Sascha said on August 30, 2006 11:35:

Yes, there have been at least 308. Maybe deleted double-posts?

freddyhardest said on August 30, 2006 11:38:

Perhaps, THEY don´t want to have so many negative post...

Robbie said on August 30, 2006 12:03:

I am absolutely, totally, globally and thouroghly DISAPPOINTED by the Rox Box. If I open my Winamp now with the Roxette folder in it, I get 95% of the Rox Box, almost 2 months before its release. The cover is cheap, even the Billy EP’s cover is better designed than this one.
I think Roxette will lose a REAL FAN soon and Bon Jovi will get a new one...

peruexplorer said on August 30, 2006 12:25:

Just to say that I am not surprised, but dissapointed because I hoped to find new stuff in that track list. Who has the offical Cds and Demos won’t have interest for this album.

I think that the last 10 years Roxette did a lot of gretes hits but not so much new music like we wish, in my opinion the best way to celebrate 20 years together is by making new songs and a wolrd tour just for FANS.

lonely_girl said on August 30, 2006 13:47:

no RoxBox or Greatest hits for me then...

I wonder if I should call it a quit with Roxette... >:-(

*edit*

I was always quite optimistic with Roxette’s future but now I’m not anymore... I think it’s kinda a goodbye...

:”-(

pwbbounce (moderator) said on August 30, 2006 14:36:

Right I know a lot of you don’t like them, but Bon Jovi’s Box set from 2004 is how a boxset should be: Take a look at the tracklisting

Disc 1

Why aren’t you dead *
The radio saved my life tonight *
Taking it back *
Someday I’ll be Saturday night (demo) *
Miss fourth of July *
Open all night *
These arms are open all night *
I get a rush *
Someday just might be tonight *
Thief of hearts *
Last man standing *
I just want to be your man *

Disc 2

Garageland
Starting all over again *
Maybe someday *
Last chance train *
The fire inside *
Every beat of my heart *
Rich man living in a poor man’s house *
The one that got away *
You can sleep while I dream *
Outlaws of love *
Good guy’s don’t always wear white (B SIDE)
We rule the night *

Disc 3

Edge of a broken heart (B SIDE)
Sympathy *
Only in my dreams (feat. Tico Torres on vocals) *
Shut up and kiss me *
Crazy love *
Lonely at the top (B SIDE)
Ordinary people *
Flesh and bone *
Satellite *
If I can’t have your love (feat. Richie Sambora on vocals) *
Real life (SINGLE A SIDE)
Memphis lives in me (feat. David Bryan on vocals)*
Too much of a good thing *

Disc 4

Love ain’t nothing but a four letter word *
Love ain’t nothing but a four letter word (demo) *
River runs dry *
Always (demo) *
Kidnap an angel *
Breathe (B SIDE)
Out of bounds *
Letter to a friend *
Temptation (B SIDE)
Gotta have a reason *
All I wanna do is you *
Billy *
Nobody’s hero *
Livin On A PRayer (demo) *

* - UNRELEASED TRACK

So out of almost 50 tracks we have 6 which we previously available. This is how a band should celebrate 20 years together, like Jovi did in 2004

Peppermint said on August 30, 2006 14:59:

The repeated releases of BEST OF albums really gives the impression that they only want our best - which is our money...
It’s sad :-(

gyllene_tjej said on August 30, 2006 15:07:

nope, we guess at least 60euro

davidc4 said on August 30, 2006 16:00:

why no fireworks on either the regular HITS album or even the Rox Box.....????????it was missed out of dont bore us and the pop hits and now this.....its becoming a rare song....

brunorox said on August 30, 2006 16:25:

sth else to add

for this Rox Box, which is worldwide (as i suppose) they could have put a best of the swedish songs together with some songs as “hey Mr DJ” for example,
and not songs from the last Roxette best of.
I mean some GT, MF and PG’s songs from the last albums 2 or 3 years ago). Don’t you think so ???

jnavleris said on August 30, 2006 16:57:

Looking forward to the release of “Hits” and The Rox Box.

I have to agree with some others though that June Afternoon is a glaring omission here. It might be blasphemous to say this, but it would have to been OK for me to drop “Dangerous” from here and put “June Afternoon” in its place.

