Roxette – Joyride (30th Anniversary Edition) (2021) [FLAC 24bit/44,1kHz]

The Joyride 30th anniversary box with the whole story, demos and previously unreleased material will be released on 26th November.

Already tomorrow, 8th October, the single Small Talk will be released with two previously unreleased versions of Small Talk and Hotblooded.

This year marks 30 years since Roxette released her third album Joyride, which followed up the band’s record global breakthrough with the album Look Sharp! in 1989.

Roxette had in record time turned into a global hit phenomenon thanks to the three US hits The Look, Listen To Your Heart, It Must Have Been Love and other big hits such as Dressed For Success and Dangerous.

Joyride was the album that was supposed to cement the unlikely successes of Marie Fredriksson and Per Gessle. Which indeed it did. The album not only became Roxette’s bestseller, the title track zoomed all the way up to the top of the US charts on 1st May 1991 – giving Roxette their fourth US No.1. Thus, the group set a record that no Scandinavian group or artist has managed to surpass.

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

Tracklist:
01. Roxette – Joyride
02. Roxette – Hotblooded
03. Roxette – Fading Like A Flower (Every Time You Leave)
04. Roxette – Knockin’ On Every Door
05. Roxette – Spending My Time
06. Roxette – I Remember You
07. Roxette – Watercolours In The Rain
08. Roxette – The Big L.
09. Roxette – Soul Deep (Joyride Version)
10. Roxette – (Do You Get) Excited?
11. Roxette – Church Of Your Heart
12. Roxette – Small Talk
13. Roxette – Physical Fascination
14. Roxette – Things Will Never Be The Same
15. Roxette – Perfect Day
16. Roxette – The Sweet Hello, The Sad Goodbye
17. Roxette – Joyride (Brian Malouf US Single Mix)
18. Roxette – Fading Like a Flower (Every Time You Leave) (Humberto Gatica Remix)
19. Roxette – Soul Deep (Tom Lord-Alge Mix)
20. Roxette – Spending My Time (US Adult Contemporary Mix)
21. Roxette – Physical Fascination (Guitar Solo Version)
22. Roxette – Church Of Your Heart (US Adult Contemporary Mix)
23. Roxette – Joyride (T&A Demo May 23, 1990)
24. Roxette – Hotblooded (T&A Demo #2)
25. Roxette – Fading Like A Flower (T&A Demo Aug 31, 1990)
26. Roxette – Knockin’ On Every Door (T&A Demo Aug 15, 1989)
27. Roxette – Spending My Time (T&A Demo May 24, 1990)
28. Roxette – I Remember You (T&A Demo April 1, 1990)
29. Roxette – Watercolours In The Rain (T&A Demo January 24, 1990)
30. Roxette – The Big L (T&A Demo April 1, 1990)
31. Roxette – (Do You Get) Excited? (T&A Demo Aug 19, 1989)
32. Roxette – Small Talk (T&A Demo)
33. Roxette – Church Of Your Heart (T&A Demo Jan 8, 1990)
34. Roxette – Physical Fascination (T&A Demo Jan 3, 1990)
35. Roxette – Things Will Never Be The Same (T&A Demo Jun 17, 1989)
36. Roxette – Perfect Day (T&A Demo August 23, 1990)
37. Roxette – Sweet Thing (T&A Demo Oct 28, 1990)
38. Roxette – Seduce Me (T&A Demo Aug 22, 1990)
39. Roxette – Run Run Run (T&A Demo Jan 10, 1990)
40. Roxette – Things Will Never Be The Same (T&A Demo Sep 17, 1990)
41. Roxette – Love Spins (T&A demo 3 Jan, 1990)
42. Roxette – Come Back (Before You Leave) (T&A Demo Apr 8, 1990)
43. Roxette – The Sweet Hello, The Sad Goodbye (T&A Demo Mar 16, 1990)
44. Roxette – Hotblooded (T&A Demo December 13, 1990)
45. Roxette – Things Will Never Be The Same (T&A Demo December 13, 1990)
46. Roxette – Another Place, Another Time (T&A Demo Jan 11, 1990)
47. Roxette – I Remember You (T&A Demo Mar 15, 1990)
48. Roxette – Queen Of Rain (T&A Demo Jan 2, 1990)
49. Roxette – The Big L (T&A Demo Mar 29, 1990)
50. Roxette – Joyrider (T&A Demo May 22, 1990)
51. Roxette – Hotblooded (Live in Sydney)
52. Roxette – Fading Like a Flower (Every Time You Leave) (Live in Sydney)