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Do you remember your first time??
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RoxiRoxt said on March 3, 2002 11:46:
My “first time”: In 1990 there were to kids who were imitating Roxette with IMHBL in a show for kids called “Mini Playback Show” (Germans remember). I heard this song and just love it. The next day I saw LTYH on a LP from my mother and I played this song the whole time. So my mother bought me Joyride and my “fan-career” starts till today and will never stop :o)
Stormkeeper said on February 19, 2002 10:25:
ha ha, when I saw your subject I though you were talking about something else... ;)
To answer your question I think I just heard The Look on the radio or something. Can´t remember very well.
little-miss-sorrow said on February 19, 2002 10:47:
I heard Joyride (or the big L., I don’t remember too well) at a youth club party when I was 12. A few days later I went into a record store to buy some new music. I didn’t know what I wanted so I looked around for a while. I saw Joyride, remembered having seen it at the party, liked the cover ;o) and bought it. That’s how I got into all this trouble... lol.
chantie_ said on February 19, 2002 11:05:
my first time was when my parents spilt up. my father tried to get over the divorce with many bottles of red wine and IMHBL hahaha so that kinda stayed with me. during joyride he had another girl and took HER to the live show, i was too little (about 10) he said, yeah right. then we got a tape from someone with the joyirde album on it, which both my father and i cherished. it took a while but when CBB came out, i was hooked. i watched the mtv weekend about CBB and i just couldnt take my eyes of these two great people. this time my dad took ME to the concert and then the deal was done, i was a MAJOR fan.
:)
so for me IMHBL is still very important allthough i think i have heard it too many times...
animalkingdom said on February 19, 2002 11:25:
I remember it quite well...It was FLAF on the radio –> ad of Joyride on TV –> recorded the album from my brother –> an immeadate fan!
gesslefan_no1 said on February 19, 2002 11:30:
The first time I heard roxette were when my parents had bought a cd with swedish songs from 1980-1990 and The Look was on it... I didn´t know who Roxette were, but I immediatley fell in love with that song and it´s still one of my absolutely favourites...
rezmad said on February 19, 2002 12:47:
I heard the words “na na na na na na na....” on the radio on the way to school one day in ’89 and I was hooked from then onwards!
roxtexanet said on February 19, 2002 13:08:
Almost exactly 13 years ago, “The Look” was the highest debut on the American Top 40 (at #31) and I thought Shadoe Stevens had said that the band’s name was “Rock Z”! I thought that sounded completely stupid (even as a twelve year old, I had standards (: ) and started to laugh, and thought “Poor Sweden”!
Then I heard the song.
A few weeks later (after I figured out that Rock Z actually went by the much more acceptable name, Roxette), I was standing in the record store all set to buy the Milli Vanilli cassette and saw that Roxette was on sale for a dollar less! Thank freaking God!! Naturally I wore out the cassette and had to win another one in a radio contest to replace it... good thing they invented CDs... (:
Mfan28179-Jason said on February 19, 2002 18:18:
Yes, I always remember “The Look.” But it really wasn’t till I heard “Spending My Time” continuously on a local radio station that I decided to order their “Joyride” album from a CD club. I remember loving the song a few years earlier (when it was popular) and then I got into buying CDs and had to get this one. But I never considered myself to be a big fan. So, the years passed by and I pretty much forgot about them.
Then several years later, in 2000, I discovered “Wish I Could Fly” on a local radio station and it started a real craze - one that blew up! That’s why I’m here now.
Vixzter said on February 19, 2002 20:49:
I was wandering around in HMV about to buy something really crap ( can’t remember what exactly).....when IMHBL came on over the shop speakers and I was saved. ;)
Of course this was also the beggining of my financial ruin, coincidence?? ;)
raisa said on February 19, 2002 21:17:
i found DBUGTTC from library and fell in love with june afternoon.
soon came HAND in stores and i bought it and next summer i collected almost all roxette albums.
then i forgot roxette. and when i heard that they are coming to finland i bought room service and begged my mom to let me go to helsinki on 12th november. then after show i haven’t even listened to any other bands. *now IMHBL in walkman*
cgvazquez said on February 19, 2002 21:43:
i heard Roxette in the radio. I love Listen to your heart! But i don´t know who sing the song. Then, my cousin told me: “i have a cassete that is great” it was Look Sharp, when i heard all the cassette, next day i bought it...and...i loved it since a first day.
