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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 /TiVo
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Jonas Isacsson, Guitar - Christoffer Lundquist, Guitar, Vocals, Bass - Marie Fredriksson, Producer, Vocals, Produced by - Per Gessle, Composer, Producer, Mixer, Guitar, Vocals, Produced by - Chris Blair, Masterer - Ronny Lahti, Mixer, Engineer - Roxette, MainArtist - Clarence Öfwerman, Producer, Mixer, Keyboards, Programmer, Produced by - Christer Jansson, Drums, Percussion - M P Persson, Guitar - Shooting Star, Programmer
© 2001 Roxette Recordings under exclusive license to Parlophone Music Sweden, a division of Warner Music Sweden AB ℗ 2001 Roxette Recordings under exclusive license to Parlophone Music Sweden AB a Warner Music Group company
Marie Fredriksson, Producer, Backing Vocals, Lead Vocals - Per Gessle, Producer, Electric Guitar, Backing Vocals, Lead Vocals, Writer, MixingEngineer - George Marino, MasteringEngineer - Stockholm Session Strings, Strings - Michael Ilbert, Engineer, CoProducer - Ronny Lahti, Engineer, MixingEngineer - Mats Persson, Engineer - Mikael Bolyos, Engineer - Roxette, MainArtist - Clarence Öfwerman, Producer, Engineer, Keyboards, Programmer, MixingEngineer - Christer Jansson, Percussion - Mats Holmquist, Strings Conductor - Shooting Star, Programmer
© 2001 Roxette Recordings under exclusive license to Parlophone Music Sweden, a division of Warner Music Sweden AB ℗ 2001 Roxette Recordings under exclusive license to Parlophone Music Sweden AB, a Warner Music Group company
Jonas Isacsson, Electric Guitar - Christoffer Lundquist, Backing Vocals - Marie Fredriksson, Producer, Backing Vocals, Lead Vocals - Per Gessle, Producer, Backing Vocals, Lead Vocals, Writer, 12 String Guitar, MixingEngineer - Chris Blair, MasteringEngineer - Stockholm Session Strings, Strings - Ronny Lahti, Engineer, MixingEngineer - Mats Persson, Engineer, Electric Guitar - Mikael Bolyos, Engineer - Roxette, MainArtist - Clarence Öfwerman, Producer, Engineer, Keyboards, Programmer, MixingEngineer - Christer Jansson, Cymbals - Mats Holmquist, Strings Conductor - Shooting Star, Programmer
© 2001 Roxette Recordings under exclusive license to Parlophone Music Sweden, a division of Warner Music Sweden AB ℗ 2001 Roxette Recordings under exclusive license to Parlophone Music Sweden AB, a Warner Music Group Company
David Birde, Electric Guitar - Christoffer Lundquist, Bass Guitar, Percussion, Backing Vocals, 12 String Guitar - Marie Fredriksson, Producer, Backing Vocals, Lead Vocals - Per Gessle, Producer, Electric Guitar, Percussion, Lead Vocals, Writer, MixingEngineer - Chris Blair, MasteringEngineer - Ronny Lahti, Engineer, MixingEngineer - Mats Persson, Engineer, Electric Guitar - Mikael Bolyos, Engineer - Roxette, MainArtist - Clarence Öfwerman, Producer, Engineer, Keyboards, MixingEngineer - Christer Jansson, Drums, Tambourine
© 2001 Roxette Recordings under exclusive license to Parlophone Music Sweden, a division of Warner Music Sweden AB ℗ 2001 Roxette Recordings under exclusive license to Parlophone Music Sweden AB, a Warner Music Group Company
Jonas Isacsson, Electric Guitar - Christoffer Lundquist, Bass Guitar - Marie Fredriksson, Producer, Backing Vocals, Lead Vocals, Writer - Per Gessle, Producer, Lead Vocals, MixingEngineer - Chris Blair, MasteringEngineer - Mattias Torell, Acoustic Guitar - Ronny Lahti, Engineer, MixingEngineer - Mats Persson, Engineer - Mikael Bolyos, Engineer - Roxette, MainArtist - Clarence Öfwerman, Producer, Engineer, Keyboards, Programmer, MixingEngineer - Shooting Star, Programmer
