Heart_2002 said on August 27, 2002 15:43:

If you were to start working on a Rox album (pretedn you were Marie and Per and all your friends were Jonas, Pelle, Clarence, etc) and all the songs you had completed were the one we find on both “Have a nice day” and “Room Service” ... How would you make a tracklist of those and how different would you have produced and mixed the songs into your album? (You can mentio details during recording process, intruments, people involved ..etc)

Give it a try use your imagination....

and have a nice room service day....
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Roxette’s New Album

“Have a nice room service day” (silly tiltle ...)

1) CRUSH ON YOU

Yeah a great opener track. Per’s almost rap lyrics here are so silly but if we take a close look at them it’s almost like an ordinary day of man filled with thoughts and troubles. Fights with neighbours and flies on scoth with ice! Who has never had the bad luck of driving on the wrong side? Lol:)
Anyway If i were to produce this track and although i really love the original version (forgive me all diehard rock Roxette lovers) i would really make it more rocky than what it is. Pelle playing some mad drums and Jonas giving us full power on the guitars with a great solo in the middle. Marie has one of the best vocals on this one. I would keep Michael Ilbert out of this one with all my respect of course.

2) WISH I COULD FLY

The great ballad after a crazy pop tune. It must be typical Roxette. I love it... wonderful string’s arrangements from Clarence and like it happended on the RS tour i would replace or at least add simultaneously to the “falling plane sound” a solo by Jonas on his guitar.

3) THE CENTRE OF THE HEART

We must have a classic Roxette track like “The Look” or “Fireworks” on a Rox album. This one is for me damm cool. I would make it bigger towards the end becauase the repetitive chorus is so awsome it could go on and on and on. Some eletric guitars along the whole track and the same drum bear as “I want you” from Savage Garden to make it more consistant and coherent.

4) IT WILL TAKE A LONG LONG TIME

5) IT TAKES YOU NO TIME TO GET HERE

Two amazing beautiful acoustic songs one by Marie and the other by Per. In order to sememble the same structure on the “CBB” album with “The First Girl on the moon” and “Place your love” i wouls put these 2 one after another. The first being recorded like the Modern Rock version of course. Jonas once again it’s never enough

6) REAL SUGAR

This one to me besides having similarities to COY could obviously be recorded in a much more harder way. Live with a garage sound to make a true pop tune a la Gyllene Tyder. It would be like having a new “The Big L.” but 2001 performed live in the studio. The live version made by Roxette during the promotional concerts in Germany ans Spain is for me much better than the studio version. Even the Shotting Star mix is grovier than the original. The guitars should be more hearable and the end extended.

7) ANYONE or COOPER

In order to a have a ballad like CBB whether we could choose Anyone that is clearly more similar in a way to the forementioned song or even closer to it the beautifil but underrated “Cooper”. This song if recorded just like CBB would prove that it fits this style perfectly. The final production to it on the HAND should be much better than that. The strings are perfect and a song with the stylle of CCB really matches narrative lyrics... a song telling a story. I’d love that!

8) I WAS SO LUCKY

The song written to Gabriel. It must be on the album of course

9) MILK AND TOAST AND HONEY

Another enchating ballad. Simpler than many we know but its simplicity and clerary makes it very pleasant for fans and music listeners that are used to a Roxette song especially a ballad like this magic and shiny. I would have put the demo drums and make it extended in the strings’ solo part.

10) FOOL

A nice piece of bumblegum to this album. It almost like having a “Dressed For Sucess” with Marie doing great vocals on this one (she really does i was impressed!) or a funny song with a happy mood like “June Afternoon”. The song itself was produced with a cool sound so Shooting Star did not damaged it so badly as many think. I wouls keep him in the team but i would add a much stronger guitar sound and maybe a solo here.

11) SALVATION

Another pretty ballad like “Vulnerable” but perhaps less magestic in a way. It would remain as it is we don’t need to have guitars on all the songs, I would just ask Marie to re-record the vocals. She seemed to have done better on the spanish version than on the original to me.

12) 7Twenty7

I would have recorded this one like the demo version as many of us agree. More poweful to be fit into a studio album. A nice piece of a song very a la Gessle as a consequence of his solo album. Smashing and crushing...cool guitars and it’s on!

13) STARING AT THE GROUND

This one to me is very Roxette in many ways. Lyrics and melody but i would have recorded with live drums to make it a bit midtempo. A kind of song that is close to something hard but not quite there. It’s like “Looking For Jane” but a bit better that’s why i would have picked this one.

14) MY WORLD MY LOVE MY LIFE

This one is very deep and for such reason I would have make it bigger. Like in the CBB album “Love is all” is the biggest ballad and trully deserve the striong sound it has. The same magestic image would be fittable for this one. Drums could be more like “Queen Of Rain” so that we would have another IMHBL ballad vibe and i could have add a choir to the chorus in the end. Extended and sang like a echo to the world ... the magic view of a sunset on the rise .... i really love this one!

