Kiwein1 said on February 2, 2004 18:33:

Som i en dröm isn’t as good as So far away IMHO. ;-) It will never reach it only a bit.

I’ll be alright is simply great, should have been a Roxette-song.

Try “Regn”....great song, wants you to travel to Sweden immediately. ;-)

jobarth said on February 2, 2004 18:52:

I also love Pers “Som I en dröm”. But my absolute fav. is “Den tunja linjen”, the piano is so simple and beautiful. And of course “Om jag en dag” the strings arrangement at the end is so amazing wonderful.

jobarth said on February 2, 2004 22:06:

I think one of the most emotional parts ever written is in “Om du ser henne” the oh, ohoooo... nanananana, lalalalala...

One time I woke up in the middle of the night, I still had my headphones on and the discman was playing just this part of “Om du ser henne”. I thought that I have never heard before such a beautiful thing like this. I love this moments when you wake up and you are totally tired and the first and only thing you perceive is the amazing music of Roxette. Then I’m so proud and lucky to be a Roxette Fan and thank God for it.

roxtexanet said on February 3, 2004 01:18:

@Jobarth: Yes!! This has happened to me, too, and it’s such a sweet moment... you can’t artificially create it, it’s just something that happens. I woke up once to Marie’s “Aldrig Mer Igen” after having fallen asleep with my tape player running and in that moment it was the just the best song ever. Of course, it’s not the best song ever, not even *her* best song ever, but it was just such an unforgettable and unreplicable feeling. Glad to know others have had this experience, too!

tcooh said on February 3, 2004 14:18:

Waking up to any of Roxette music is great, even falling asleep to it. I remember an interview with Paris, the Norwegian artist who released “I Do Believe”, and she sais she always fell asleep and woke up to Roxette music. GREAT!

NeverendingRoxette said on February 3, 2004 17:17:

oh people, I survived Maths Test! I’m so happy!

and now, I’m going to listen to all the songs you’ve mentioned!

thank’s a lot!

it’s always a great feeling to wake up, really tired and hearing a roxette song - I know how it feels like - great. . .

Max-Tob said on February 3, 2004 18:51:

I’m going to repeat my opinion: I think Per lost on his way some of the fantastic feelings he could create back in the ’80...The demos - as roxetanet said - are just incredible...Some of the lyrics of his - so bad treated at that time - solo albums are also fanstastic...”Scener” for inst., even if it’s too heterogenous, has a huge potential...I think he should consider re-releasing some of his old songs...Or try to let himself inspired by his earlier period of creation...Is it actually possible? Nahh...I don’t think so...

xarrrr said on February 3, 2004 21:55:

@roxtexanet: Kom Ut Till Stranden sounds loads like Don’t Believe In Accidents... it took me so long to figure it out... but i prefer the “original”. its a great song :)

Max-Tob said on February 4, 2004 11:16:

@Chris (yes indeed, this is easier): I assume you’re right. “Mazarin” HAS something. Yesterday evening I was painting the livingroom together with my wife and we had the whole Scener playing in the background and then Mazarin. And we agreed that young people in general (but one can clearly see it at the young artists/creative individuals) tend to express their mature side of their personality in a more ostentatious (in the good sense of the word) manner than mature people do. They feel the need to express their feelings through sophisticated ways thus showing to the others they CAN do it for real in spite of their age. The whole “Demos” album and “Scener” and even “Per Gessle” seem to be expressions of a precocious talent that Gessle wanted to be in those days. He had already done all those GT summer tunes and he wanted to show everybody that he has a deeper and more elaborated side of his creativity. Then he “grew up”, Roxette came - and the light summer tunes with it; Per’s neverending image (since ’86 till 2003 - including his TWAG) seems to be that of a teenager always ready to fall in love with sommer and girls dressed in light colours and balloons etc. The “tragic” stories from his ballads also have a sort of “light” side that keeps them somehow on the surface of the Feeling. And then came Mazarin; and you already noticed some similarities (substantial ones, not formal ones of course) with his earlier creation period.
But: my personal opinion is that Mazarin may be compared with his earlier solo albums ONLY because one can feel some kind of openess (is this a word or I’ve just invented it on the spot?) in all of them; one can actually see Per Gessle while listening to these songs.
As for the manner in which he expresses his most intimate creative gestures...I think there’s a HUGE difference between Mazarin and his first solo albums. It’s exactly what I was trying to say at the beginning: THEN he tried to look his sophisticated Self. NOW, he tries to show how simple and uncomplicated he actually is. THEN, he tried to capture all his maturity in his songs (listening to some of them you could swear that he is going to become a composer that will only write music for movies). NOW he tries to look as an ordinary 28 year old guy that has just discovered the complexity of the world but he still tries to escape in his lost teens’s years: simple memories and the flavour of some lost summers. So, in shorter words, the creative efforts in his first albums and in his latest one took exactly the opposite directions.
The best part is that the outcome is extremely similar, even if the approaches are contrary to one another.
The general conclusion: Gessle is a guy with an inborn instinct for preserving and handleing his creativity. Do you realize how creative this man can be?? He wrote a huge number of songs and he does that ALL THE TIME...We have to admit that his tunes are not always the best in the world...sometimes they are just variants on the same theme; but the most important thing is that he can play with them (BTW, he has an incredible flair for guessing the rules of creativity-game) for years...People are getting tired of themselves, you know...But he speculated all his life - with the same tenaciousness - his creative impulses...He can lead them wherever he wants; and he always knew how to do it, even when he was very young...that’s why I’m saying that he has an inborn instinct for doing that...
And that’s why I’d always bet on him...even if the latest Roxette periods (let’s say the RS times) weren’t the best - well, it was a...just not so interesting combination...But his mind game will always go on. And there’s always room for a better combination of gessle-ish themes... This process never stops. Believe me.