Raspberry heart shape fills in on album cover
Written by Lars-Erik_Olson on September 26, 2002 to Releases.
With a revised packaging concept and title, Roxette’s collection of slower tempo songs, “Roxette: The Ballad Hits,” is right on schedule for release on November 4th.
Roxette, working with Jonas Åkerlund and their record label, decided at the last minute to drop the “Love Peas” concept in favor of what you see here… raspberries floating in milk.
As first reported by The Daily Roxette, “Love Peas” and “Pop Peas” were dropped from the names of the two forthcoming ’greatest hits’-type albums. While the raspberry motif is being used for the ballad album, it is expected that some other object that ties in, yet is different, will be used on the up-tempo collection. The end result will be a series that has a coordinated look and feel… two albums and, as originally planned or conceived, a tour.
The published track listing for the first of the two is as follows:
1. A Thing About You (2002)
2. It Must Have Been Love (1987)
3. Listen To Your Heart (1988)
4. Fading Like A Flower (1991)
5. Spending My Time (1991)
6. Queen Of Rain (1992)
7. Almost Unreal (1993)
8. Crash! Boom! Bang! (1994)
9. Vulnerable (1994)
10. You Don´t Understand Me (1995)
11. Wish I Could Fly (1999)
12. Anyone (1999)
13. Salvation (1999)
14. Milk And Toast And Honey (2001)
15. Breathe (2002)
16. The Weight Of The World - Bonus-Track (previously unreleased)
17. It Hurts - Bonus-Track (previously unreleased)
18. Every Day - Bonus-Track (previously unreleased).
(Birgit Eichler contributed to this article.)
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46 comments
Gezza said on September 26, 2002 14:50:
Very impressed. Much different to any one of the others.It should really stand out on the shelves.
zeeshan said on September 26, 2002 14:53:
stand-out? oh yess.. defenitely.. GOO ROX GOO!
Sascha said on September 26, 2002 14:57:
Sweet! Just checked out that the berries swim in milk. I wonder if they planned to show Marie/Per and had to cancel photo shoots because of Marie’s illness.
The question is: What will the uptempo cover show to match this design?
room-service said on September 26, 2002 14:58:
What’s there in the backgrund? Is it milk? I can see bubbles ;)
The Picture behind the “Ballad Hits” Cover is an enlargement of the ATAY Cover right?
EDITOR’S NOTE: Correct on both accounts. - LEO
roxchurch said on September 26, 2002 15:07:
raspberry ,milk with bubbles –it’s better:-))
this cover eats well :-,)
shama said on September 26, 2002 15:28:
YES!! what happened to see me????? i was so happy that i would have it on a cd (i’ve gotit only as mp3) and what now? it’s so beautiful. beside i suppose all the other songs are per’s so there should have been one marie song. mhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
JoyrideJivey said on September 26, 2002 15:46:
Already for pre-order here....? http://eil.com/shop/moreinfo.asp?catalogid=224232
Sascha said on September 26, 2002 15:49:
Yeah, seems like they dropped the EP concept and put all the songs on one CD. See Me is left out because it isn’t a new song.
shaolinda said on September 26, 2002 15:49:
I like the cover... But where’s i See me?
Looks like they changed more than just the name
luizfernando said on September 26, 2002 15:52:
I like this cover and the tracklist is very good too.
I hope all these 18 songs are in an unic disc.
See you
LF (Brazil)
open600 said on September 26, 2002 16:19:
I like the new concept. The cover is great, like ALL roxette’s covers, milk and berries, I love it.
See Me is a fantastic song, I have heard it because I’ve got the Salvation single CD and I thing that It fits perfectly as last track in this compilation.
flowersonthemoon said on September 26, 2002 16:19:
I think that the Cover is great!.. and it fits the contents on the disc.. so sweet.. :P
And I also like that there is no limited_edition_EP.. I don’t like the idea (at all!) that we would have to fetch the “limited_edition” thing.. (like it happened on Rarities).. I think that I will sleep better tonight.. LOL
If the next greatest hits would contain the same design strategy, what would we have on it?? mmm.. no idea, I would suggest.. hehe.. let’s see.. ;)
Álex
marre said on September 26, 2002 16:34:
my first thought “WOooooW”
I LOVE THIS COVER
good job roxette
marre
Sascha said on September 26, 2002 17:34:
According to www.emi.de it IS still a limited edition.
gyllene_tjej said on September 26, 2002 20:54:
Wow, I am totally satisfied and happy! and about see me, it is not really a pity as we have it already on a single. I just wonder about the EP concept... will they stick to the limited edition thing or will all songs be on one CD?
tevensso (moderator) said on September 26, 2002 20:55:
I just mentioned in Small Talk that I heard a rumor that Sweden still will get the EP, but no other countries.
EugeneChen said on September 27, 2002 00:11:
Looks like this album will be released in Canada! YES!!! On http://www.emimusic.ca, they mention that it will be released in Canada on Tuesday, November 5th, 2002. I really do hope that EMI Canada does some promoting for this album. Canada Loves ROXETTE!
imazombieinthem... said on September 27, 2002 10:21:
Whats the story with “2. It Must Have Been Love (1987)”?? Is that a mistake, most people only know the 1990 version. They do sound different. I can imagine people buying this album based alot on IMHBL 1990 and listening to it and saying “That doesnt sound right!..”
tavo said on September 27, 2002 17:13:
i hate that cover! can they not include a picture of themselves?
u170307 said on September 28, 2002 20:30:
hi all could someone please help me as i don‘t know is the EP going to be droped from the uk version please help someone
Santi said on September 26, 2002 14:50:
Well, at least the heart is not green :)
Looks fine.
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