two of my least liked Roxette songs ever. The garage-rock sound doesn’t suit Roxette at all. They were a pop group since the very beginning, with songs like “Neverending Love” and “Goodbye To You”. Same applies to SDLHA, that everybody seems to like. It was never one of my personal favourites, however.
That’s why I consider CBB an atypical Roxette album, but still one of my favourites. I tend to like the more “classical” (not so edgy) songs, like “CBB” (along with WICF, my fav Roxette ballad), “Fireworks”, “Do You Wanna Go The Whole Way” and “Go To Sleep”. I also love the acoustic intermission “The First Girl...” and “Place Your Love”. Only “Vulnerable” fails to fit the album, if I were Per that song wouldn’t be there. It seems out of place and time.
Zargo said on May 4, 2006 02:14:
No ’rections here, that’s for sure.
Exciting up to about track 5, then more boring and ballady the further you get into the album... and something’s gotta be wrong when the the only other up-tempo track goes “la-la-la-la-lies.”
Of course, this was only in 2003, and it was my next album listen after Joyride and Look Sharp... Just took a while to latch onto it, and of course I love Lies now, and CBB is my favourite Rox album.
pwbbounce (moderator) said on May 4, 2006 07:44:
I remember playing the album over and over again and my parents getting angrier and angrier with each play.
It was the first Rox album that was released when I was a BIG fan. I liked Joyride and Tourism, but I was only 11 & 12 then. When Almost Unreal came out, and the release of IMHBL for some reason, that made me like them more. I was so excited about CBB being released. I was down at the record store at 9am waiting for it. Luckily it was the school Easter Holidays back then
Anyway, I love this album. I don’t think Rox will ever do another album like this. It’s very produced and technical with lot’s of “noises” going on in the background. The way Per has been working recently he seems to like the more spontaneous (not spelt right??) feel. Maybe Marie’s influence will change this. Who knows!!
tavo said on May 4, 2006 14:40:
i played the album over and over, too. my parents got angry too and i could only get excited every time i listened to it. i was trying to learn the lyrics by heart.
davidc4 said on May 4, 2006 15:25:
when i first heard the album i liked it instantly especially as it contained my then fave roxette track run to you and i still hadnt heard fireworks at the time.it became my favourite album and still remains one of them but now i find it hard to choose between joyride cbb room service hand or tourism
harriej said on May 5, 2006 08:27:
I liked it immediately.
I drove the people in the record shop crazy, asking each day if the new album already was there.
It came later then they had written down on a whiteboard as: Expected release date.
Still a great album.
brentnewtown said on May 5, 2006 10:08:
Unimpressed, but I grew to like about half of it. I don’t think it has aged well (apart from a couple of songs). HAND on the other hand (!), I was even less impressed by but is now the album I play the most.
tavo said on May 3, 2006 15:05:
“everything sounded so... grown-up “, they once said. i have grown up since CBB was released and yet i still love the album. what a great album...