kiwijazza said on November 12, 2003 11:07:

When IMHBL made me want to learn guitar, and when I felt the urge to get an album. :)

erweetiran said on November 12, 2003 13:58:

I always liked them, but when I heard have a nice day, they didn’t dissapoint and I decided to stop this denial and support them because how many good albums DO i want to hear before they will confince me, so have a nice day did it although the others where right up there!

Asya18 said on November 12, 2003 14:33:

@Denstandigaresan:that’s romantic)))
I just understood that i”d liked their music before,but some day I met my future best friend and she showed me some special side of it...
Besides I was 13-14 years old-you know the influence of all these love songs...))))But i’m getting older and love them more)))It’s like pleasant illness
And the great step for me was coming here-that is the day i’ve become Rox-fan.Thax to all of you))))

Santi said on November 12, 2003 19:44:

The first song I learnt to play with my guitar was “The Rain”. But I became fan short before, when I heard June Afternoon from my CD player. I had bought the greatest hits album because I knew some songs and I always liked them, but this impressed me :D So bright, simple, nice... I wanted to be a musician too, well, a guitar player, I knew music by then already.

ally77 said on November 12, 2003 21:55:

For me I was sitting in my bedroom one Sunday evening taping the top 40 to play in my walkman :) when I heard “THE BIG L”, That was it the song I loved I made up a 90 minute tape of that song off the radio and played it all the time solid for 5 days until on the Friday when I came home from a friends went to get changed and there was a little gift bag in my room with JOYRIDE inside... I was sooooo happy... my mum had been out to buy it for me (she got so sick of hearing THE BIG L 24/7.... I then bought LOOK SHARP a few months later.... when I saw it cheap in Our Price..

LittleGirl78 said on November 13, 2003 00:07:

OK. How I did realize that I´m a Rox-Fan.
Roxette was the first music what I´ve like/love, before Roxette I listen maybe so songs for kids. ;-)
And now where I listen also other songs what I like but I´m only Rox-Fan is that Rox inspirient me, I love all songs, all of the Rox Songs are great, from other Bands some are not so well and only from Rox I must have the same record in many different versions.And if I want to listen music and I don´t know what, then I go always to the Rox-CD´s this music make me happy.
That´s difficult to explain.

Johanlarsson said on November 13, 2003 02:22:

I knew I likes them since IMHBL and a concert in Helsingborg when I was young, but the best thing was an English friend that I met in Cyprus. She had tourism in her car all the time for a whole year. We spoke about Rox, she loved them, I loved too and that was it!! We both now love TDR, but she is too shy to write!! Sarah, come on say a word!!??

LittleSpooky said on November 14, 2003 05:09:

Back in 1989, I had just returned to Utah from living with my dad. My parents have been separated since before I was born, the divorce final when I was about 7. I was messed up. I went into a psychiatric unit (mental hospital if you wanna be crass) and was diagnosed as Bi-Polar Manic Depressive. That means that my moods go from one extreme (happy, excitable, angry, hyper) to the other (lethargic, depressed, sad all the time). As I was receiving treatment for this, I was also “officially” diagnosed with insomnia (DUH!). I was layin awake one night, about 2am, listening to my walkman when “The Look” came on.

To call it, there was just something about the combination of Per’s and Marie’s voices that soothed me. When I’d go out to do my physical activities (volleyball and stuff) I’d ask to have the radio on because Power99 here in Utah (now B 98.7) was a HUGE promoter of Roxette’s music. I’d always hear “The Look” and no matter how bad I felt, I would always feel better.

Fast forward to now: I’m stable off meds, occassionally, I have “episodes” of depression, and I have a network to talk to if I need it. All in all, I’m okay now and lead a .... well... nothing about me is normal, but I do lead a productive life *cheesy grin*

That’s my story.

silverblue2006 said on July 24, 2006 01:55:

Now this is a cool thread. :P

I first heard IMHBL and FLAF in 1991. I had probably heard The Look in 1989, but didn’t think too much of it. But in 1991 when I heard those other two songs, then Spending My Time (heard that one in November 1991), I knew I was obsessed and a huge huge fan. For my birthday in 1992, MOm got Joyride for me, around Christmas 1993, I got Look Sharp, in April 1994 I got Tourism. The rest is history.
I play ed the albums over and over and over, eventually had to replace my tapes. In 1995 I started getting CD’s (finally), and I got them all then.
I was so fanatical with my love for all things Roxette in 1996 that by late 1997, I wore myself out I think. It’s been that long since I’ve been really deep into Roxette music. I needed to step back for a while. Now I”m interested, want to get HAND, and all new things if possible, compare the old with the new...
I’d say when I knew I was hooked was when FLAF was #7 on a top 20 chart in Sept. 1991 and I stayed up way too late on a school night to listen. :D That was what started all this stuff for me.

chrisjankunas said on July 24, 2006 20:17:

I loved ’Almost Unreal’ from the moment I first heard it in 1993 - such a wonderful song ! I was only 5 but knew it was a golden song ! Then in 1995 my older sister got DBUGTTC on cassette. In 1999 she got WICF but I never really noticed this. Somtime in 2004 IMHBL began appearing on the UK Music Channel “MAGIC” and I recognised Marie’s beautiful voice ! Buying TBH and downloading their discography I became familiar with vaguely familiar songs from my sister’s cassette - Now I own at least 250 cds including some 5 * - 7 * promos !!

nate said on July 25, 2006 02:31:

I’ve always “liked” Roxette ever since TL was released in North America; but, honestly I did
not think they would stick around for more than one album. Eventhough I bought “LS” on cassette, I did not play it too often until LTYH started receiving airplay. By the time JR was released, I really started to pay attention; but, the song that really captured my heart and has made me a lifelong loyal fan from the JR CD was WCITR. Since that day, they could do no wrong.

blunek said on July 25, 2006 14:36:

I was at primary school and my class wanted to prepare something special for Mother‘s Day. We decided it would be Mini playback show :0) ALmost everybody had to take part in it. I had no idea who I should act. I went to a “music shop” and took a look at some pirated cassettes and suddenly I noticed Rox cassette (later I discovered it was the whole Look sharp! album). On the sleeve there was a picture from Bravo magazine (Per and Marie with some silver prize). My friend said that I can be Per (!) in our show, so we bought the tape. And I was listening this tape thousand times and I immediately fell in love with Roxette :0) The same week I got so much magazine Rox-stuff from my class mates, it was the beginning of my collection :0) Ana I realized I become a fan :0)

Majdy said on August 2, 2006 08:20:

I always had bad experience with buying an album of a band of an artist, because I always found out that they usually only have one or two good songs on it, and mostly only the ones that they released as singles. So, I was surprised when I heard the whole Joyride album and like all the songs. I thought the only good songs were Joyride and Spending My Time. For the first time in my life I feel satisfy to the whole album! So, then I realize, hey maybe I should become a fan of this band.