Returning to action after a decade-long hiatus, Roxette don’t skip a beat on 2011’s Charm School.
Roxette were never in the thick of things, never setting the pace, but they did reflect their times during their 1988-1991 peak.
They still reflect those times 20 years later, still favoring the brightly colored productions of the late ‘80s, still relying on cavernous drums and squealing fuzz guitars skipping over tightly wound guitar riffs, piling on synth after synth, every element accentuating their enormous hooks.
Roxette may be a band out of time on Charm School but, well, that’s their charm: they’re still unapologetically big pop, they still celebrate melody over everything else.
Sometimes things crawl just a tad on Charm School -- it’s not the power ballads that sag but the chugging midtempo tunes -- but it serves up enough surging soft rock and fizzy pop like “Big Black Cadillac” and “She’s Got Nothing On (But the Radio)” to make this a successful comeback.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Way OutPer Gessle | Roxette | Play | 02:46 | 6 MB | 18 MB |
| 2 | No One Makes It on Her OwnPer Gessle | Roxette | Play | 03:44 | 8 MB | 23 MB |
| 3 | She's Got Nothing On (But the Radio)Per Gessle | Roxette | Play | 03:34 | 8 MB | 26 MB |
| 4 | Speak to MePer Gessle | Roxette | Play | 03:42 | 8 MB | 26 MB |
| 5 | I'm Glad You CalledPer Gessle | Roxette | Play | 02:48 | 6 MB | 14 MB |
| 6 | Only When I DreamPer Gessle | Roxette | Play | 03:52 | 8 MB | 26 MB |
| 7 | Dream OnPer Gessle | Roxette | Play | 03:09 | 7 MB | 22 MB |
| 8 | Big Black CadillacPer Gessle | Roxette | Play | 03:05 | 7 MB | 21 MB |
| 9 | In My Own WayPer Gessle | Roxette | Play | 03:30 | 8 MB | 20 MB |
| 10 | After AllPer Gessle | Roxette | Play | 03:15 | 7 MB | 22 MB |
| 11 | Happy on the OutsidePer Gessle | Roxette | Play | 03:39 | 8 MB | 21 MB |
| 12 | Sitting on Top of the WorldPer Gessle | Roxette | Play | 03:55 | 9 MB | 22 MB |
| 41 mins | 94 MB | |||||
| 41 mins | 267 MB | |||||
| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pelle Alsing | Drums, Percussion |
| 2 | Ekaterina Belinkata | Photography |
| 3 | Mikael Bolyos | Photography |
| 4 | Magnus Borjesson | Guitar (Bass), Vocals (Background) |
| 5 | Emil Carlsson | Strings |
| 6 | Tom Coyne | Mastering |
| 7 | Marie Dimberg | Management |
| 8 | Tomas Ebrelius | Strings |
| 9 | Malin Ekstrand | Vocals (Background) |
| 10 | Marie Fredriksson | Group Member, Instrumentation, Vocals |
| 11 | Gabriel Gessle | Photography |
| 12 | Per Gessle | Composer, Group Member, Guitar, Instrumentation, Producer, Vocals |
| 13 | Lennart Haglund | Assistant Engineer |
| 14 | Important Pete | Photography |
| 15 | Jens Jansson | Drums |
| 16 | Ronny Lahti | Mixing |
| 17 | Christoffer Lundquist | Bass, Engineer, Guitar, Keyboards, Lap Steel Guitar, Mixing, Producer, Programming, String Arrangements, Vocals (Background) |
| 18 | Ulf Magnusson | Photography |
| 19 | Clarence Öfwerman | Keyboards, Producer, Programming, String Arrangements |
| 20 | M.P. Persson | Composer |
| 21 | Mats M.P. Persson | Engineer |
| 22 | Roxette | Primary Artist |
| 23 | Lotta Weber Sjöholm | Strings |
| 24 | Johanna Skoglund | Strings |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |