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Who should you blame?
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tinytim said on November 28, 2002 14:56:
For almost two years, TDR was a place of struggle, between those ones who loved and those ones who hated HAND.
Every kind of reasonment was used for both sides. But everybody agreed in one point: the more cool it could be, the more horrible it could sound, it wasn’t Roxette. Even Per admitted it, he himself said that it was difficult listening to HAND sometimes.
Now, in the same last two years, pieces of Roxettism are disclosured: Bad Moon, All I ever wanted, It Hurts, New World...even those ones already released as B-sides...Better of On her Own, See Me...got the same taste, very, very opposite with what happens in any secondary song from HAND and RS.
Now, tell me? Who’s supposed to get the blame?
Only EMI? ’Coz it’s blind enough to don’t identify those songs as authentic Roxette?
Or Per and Marie? Since that Aerosmith decided to challenge their record company by producing their last album themselves?
You tell me. It’s hard to believe that Per and Marie cannot split what it’s really “they” “Roxette” from what the did in the last three years so far, in comparison with all those fantastic (and I believe there are much more of them, specially from the CBB times) songs that are slowly being revealed.
tinytim said on November 29, 2002 14:46:
Yeah, but when you watch to the demo stuff you notice that old Roxettism again...like it’s when you listen to Bad Moon chorus...how many time ago didn’t you listen a Roxette song with such magic way to sing the liryx, just like in the old times?
I think they never changed their style...but they suffer a pressure to fit their songs in a commercial shape...when you listen to HAND, you feel them totally “out” or almost totally...maybe in that time, when HAND was released, and lately when we remeber about it, we think that Per and Marie passed through a lack of inspiration period, a “UnRoxette” time (and then, they would have re-achieved it, a little, at least, in RS) but those demos show that’s not true.
Th_Th said on November 29, 2002 16:15:
I think HAND is such a great Album. If you listen to every song individually you will see, how great each song really is, but somehow all the songs thrown together... just doesn’t fit somehow...
my friends that really do not like Roxette’s stuff, thought HAND was great... it was different what Roxette tried, and they had big hits with it... wish I could fly for isntance was a huge European hit, even in the UK... and HAND reached Number 3 in the UK... don’t think any other CD ever got that high in UK, did it??
I love the individual songs of HAND, but there is this flow missing on this album, a flow like we have it in Room Service or just any other Roxette Album.... this is just my opinion anyway...
Mfan28179-Jason said on November 30, 2002 04:02:
I’ll have to disagree with the above post about the HAND songs not fitting together. Personally, I think they all fit together very well. The production of each song is very rich and gives the album a rich feel.
quote: “Even Per admitted it, he himself said that it was difficult listening to HAND sometimes.”
The funny thing about Per is that his opinions change so often. It’s the same as him saying that each new album they record is “the best we’ve ever done.”
I was reading the HAND interview at roxservice.com the other night and he more or less praised the entire album.
I guess opinions change over time. I don’t think there’s anyone to blame. Some love HAND. Some hate it.
Santi said on November 30, 2002 09:37:
Every musician says his/her last album is the best he’s ever done... that’s just marketing...
Anyway it’s true, Per opinions usually change, as well as fan opinions change. People opinions change with time... the older, the wiser :DD
Sascha said on November 28, 2002 15:34:
I think Room Service is the total opposite of HAND in Roxette’s universal. Anyway, I love both!