“Party Crasher” finally online
Written by tomos85 on November 24, 2008 to Per Gessle and Releases. Source: Telia.
Telia's webshop has added "Party Crasher" and also of course added snippets of the "Telia Edition" with 13 tracks. Unfortunately the album can't be bought from IP-addresses outside of Sweden, plus that the album is in WMA format. The price is 129 SEK.
The album is also available on iTunes Sweden, with its respective edition, including "I'm Glad You Called" instead of "Roberta Right." iTunes offers the album in 256 kbit AAC plus format. The price is 95 SEK.
Other articles with the same topic
- "Silly Really (Right Into Your Bed remix)" (December 27, 2008)
- Next single "Sing Along" (December 16, 2008)
- Another date released (December 8, 2008)
- Per tours Europe in April-May? (December 8, 2008)
- Vote for "Silly Really" (December 6, 2008)
67 comments
rossyrox said on November 24, 2008 09:19:
As usual, we in the UK have to wait 7-10 days for delivery.
wonderful_balloon said on November 24, 2008 09:24:
Am I blind or why cant I find this album on itunes? can someone please post the link here? wud be great! thx in advance :-)
memami said on November 24, 2008 09:47:
Hi,
Is there anybody outhere who can buy the two bonustracks for me?
I can pay with paypal.
Please write me a Mail.
Thx memami
kielroxer said on November 24, 2008 10:57:
ok, i found it on itunes sweden. but will the album be available in other itunes - stores, especially in good old germany? Silly really for example is until now not available here...
does anybody know?
tevensso (moderator) said on November 24, 2008 11:05:
Most probably, but as far as I know not before Christmas at least. It hasn’t really been released outside of Scandinavia yet.
PiterPam said on November 24, 2008 11:15:
Album sounds good!
I have ordered it via amazon.de. Must be here in early december. “The Party Pleaser” and “Stuck here with me” sounds really great! But for my taste 2-3 to much ballads on the album, but its ok.
pwbbounce (moderator) said on November 24, 2008 11:21:
As frustrating as it is, the album won’t be available on any iTunes store apart from Sweden for the time being. Get ordering your copy of the CD from the usual online stores!
tomos85 said on November 24, 2008 11:31:
Cdwow.com ships to every single country in the world and you pay no extra charge for shipping.
http://www.cdwow.com/PER-GESSLE-Party-Crasher/product/view/3846456
Bengans.se does the same, but they take 130 sek for sending:
http://www.bengans.se/Product.aspx?skivkod=783060§ion=music
And of course, those two bonus tracks are only available in these 2 Swedish shops. For Swedes only, unfortunately.
DEFAULT_GREEN said on November 24, 2008 13:05:
I have heard the first halve of the cd and I have to say that I am not that impressed, I don’t know why Per just stick with what he is good at
and that is make good pop rock songs - joyride style and stop playing around, I would rather not have an album from Per than having him waste his time like this
crashroxer said on November 24, 2008 13:11:
@DEFAULT_GREEN: The year 2009 is coming!!! Those Joyride days are over...
tevensso (moderator) said on November 24, 2008 13:26:
Yes Default, stop whining already. Easy choice - don’t get the album.
abysmo said on November 24, 2008 14:09:
Very short preview of the album to say my attitude, I have to wait till my Bengans CD will arrive, but right now I can say, that old, driving Gessle with lot of arrangies and tons of ideas in one song is back. Snippets sounds very promising, very fresh and very synth offcourse :-).
Some of the snippets turned into nice surprise (Stuck Here With Me, Thai With A Twist). I don’t like reggae so I’m not fond of Breathe Life Into Me and I Didn’t Mean To Turn You On, but I feel that I will enjoy rest of the album.
The Party Pleaser, Gut Feeling, Kissing Is The Key and Thai With A Twist are classical Gessle crushing pop pearls, Sing Along, Perfect Excuse, Hey I Died And Went To Heaven and Doesn’t Make Sense are classical ballads. I can hear there Pet Shop Boys, Duran Duran and many others, so if SOAP was trip to 60’s-70’s, than with PC we are back in the 80’s.
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DEFAULT_GREEN said on November 24, 2008 14:29:
@tevenso and crashroxer: duh 2009 is comming so why is he making music of the 80s!!!!!
