Per Gessle reveals upcoming releases; RoxBox to include MTV Unplugged
Written by colinvdbel on August 12, 2006 to Exclusive.
STOCKHOLM - In response to several rumors on the releases of the “Rox Box” and “Greatest Hits,” Per Gessle tells The Daily Roxette that there will be the following releases:
- One standard CD with 20 tracks + a 12-page booklet.
- One deluxe package with a 20-track CD + 18 videos on a DVD + a 20-page booklet (“Awesome!”, Per comments).
- One standard CD for the Spanish-speaking markets with 20 tracks including one Spanish song (one English removed) + a 12-page booklet.
- The ROX BOX with 78 songs including 14 unreleased ones + all the videoclips Roxette has done + the entire MTV Unpugged show.
The official titles will be: “The Rox Box/Roxette ’86-’06” and “A Collection of Roxette Hits - Their 20 Greatest Songs!”
This week some Spanish radio stations (in Barcelona) reported that Roxette “will be in town soon.” When TDR asked Per for a comment on this, he replied that he didn’t know anything about that, except that “they might have been talking about Marie, since she has a house there and has been there lately.”
Other articles with the same topic
- Silly Really snippet now online! (October 23, 2008)
- Per talks about "Party Crasher" (October 9, 2008)
- Per Gessle at the BMI awards (October 9, 2008)
- New Per Gessle single "Silly Really" (October 6, 2008)
- Another "Million-Air" award for Listen to Your Heart (August 18, 2008)
147 comments
Judith (moderator) said on August 12, 2006 08:56:
haha!
I’ll buy the box and the deluxe, maybe when I go home (Spain) for xmas I get the Spanish edition, we’ll see :)
brentnewtown said on August 12, 2006 08:59:
I hope ’all the videoclips Roxette has done’ covers more than one DVD. Wasn’t there criticism of All the videos ... DVD because its low quality was (partly?) caused by being squashed onto one DVD?
I wonder if the 14 unreleased songs are demos.
Edit: actually excluding the documentaries as were on All the videos ... having all the videos on one DVD may not be a problem.
brunorox said on August 12, 2006 09:34:
hello everyone,
It was high time that the unplugged show to be released on a Roxette album or best of.
Thanks to MTV .....
18 unreleased songs ... expecting to that ... looking forward to be available in Belgium.
ncurran said on August 12, 2006 09:35:
Yeah the deluxe package and the Box seem like the way to go for the fans....though i might actually be cheap and buy the standard CD as u dont need the videos again....i suppose it depends how much the price difference is. dont want to pay a huge amount just for an extra 8 pages of booklet.
The box sounds great. Didnt expect as many as 14 unreleased ones....just hope they are half decent.
Not keen on the title “A Collection of Roxette Hits - Their 20 Greatest Songs!”. Could they not have thought of something catchier, or at least something that refers to the 20th anniversary. For a start, the 20 songs on the collection will not be their 20 greatest songs. It wouldve been much better to call it a similar name as the Rox Box. “Roxette: The Hits 86-06” or even something like “The Hits: 20th Anniversary Collection”.
Anyway these are minor gripes...it does sound great though, even if they are milking the different releases a bit. 5 years ago i probably wouldve bought all 4 as a completist, certainly not now
JoyRidErno said on August 12, 2006 09:35:
3 normal albums 20e each...
Box... 50e? So I have to get over 100 euros to buy all of them... ;)
Judith (moderator) said on August 12, 2006 09:39:
ncurran: they do like long titles, remember? :D
My guess is that the Spanish track will be “Un dia sin ti” or?
Txiqui said on August 12, 2006 09:45:
I must start saving money for this!.
I hope the 14 unreleased tracks are completly unkonwn, then i would be like getting a new whole album!.
:))))
rox-kuryliw said on August 12, 2006 09:45:
i dont know why people what this mtv show id rather have a rs tour show hands down.
sounds a right release selection lol alot to choose from !
look like rox box and deluxe package for me.
CRIZ said on August 12, 2006 10:08:
Wow..that will bring fun to the shopassistent of my CD shop..Hej guy..you have to order this and that...but not that and this.....:)
Per..do we really have to watch your hairstyle from Unplugged again?...>:)
chrisjankunas said on August 12, 2006 10:11:
Does 14 unreleased songs mean 14 songs like “myth” - ones that have never been heard in any shape or form ?
tomos85 said on August 12, 2006 10:13:
So this means that deluxe edition will include only those videos to those songs that’ll be included on CD, yes? A little disappointment...
