Track Listing

1. Crush On You
2. Wish I Could Fly
3. You Can't Put Your Arms Around What's Already Gone
4. Waiting For The Rain
5. Anyone
6. It Will Take A Long Long Time
7. 7 Twenty 7
8. I Was So Lucky
9. Stars
10. Salvation
11. Pay The Price
12. Cooper
13. Staring At The Ground
14. Beautiful

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #20827 in Music
• Released on: 1999-03-29
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
The relatively muted public response to Roxette's first new album in more than three years offered some faint hope that the Swedish duo's iron grip on the imagination of European radio stations might be coming loose. While Roxette had never shied from either irritating fatuity or crass populism--they had the honesty, in at least both a chorus and the title of a hits compilation, to announce "Don't bore us / get to the chorus"--there was possibly a little too much of both on Have A Nice Day, from the title on downward. The single, "Wish I Could Fly," suggested that Roxette's propensity for the annoyingly pervasive hook hadn't deserted them entirely, but it wasn't keeping good company on an otherwise dismal album. --Andrew Mueller

Customer Reviews

Roxette at their best
It's 2008 and my copy of this album has been gathering dust at the back of a cupboard but I've just played it again and wow, how could I have forgotten how brilliant this album is!! OK, there are some dodgy tracks but there are absolute classics here including the brilliant opener Crush On You, Waiting For The Rain, Stars and Beautiful Things but what about Cooper??? No-one here has picked this one out as a special song but I think it's a masterpiece. Listen to the lyrics, the haunting chorus and the funereal death bell and it sends shivers down your spine, it's really dark which is a huge contrast to what Roxette normally do (and I'm not talking about the sad/heartbreak stuff)! Does anyone know what I mean?

I must just add that Stars is just the best pop song ever, absolute genius! OK, I'm not over keen on the kids bit but I just can't sit still when I'm listening to it!

If anyone out there fancies a bit of 90's pop and are debating whether to buy this album then I'd say yes, definately and don't forget to listen out for Cooper!!

Nice Try
Roxettes' 6th studio album and their 1st since crash boom bang in 1994 saw them take a different route.
in 1996 the single 'June Afternoon' was released.it only made NO.52 and was the last song they releases for 3 years while they had kids,solo albums and a break.
1999 and Roxette return with a new single 'Wish I Could Fly' it became their biggest U.K hit for 6 years making NO.11.Then came the album release which alot of people had high hopes for.All of Roxettes' previous albums had gone top 5.
NO.28 was the albums peak position and it fell out of the top 75 within 3 weeks.6 months later 'Stars' was released as a U.K single after 'Anyone' was cancelled 'Stars' made NO.56 and is their last hit to date in the U.K after later singles didn't chart at all.
The albums failure isn't a reflection on the album itself.Of the tracks on here only 1 or 2 let it down.The highlight is the first single which is one of their best songs to date.
It might have been a muted comeback for Roxette but this album has alot of good songs and is worth finding a copy even if it's just for 'Wish I Could Fly' 'Stars' and 'Beautiful Things' One of the best closing tracks for an album ever.

My dog's an alligator...
Quite why this album got such an underwhelming public response I'm not entirely sure. Roxette will never win any prizes for lyrical sophistication (the quote above is sure and certain proof of that...) but they have the pop-rock/power ballad formula honed to perfection, and it's hard to listen to one of their albums without feeling uplifted by the end. Perhaps it's just that their era was passing; the critics of 1999 wanted their songwriters to be serious musos in the Thom Yorke/Chris Martin vein, and Roxette will never be that.

So the critical non-event of "Have a Nice Day" actually missed the fact that, as well as delivering some killer pieces of power pop, the band showed some real sparks of originality in this album. Per Gessle's experimentation with dance beats, either layered alongside the crashing guitars as in the barmy but addictive opener "Crush on You", or driving the entire song as in the brilliant, euphoric "Stars", lends an energy to this album - and even, dare I say it, a sophistication - which makes it compulsive listening. Marie Fredrickson's mighty voice lends itself as well to uplifting dance choruses as it does to heart-rending power ballads, and there are plenty of both (the most outstanding of the latter being the sublime "Anyone"). "Wish I Could Fly" makes for a classic single, somewhere between ballad and anthem, with a dream-like chorus. "Beautiful Things", too, is a treasure of a closing track, evoking a dark and anguished mood to counterbalance the euphoria preceding it. These gems aside, the rest of the songs don't quite match up to the standard reached on "Crash! Boom! Bang!" but they hold their ground favourably with the rest of the Roxette back catalogue.

In short, for me this is one of Roxette's best albums and one of the most enjoyable pieces of sing-along, heart-centred pop-rock in my CD collection. It's still on regular rotation 5 years after I first acquired it.