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Roxette: Have a Nice Day

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Label: EMI Records
Released: 1999.02.15
Time:
 55:31
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): Clarence Öfwerman, Marie Fredriksson, Per Gessle, Michael Ilbert
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Media type: CD
Web address: www.roxette.se
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Purchase date: 2012
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Crush on You! (P.Gessle) - 3:35
[2] Wish I Could Fly (P.Gessle) - 4:40
[3] You Can't Put Your Arms Around What's Already Gone (P.Gessle) - 3:30
[4] Waiting for the Rain (M.Fredriksson) - 3:37
[5] Anyone (P.Gessle) - 4:31
[6] It Will Take a Long Long Time (P.Gessle) - 4:03
[7] 7Twenty7 (P.Gessle) - 3:53
[8] I Was So Lucky (P.Gessle) - 4:17
[9] Stars (P.Gessle) - 3:56
[10] Salvation (P.Gessle) - 4:38
[11] Pay the Price (P.Gessle) - 3:48
[12] Cooper (P.Gessle) - 4:17
[13] Staring at the Ground (P.Gessle) - 2:58
[14] Beautiful Things/Terrible Things (M.Fredriksson/P.Gessle) - 3:48

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Marie Fredriksson - Vocals, Piano, Mixing, Producer
Per Gessle - Vocals, Guitar, Programming, Harmonica, Mixing, Producer

Clarence Öfwerman - Bass, Synthesizers, Keyboards, Piano, Organ, Programming, Guitar, Percussion, String Arrangement, Mixing, Producer
Jonas Isaacson - Electric, Bass & Acoustic Guitars
Micke "Nord" Andersson - Guitar
Staffan Astner - Guitar
M.P. Persson - Guitar, Synthesizers
Christoffer Lundquist - Bass, Zither, Percussion, Backing Vocals
Christer Jansson - Drums, Percussion
Dj Shortcut - Scratches
Michael Illbert - Programming, Synthesizers, Perucssion
Charlie Storm - Programming
Snyko - Strings
Hasse Dyvik - Trumpet, Flugelhorn
Anders Evaldsson - Trombone
Jens Lindgård - Trombone
Petter Lindgård - Trumpet, Flugelhorn
Sven Andersson - Tenor Saxophone
Jonas Isacsson - Acoustic & Electric Guitar

Michael Ilbert - Producer
George Marino - Mastering
Robert Nettarp - Photography

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Recorded in January–October 1998 at El Cortijo Studios (Marbella); Atlantis, Cosmos and Polar Studios (Stockholm).



In the five years between Roxette's last album, Crash, Boom, Bang, and this, their "comeback" album, pop music had changed considerably. Crash, Boom, Bang failed, in part, because it was completely out of step with the times; in 1994 grunge, alternative, and rap ruled the charts, but Roxette always produced a relatively crisp and clean brand of pop/rock. In the five years since then, however, Brit-pop brought alternative rock back towards pop, electronica made dance music "cool" again, and bubblegum pop bands like the Spice Girls made unabashed pop fun again. Also, Per Gessle was fresh off from his very rock-oriented 1997 solo album. What resulted, then, was really rather ambitious. Have A Nice Day is an effort to encapsulate Roxette's trademark sound with Brit-pop and electronica, and, by gosh, it works. It's easily as good as any other Roxette album, save maybe only the stellar Joyride, and it shows that artistically the band is still on top. There's a good deal of emphasis on dance music here, but instead of the indistinguishable dance-pop of the band's early days, the beats seem to be borrowed straight from Fatboy Slim records. That, mixed with Gessle's gritty guitars, makes for a good deal of up-tempo rockers ("Crush on You," "7Twenty7," "Stars"). There are also some excellent pop songs, such as the single "Wish I Could Fly" and Gessle's unforgettable "You Can't Put Your Arms Around What's Already Gone," quite possibly the best song he's ever written. As is the case with any Roxette album, however, there are flaws, namely the presence of filler, mostly in the form of pace-destroying ballads. It's a small price to pay, however, for the return of one of the best mainstream pop bands in the past decade.

Jason Damas - All Music Guide



Have a Nice Day is the sixth studio album by Swedish pop duo Roxette, released worldwide in March 1999. This was the first international Roxette release in 4 years and their first brand new studio album since 1994's Crash! Boom! Bang! The album was not released in the U.S. as the duo were no longer signed to a record label there. Additional Spanish-language versions of "Wish I Could Fly", "Anyone" and "Salvation" were included as bonus tracks in some Spanish-speaking countries.

The track "It Will Take a Long Long Time" was featured in the Julia Roberts and Richard Gere romantic comedy Runaway Bride, though it was not included on the soundtrack album. Have a Nice Day was the first ever Roxette album to feature a track solely written by Marie Fredriksson ("Waiting for the Rain"). In Arab countries the naked babies on the sleeve had to be removed for religious reasons, so a special edition of the album was made.

The success of Have a Nice Day saw Roxette win the 'Highest Selling Scandinavian Act' at the 2000 World Music Awards. For the Awards Gala, Roxette chose to perform lead single "Wish I Could Fly".

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