Tourism (album)

Tourism
Studio album with live tracks by Roxette
Released 28 August 1992
Recorded EMI Studios, Stockholm, 1992
Genre Pop
Length 70:39
Label EMI
Producer Clarence Öfwerman
Roxette chronology
Joyride
(1991)		 Tourism
(1992)		 Crash! Boom! Bang!
(1994)
Singles from Tourism
  1. "How Do You Do!"
    Released: 1992
  2. "Queen of Rain"
    Released: 1992
  3. "Fingertips '93"
    Released: 1993
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Entertainment Weekly (B-)[2]
LA Times [3]

Tourism: Songs from Studios, Stages, Hotelrooms & Other Strange Places is the fourth album by Swedish pop duo Roxette. Released on 28 August 1992, it was recorded mostly during their Join The Joyride world tour and is often mistaken for being a live album. In fact it's a mixture of live and studio tracks.

Contents

Album information

Four live tracks were included in the album, "The Look", "It Must Have Been Love", "Things Will Never be the Same" and "Joyride". While "It Must Have Been Love" didn't appear on a Roxette album until their Greatest hits album Don't Bore Us, Get to the Chorus!, the other three songs did appear on Look Sharp! and Joyride albums.

Another three songs were also released before, "So Far Away" was included on their 1986 debut album Pearls of Passion, "Come Back (Before You Leave)" was originally the b-side for the "Joyride" single, while "Silver Blue" originally appeared as a demo version as the b-side for "The Look" single. "Here Comes the Weekend", the album's 11th track, featured some improvisation. As the song was recorded in a hotelroom, a Samsonite suitcase was used instead of drums.

Tourism made a little impact on American charts - it peaked only at #117 on the Billboard 200 album chart but still was able to sell about 273,000 copies there.[4] It did far better elsewhere, especially in Europe, where held #1 position of best selling albums for 4 weeks in September 1992. Upon release, the album went straight to #2 in the UK, staying on the album chart there for 17 weeks and eventually was certified gold by BPI in September 1992 for selling more than 100,000 copies.[5] It also debuted at #1 in Sweden and reached higher regions of album charts all over the world.

Though not matching the previous albums' success, Tourism has sold in excess of 6 million copies worldwide.[6]

Track listings

CD

All songs written and composed by Per Gessle, except "So Far Away" (Lyrics: Gessle & Hasse Huss) & "Queen of Rain" (Music: Gessle & Mats Persson). 

No. Title Studio Length
1. "How Do You Do!"   Halmstad & Stockholm 3:10
2. "Fingertips"   Rio de Janeiro 3:34
3. "The Look"   live in Sydney 5:33
4. "The Heart Shaped Sea"   Los Angeles 4:32
5. "The Rain"   Stockholm 4:49
6. "Keep Me Waiting"   Stockholm 3:15
7. "It Must Have Been Love"   live in Santiago, Chile 7:05
8. "Cinnamon Street"   Stockholm, Copenhagen 5:01
9. "Never Is a Long Time"   live in São Paulo 3:46
10. "Silver Blue"   Stockholm 4:07
11. "Here Comes the Weekend"   hotel room, Buenos Aires 4:11
12. "So Far Away"   hotel room, Buenos Aires 4:03
13. "Come Back (Before You Leave)"   Stockholm, Sweden 4:28
14. "Things Will Never Be the Same"   live in Zürich 3:12
15. "Joyride"   live in Sydney 4:48
16. "Queen of Rain"   Stockholm, Sweden 4:51
Total length:
 70:39

Singles

Charts

Album

Country Position Certification
Australia 5 –
Austria 2 Platinum[8]
Canada 19 Platinum[9]
Finland Gold[10]
Germany 1 3xGold[11]
Hungary 4 –
New Zealand 27 –
Norway 1 –
Sweden 1 Platinum[12]
Switzerland 1 Platinum[13]
UK 2 Gold[5]
USA 117 –

Credits

"So Far Away": Per Gessle & Hasse Huss
"Queen of Rain": Per Gessle & Mats M.P. Persson

Produced & arranged by Clarence Öfwerman

All songs published by Jimmy Fun Music

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ Entertainment Weekly review
  3. ^ Hunt, Dennis (1992-10-01). "LA Times review". LA Times. http://articles.latimes.com/1992-10-04/entertainment/ca-930_1_new-albums. Retrieved 2011-12-23. 
  4. ^ "Ask Billboard section on billboard.com (2005)". Billboard. http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/charts#/news/ask-billboard-1001015119.story. 
  5. ^ a b "BPI certifications". British Phonographic Industry. http://www.bpi.co.uk/certifiedawards/search.aspx. Retrieved 2011-12-23. 
  6. ^ "Expresson's article on Roxette's history (part 3)" (in Swedish). www.archive.org. Archived from the original on 2001-06-05. http://web.archive.org/web/20010605042251/http://www.expressen.se/article.asp?id=63791. Retrieved 2009-09-28. 
  7. ^ "Tourism album 2009 re-release info". www.thelookforroxette.com. http://www.thelookforroxette.com/releases.html?id=2548. 
  8. ^ "Austrian Certifications". IFPI Austria. http://www.ifpi.at/?section=goldplatin. 
  9. ^ "Canadian Certifications". Music Canada. http://www.musiccanada.com/GPSearchResult.aspx?st=&ica=False&sa=roxette&sl=&smt=0&sat=-1&ssb=Artist. 
  10. ^ Kulta- ja platinalevyt IFPI.fi
  11. ^ "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Roxette; '=Tourism')" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie. http://www.musikindustrie.de/gold_platin_datenbank/?action=suche&strTitel=%3DTourism&strInterpret=Roxette&strTtArt=alle&strAwards=checked. 
  12. ^ "Swedish Certifications 1987-1998". IFPI Sweden. http://www.ifpi.se/wp-content/uploads/guld-platina-1987-1998.pdf. 
  13. ^ "Swiss Certifications 1992". Swiss IFPI. http://www.swisscharts.com/awards.asp?year=1992. 

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