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Roxette: Room Service

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Label: EMI Records
Released: 2001.04.03
Time:
 43:20
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): Clarence Öfwerman, Per Gessle, Marie Fredriksson
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address: www.roxette.se
Appears with:
Purchase date: 2012
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Real Sugar (P.Gessle) - 3:17
[2] The Centre of the Heart (P.Gessle) - 3:22
[3] Milk and Toast and Honey (P.Gessle) - 4:04
[4] Jefferson (P.Gessle) - 3:50
[5] Little Girl (M.Fredriksson) - 3:36
[6] Looking for Jane (P.Gessle) - 3:19
[7] Bringing Me Down to My Knees (P.Gessle) - 3:48
[8] Make My Head Go Pop (P.Gessle) - 3:22
[9] Try [Just a Little Bit Harder] (P.Gessle) - 3:13
[10] Fool (P.Gessle) - 3:52
[11] It Takes You No Time to Get Here (P.Gessle) - 3:35
[12] My World, My Love, My Life (P.Gessle) - 4:02

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Per Gessle - Electric & Acoustic Guitars, 12-String Acoustic Guitar, Backing Vocals, Keyboards, Banjo, Percussion, Programming, Art Direction,, Mixing, Producer
Marie Fredriksson - Vocals, Backing Vocals, Handclapping, Art Direction, Producer

Clarence Öfwerman - Keyboards, Programming, Engineer, Mixing, Producer
M.P .Persson - Electric & Acoustic Guitars, Keyboards, Programming, Engineer
Christoffer Lundquist - Electric & Acoustic Guitars, Bass Guitar, 12-String Acoustic Guitar, Zither, Percussion, Backing Vocals
Jonas Isacsson - Electric & Acoustic Guitars, E-bow
David Birde - Electric & Acoustic Guitars
Micke 'Nord' Andersson - Electric & Acoustic Guitars
Mattias Thorell - Electric & Acoustic Guitars
Christer Jansson - Live Drums, Percussion, Cymbals, Drum Loop, Drums, Maracas, Percussion, Tambourine, Timpani

Stockholm Session Strings - Strings
Mats Holmquist - Conductor

Michael Ilbert - Executive Producer
Ronny Lahti - Engineer, Mixing
Mikael Bolyos - Engineer
Chris Blair - Mastering
Shooting Star - Programming

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Recorded in January 2000 - January 2001 at the Atlantis Studios (Stockholm).



If proof were needed that Roxette are the new ABBA, the lack of critical respect should be enough. Like ABBA, Roxette is a masterful pop band (with just the right amount of kitsch in its armor) that routinely gets slagged off for lacking substance, whatever that may be. Room Service showcases a band at the top of its form with its feet firm on the pedal: this album is a case study in songcraft and pop smarts. With its na-na-na choruses and sparkly guitars, Room Service is also trademark Roxette, a mostly no-surprises package that divides its time between the soaring, emotive power ballads and the rife-with-hooks rock-dance stompers that the band pretty much took patents out on back in the '80s and '90s. This is a group that has gotten really good at what it is doing, without getting bored doing it. Result? Probably the best Roxette album since Joyride. Opening tracks "Real Sugar" and "The Centre of the Heart" with their now-rock, now-disco, always-pop attack are effortless up-tempo smashes that deliver an unstoppable one-two sucker punch. On the other hand, "Milk and Toast and Honey" and "Bringing Me Down to My Knees" are big-ticket slow-burners that are as good as adult contemporary gets. "Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)" burgles the "Just a little bit" refrain from Aretha Franklin's "Respect" and uses it to spike the sort of lush, half-pensive ballad that Roxette can toss off in its sleep by now. "You Make My Heart Go Pop" is a noisy, overproduced Top-Ten-here-we-come sparkler that'll zoom straight to the trash-magnet center of your brain and stick there for weeks on end. This album also shows a lyrically sharper Roxette, less eager than before to compromise the words for the hooks. Sure, they may occasionally slip into cliché and overt sentimentalism, but they're never less than tuneful. Both Per Gessle and Marie Frederiksson are in fine vocal form, especially Marie, who's equally proficient whether she's doing elegiac laments or burning the house down. Room Service is an exciting, immediate, high-gloss pop gem that contains very little filler indeed. On it Roxette may not be making any great leaps forward, but when you're in such a great place why bother moving?

Leslie Mathew - All Music Guide



If Roxette's leather trousers and footballer highlights are an incongruous spectacle in the 21st century, their sound is even more out of sync. The Swedish Eurythmics are still chipping away at the same power-pop coalface as they were in 1989, when The Look became the first of 21 fantastically unmemorable hits. As ever, singer Marie Fredriksson is the brittle focal point, compelling yet curiously unengaged as she tries to negotiate Per Gessle's lyrics. His attempt at a social conscience on Jefferson is scuppered by one of the worst first verses in history: "Jefferson was always out of luck/ I remember when we both grew up/ Jefferson got hit by a westbound truck/ I guess that didn't make him look like a million bucks." Yet a few tracks, such as the tinny Make My Head Go Pop and Real Sugar, are redeemed by choruses so insistent they quash all resistance. (CS)

© 2015 Guardian News and Media



Room Service is the seventh studio album released by Swedish pop duo Roxette, on 3 April 2001. The album was an European release only and not released in the United States. The album topped the Swedish charts and reached the upper regions of the charts in many other European countries, peaking at #3 in Germany, and #2 in Switzerland but was largely ignored in the United Kingdom, peaking only at #120 there.

Room Service received a mixed response from critics. "Probably the best Roxette album since Joyride", wrote Leslie Mathew of Allmusic. "Room Service is an exciting, immediate, high-gloss pop gem that contains very little filler indeed." Chili Paddy from MTV Asia also praised the album, saying "There are many potential hit singles here such as the glorious chirpy sing-along 'Real Sugar'". Caroline Sullivan from UK newspaper The Guardian disliked the album, and wrote, "Fredriksson's vocals are compelling yet curiously unengaged as she tries to negotiate Per Gessle's lyrics."

Per Bjurman, from Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet, bluntly put it: "It [the album] is not very good", and thought the album was not original. "Many songs sound like covers of old Roxette material. Perhaps inevitable when you return to 'roots', but a little more imagination may be required." However, he did praise the three singles, "Real Sugar", "The Centre of the Heart" and "Milk and Toast and Honey", which he called "Roxette's strongest ballad since 'It Must Have Been Love' and 'Listen to Your Heart'", but ended the review with "Roxette is not finished. But soon, I suspect."

The verse from "Jefferson": "Jefferson was always out of luck/I remember when we both grew up/ Jefferson got hit by a westbound truck/I guess that didn't make him look like a million bucks", also brought a mixed response. Simon P. Ward from Dotmusic called the verse a "lyrical gem", while Sullivan from The Guardian called it "one of the worst first verses in history." Ward additionally noted that "Make My Head Go Pop", "...has everything and the kitchen sink thrown into it - keyboards, techno beats, the guitar riff from the Stones' 'Satisfaction' and strings."

In more recent years, Anders Nunstedt from Expressen gave a more critical overview to the album. Speaking of the album in relation to Roxette's other studio albums, he said it was, "Outdated, unattractive and also relatively unmusical." While in another comment he stated "On Have a Nice Day, you heard a band that has lost its compass. You do not have to listen carefully to Room Service to hear the sound of a duo who have been lost in the woods so long that the search ended."

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