© 2001 Roxette Recordings under exclusive license to Parlophone Music Sweden, a division of Warner Music Sweden AB ℗ 2001Roxette Recordings under exclusive license to Parlophone Music Sweden AB, a Warner Music Group Company
Jonas Isacsson, 12 String Guitar - Christoffer Lundquist, Acoustic Guitar, Bass Guitar, Backing Vocals, Zither - Marie Fredriksson, Producer, Backing Vocals, Lead Vocals - Per Gessle, Producer, Acoustic Guitar, Lead Vocals, Writer, MixingEngineer - Chris Blair, MasteringEngineer - Ronny Lahti, Engineer, MixingEngineer - Mats Persson, Engineer, Electric Guitar - Mikael Bolyos, Engineer - Roxette, MainArtist - Clarence Öfwerman, Producer, Engineer, Programmer, MixingEngineer - Christer Jansson, Drums, Timpani - Shooting Star, Programmer - Jonas Isacasson, Electric Guitar
© 2001 Roxette Recordings under exclusive license to Parlophone Music Sweden, a division of Warner Music Sweden AB ℗ 2001 Roxette Recordings under exclusive license to Parlophone Music Sweden AB, a Warner Music Group Company
Christoffer Lundquist, Acoustic Guitar, Backing Vocals - Marie Fredriksson, Producer, Backing Vocals, Lead Vocals - Per Gessle, Producer, Programmer, Backing Vocals, Lead Vocals, Writer, MixingEngineer - Chris Blair, MasteringEngineer - Ronny Lahti, Engineer, MixingEngineer - Micke "Nord" Andersson, Guitar - Mats Persson, Engineer, Programmer - Mikael Bolyos, Engineer - Roxette, MainArtist - Clarence Öfwerman, Producer, Engineer, Keyboards, Programmer, MixingEngineer - Shooting Star, Programmer
© 2001 Roxette Recordings under exclusive license to Parlophone Music Sweden, a division of Warner Music Sweden AB ℗ 2001 Roxette Recordings under exclusive license to Parlophone Music Sweden AB, a Warner Music Group Company
Christoffer Lundquist, Backing Vocals - Marie Fredriksson, Producer, Backing Vocals, Lead Vocals - Per Gessle, Producer, Backing Vocals, Lead Vocals, Writer, MixingEngineer - Chris Blair, MasteringEngineer - Ronny Lahti, Engineer, MixingEngineer - Mats Persson, Engineer, Electric Guitar, Programmer - Mikael Bolyos, Engineer - Roxette, MainArtist - Clarence Öfwerman, Producer, Engineer, Keyboards, Programmer, MixingEngineer - Christer Jansson, Drums, Percussion, Loops - Shooting Star, Programmer
© 2001 Roxette Recordings under exclusive license to Parlophone Music Sweden, a division of Warner Music Sweden AB ℗ 2001 Roxette Recordings under exclusive license to Parlophone Music Sweden AB, a Warner Music Group Company
Jonas Isacsson, Electric Guitar - Christoffer Lundquist, Bass Guitar, Backing Vocals, Claps - Marie Fredriksson, Producer, Backing Vocals, Lead Vocals - Per Gessle, Producer, Banjo, Keyboards, Programmer, Backing Vocals, Lead Vocals, Writer, MixingEngineer - Chris Blair, MasteringEngineer - Ronny Lahti, Engineer, MixingEngineer - Mats Persson, Engineer, Keyboards, Programmer, Synthesizer, Tremolo Guitar - Mikael Bolyos, Engineer - Roxette, MainArtist - Clarence Öfwerman, Producer, Engineer, Keyboards, Programmer, MixingEngineer - Shooting Star, Programmer
© 2001 Roxette Recordings under exclusive license to Parlophone Music Sweden, a division of Warner Music Sweden AB ℗ 2000 Roxette Recordings under exclusive license to Parlophone Music Sweden AB, a Warner Music Group Company
