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.
Massive box with unique material
The Joyride anniversary is celebrated with a vinyl box consisting of 4 LPs and a 3-CD box, which in addition to the original edition contains lots of unreleased or hard-to-get material that paints a larger picture of a piece of Swedish music history: demos, alternative versions and leftovers.
In addition, a richly illustrated 32-page booklet is included, which in text and with unique images from Roxette’s archive tells the story of how a classic Swedish pop album came to be.
Twelve previously unreleased songs
Twelve of the songs are previously unreleased, including the first recording of Hotblooded, which for a while was intended as the album’s opening song before Joyride pushed it to second place. Interestingly enough, there are also two Gyllene Tider songs here, which in January 1990 were candidates to end up on the upcoming Roxette record.
Per Gessle remembers:
It’s about “Run Run Run” and “Another Place, Another Time”, which Gyllene released on our English album “The Heartland Café” in 1984. And when I was looking for material for the new album in the autumn of 1989, I got hooked on these two. We made new and more “Roxified” demo versions of them – and especially, “Run Run Run” I think could have been a very strong one.
However, the recordings were shelved – in the Rox HQ there was a small but strong taboo against Roxette and Gyllene Tider being mixed together, so therefore they have been collecting dust in the archive. Until now.
Candy for all Roxette fans
Other 1990 demos that can now be heard for the first time are Small Talk, Church Of Your Heart, Physical Fascination, Things Will Never Be The Same, I Remember You and especially the upcoming single B-side The Sweet Hello, The Sad Goodbye – one of the strongest songs that never managed to take a place on the album, later a big favourite among many Roxette fans and recorded by several other artists, including American singer Laura Branigan.
Sweet Thing is also one of many candidates which never managed to elbow its way onto the Joyride album, but which now sees the light of day for the first time.
In addition to the LP box with four vinyl albums, the original album is also released for the first time with a gatefold cover and pressed in marbled or black vinyl.
Joyride 30th Anniversary Edition tracklists
4LP box
LP #1
A
1 Joyride
2 Hotblooded
3 Fading Like A Flower (Every Time You Leave)
4 Knockin’ On Every Door
5 Spending My Time
6 Watercolours In The Rain
B
1 The Big L.
2 (Do You Get) Excited?
3 Small Talk
4 Physical Fascination
5 Things Will Never Be The Same
6 Perfect Day
LP #2
A
1 Soul Deep
2 I Remember You
3 Church Of Your Heart
4 The Sweet Hello, The Sad Goodbye
5 Fading Like A Flower (US single version, Humberto Gatica mix)*
B
1 Joyride (US single version, Brian Malouf mix)
2 Soul Deep (Tom Lord-Alge mix)
3 Church Of Your Heart (US adult contemporary mix)*
4 Hotblooded (Live Sydney Dec 1991)
5 Fading Like A Flower (Every Time You Leave) (Live Sydney Dec 1991)
LP #3
A
1 Joyride (T&A Demo – May 23, 1990)
2 Hotblooded (T&A Demo – Jan 23, 1990)*
3 Fading Like A Flower (T&A Demo – Aug 31, 1990)
4 Knockin’ On Every Door (T&A Demo – Aug 15, 1989)
5 Spending My Time (T&A Demo – May 24, 1990)
6 I Remember You (T&A Demo – Apr 1, 1990)
7 Watercolours In The Rain (T&A Demo – Jan 24, 1990)
B
1 The Big L. (T&A Demo – Apr 1, 1990)
2 (Do You Get) Excited? (T&A Demo – Aug 19, 1989)
3 Small Talk (T&A Demo – aug 30, 1990)*
4 Church Of Your Heart (T&A Demo – Jan 8, 1990) *
5 Physical Fascination (T&A Demo – Jan 3, 1990)*
6 Things Will Never Be The Same (T&A Demo – Jun 17, 1989)
7 Perfect Day (T&A Demo – Aug 23, 1990)
LP #4
A
1 Sweet Thing (T&A Demo – Oct 28, 1990)*
2 Seduce Me (T&A Demo – Aug 22, 1990)
3 Run Run Run (T&A Demo – Jan 10, 1990)*
4 Things Will Never Be The Same (T&A Demo – Sep 17, 1989)*
5 Love Spins (T&A Demo – Jan 3, 1990)
6 Come Back (Before You Leave) (T&A Demo – Apr 8, 1990)
7 The Sweet Hello, The Sad Goodbye (T&A Demo – Mar 16, 1990)*
B
1 Hotblooded (T&A Demo – Dec 13, 1990)
2 Things Will Never Be The Same (T&A Demo – Dec 13, 1990)
3 Another Place, Another Time (T&A Demo – Jan 11, 1990)*
4 I Remember You (T&A Demo – Mar 15, 1990)*
5 Queen Of Rain (T&A Demo – Jan 2, 1990
6 The Big L. (T&A Demo – Mar 29, 1990)
7 Joyrider (T&A Demo – May 22, 1990)
*Previously unreleased
CD and Digtial tracklists
CD1
- Joyride
- Hotblooded
- Fading Like A Flower (Every Time You Leave)
- Knockin’ On Every Door
- Spending My Time
- I Remember You
- Watercolours In The Rain
- The Big L.