gyllene_tjej said on February 19, 2002 21:49:
The first stage of my being a fan was back at primary school when Dressed for success was being played on and on :) Then, we had a fight Roxette vs New Kids On The Block ( hehehe *such a shame*) Of course, I never liked what the rest did so, along with a bunch of others we supported Roxette. :o) But then, it seemed a short lived craze and, don’t ask me how come but I left them for Guns n’ Roses and such stuff ;-))))))
I understood my mistake and perhaps grew up enough to become their fan in 1994. But not so much because of C!B!B! back then. I borrowed a live video from a friend and cried my eyes out to Marie’s Perfect Day!
*sigh* Nostalgy creeps into my heart now :)
Anyway, here I am now, carring my Per and Marie neverending love in the heart :)
Sarah-P said on February 20, 2002 01:06:
For me it was also in ground school that I heard them for the first time, we used to ’practise’ these ’plays’ during our schooldays in the gym (for everyone who knows it; I went to a Montesorri grounds school where you can do such things ALL day if you want, hehe!) with a couple of girls and then the ’coolest’ girl of our group brought the Joyride tape and we all went crazy about the first song!
We had this really stupid dance routine on it, still remember it, and actually we only listened to Joyride, because after that one came Hotblooded and that was a bit too loud for our 10-year-old ears! :)
later on we all copied the whole tape from that girl and started to listen to the rest as well, thank God!
Then I remember a friend and I were talking about going to one of the summer joyride concerts in Den Bosch here in NL, but of course our parents didn’t let us too. And then the Rox fever was a bit over for a while, I even swapped a Rox poster for a Flying Doctors poster with a friend still can’t forgive myself for that!!!
But when I heard How do you do the next year it ALL came back and never vanished since then!
JoyRidErno said on February 20, 2002 03:40:
I found Look Sharp! -tape from my mum’s box. My cousins had forgotten it. So I listen to it and felt in love:) It was around ’95... So I bought DBUGTTC... And so on.
StillFar said on February 20, 2002 04:46:
it was - of course - ’So Far Away’. My dad brought POP from a business trip from Sweden. After listening to the LP for one day, he never saw it again...
lonely_girl said on February 23, 2002 09:17:
I was ill at home and my brother brought a copy of “The look”, “dressed for success”, “Sleeping single”, “paint” and “Listen to your heart” from school. I just took the mc and listened to the tracks over and over again. When “joyride” started, I was a huge rox-fan and I’m still.
nedved said on February 23, 2002 09:31:
it was when i was 8 year old and my mother bougth a record called “Roxette Look Sharp!”. She put it sometimes and finally who put the record on all day was me!
Thank you so much, mum, for this adicction. Love you!
CRIZ said on February 24, 2002 05:59:
Oh....digging in history...I think it was around summer or autumn 1989 where I got caught by the brainwash-rotation of THE LOOK in the radio! It took a while but suddenly I remembered that I ’ve cut out the Songbook from “Bravo”-magazine cause I collected all the songbooks from songs I liked. So...I went to my desk, searched for the songbooks and saw their pic for the first time. “Ah that guy with the red hair looks strange.....” was my first impression! Then came “Dressed for success”..”Oh them again”, I thought! And after I heard “Listen to your heart” I ran into the next shop and bought “Look Sharp”, after I heard the CD I grabbed all my all Bravo magazines, and suddenly the first poster was hanging on my wall......sigh...long time ago. If somebody had told me before to what that will lead.....OHMYGOD....
royalball said on February 24, 2002 07:15:
hmmm...no can’t really remember the first time it’s too far back for me...
sofiab said on February 24, 2002 11:49:
don’t remember exactly when I first heard them, but I have other memories from that time; for instance I remember I was amazed by my sister who could tell which the next song was on the look sharp-album... i couldn’t understand at all how she could know that, thought she fooled me around...
I also remember when I discovered that a single had TWO songs on it and not just the single’s name’ song. Was standing holding the single of Spending my time in my hand in the recordstore, looked at it and was so fascinated, and then when I looked on the backside I saw:
spending my time
the sweet hello, the sad goodbye
and didn’t know at all what to think, “what was that? could it be a song? no... it couldn’t”, but I went to a man working in the shop asking, and yes, it was a song, GUESS HOW I FELT. and i still remember it today...
and when I walked out from the storehouse i said to my friend that i could feel marie would be singing this one...
