Track Listing

1. How Do You Do It
2. Fingertips
3. Look
4. Heart Shaped Sea
5. Rain
6. Keep Me Waiting
7. It Must Have Been Love
8. Cinnamon Street
9. Never Is A Long Time
10. Silver Blue
11. Here Comes The Weekend
12. So Far Away
13. Come Back (Before You Leave)
14. Things Will Never Be The Same
15. Joyride
16. Queen Of Rain

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #45493 in Music
• Released on: 1992-09-01
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Live

Customer Reviews

Some greatness - some filler...
Forget the pointless live versions of the hits on here (on which, just to be even more annoying, the applause fades out during the intro of the following tracks)...some of the songs on here are Roxette's very best.

"Cinnamon Street" is probably their best 'adult' pop song with a great feel, crunchy guitar riffs and a hauntingly catchy chorus; "Queen of Rain" remains one of their best ballads ever & deserved to be a number 1 single; "The Heart Shaped Sea" is simply beautiful and full of pedal steel and acoustic guitar - unlike anything they've recorded before or since; "The Rain" & "Keep Me Waiting" are excellent pop songs that are instantly memorable and yet still contain some melancholy feeling (must be something about coming from Scandinavia...check out A-Ha's last few stunning albums too!); the only real disappointment on here is the hopeless single (and opening track) "How Do You Do" which is just awful.

Great to see the original B-Side of "The Look" on here in a slightly re-recorded version ("Silver Blue") and overall this album is great entertainment. If you're looking for the VERY best of Roxette though, check out their 2001 CD "Room Service" - a return to form and chock-full of great pop songs.

Underrated album for an underrated band
Few groups have been sneered at as much as Roxette. Even at their late eighties/ early nineties peak they were always too adult for the kids and too juvenile for adults. However they did give us this, a touring album consisting of songs recorded while on tour which, along with the greatest hits album `Don't Bore Us Get To The Chorus` stands as their greatest work. What may surprise some listeners is how grown up and mellow the music is compared to their usual power pop. Highlights are the ballad `The Heart Shaped Sea`, the lilting nostalgia of `Cinnamon Street` and a fine alternative version of `Things Will Never Be The Same Again` from the `Joyride` album. The disapointment is three pointless live version of their biggest hits which can only be there to make the album more commercial plus the mediocre bubblegum of the single `How Do You Do`. These flaws aside, `Tourism` indicates the direction Roxette could have taken. Instead, as their popularity faded, they chose to become even more juvenile.