15) BEAUTIFUL THINGS

LIke it happens on almost every single Rox album the last track muts have a touch of farewell. This one is the saddest song Roxette ever did at least for me. What a strong chorus and a sad feeling. Marie’s solo work is so evident on this one. It’s a mix between the song “Herren beg för dig” from 1994 and the beautiful “Tro” from 1996. Definitively the perfect end for the album.

Roxette are Marie and Per
Drummers: Pelle and Christer
Producer: Clarence Ofwerman
(with a few colaboratios from Michael Illbert and Shooting Star)
Guitars: Jonas, Per, MP Persson, Christopher
Bass: Christopher
keyboards: Clarence
Piano: Clarence and Marie
Backing Vocals: Christpher, Per and Marie

Kiwein1 said on August 27, 2002 20:12:

1.) Crush on you (more guitars, would like to hear the demo)
2.) 7Twenty7 (demo)
3.) Wish I could fly
4.) Jefferson
5.) The Centre of the heart
6.) Pay the price
7.) It will take a long long time
8.) My world, my love, my life
9.) Salvation
10.) Beautiful things
11.) Looking for jane
12.) I was so lucky
13.) Waiting for the rain

ABFFP said on August 27, 2002 22:12:

oops, forgot about 7Twenty7/demo :) A long album...:)

daniel_alv said on August 27, 2002 23:01:

singles:

The centre of the heart
b-side Milk and toast and honey

Salvation
b-side Happy together

Crush on you
b-side Better off on her own

Stars
b-side Beautiful things

Wish I could fly
b-side Entering your heart

PerAndren said on August 28, 2002 21:11:

Hmm, if you ask a Metallica fan, he won’t believe you when you claim “Pay The Price” has the best guitar solo ever...

Jackeill said on August 28, 2002 21:29:

hm it’s fine but best solos are in led zeppelin’s songs and santana has good ones... and great solo there is in november rain by g’n’r! this solo rulez!

Heart_2002 said on August 29, 2002 13:42:

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I asked you one thing not to talk about Led Zepplin or Mettalica ...with all my honest respect for those bands but please put your discussion on a separate topic and be kind focus on what i’ve asked you here. If you aren’t with the will to take part of it that’s fine but don’t mess it up please!

Thanx

Heart_2002 said on August 29, 2002 14:20:

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SirMikeAlot said on August 30, 2002 05:20:

Good Topic!!!
I actually burnt my own cd shortly after r/s came out, so i’ve been listening to that a lot more than the original cd (ie, now).

Dance Extreme - the best of have a nice day and room service.
1. crush on you
2. entering your heart
3. 7twenty7
4. the centre of the heart
5. you can’t put your arms around what’s already gone
6. real sugar
7. salvation
8. beautiful things
9. bringing me down to my knees
10.make my head go pop
11. wish i could fly
12. my world, my love, my life
13. fool
14. stars

+ a bonus cd with demo’s (7twenty7) and remixes (real sugar, WICF, M&T&H, stars, it will take a long time - rock version,), plus see me, crazy about you and better of on her own

isn’t it funny how everyone chose Crush On You as an opener...

Heart_2002 said on August 31, 2002 16:54:

Further details:

Roxette has a few song on the baggage that were not fit into the album:

- “Pay the Price” was competing with “7twenty7” for the album but this last one won has it was much more stronger.....yet it was included as a b-side for the “Wish I could Fly” single ....the 1st single release!

- “Stars” Michael Illbert produced a very techno orieted song that didn’t fit into the album and as it does not fit the Roxette usual style... however Per loves this one and donated it to a children’s concert for children affected with AIDS in Africa....Marie performed the song together with some Djs live and an amazing choir of children around her singing along ...it was like a Club mixed with a big very big school party....LOL:)
(Yet i think that the idea for a concert with such purpose would be wonderdul and Roxette would colaborate...”Stars” might not be a very fav among fans but its happy and cool rhythm would chear these kids up ....and everybody on the audience)

- “Waiting For the Rain” written by Marie for Roxette but included on a Concert for the Beatle’s Anniversary of their carear....then featured on a album about it!

- ” Looking For Jane” was facing competition from “Staring at the Ground” and ended up as a b-side to the “TCOTH” single together with “Litle Girl” a small song Marie also wrote for the album but remained out due to its simplicity ... still a charming piece of bittersweet melody

- “Jefferson” b-side to the ” Milk and Toast and Honey” single
(great song according to Per but too late recorded for the album)

- “Bringing me down to my knees” good guitar solo but Per thinks that it needed to be re-recorded better ...but how? He kept it in the drawer....the same for “Make my Head go pop” this one should be more strong i the chortus and not so “lollypop” it’s funny but a bit silly ....he would do it more like a garage tune more his on way....

NOTE:

This is only my imagination and personal view don’t take it for real

daniel_alv said on September 1, 2002 20:54:

i have changed mine....

crush on you
jefferson
you can’t put your arms
anyone
i was so lucky
real sugar
little girl
matah
tcoth
salvation
make my head go pop
stars
my world my.....

singles
TCOTH with beautiful things

STARS with Happy together

SALVATION with it will take a long long time

CRUSH ON YOU with better off on her own

MILK AND TOAST AND HONEY with Try

MAKE MY HEAD GO POP with wish i could fly