Roxette - Room Service (2001)

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Released 20 years ago today.




00 Real Sugar
00 The Centre of the Heart
00 Milk and Toast and Honey
00 Jefferson
00 Little Girl
00 Looking for Jane
00 Bringing Me Down to My Knees
00 Make My Head Go Pop
00 Try (Just A Little Bit Harder)
00 Fool
00 It Takes You No Time To Get Here
00 My World My Love My Life
00 Entering Your Heart
00 The Weight of the World
00 Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla (You Broke My Heart)
00 Every Day
00 All I Ever Wanted
00 Stupid

 

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10 Real Sugar
10 The Centre of the Heart
10 Milk and Toast and Honey
07 Jefferson
10 Little Girl
08 Looking for Jane
09 Bringing Me Down to My Knees
10 Make My Head Go Pop
10 Try (Just A Little Bit Harder)
08 Fool
07 It Takes You No Time To Get Here
10 My World My Love My Life
11 Entering Your Heart
10 The Weight of the World
08 Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla (You Broke My Heart)
10 Every Day
10 All I Ever Wanted
07 Stupid

As Per usual

Another airtight juggernaut of kitchen sink pop and divine balladry then. The ballads really do flow like endlessly serene ribbons. Oh Marie.

 

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In the sunshine, in the rain
It's quite the same
It's never gonna change
I'll be looking for Jane

 

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Metallica cover without Marie. I wonder if this means Per may well go forward as Roxette, which I'd rather he didn't and if a new partnership "just happens" that it be called something else. Helena's vocals do take on a Marie assumption at the end, which does make it a little eerie. It's nice though.

 

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I've only just picked up on the PG Roxette moniker, which does work as a rubbish pun. Aww.

 

[Peekaboo]

The echoes of Marie

 

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Per as PG Roxette has a rather lovely new album out now, but I'm not here for that. I'm here because I'm just sighing at the beauty of this one right now:



Go ahead and try.

 

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24 years old.