Roxette

Live from Helsinki & Stuttgart

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Live in Helsinki, Finland, September 4, 1991 (Join the Joyride! tour premiere):
Fading like a flower (TV broadcast)

Live in Stuttgart, Germany, October 22, 1994 (bootleg):
Sleeping in my car
Fireworks
Almost unreal
Dangerous
So you wanna be a rock’n’roll star?
Crash!Boom!Bang!
Listen to your heart
The first girl on the moon
Harleys and Indians (Rider in the sky) / Lies
The rain
I love the sound of crashing guitars
It must have been love
Fading like a flower

Dressed For Success, The Big L, Joyride, Spending My Time, Cry, The Look, Love Is All [Shine Your Light On Me] and Go To Sleep are still missing.

Thanks to esperominombre for uploading.

“Sleeping in my car” punk cover

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The Black Tapes - cover of theirs first album. Polish punk band The Black Tapes has covered “Sleeping in my car” on theirs first album called “The Black Tapes”. The album got very positive reviews in Polish press and many journalists really appreciated Roxette’s cover which is a “ghost track” on this CD. The band members recorded this debut album in Sweden and wanted to have something Swedish on it – that was the main reason why they have decided to include “Sleeping in my car”.

You can listen to theirs version here.

Per recorded two new demos

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Here comes news from Twitter. Per recorded 2 new demos while visiting the ‘Aerosol Grey Machine-palace’. Both are played on banjo. And both are primarily for Roxette for sure. Per also wrote, that Clarence and Christoffer is currently working on the Night Of The Proms strings arrangies. Songs sounds great. “I never knew I was wrote epic symphonic music!!!”, comments Per.

“The Look” covered by rockabilly band “The Baseballs”

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Posted on June 28th: German rockabilly band The Baseballs included a cover of “The Look” in their first album “Strike”, which was released in May 2009.  The album also includes covers of Rihanna, Robbie Williams and Maroon 5 among others.

Digger, singer together with Sam and Basti, explains why they choose “The Look” in an interview published on Münstersche Zeitung yesterday, “we wanted to give the album a personal touch. I chose “The Look”, which I relate to my start with music. It was my sister’s first LP and the first song I could play on keyboards.”

I personally find the version of “The Look” one of the best on the album, but you can judge yourself on YouTube, where you can also listen to other songs included in the album.

If you want to learn more about the band, you can visit their homepage (in German) or page on Facebook. And if you’ve been convinced by their music, you can buy their CD on Amazon.de

Update 18th July: just found out that there is another German band who already covered “The Look” back in 1991. The band is called Boppin’B and they named the album containing the cover “The Look”.