Hmmm, well, as Judith, I think that I’ll buy Deluxe edition and Rox Box ;) Wow, I must earn a lot of money to get them ;-)
The Spanish version of 20GH will include Un dia sin ti, I assume. I hope they won’t record anything new :D:D:D:D:D
tomos85 said on August 12, 2006 10:15:
Talking about ’unrealeased tracks’, I hope it’ll be tracks that no one knows ;-) Not b-sides or sthg you can download e.g. from roxette.cz ;D Only COMPLETELY unknown music! Per, c’mon! :D
And what does ’entire MTV unplugged show’ mean for Per? Will it include songs like Fading like a flower or will it be only ’MTV-unplugged-as-we-know-all-you-can-download-from-roxbytes.com-for-example)
Sascha said on August 12, 2006 10:29:
Ah, some news again! I’m not too much in love with the GH title, sounds a bit like these low-budget collections. But it all depends on the photo and artwork, the Rox Box title is cool anyway!
I’ll probably buy the Box and the Deluxe GH, maybe some more as a gift... I hope that ’14 unreleased songs’ don’t include demo versions of released songs, only unknown songs which we don’t have as demo-downloads yet!
Some new documentary would have been nice for the DVD... But I’ll be happy with every little bit we get, it’s all a big bonus after the last 4 years! :-)
f-l-o said on August 12, 2006 10:45:
i undestand with “14 unreleased songs”, that these songs are 14 songs we have never heard, because if it’s a demo e.g. of joyride, we already heard this songs because joyride is a relaesed song. if per said 14 unreleased demos, i think that would be demos of songs we already know
and i hope ENTIRE MTV UNPLUGGED is really ENTIRE UNPLUGGED (perfect day ....)
Roxette-atic said on August 12, 2006 11:02:
Sounds fantastic!! Everything!! And Im a freak so ill buy the box plus the 3 diffrent editions of the greatest hits!!!! :D
Zelda said on August 12, 2006 11:09:
I´m not interested in this MTV unplugged concert. Never liked it!
The full LIVE-ISM concert would been a perfect idea!!!!!!
daniel_alv said on August 12, 2006 11:38:
I’ll buy the box for sure...
Maybe the deluxe CD also...
I really hope that the 14 unreleased isn’t just demos...
I hope the 4 rox box CD’s are like this:
1st CD GH
2nd CD b-sides like see me, the sweet hello and other songs that are not included on the albums like I don’t want to get hurt, breathe, june afternoon.
3rd CD Demos incl. Svarta glas
4th CD 14 unreleased never heard song...
rox-kuryliw said on August 12, 2006 11:50:
3rd CD Demos incl. Svarta glas ? ? roxette are an english recording group and have to stay like that ? lord.
colinvdbel (moderator) said on August 12, 2006 11:59:
Yes, Svarta Glas is, if I understand correctly, as Swedish demo meant for Per’s 3rd swedish solo album, but was translated for Roxette?
Room_service said on August 12, 2006 12:06:
If the DVD included in the so-called “deluxe edition” is the normal video clips of the songs, I’ll certainly skip that. 8 extra pages of a booklet doesn’t mean much to me. That’s something I look at the day I buy it and no more. Who’s going to read the credits for a compilation every day?Anyway, I doubt that is going to be released here, and wasting money to import it is just pointless. The average CD is ok for me. But I am not in a rush to get it. I didn’t buy TBH and TPH until this year...
A “special” release for Spanish-language territories = a version including “Un dia sin ti”. Totally useless. The worst part of this is that I am totally sure we’ll get this one here in Argentina. I am feeling sick...
I wonder why they are releasing the videos AGAIN! We already have 2 DVD’s with (almost) the same stuff.
For me, the only worthy release is the Rox Box. All the rest is not essential, and I am not dying to get it.
regn said on August 12, 2006 12:57:
Wait & see for me the buy the rox box & maybe deluxe one the rest ...it’ll b dwnlbl...
animalkingdom said on August 12, 2006 13:00:
@ daniel_alv
Good god! I definitely hope there won’t be any separate Hits CD in the Rox Box!
joyrider said on August 12, 2006 13:02:
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Roxette — A Collection of Roxette Hits - Their 20 Greatest Songs!
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God, the cool days, when a GH album was called “Don’t bore us — get to the chorus” are sadly over :-( Why can’t they just call it “The Rox Set” or sth like that?
But all in all I’m really looking forward to the new songs and the MTV unplugged in a high(er) quality sound and hopefully the cover design / photos aren’t as uncreative as the GH title (BTW I am not talking about “RoxBox” … that one is nice …).
Strest said on August 12, 2006 13:13:
Hmm, deluxe + box + Spanish version.
This is gonna cost me a lot I think :)
Nox1983 said on August 12, 2006 13:26:
Maybe they include (in the cd for the spanish market) a new song in spanish cos i guess the other new song is a ballad...
animalkingdom said on August 12, 2006 13:29:
I am not too keen on the GH title either.
Something like “Rox20: The Anniversary Collection” would’ve been far better than “A(nother) Collection of Roxette Hits”.
Kecho said on August 12, 2006 13:47:
Will be RoxBox available also in Slovakia? Or it will be in countries like swe, ger, fra, esp, uk etc.?
brentnewtown said on August 12, 2006 08:55:
Who’s buying what?
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