Denstandigaresan said on February 24, 2002 13:04:
My very best friend was a fan(IS a fan)... and I remember hearing it muffled over his personal stereo headphones in the schools common room at lunch time. Never thought much of it... vagely remember my sister blasting out LTYH(which I later found in amongst her records when she left home). But it wasn’t until I met up with that said friend in 1993, that I REALLY got into them... we met in town, and he was eager to get home as his favourite band were being interviewed on MTV. So I tagged along. It was an interview with Per by Rebecca DeRuvo(?) on MTV, they were sat at the piano. And ’Almost Unreal’ video was played. I then saw his entire Roxette collection, and blagged a few CD’s to borrow. The very next day, I was in town breaking into my student grant, buying Joyride and Tourism!! Then Almost Unreal... which is my favourite ever Roxette song... the one that started my love for them off. I was a 7 day a week church goer at the time... not religious, just I had nothing else to do with my time... apart from college... and all my friends went to church. From that day to this, I have never been back to church! And have definitely entered the ’Church-Of-Roxette’! LOL! Made LOTS of good friends through the love of Roxette... and done some crazy things! (Probably lost quite a few pounds too..treking all over London, chasing Roxette to various interviews etc...!! LOL!)
I’m glad I became a Roxette fan... don’t think my family are, and my wallet definitely isn’t! LOL! (Doesn’t help... I collect on the X-Files too!)
~*SkullyRox~*(Yahoo and Cyga)
CRIZ said on February 25, 2002 11:00:
The most funny thing: I remember every moment of buying a ROXETTE-ALBUM...! Normally I don’t remember how it was to buy this or that CD but the ROX-Albums...every second! Strange!!!
rox74ever said on February 25, 2002 11:57:
yeap, me too , i remember where i bought each roxette CD!!
and Roxette Tourism was my first one!!then i had to decide between look sharp and joyride, after thinking for like 35 minutes , i decided to buy both at the same time!!!
=)
jetjet said on March 3, 2002 05:00:
It was December 1989, Listen to your heart was a big hit in Holland and it simply knocked me off my feet! My best friend bought me a present for Christmas: the single! From that day on I was a fan and became a member of the fanclub a few months later!
SolensVaen said on March 4, 2002 08:17:
The first time I heard of Roxette was back in 1989 and it was “Listen to your heart” - video in an austrian TV-show! And I thought it was totally bullshit! (Sorry, was just 6 years old!)
Then I saw Joyride-advertise, and I thought: Oh God, not them again!
I became fan in the end of the summer vacation of 1992 with “How do you do!” I was at a friend and she played the song over and over again, the whole afternoon and evening! First I thought it was strange, than I thought it was ok, than I started to ask what’s the song and the band called! When I went home I thought it was the best song I ever heard!
The next day I got on my mum’s nervs till she bought “Tourism” for me! First I just listened to “How do you do!” but soon realized that the rest of the album was fantastic!
Two weeks later I saw the first time a real poster of them and got a shock when I realized it’s the same band, who I thought it was bullshit!
But then I fell in love with Per and Roxette and the music!
I bought all the other albums as well and started collecting everything and I could never let it go again and I will never be able to it either!
I’m more than half my life Rox-fan and it’s one of the best things ever in my life to happen! Thanx to Anita who was bringing me to listen to them! :)
little_girl said on March 6, 2002 12:02:
Well... It was 1990 or maybe 1991 when I got compeatly terrorised with Joyride in scool. I was in 4:th or 5:th grade then, and a girl in my class (a roxettefan ofcourse) used to play Joyride inbetween every lesson al day long. I absolutely hated that stupid song for quite some time. I thought it was so stupid. At the time I had NO musictaste at all. But, after enough terrorizing, I realized that hey, I know the lyrics to that song, and I found myself humming along. Since that day I was cought, but I didn’t start to collect CD’s until 1993 or something. I got Tourism as a christmasgift, and soon after that I bought DBUGTTC.
