I am incensed. Basically, I’m sick of the way radio stations treat Roxette in Australia. Whenever Roxette is mentioned, they go out of their way to rubbish the music (although they never say just what is wrong with it), and mock those who like it - particularly Triple-J.

For example, on Thursday nights Triple-J has its J Files, 3 hours devoted to a particular subject. Usually this is a band, but this year, once each month, it will be devoted to a year of the 90s. This time it was 1991. Joyride was suggested by listeners, and of course this was mocked by the host and a caller (no, get it off, get it off, as if the caller were in pain while the first few seconds were played).

This, of course, from a radio station that specialises in playing music with little to no tune or melody, poor lyrics, lots of noise, from groups with small singing ability. I suppose that being successful, selling millions of records, and making music that lots of people want to listen to is a bad thing...

Despite Joyride being one of the biggest singles, albums, and tours of the year in this country, they refused to play it or anything from it.

So, next month the year for the J Files show will be 1992. Would anyone be interested in, during the week or so before the 1992 show (probably the last week of April), bombarding Triple-J with suggestions for the various Roxette songs that were released that year as singles? And even B-sides, as I understand Silver Blue was - that
got mentioned by a caller in a B-sides J Files show a month ago, but of course the host refused to play it, because it was by Roxette. Not because it wasn’t good, but because it was by Roxette.