The problem is (and this is a good problem to have if you are Per and Marie) is that Roxette has so many good songs that it is hard to compress a list to 20 songs (including the new tracks “One Wish” and “Reveal”).

It looks like The Rox Box will take care of all of Roxette’s fans’ needs.

“Come on join the Joyride.....”

ally77 said on August 30, 2006 19:00:

Oh my god how many pages did this get!

tavo said on August 30, 2006 20:50:

what can i say that i haven´t READ before here. i am disappointed, i am sad, i am crying, i don´t know why rox is doing this to me. please, if you want to release that box do it, i won´t buy it. but please, please, allow me to listen to COY remixes before i die. that´s all i ask for, please, i forgive you for causing me so much pain, but if you really care about me (i contributed to your being rich now), please, just give me that song. only that. release the seven studio albums again, do whatever you want, but please, i need that song. pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

alchemiste said on August 30, 2006 23:00:

Per in Helsinki, April 2006:
The eagerly awaited RoxBox collector’s set will be out then as well.
“We don’t know yet,” Per discloses when TDR probes for new details on that project. “In the ideal world we would have ’MTV Unplugged,’ but it’s owned by MTV and nothing’s been solved yet. Otherwise it will be a mix of Roxette’s material, excluding the hits,” describes Per. TDR asks if the accompanied demo album will have previously unheard songs. “Most of the demos will be from the well known songs, like ’The Look,’ ’Listen To Your Heart’ and ’It Must Have Been Love.’ Famous songs that Marie is singing, I will be present in the demos. I want all the demos to be enjoyable, and not being there just for the sake of being there.”
Per does, however, reveal at least one mythical unheard Roxette song that will be included. “’Myth’ will be on the album. It’s a great song, written by Marie [with] my lyrics. Then I hope we can have a couple of unknown tracks by Marie.”
Per certainly doesn’t have a shortage of demos to choose from. “We did eight, nine demos for the ’Look Sharp!’ album. ’Silver Blue’ was there, ’One Is Such A Lonely Number’ was there. We have a couple of tracks from those sessions that are fantastic, like ’Sleeping Single’ and ’Dance Away.’ And there’s a demo for ’Cry’ which is totally different from the album version. I want to have those demos on the album because they mean so much to me and they are enjoyable to listen to.”
http://www2.dailyroxette.com/article.php/2011

Per in The Netherlands, May 2006:
Any more updates on the Rox Box? Will it include the CD Kill Your Darlings which was cancelled a few years back?
No, the RoxBox will be 3 CD’s, the core of Roxette’s music. It will have the most common songs as well as some hard to get songs like for instance “Happy Together.” And then we have the demo thing. And then we have a DVD thing, which is videos I think. We’re trying to get permission to release MTV Unplugged. It’s really hard, but I have people working on this, I’m not that involved.

[...]

What is the market for the Rox Box? Is it only for fans or will it also be in the record stores among the normal Roxette CD’s?
Yes, it’s not like it’s mostly hard to get stuff and b-sides, things like that. It should be like an introduction to Roxette. I think it’s almost 60 songs on there. It should be like an enjoyable ride on these CD’s, as well as some hard to get stuff – if they’re good. There are two songs we really loved, “See Me” and “Weight of the World,” which we didn’t include because we didn’t want to lose the tempo of the album by having these acoustic tracks, even though we loved them. So both of them are included here. So it shouldn’t have songs which are inferior to the others, it should have songs which are hard to get but really good.
http://www2.dailyroxette.com/article.php/2033

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- Excluding the hits?
- Demos from “The Look”, “Listen To Your Heart” and “It Must Have Been Love”?
- Demos from “Sleeping Single” and “Dance Away”?

So this must be a different box set Per is talking about...

Santi said on August 30, 2006 23:13:

Enfin... :)

TheRoxettishFan said on August 31, 2006 00:57:

This tracklist is terrible!!!

Trash...

punxnotdead said on August 31, 2006 05:44:

TRASH! SCAM! CRAP!

They should entitled this silly release as that.

I´m always messaging against people that uses to complain here.. but this is a THING i must complain..

