Tourism (album)

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This article is about the Roxette album. For other uses, see Tourist (disambiguation).
Tourism
Tourism cover
Studio album by Roxette
Released 28 August 1992
Recorded EMI Studios, Stockholm, 1992
Genre Pop
Label EMI
Producer Clarence Öfwerman
Professional reviews
Roxette chronology
Joyride
(1991)		 Tourism
(1992)		 Crash! Boom! Bang!
(1994)

Tourism: Songs from Studios, Stages, Hotelrooms & Other Strange Places is the Swedish pop duo Roxette's fourth album, released on 28 August 1992. It was recorded during their Joyride world tour and is a mixture of live and studio tracks. Some tracks were even recorded in famous hotel rooms, using a suitcase instead of drums.

"How Do You Do!", "Queen of Rain" and "Fingertips" were released as singles.

"The Look" first appeared on the group's 1988 album Look Sharp!.

The original recording of "It Must Have Been Love" was released as a single in both 1987 and 1990.

The original recording of "So Far Away" was included on the 1986 album Pearls of Passion.

"Things Will Never Be The Same" and "Joyride" are originally from the 1991 album Joyride.

A slightly different version of "Cinnamon Street" appeared on the Super Mario Bros. movie soundtrack.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

  1. "How Do You Do!" (Studio: Halmstad & Stockholm, Sweden)
  2. "Fingertips" (Studio: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
  3. "The Look" (Live: Sydney, Australia)
  4. "The Heart Shaped Sea" (Studio: Los Angeles, USA)
  5. "The Rain" (Studio: Stockholm, Sweden)
  6. "Keep Me Waiting" (Studio: Stockholm, Sweden)
  7. "It Must Have Been Love" (Live: Santiago, Chile/Studio: Los Angeles, USA)
  8. "Cinnamon Street" (Studio: Stockholm, Sweden, Copenhagen, Denmark)
  9. "Never Is A Long Time" (Nightclub: São Paulo, Brazil)
  10. "Silver Blue" (Studio: Stockholm, Sweden)
  11. "Here Comes The Weekend" (Hotelroom: Buenos Aires, Argentina)
  12. "So Far Away" (Hotelroom: Buenos Aires, Argentina)
  13. "Come Back (Before You Leave)"(Studio, Stockholm, Sweden)
  14. "Things Will Never Be The Same" (Live: Zürich, Switzerland)
  15. "Joyride" (Live: Sydney, Australia)
  16. "Queen of Rain" (Studio: Stockholm, Sweden)

[edit] Singles

  • How Do You Do!
    1. How Do You Do!
    2. Fading Like A Flower (Every Time You Leave) (Live)
    3. Knockin' on Every Door (BomKrash 12" Remix)
    4. How Do You Do! (BomKrash 12" Remix)
  • Fingertips '93
    1. Fingertips '93
    2. Dressed For Success (Live)
    3. Hotblooded (Live)
    4. The Voice

[edit] Charts

Album

Country Position (weeks at top) Certification
Australia 5 unknown
Austria 2 Platinum
Canada 19 Platinum
Germany 1 (5) Platinum
New Zealand 27 none
Norway 1 (2) unknown
Sweden 1 (4) Platinum
Switzerland 2 Platinum
UK 2 Gold
USA 117 none

[edit] Credits

"So Far Away": Per Gessle & Hasse Huss
  • Music — Per Gessle, except for the following:
"Queen Of Rain": Per Gessle & Mats M.P. Persson

Produced & arranged by Clarence Öfwerman

All songs published by Jimmy Fun Music