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!?

[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 :(

[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!)

[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.

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:

[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!