Read what I am saying, I am saying he should stick to what he is good at and continue with his pop rock songs, like the brilliant Mazarin CD, HAND cd CBB cd JOYRIDE cd and stop wasting his time in trying to recreate crap from the past,
Per is a pop rock singer and songwriter and the past 3 years he has become a copycat recreator of crappy music, be original and do what you are good at.
If I want to listen to songs from the 80s I will go and buy songs from made in that time!
Per has wasted a whole year in trying to create this, whereas he could have made a brilliand new and original pop rock album, imagine if he decided to make a cd from the 70s instead of the CBB cd!!! now that is what happened here, wonder which great cd was lost while making this recreation of songs that there are plenty of out there
and that is the bottom line, ever single second he is experimenting he is wasting valueable PER GESSLE time, trying out this trying out that, instead of sticking to what he knows best and sticking to what made him successfull to start out with, and that is definatly not this cd!
pwbbounce (moderator) said on November 24, 2008 14:37:
This is what Per WANTED to make this time around. You say imagine if he made a 70s CD instead of C!B!B! Per was not trying new things that time around. If you compare Joyride to C!B!B! there is a difference in sound and style. They grew up a little bit.
At this time, Per doesn’t need to prove anything to anybody. He makes the music that he wants to. If people want to buy it, thats a bonus to him. I’m sure he isn’t going to be too worried financially if no one buys it. And I’m sure it won’t stop him from making the kind of music that he wants to in the future.
Per WAS a pop rock singer, some of the songs on PC are in that style, but its not where he is now.
Sorry for the comparison, but Cliff Richard WAS a rock ’n’ roll singer in the 50’s, now he isn’t. That style of music has changed, and he has had to change as well. Per is no different. Do you really think an album in the style of C!B!B! would sell more than Party Crasher now? No, I don’t.
If you don’t try new things, you’re stick to something which is the same over and over again. Sounds boring doesn’t it?
pwbbounce (moderator) said on November 24, 2008 14:46:
I’m sure one will be coming at some point.....
tevensso (moderator) said on November 24, 2008 14:47:
There will be an extensive review on Wednesday. :)
emilio said on November 24, 2008 14:49:
Some guys here waste their attention in compare per´s music. I agree with pwbbounce, but the main reason is that he is a musician and if he want to make a mozart´s inspired record he is absolutely free to make it, like it or not.
Roxette stardom days are over, maybe for a while or maybe forever. Per is not Chris Martin not even Bono, and fans have to realize that those golden days would be hard to reach again and we don´t know if Per´s wants to spend 4 months tripping through north america promoting the record.
Enjoy the music, we have to be happy guys! who makes one record per year!!! no one just per! and i love that because i´m just a fan of his music.
Room_service said on November 24, 2008 15:07:
“Imagine if he decided to make a cd from the 70s instead of the CBB cd!!!”
If that’s the case, you’d be comparing “Party Crasher” with that 70s CD right now... But in the end your statements are very contradictory. It seems you consider any music from the past is crappy. So, do you consider that “Look Sharp” and “Joyride” are crappy too?
There’s no way to record something like “Joyride” at the moment. There’s a revival of the 80’s spirit now in many areas (music, fashion, etc), so this new album really fits that trend. The bolder sounds of “Joyride” is not what people seem to like now. The same about C!B!B!
Judith (moderator) said on November 24, 2008 15:12:
I don’t understand this static way of thinking. People change, people should change. Change is good. One always learns from it, there is always a long way which never ends, learning, changing, if not there would not be any challenges, life would be boring.
I think it is more than obvious that he does the music he likes, he doesn’t need to please anybody except himself, I doubt this has changed since he started to make music, just that now he dares much more. He (or any other artist) would go nuts if they had to adapt their music to the mainstream and to what the fans like!
I also don’t understand this labeling. He is a musician. Pop rock, whatever. He composes music, he creates music. Some you might like, some you might not. There is nothing else one can do than wait. Ask me, I’ve waited since 97 to finally like one of his solo albums ;)))
In the meantime I’ve discovered great music as well, music doesn’t end with Gessle ;)
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colinvdbel (moderator) said on November 24, 2008 17:12:
Per is an artist.
I would say he isn’t going to make an album just because his fans would love it, as far as I know inspiration/art doesn’t work like that.