- Soul Deep
- (Do You Get) Excited?
- Church Of Your Heart
- Small Talk
- Physical Fascination
- Things Will Never Be The Same
- Perfect Day
- The Sweet Hello, The Sad Goodbye
- Joyride (US Single version, Brian Malouf mix)
- Fading Like A Flower (US Single version, Humberto Gatica mix)*
- Soul Deep (Tom Lord-Alge mix)
- Church Of Your Heart (US adult contemporary mix)*
CD2
- Joyride (T&A Demo – May 23, 1990)
- Hotblooded (T&A Demo – Jan 23, 1990)*
- Fading Like A Flower (T&A Demo – Aug 31, 1990)
- Knockin’ On Every Door (T&A Demo – Aug 15, 1989)
- Spending My Time (T&A Demo – May 24, 1990)
- I Remember You (T&A Demo – Apr 1, 1990)
- Watercolours In The Rain (T&A Demo – Jan 24, 1990)
- The Big L. (T&A Demo – Apr 1, 1990)
- (Do You Get) Excited? (T&A Demo – Aug 19, 1989)
- Small Talk (T&A Demo – Aug 30, 1990)*
- Church Of Your Heart (T&A Demo – Jan 8, 1990) *
- Physical Fascination (T&A Demo – Jan 3, 1990)*
- Things Will Never Be The Same (T&A Demo – Jun 17, 1989)
- Perfect Day (T&A Demo – Aug 23, 1990)
CD3
- Sweet Thing (T&A Demo – Oct 28, 1990)*
- Seduce Me (T&A Demo – Aug 22, 1990)
- Run Run Run (T&A Demo – Jan 10, 1990)*
- Things Will Never Be The Same (T&A Demo – Sep 17, 1989)*
- Love Spins (T&A Demo – Jan 3, 1990)
- Come Back (Before You Leave) (T&A Demo – Apr 8, 1990)
- The Sweet Hello, The Sad Goodbye (T&A Demo – Mar 16, 1990)*
- Hotblooded (T&A Demo – Dec 13, 1990)
- Things Will Never Be The Same (T&A Demo – Dec 13, 1990)
- Another Place, Another Time (T&A Demo – Jan 11, 1990)*
- I Remember You (T&A Demo – Mar 15, 1990)*
- Queen Of Rain (T&A Demo – Jan 2, 1990
- The Big L. (T&A Demo – Mar 29, 1990)
- Joyrider (T&A Demo – May 22, 1990)
- Hotblooded (Live Sydney Dec 1991)
- Fading Like A Flower (Every Time You Leave) (Live Sydney Dec 1991)
*Previously unreleased
Listening links to the Small Talk single (released on 8th October): Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube (1; 2), Deezer.
Per says:
The “Small Talk”-demo was made by MP and me at the old Tits&Ass Studio on August 30, 1990. It was written two days earlier. “Hotblooded” was recorded by Marie, MP and me the day after Marie and I wrote it in my tiny penthouse apartment in Halmstad in January 1990.
You can already pre-order all the Joyride 30th anniversary goodies that will be released on 26th November (black vinyl, marbled vinyl, 4LP box, 3CD set) on Bengans, Ginza and other well-known places, as well as in your local record stores / online record shops.
Click for the PRESS RELEASE in Swedish.
Promo video can be found HERE!
