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Tourism Studio album with live tracks by Roxette Released 28 August 1992 Recorded EMI Studios, Stockholm, 1992 Genre Pop Length 70:39 Label EMI Producer Clarence Öfwerman Roxette chronology Joyride
(1991)Tourism
(1992)Crash! Boom! Bang!
(1994)Singles from Tourism - "How Do You Do!"
Released: 1992 - "Queen of Rain"
Released: 1992 - "Fingertips '93"
Released: 1993
Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating Allmusic [1]
Entertainment Weekly (B-)[2] Tourism: Songs from Studios, Stages, Hotelrooms & Other Strange Places is the fourth album by Swedish pop duo Roxette. Released on 28 August 1992, it was recorded mostly during their Join The Joyride world tour and is often mistaken for being a live album. In fact it's a mixture of live and studio tracks.
Contents
Album information
Four live tracks were included in the album, "The Look", "It Must Have Been Love", "Things Will Never be the Same" and "Joyride". While "It Must Have Been Love" didn't appear on a Roxette album until their Greatest hits album Don't Bore Us, Get to the Chorus!, the other three songs did appear on Look Sharp! and Joyride albums.
Another three songs were also released before, "So Far Away" was included on their 1986 debut album Pearls of Passion, "Come Back (Before You Leave)" was originally the b-side for the "Joyride" single, while "Silver Blue" originally appeared as a demo version as the b-side for "The Look" single. "Here Comes the Weekend", the album's 11th track, featured some improvisation. As the song was recorded in a hotelroom, a Samsonite suitcase was used instead of drums.
Tourism made a little impact on American charts - it peaked only at #117 on the Billboard 200 album chart but still was able to sell about 273,000 copies in there.[3] It did far better elsewhere, especially in Europe, where held #1 position of best selling albums for 4 weeks in September 1992.[citation needed] Upon release, the album went straight to #2 in the UK, staying on the album chart there for 17 weeks and eventually was certified gold by BPI in September 1992 for selling more than 100,000 copies.[4] It also debuted at #1 in Sweden and reached higher regions of album charts all over the world.
Though not matching the previous albums' success, Tourism has sold in excess of 6 million copies worldwide.[5]
Track listings
CD
All songs written and composed by Per Gessle, except "So Far Away" (Lyrics: Gessle & Hasse Huss) & "Queen of Rain" (Music: Gessle & Mats Persson).
No. Title Studio Length 1. "How Do You Do!" Halmstad & Stockholm 3:10 2. "Fingertips" Rio de Janeiro 3:34 3. "The Look" live in Sydney 5:33 4. "The Heart Shaped Sea" Los Angeles 4:32 5. "The Rain" Stockholm 4:49 6. "Keep Me Waiting" Stockholm 3:15 7. "It Must Have Been Love" live in Santiago, Chile 7:05 8. "Cinnamon Street" Stockholm, Copenhagen 5:01 9. "Never Is a Long Time" live in São Paulo 3:46 10. "Silver Blue" Stockholm 4:07 11. "Here Comes the Weekend" hotel room, Buenos Aires 4:11 12. "So Far Away" hotel room, Buenos Aires 4:03 13. "Come Back (Before You Leave)" Stockholm, Sweden 4:28 14. "Things Will Never Be the Same" live in Zürich 3:12 15. "Joyride" live in Sydney 4:48 16. "Queen of Rain" Stockholm, Sweden 4:51 Total length:70:39 2009 remastered release – CD bonus tracks [6] No. Title Length 16. "Fingertips '93" 17. "2 Cinnamon Street" 2009 remastered release – iTunes only bonus tracks No. Title Length 16. "Fading Like a Flower (Every Time You Leave)" (Live) 17. "Paint" (Live) 18. "It Must Have Been Love" (Live) 19. "Dressed for Success" (Live) 20. "Hotblooded" (Live) Singles
- "How Do You Do!"
- "How Do You Do!"
- "Fading Like a Flower (Every Time You Leave)" (Live)
- "Knockin' on Every Door" (BomKrash 12" Remix)
- "How Do You Do!" (BomKrash 12" Remix)
- "Queen of Rain"
- "Queen of Rain"
- "It Must Have Been Love" (Live)
- "Paint" (Live)
- "Pearls of Passion"
- "Fingertips '93"
- "Fingertips '93"
- "Dressed for Success" (Live)
- "Hotblooded" (Live)
- "The Voice"
Charts
Album
Country Position Certification Australia 5 Austria 2 Platinum Canada 19 Platinum Finland Gold[7] Germany 1 3xGold[8] Hungary 4 New Zealand 27 Norway 1 Sweden 1 Platinum[9] Switzerland 1 Platinum UK 2 Gold[4] USA 117 Credits
- Vocals — Per Gessle & Marie Fredriksson
- Lyrics — Per Gessle on all tracks, except:
- "So Far Away": Per Gessle & Hasse Huss
- Music — Per Gessle, except for the following:
- "Queen of Rain": Per Gessle & Mats M.P. Persson
Produced & arranged by Clarence Öfwerman
All songs published by Jimmy Fun Music
References
- ^ Allmusic review
- ^ Entertainment Weekly review
- ^ "Ask Billboard section on billboard.com (2005)". www.billboard.com. http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/charts#/news/ask-billboard-1001015119.story.
- ^ a b "BPI certifications". www.bpi.co.uk. http://www.bpi.co.uk/certifiedawards/search.aspx.
- ^ "Expresson's article on Roxette's history (part 3)" (in Swedish). www.archive.org. Archived from the original on 2001-06-05. http://web.archive.org/web/20010605042251/http://www.expressen.se/article.asp?id=63791. Retrieved 2009-09-28.
- ^ "Tourism album 2009 re-release info". www.thelookforroxette.com. http://www.thelookforroxette.com/releases.html?id=2548.
- ^ Kulta- ja platinalevyt IFPI.fi
- ^ AT LEAST ONE OF artist or title MUST BE PROVIDED for GERMAN CERTIFICATION.
- ^ "Swedish Certifications 1987-1998". IFPI Sweden. http://www.ifpi.se/wp-content/uploads/guld-platina-1987-1998.pdf.
External links
Roxette Studio albums Pearls of Passion · Look Sharp! · Joyride · Tourism · Crash! Boom! Bang! · Have a Nice Day · Room Service · Charm SchoolCompilations Rarities · Don't Bore Us, Get to the Chorus! · Baladas En Español · The Ballad Hits · The Pop Hits · A Collection of Roxette Hits: Their 20 Greatest Songs! · The Rox Box/Roxette 86–06Remix albums Videography Sweden Live · Look Sharp Live · The Videos · Live-Ism · Don't Bore Us, Get to the Chorus! – Roxette's Greatest Video Hits · Crash! Boom! Live! · All Videos Ever Made & More! · Ballad & Pop HitsRelated articles Discography · List of Roxette songs · Clarence Öfwerman · Christoffer Lundquist · Gyllene Tider · The Lonely Boys · Helena Josefsson · Mikael BolyosCategories:- 1992 albums
- Roxette albums
- "How Do You Do!"
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