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Is Roxette's music timeless?
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RoXoR said on October 1, 2003 23:28:
I remember that everyone who was born before 1984 was roxette fan in 1992. I know that everyone of my friends were roxette fans back in than.
Nowadays most of those people dont like roxette anymore and new fans of roxettes new matriel doesnt really exist.
for example red hot chillie peppers, sting, abba or what ever, they also get new fans but dont lost their old ones because their music is timeless i also thought roxette made timeless music but you dont hear their older music on the radio anymore. So does roxette changed their image and music in a way that the old fans think they were a teenie band and nowadays their new music dont reach the younger people anymore?
What do you think?
RoXoR
ally77 said on October 2, 2003 06:04:
Oh we get Roxette played on radio 2 all the time over here, always IMHBL or LTYH!!
Santi said on October 2, 2003 07:58:
I think the whole “Look Sharp!” sounds very old, no timeless at all. But from then yeah, could be...
Sascha said on October 2, 2003 08:18:
The roxette catalogue still belongs to the most played tracks on german radio, from The Look to ATAY. Real classics because roxette-songs are based on strong melodies, not on short-lived production-trends. Great melodies never get old!
maiken said on October 2, 2003 08:20:
Roxette gets a lot of airplay here in Finland. I hear How Do You Do, IMHBL, LTYH, Joyride all the time. I think for the long-time fans the music is very timeless. But the news fans might think that the music before “Don’t bore us...” might be a little too 80ties...? Maybe I’m wrong...?
Kiwein1 said on October 2, 2003 08:27:
Joyride, LTYH, IMHBL, SMT, FLAF are songs that have strong airplay here in germany.
But: the same with ATAY, MaTaH and TCOTH! Nothing has changed, only one the way the music industry takes influence on the people..
Lennon said on October 2, 2003 09:45:
What do you mean with “timeless”? To me, Roxette’s music still makes sense today. There are, of course, some songs, that would sound different today. So I think that “Joyride” is, in spite of being very well sold, not an album for eternity.
But listen to “The Look”. You can rediscover this sound in new releases (Savage Garden a few years ago; Janet Biedermann today) today, and it’s obvoius that, especially in Janette’s case, the producers really try to recreate this sound.
And, like mentioned before, the high airplay-frequency of the old RoxSongs show, that people still want to hear those songs.
But to me music is timeless, when I do not get rid of the album after listening to it for three weeks.
If you listen to “Look Sharp!”, I think there are still new things to discover, even if you heard it hundred times before. To me this is more important than radio-airplay and popularity.
Zanderico said on October 3, 2003 13:30:
I think “sounding old” does not justify to say tha Roxettes music isn’t timeless. I think that among the best songs of the 80’s and 90’s a lot of Roxette songs can compete with the rest.
I am a Dj in a club in Holland, and in our “oldies” area, we still play the look, joyride and How do you do. And people like it, also the younger ones aged 16 or so... So, that is some sort of timelessness.
I think a lot of the older songs of Roxette have become classics, songs that are loved by a great number and devirse group of people. At a radiostation they call the old Rox Tunes “save to play”, cause no one dislikes them and no one will turn of the radio for it.
I do think that the more recent work of Roxette will not reach that same status, cause the impact of the songs is not so strong. But hey, the Rolling Stones will also be remembered because of their older work more then their recent releases. Says nothing about the quality of the songs they do.....
ChrisWilliams said on October 3, 2003 17:52:
Timeless as in “people will love that song forever” or timeless as in “can you tell this was recorded in 1991?”...?
I think people will go on listening to Roxette forever. It Must Have Been Love will never go away, and this keeps the Roxette image in people’s minds.
However, the songs do sound dated. For me, it’s mainly the ’boombastic’ drums that give the game away; which even Marie writes about in her Äntligen liner notes.
Having said that, the use of genuine guitars balances out the synthesised effects.
Someone before me mentioned that Roxette should have retained the idea of having piano in the demo of Milk And Toast And Honey included in the final release: THey eventually used a glockenspiel, so it’s not supposed to sound like a piano. Besides, the piano is too predictable, whereas the glockenspiel is more unusual for a pop song.
Ferdan said on October 3, 2003 20:50:
Most of Tourism is timeless... some of CBB is also timeless...
(But for timeless music there’s Mazarin, you could say it’s been recorded from the middle 70’s or 80’s or 90’s and it won’t sound weird)
Roxlander said on October 6, 2003 22:23:
Yes, Roxette’s music is timeless, because good music is timeless. In Costa Rica songs from LS! and Joyride have a lot of airplay, but also songs like ON were number one.
I’ve always thought that CBB one day will be considered as one of the greatest songs in history. IMHBL is already a clasic song, just like The Look.
Rox_Nox2003 said on October 9, 2003 15:59:
It is Is has been and it will always be for me ... no matter what!
Max-Tob said on October 10, 2003 11:53:
Sometimes I think so, but sometimes I don’t. There are moments when I’m thinking that it’s just me who couldn’t manage to face the change remaining the same teenager that once stood astonished when first listened “The Look” and “Dressed for Succes”.
Sometimes I believe is not me - it’s just great timeless music...
Really hope there is the last one! Otherwise I am just retardate and stuck in my first love (which implies not growing up) ...As you see, I HAVE TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM OTHERWISE I MUST ADMIT THAT I’M GOING THROUGH AN AGE CRISIS.
So, tell me Roxette are timeless... It’s therapeutical! (almost joking, but not entirely)
Rox_Nox2003 said on October 10, 2003 12:16:
No matter how older I get I have no problems in saying that Roxette’s music is timeless for me, within my life and within all that means something to me and that has Roxette in its soundtrack....
Maybe in this sence timeless can be seen in 2 ways:
Timeless - general classic kind of music
Timeless - personal view and importance of the music to oneself..
This is the one i am taking about and probably the best timeless expression in music Roxette has always had for me. No big deal aboutr music critics nor experts ..just me, my life and Roxette’s music otherwise being a fan would not make any sence at all
Yashar said on October 10, 2003 12:42:
If you mean Timeless=Classic , I think YES! their music is timeless .
But If you mean Timeless=not containing the obvious musical factors of the day , It think NO! their music is not timeless .
Emil__BG said on October 10, 2003 17:06:
YES!!
max-tob-if you follow the trends of the moment ,it could be the mark for age crisis too ;-))
erweetiran said on October 11, 2003 09:06:
Let me see, timeless songs:
Listen to your heart
It must have been love
Fading like a flower
Dressed for success
The Look
Crash Boom Bang
and I will even put Wish I could fly right up there
The only non timeless album they have is room service and that was the last album for them so maybe in the next one we will get some more
Burke said on October 11, 2003 18:29:
LS and Joyride (both the single and the album) sound very dated these days. CBB (the album) has some sort of classic production, but some of its songs (notably CBB) have been played way too often.
squigger said on October 2, 2003 03:49:
I know nothing of reaching people, but one thing does seem clear to me - whilst the instruments used have changed over time (and not always to suit the current musical fashion), the songs themselves and the sounds have not - Per is still doing what he did back in 1986. I see nothing wrong with this - I still have yet to hear something by him that I did not like.