The Friday Canon: ROXETTE

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

18 UK Top 40 hits means you get SIX ticks for Per and Marie. Where's me peroxide?

[Poll #1077799]
Pulp: (link)
1. Do You Remember The First Time
2. Common People
3. The Sisters EP
4. This Is Hardcore
5. Disco 2000
6. Mis-Shapes / Sorted For E's And Wizz
7. Sunrise / The Trees
8. Help The Aged
9. Something Changed
10. Bad Cover Version

Comments

[ninebelow.livejournal.com]

18!?

8 fewer than ELO, remarkably

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

I can only remember one of these Roxette songs (and it's the one I actively dislike). No ticks then.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Sad to report that Wish I Could Fly (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moaO7f6-tws) is not a cover of Keith & Orville :(

Hooray they're all on Youtube

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Good use of 'Virtual Reality' on Almost Unreal (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaoQEFAl9fE), the chorus is a bit plodding though.

Re: Hooray they're all on Youtube

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

woah, wtf is that lj snapshot thing???? scary!

Re: snapshot

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

yeah, I came back to that this morning. It was bad enough when you only had those "this person is your mutual friend" pop ups. Now it's bubble central round here!

Re: snapshot

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

it's easy to turn off. i did that right off

Re: snapshot

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

i've found a ticky box in preferences for turning it off on yr own journal, but unsure how this works in regards to:

a. other journals via friendslist
b. communities

Re: snapshot

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Hopefully now turned off for poptimists.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I knew that Roxette had kept going a good while and had lots of hits but I didnt realise that I knew NONE OF THEM after the first four or so.

The other thing I do know about Roxette is that they were a favourite band of THE WAR AGAINST SILENCE, aka legendary pop crit intellectual Glenn McDonald who we used to tangle with occasionally back in the day. (His other favourite bands were Big Country, Juliana Hatfield and Marillion!)

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Fading Like A Flower is proper overblown awesome! I'm amazed the Darkness never covered it.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

There was an absolutely fucking stonking remix of it a few years ago that involved Roxette themselves. It was AMAZING.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

AND TORI AMOS!!!!!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yes and The Alarm!

There has never been a column remotely like TWAS anywhere ever.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

He reviewed ALL TORI'S CD SINGLES INDIVIDUALLY!

And his favourite album ever is the Tori album which EVERYONE IN THE WORLD agrees was the start of her going shit and here is the review (http://www.furia.com/page.cgi?type=twas&id=twas0408#entry1) - Tim F and I were talking about it the other day in tones of UNCOMPREHENDING AWE

Canonical List of Greatest TWAS Moments

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

- Marriage proposal to Juliana Hatfield saga
- Reviewing 14 different copies of Marillion by Kayleigh
- Getting member of the Alarm to write special track for box set
- TWAS discovers Motown!!!
- No doubt some crazy Tori stuff.

He has a baby now! Aww.

Re: Canonical List of Greatest TWAS Moments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I didn't know about those first two things: OMG!

Re: Canonical List of Greatest TWAS Moments

[zenith.livejournal.com]

OMG

What if you and I are meant for each other? Some two people must be, so why not us? You're daunting, but I want to be daunted a little. (http://www.furia.com/page.cgi?type=twas&id=twas0192)

We've all thought it about a pop star, haven't we...

Re: Canonical List of Greatest TWAS Moments

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

He returned to it in later columns and the proposal got a bit more metaphorical I think! I feel a bit bad now cos the bits I remember were the "OMG has he actually gone mad" bits and what made the site great was the mix of that fearlessness with self-indulgence, self-perception, life-writing, proper perceptive music writing, intensity etc etc. EVERY WEEK!

He turns up now and then to do those great stats lists for Pazz and Jop. He's a genuine godfather of music blogging (though I hardly ever agreed with him) and it's a shame the site's not more widely remembered.

Re: Canonical List of Greatest TWAS Moments

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

yes i had a great FITE with him on ilm abt POP which i think helped drive him off ilm :(

haha the only bit i know remember was a TREMENDOUS GREAT MULTI-PARA POST which i responded to with a single monosyllabic word picked out of said post in quotemarks <--- godfather of zing culture :( :( :(

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yeah that Tori stuff is so TWAS! The thing about it was that ALL his columns were like that, the degree to which he amped up the length and intensity for the "best album ever" is really VERY SMALL!

ALL 23 versions of kayleigh!!

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

ha, i thought you were going to miss marillion off there for a moment!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Roxette are AMAZING! I have done karaoke to 'It Must Have Been Love' which is just HEART-RENDING - afterwards Sophie and I wandered the streets of Shoreditch aimlessly, still singing the chorus over and over again...

[zenith.livejournal.com]

Not enough love for 'Sleeping In My Car', which features my favourite euphemistic use of the word "bless" ever (and pre-dates the same usage in hip hop?):

Sleeping in my car, I will undress you
Sleeping in my car, certainly bless you

Roxette were oddly obsessed with cars and driving.

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

Yes Sleeping In My Car is brilliant and has been in my head since it was played at the Pamflet party last week.

How Do You Do? needs more ticks as well. They were brilliant at writing irony free driving songs.

I heart Roxette.

[offensive-mango.livejournal.com]

Maybe the person sneezes when they get undressed because they catch a cold.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

i thought it was 'suddenly press' you. she is talking to the trousers he's just taken off.

The Big L

[ijgrieve.livejournal.com]

No-one else ticked 'The Big L'?!?

Dancing DJs ft. Roxette remix gubbins

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I used to spend hours waiting for this to come on The Hits so I could lair about to it:

Re: Dancing DJs ft. Roxette remix gubbins

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

SEE MCFLY this is how you do a video 'in the rain'!

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

I really ought to own Roxette's Greatest Hits. I found it very hard to pick just 6 of these. I used to love 'Sleeping In My Car'. And 'Listen To Your Heart' is one of my all-time favourite tunes.

Must seek out cheap Roxette Best of in lunchtime!