He creates music as he likes it. If you don’t like it, don’t buy it and please don’t come complaining here - we just bring you the news. Period.
@Default: Why don’t you try making some music of your own? You seem to know exactly what kind of music the world is waiting for...
miso said on November 24, 2008 17:12:
Am I the only one who can’t hear the snippet of the bonus track?
DEFAULT_GREEN said on November 24, 2008 17:13:
I don’t know if the people in this forum can’t read, but I KNOW Per can do what he feels like, but that is like an AMAZING chef saying, i feel like making ok cupcakes when he can make GREAT meals...
I am saying Per is WASTING his time by experimenting like this, time wasted, year wasted. instead of experimenting why not do something GREAT.
and by the way, Per is not changing he is EXPERIMENTING with new music styles, and is wasting valueable time in the process.
what would you prefer... the song Listen to your heart or Perfect excuse? Comon get realistic there is not even one song on this entire album that even
closely compares to his best work, all because he is experimenting... why must he do that, he is good at what he do, why not keep doing that and keep doing it better and better.
Bryan Adams has been doing it for years and is still great, REM the same... all of a sudden he does not create demos anymore because clarence does not like it. he has not cared for what clarence though for 17 years, what happened now all of a sudden? He gives them to much creative control on the cds, SOAP (no demos) this one (no demos) and it sounds nothing like him. What happend to the pop rock star we once knew? Oh sorry I forgot he made a B rated experimental 60s, 70s and 80s cd.
Really now guys. comon. It is not about change, it is about writing damn good songs and this time around this cd is a joke compared to TWATG, MAZARIN or any other Roxette CD.
CRIZ said on November 24, 2008 17:28:
soon I will start a poll ...I think it’s time to close the opportunty to discuss on TDR. It’s time that TDR is JUST a News-site.
It’s getting more and more embarrasing! Stupid useless discussions from people who think they know everything better...or from people who think they are funny or from people who just want to provoke!
I just can say: If you don’t like what Per and Marie are doing and deciding nowadays than why do you still care about them? I think I just would loose interest if a musician doesn’t make music after my taste and I won’t waste my time in discussion forums! I would sell my collection and just FORGET THEM!
(By the way..I still only know REALLY SILLY from the Party crasher)
I’m so fed up with this embarrasing discussions here! They are repeating themselves again and again and again and again.....The funny thing : It’s only on the TDR like that. In other Rox-forums everything is just more relaxed.
Room_service said on November 24, 2008 17:53:
Default_green:
The point is you are not inside of Per’s head. There’s no way to know his own thoughts and feelings. Maybe he feels/believes this music is a “great meal”. It’s all up to subjectiveness. You believe that “Listen To Your Heart” is superior than “Perfect Excuse”; perhaps Per thinks the other way around (that they are equally good or PE even superior to LTYH). He’s always proud of her job, I am sure he’d say this album is the greatest one he ever made. You don’t have to agree, but his thoughts are as valid as yours.
Personally, I don’t think this new album is a waste of talent. You must be aware this is not Roxette, so the sound is absolutely different. I addition, it must be really boring if all his music sounds like Joyride or LTYH. If you like that stuff so deeply, just dust off the old cd’s and play them. There’s no need to make ’new’ music in that style anymore if he already tried it.
tomsen2 said on November 24, 2008 18:07:
Great album with very great songs. I like almost every one. Maybe the Thai Song is a little bit too silly.
But the way how they release Per’s albums and especially where is getting worse with every new release. It doesen’t make any sense to write two good songs, in english by the way, and then release them only in sweden with absolutely no access for foreigners.
Thats a good reason to steal music instead of buying it. No wonder the music industry is almost dead.
onlywhenidream said on November 24, 2008 18:19:
I can’t wait for mt CD to arrive - I am holding out on listening to any others online.
I know there have been mixed comments about the album - but I for one can’t wait. I love synth music; and I think Per is being both brave and innovative for ’his’ sounds.
Thanks Peter Gessle.
tevensso (moderator) said on November 24, 2008 19:10:
I can’t speak for everyone, I know that, but the album is amazing, believe me. It’s not an album that sets straight in your head, which is good. It takes a while to get into the feeling.
Roxerally said on November 24, 2008 07:36:
Whoops... can’t order it with my IP address! :(
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