The tracklist...i´ve thought it could be more excentric..., more surprising, sexy, or at least more enjoyable..

i dont buy more rox related Greatest-Hitsabilia since 1996, because i just hate to have It must have been love in almost every cd of my rox cd´s i still have.

But if they start to promote the BOX SET,as it contains “unheard material”, “rare things”,things that a person that follows a band really likes to see.. or hear... but no... this is just a crappy bunch of cd´s that almost no one will buy, because it doesn´t have any decent sh*t... nor the tracklist..the video list.and the single cover...

-The hits... OK!!!!! ANNOYING..BUT OK..
-The Demos... or outtaken txs.. GIVE ME SOMETHING I DONT HAVE!
-Music Videos... NOT ALL, AND U STILL PUT THE CRAPPY P.O.P. ONES!
-Album versions from many songs.. GIVE ME A BREAK!!, I BETTER TAKE YOUR SISTER FOR A JOYRIDE!!

This just smells like your grandma´s feet

Crappy.. horrible... non existent surprise...

C´mon.. rox have MUCH more material than this .., even Marie´s outtaken from her carrier..demos.. same as “always-so-wanted-gt-old-demos”...

What they need to put in the dvd(s)..:

What every fan wants from his teenager band:

- Backstage things..
- Roxette Ruled the world 2 times!!! c´mon!!! the HI 8 camera from åsa must record tons of saucy things!!!
- VPK´S... from every album... i just own a few..!!!& are just cool!
- TV Presentations around the world.. and yes..there MUST BE A LOT AROUND THERE.. how many countries Roxette has made Press tours, and live perfomances?
- Live perfomances: audio or video... “not 91 - 92 always-in-my-collection-sh*t” - actual things.. there was a world tour in 1994-95... someone remember?

That is what i can start to call a “decent” BOX SET!”

Aww..i forgot...

I remember read about this BOX SET, many many years ago... in an european music magazine.. (92 - 93)

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ditroia said on August 31, 2006 08:07:

I’m Damn disappointed.

Dave

This Plain SUX

whateveriam said on August 31, 2006 10:41:

* Dressed For Success (Chris Lord-Alge Mix)- D4S US version
* It Must Have Been Love (Humberto Gatica Mix)-Pretty Woman version- I thought we’ve done this one!

whateveriam said on August 31, 2006 13:25:

Not a problem mate.

roxettevsoasis said on September 1, 2006 00:05:

You guys and gals are never happy. Are you sure you a true fans? I stopped coming into this sight about 3 years ago and when I got word that Roxette was back with a couple a new songs and a box set to re-introduce themselves for new and old fans, this place hasn’t changed a bit. So you can’t get what YOU always want, too freakin’ bad. Either go out and start your own band or find a new band that will make your expectations. jeez.

Floepie said on September 1, 2006 10:08:

If it is the full length Unplugged gig there also should be Fading Like a Flower on there ( duet Per/Marie)
Was never showed on tv but they did perform it.

GT_85 said on September 1, 2006 21:57:

I’m also happy there are SOME new tracks. But i am not happy to pay like 80$ for those songs.

roxettevsoasis said on September 2, 2006 17:58:

to: nate

I totally agree about having your own oppinion but, to a certain extend. Not to verbally abuse a band that has made us so happy with their music for 20yrs. Your personal expectations will almost always be higher than any record company or even “the” band could or would imagine. Remember were all human but again it’s nice to keep “negative” comments to ourselves. Don’t you remember what our mothers always told us, “if you can’t say anything nice, than don’t say anything at all!” peace.

p.s.: nate: thanks for the response.
ps.s.: I think i spelled oppinion wrong! ugh- oasisvsroxette= terrible speller and too lazy to get the dictionary!!!

nate said on September 3, 2006 16:07:

@ roxettevsoasis

I appreciate your response, and I apologize if the remarks I made seemed harsh. It’s not my intention to personally attack you or Per and Marie - but I prefer to call a spade as a spade. Admittedly, I could have been a little more diplomatic.

whateveriam said on September 5, 2006 20:04:

Sadly, judging by the reaction, I think it is.

iseggie said on September 10, 2006 05:59:

Missing:

Church of Your Heart

Still, one of my all time favorites!

Okay, I’m being selfish :)

- Ian