Jonas Isacsson, Acoustic Guitar - Christoffer Lundquist, Bass Guitar, Backing Vocals, Claps - Marie Fredriksson, Producer, Backing Vocals, Lead Vocals, Claps - Per Gessle, Producer, Backing Vocals, Lead Vocals, Writer, Claps, MixingEngineer - Chris Blair, MasteringEngineer - Ronny Lahti, Engineer, MixingEngineer - Mats Persson, Engineer, Electric Guitar - Mikael Bolyos, Engineer - Roxette, MainArtist - Clarence Öfwerman, Producer, Engineer, Keyboards, Programmer, Claps, MixingEngineer - Christer Jansson, Drums - Shooting Star, Programmer - Jonas Isacasson, Electric Guitar
© 2001 Roxette Recordings under exclusive license to Parlophone Music Sweden, a division of Warner Music Sweden AB ℗ 2001 Roxette Recordings under exclusive license to Parlophone Music Sweden AB, a Warner Music Group Company
Jonas Isacsson, Electric Guitar - Christoffer Lundquist, Bass Guitar, Backing Vocals - Marie Fredriksson, Producer, Backing Vocals, Lead Vocals - Per Gessle, Producer, Acoustic Guitar, Programmer, Backing Vocals, Lead Vocals, Writer, MixingEngineer - Chris Blair, MasteringEngineer - Ronny Lahti, Engineer, MixingEngineer - Mats Persson, Engineer, Keyboards, Programmer, Tremolo Guitar - Mikael Bolyos, Engineer - Roxette, MainArtist - Clarence Öfwerman, Producer, Engineer, Programmer, MixingEngineer - Shooting Star, Programmer
© 2001 Roxette Recordings under exclusive license to Parlophone Music Sweden, a division of Warner Music Sweden AB ℗ 2001 Roxette Recordings under exclusive license to Parlophone Music Sweden AB, a Warner Music Group Company
Jonas Isacsson, Electric Guitar - Christoffer Lundquist, Bass Guitar, Backing Vocals - Marie Fredriksson, Producer, Backing Vocals, Lead Vocals - Per Gessle, Producer, Programmer, Backing Vocals, Lead Vocals, Writer, MixingEngineer - Chris Blair, MasteringEngineer - Stockholm Session Strings, Strings - Ronny Lahti, Engineer, MixingEngineer - Mats Persson, Engineer, Programmer - Mikael Bolyos, Engineer - Roxette, MainArtist - Clarence Öfwerman, Producer, Engineer, Keyboards, Programmer, MixingEngineer - Christer Jansson, Cymbals - Mats Holmquist, Strings Conductor - Shooting Star, Programmer
© 2001 Roxette Recordings under exclusive license to Parlophone Music Sweden, a division of Warner Music Sweden AB ℗ 2001 Roxette Recordings under exclusive license to Parlophone Music Sweden AB, a Warner Music Group Company
DISC 2
Marie Fredriksson, Producer, Lead Vocals - Per Gessle, Producer, Lead Vocals, Writer, MixingEngineer - Chris Blair, MasteringEngineer - Ronny Lahti, Audio Recording Engineer, MixingEngineer - Roxette, MainArtist - Clarence Öfwerman, Producer, MixingEngineer
© 2001 Roxette Recordings under exclusive license to Parlophone Music Sweden, a division of Warner Music Sweden AB ℗ 2001 Roxette Recordings under exclusive license to Parlophone Music Sweden AB, a Warner Music Group company
Christoffer Lundquist, Producer, Drums, Flute, Guitar, Bass Guitar, Keyboards, Percussion, Saxophone, Backing Vocals, Autoharp - Marie Fredriksson, Producer, Lead Vocals - Per Gessle, Producer, Guitar, Lead Vocals, Writer, Harmonica, MixingEngineer - Björn Engelmann, MasteringEngineer - Helena Josefsson, Percussion, Backing Vocals - Ronny Lahti, Engineer, MixingEngineer - Pelle Alsing, Drums, Percussion - Roxette, MainArtist - Clarence Öfwerman, Producer, Keyboards, Percussion, Piano, Backing Vocals, Synthesizer, MixingEngineer - Shooting Star, Piano - Magnus Börjeson, Bass Guitar, Backing Vocals
