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Roxette: Joyride

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Label: EMI Records
Released: 1991.03.28
Time:
 59:03
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): Clarence Öfwerman
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address: www.roxette.se
Appears with:
Purchase date: 2012
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Joyride (P.Gessle) - 4:22
[2] Hotblooded (M.Fredriksson/P.Gessle) - 3:18
[3] Fading Like a Flower (Every Time You Leave) (P.Gessle) - 3:51
[4] Knockin' on Every Door (P.Gessle) - 3:56
[5] Spending My Time (M.Persson/P.Gessle) - 4:36
[6] I Remember You (P.Gessle) - 3:54
[7] Watercolours in the Rain (M.Fredriksson) - 3:40
[8] The Big L. (P.Gessle) - 4:26
[9] Soul Deep (P.Gessle) - 3:34
[10] (Do You Get) Excited? (M.Persson/P.Gessle) - 4:16
[11] Church of Your Heart (P.Gessle) - 3:16
[12] Small Talk (P.Gessle) - 3:53
[13] Physical Fascination (P.Gessle) - 3:27
[14] Things Will Never Be the Same (P.Gessle) - 4:26
[15] Perfect Day" (M.Persson/P.Gessle) - 4:05

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Per Gessle - Vocals, Guitars, Tambourine, Harmonica on [11], Design, Mixing
Marie Fredriksson - Vocals, Design, Mixing

Clarence Öfwerman - Keyboards, Programming, Grand Piano, Barrel Organ, Hammond-Organ, Arranagement, Mixing, Producer
Anders Herrlin - Programming & Electric Bass
Jonas Isacsson - Six- & Twelve-String Electric Guitars, Six- & Twelve-String Acoustic Guitars, Slide Guitar, & Mandolin, Harmonica on [8]
Kjell Öhman - Accordion
Pelle Alsing - Additional Drums & Hi-Hats
Jalle Lorensson - Harmonica on [2]
Mats Persson - Percussion
Tomas Sjögren - Trumpet
Mikael Renliden - Trumpet
Uno Forsberg - Trumpet
Henrik Janson - Conductor, String Arrangements
Dave Edwards - Narrator

Marianne Flynner - Backing Vocals
Mia Lindgren - Backing Vocals
Anne-Lie Rydé - Backing Vocals
Staffan Öfwerman - Additional Backing Vocals

Alar Suurna - Engineer, Mixing
George Marino - Mastering
Mattias Edwall - Photography

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Recorded in January–November 1990 at EMI Studios, Stockholm & Tits & Ass Studio, Halmstad.



The beauty of Roxette is that the duo of Per Gessle and Marie Fredriksson can do practically anything in terms of Top 40 music. From the quiet desperation of "Spending My Time" to the chanting carnival of "Joyride" to the folky "Church of Your Heart," they bring a worldliness to their lyrics and melodies that most pop A-listers don't even have the imagination to dream of. This, the follow-up to their breakthrough disc, Look Sharp!, sees through on what that collection hinted at, meaning most of the songs sound like they were designed to be hit singles, not just filler between two or three good cuts. "The Big L," "Soul Deep," and "Hotblooded" all follow in the successful vein Gessle and Fredriksson mined with "The Look," while "Fading Like a Flower (Every Time You Leave)," an insistent rock ballad, and the accordion-driven "Perfect Day" take things down a notch. The low-key "Watercolours in the Rain" and the whining "(Do You Get) Excited?" are the only cuts that keep the album from being a total success. For the most part, though, this is two pop artists at the top of their game.

Bryan Buss - All Music Guide



Roxette’s Joyride sounds like it was made by elves. Their style is so adorably dinky, with rinky-tink rhythms, toy power chords, and teensy vocals, that you practically want to pet it. And the affection, apparently, is mutual. The Swedish pop duo generously fills its music with countless cotton-candy hooks, eagerly inviting listeners to gorge themselves on fluff. By doing this, Roxette has racked up an impressive string of hits and become worthy successors to the tradition of air-headed catchiness set down by their fellow Swedish pop tarts, Abba, although this duo isn’t intimidated by electric guitars and its female singer, Marie Fredriksson, goes for a bit more grit. Still, Roxette is in no danger of being mistaken for speed-metal Huns like Slayer. They just want to use everything at their disposal to hook you. They blithely toss a bit of whistling into ”Joyride,” next to some psychedelic Beatles-like flourishes, shove an unexpected mandolin into ”Small Talk,” and even plop a Dylanesque harmonica into ”Church of the Heart.” But the context for the hooks is irrelevant. The point is simply to keep the fluff coming, and here they’ve created enough to float us away.

Jim Farber - January 17 2015
Copyright © 2015 Entertainment Weekly



Joyride is the third studio album by Swedish duo Roxette, released 28 March 1991 by EMI. After the great popularity of "It Must Have Been Love" single and enormous sales of Look Sharp!, Joyride became just as successful, spawning the US #1 hit "Joyride".

"Joyride", "Fading Like a Flower", "The Big L.", "Spending My Time", and "Church of Your Heart" were released as singles. A promotional music video was made for "(Do you Get) Excited?", as it was considered for single release too. Roxette's original recording of "Soul Deep" (more synthesiser-driven and with less guitars) appeared on their 1986 album Pearls of Passion. In some releases, "I Remember You" was an additional track on the album, bringing the total track count to 15 instead of 14. "Joyride" became Roxette's fourth and last US #1 single.

Joyride immediately became a worldwide best-seller. It held the position of best selling album in Europe for 2 weeks in June 1991, following its debut and peak at #2 on UK charts two months earlier. It was certified 2x platinum by BPI in August 1992 for selling more than 600,000 copies, after staying on British charts for almost a year. Joyride reached #12 on the American Billboard Top 200 albums and was certified platinum by the RIAA in July 1991, eventually selling 1.3 million copies there and stayed on charts there for over a year. Joyride also reached the upper end of charts across the world, including #1 in Germany (13 weeks) and #1 in Sweden (7 weeks). In Argentina, the album was awarded as the best-selling English album ever (to that date), with sales of more than 400,000 copies there. To date the album has sold over 11 million copies worldwide.

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