That’s about it in short, but you can find the whole story at my homepage. http://come.to/rox4ever
/little_girl
Marie-fan said on March 7, 2002 01:47:
The first Song for me was It must have been love. I watched Pretty woman in the cinema. My older brother gave me a tape with the soundtrack from that movie. I also bought a tare with more songs. So I became a big Roxette Fan.
Since 1995 I´m a big Marie fan.
ROX ON +HAND
Santi said on May 27, 2005 11:03:
No, I don’t remember my first time and obviously I would not think I was going to write about it 16 years later...
I don’t even know which could have been the first song I listened of Roxette. I guess it has to be either The Look or Neverending Love. If it was The Look it should have happened some day in 1989 (I bought a tape because it contained it -my first tape ever :P- in December 1989). If it was Neverending Love then if would have happened some year before.
The reason I’m not certain is that the first time I was conscious that I was listening to Neverending Love was when “La 2” (The second channel of the Spanish TV) broadcasted an old concert from their tour in Sweden after Look Sharp, some Saturday night.
I remember they played Neverending Love and I had never heard that song on a CD, nor the internet was that good by then, but I was actually singing along because somehow I knew that melody. Maybe it was a “déjà vu”, maybe I actually knew it.
ally77 said on May 27, 2005 11:26:
Well I had a close encounter with Dressed For Success when I first saw it and thought they where good... never thought nothing else of it, I was too wrapped up in Bros **quit the laughing now**
The again in 1991 I heard Joyride 2 weeks running and both me and my mum loved the song....
It was then in August 91 when I heard The Big L and got hooked.... when I got the Joyride album, I relised it was the same group and of course when I got Look Sharp the same with DFS.... it kinda all fitted!
Sparvogamarie said on May 27, 2005 11:32:
I remember the first time I saw The Look - I didn’t like it!!!! I hated the video, especially that slutty girl in the red dress lol. And I thought Per had a ridiculous haircut and a weird voice, and don’t even start me on the fashion sense.
I do also remember seeing IMHBL the first time, and seeing Marie and thinking she was an angel ;) That’s where it started for me!
Sparvogamarie said on May 27, 2005 11:43:
Oops sorry, I forgot to point at Ally and fall down on the floor in fits of laughter screaming BROS???? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Breathe8 said on May 27, 2005 14:27:
The first time what I remember from Roxette were How do you do and Joyride. It was in 1992 and these songs played in one TOP TEN on TV. I remember Joyride was on 2nd position. About one week later I bought album Joyride and I became a Roxette fan.
AURYTE said on June 9, 2005 09:01:
It’s so nice that you remember when you first heard Roxette... I don’t remember it!!! I don’t remember when it was and what song I heard first:(
Bibi said on June 9, 2005 11:47:
Of course I do remember! I went to the 5th grade and our music teacher at school allowed us to listen to one popsong at the end of the lesson. Someone suggested “Joryide”...the rest is history... ;-)))!
perishot said on June 10, 2005 13:01:
my best mates mum has the dvd i saw per fell 4 him and i so recognized the songs after that told mum i want the dvd 4 christmas did u know i couldnt wait till then i chucked a hissy fit cause i thought she wasnt gonna buy it i swear i cried anyway she told me months before christmas but on the day i got it which i went on holidays i got it on the 1st of January watched it everyday ever since per is my fixation now.
;)
Kiwein1 said on June 10, 2005 13:34:
I don’t rememberg when I first heard Roxette and don’t even know which song. I didn’t become a fan by only ONE listen. It took some time. But I was “done” when I got to know the Joyride album.
rox74ever said on February 19, 2002 09:56:
hello people!!
do you remember the first time you heard Roxette? Do you remember the first day you ve become their fan??
Actually the way i became a roxette fan was very different from many fans!!
I went to my best friend’s house. And she had a video tape of a band called roxette (The Videos).=)
So while i was watching the video i was thinking...” wait a minute.. ive heard this songs on the radio... so THEY are the ones who sing those songs....” and while i was thinking... i was falling in love with Per... well.. C’mon... i was 9 years old!!!His pretty eyes and his tight pants style!! the next day my brother was like: ” Mom!!! She wont stop talking about some people called Roxette!! she’s crazy!!!” So since them,... my fascination with roxette started... to tell you the truth... i think it was a ” physical fascination”
see ya!!
=)