© 2001 Roxette Recordings under exclusive license to Parlophone Music Sweden, a division of Warner Music Sweden AB ℗ 2002 Roxette Recordings under exclusive license to Parlophone Music Sweden AB, a Warner Music Group Company
David Birde, Guitar - Christoffer Lundquist, Bass Guitar, Vocals - Marie Fredriksson, Producer, Lead Vocals - Per Gessle, Producer, Guitar, Lead Vocals, Writer, MixingEngineer - Ronny Lahti, Engineer, MixingEngineer - Mats Persson, Guitar - Roxette, MainArtist - Clarence Öfwerman, Producer, Keyboards, MixingEngineer - Christer Jansson, Drums, Percussion
© 2001 Roxette Recordings under exclusive license to Parlophone Music Sweden, a division of Warner Music Sweden AB ℗ 2003 Roxette Recordings under exclusive license to Parlophone Music Sweden AB, a Warner Music Group Company
Marie Fredriksson, Composer, Producer, Piano, Lead Vocals - Per Gessle, Lyricist, Producer, Lead Vocals, MixingEngineer - Ronny Lahti, Engineer, MixingEngineer - Roxette, MainArtist - Clarence Öfwerman, Producer, Keyboards, MixingEngineer
© 2001 Roxette Recordings under exclusive license to Parlophone Music Sweden, a division of Warner Music Sweden AB ℗ 2002 Roxette Recordings under exclusive license to Parlophone Music Sweden AB, a Warner Music Group Company
David Birde, Guitar - Christoffer Lundquist, Bass Guitar, Vocals - Marie Fredriksson, Producer, Lead Vocals - Per Gessle, Producer, Guitar, Lead Vocals, Writer, MainArtist, MixingEngineer - Ronny Lahti, Engineer, MixingEngineer - Mats Persson, Guitar, Audio Recording Engineer, MixingEngineer - Roxette, MainArtist - Clarence Öfwerman, Producer, Keyboards, MixingEngineer - Christer Jansson, Drums, Percussion
© 2001 Roxette Recordings under exclusive license to Parlophone Music Sweden, a division of Warner Music Sweden AB ℗ 2006 Roxette Recordings under exclusive license to Parlophone Music Sweden AB, a Warner Music Group Company
Marie Fredriksson, Writer - Lennart Östlund, Audio Recording Engineer, MixingEngineer - Mikael Bolyos, Producer, Audio Recording Engineer - Roxette, MainArtist
© 2001 Roxette Recordings under exclusive license to Parlophone Music Sweden, a division of Warner Music Sweden AB ℗ 2006 Roxette Recordings under exclusive license to Parlophone Music Sweden AB, a Warner Music Group Company
Christoffer Lundquist, Bass Guitar, Vocals - Marie Fredriksson, Lead Vocals - Per Gessle, Producer, Guitar, Lead Vocals, Writer, MixingEngineer - Michael Ilbert, Producer, Engineer - Ronny Lahti, Engineer, MixingEngineer - Mats Persson, Guitar - Roxette, MainArtist - Clarence Öfwerman, Producer, Keyboards, Programmer, MixingEngineer - Jens Jansson, Drums, Percussion - Shooting Star, Programmer
© 2001 Roxette Recordings under exclusive license to Parlophone Music Sweden, a division of Warner Music Sweden AB ℗ 2003 Roxette Recordings under exclusive license to Parlophone Music Sweden AB, a Warner Music Group Company
Album review
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 /TiVo
About the album
- 2 disc(s) - 19 track(s)
- Total length: 01:10:11
- Main artists: Roxette
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: WM Sweden
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
© 2001 Roxette Recordings under exclusive license to Parlophone Music Sweden, a division of Warner Music Sweden AB ℗ 2001 Roxette Recordings under exclusive license to Parlophone Music Sweden, a division of Warner Music Sweden AB
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