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Tourism: Songs from Studios, Stages, Hotelrooms, and 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 is a mixture of live and studio tracks.

Album information

Four live tracks were included on 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.

Another three songs were also released before, original version of "So Far Away" was included on their 1986 debut album Pearls of Passion, "Come Back (Before You Leave)" was originally the B-side of the "Joyride" single, while a demo version of "Silver Blue" appeared as the B-side of "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 at #117 on the Billboard 200 albums chart but was still able to sell about 273,000 copies there.[4] It did far better elsewhere, especially in Europe, where it held the #1 position of best-selling albums for 4 weeks in September 1992.[citation needed] Upon release, the album went straight to #2 in the UK, staying on the albums chart there for 17 weeks and was eventually 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

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

No.TitleStudioLength
1."How Do You Do!"Halmstad & Stockholm3:09
2."Fingertips" (original version)Rio de Janeiro3:22
3."The Look" (live version)Live in Sydney5:34
4."The Heart Shaped Sea"Los Angeles4:31
5."The Rain"Stockholm4:49
6."Keep Me Waiting"Stockholm3:12
7."It Must Have Been Love" (live & country version)Santiago, Chile-Ocean Way, L.A.7:08
8."Cinnamon Street" (original version)Stockholm, Copenhagen5:04
9."Never Is a Long Time" (live version)Live in São Paulo3:44
10."Silver Blue"Stockholm4:05
11."Here Comes the Weekend" (live acoustic version)Hotelroom 603, Alvear Palace Hotel, Buenos Aires, Argentina4:11
12."So Far Away" (live acoustic version)Hotelroom 603, Alvear Palace Hotel, Buenos Aires, Argentina4:02
13."Come Back (Before You Leave)"Stockholm, Sweden4:30
14."Things Will Never Be the Same" (live version)Live in Zürich3:22
15."Joyride" (live version)Live in Sydney4:50
16."Queen of Rain" (original version)Stockholm, Sweden4:49
Total length:1:10:22
2009 remastered release – CD bonus tracks[7]
No.TitleLength
17."Fingertips '93" 
18."2 Cinnamon Street" 
2009 remastered release – iTunes only bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
16."Fading Like a Flower (Every Time You Leave)" (live) 
17."Paint" (live) 
18."It Must Have Been Love" (live) 
19."Dressed for Success" (live) 
20."Hotblooded" (live) 

Singles

Charts

Album
Country Position Certification
Australia 5 –
Austria 2 Platinum[8]
Canada 19 Platinum[9]
Finland Gold[10]
Germany 1 3× Gold[11]
Hungary 4 –
New Zealand 27 –
Norway 1 –
Spanin[12] 5 Platinum[13]
Sweden 1 Platinum[14]
Switzerland 1 Platinum[15]
UK 2 Gold[5]
USA 117 –

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 and arranged by Clarence Öfwerman

All songs published by Jimmy Fun Music

Personnel

  • Per Gessle - Vocals, guitar & Harmonica
  • Marie Fredriksson - Vocals & piano
  • Clarence Öfwerman - Keyboards, programming & piano
  • Anders Herrlin - Bass & programming
  • Jonas Isacsson - Guitar & mandolin
  • M.P. Persson - Guitar
  • Pelle Alsing - Drums, percussion & Samsonite suitcase
  • Staffan Öfwerman - Backing vocals & percussion
  • Vicki Benckert - Backing vocals, percussion & accordion
  • Mia Lindgren - Backing vocals
  • Alar Suurna - Tambourine & maracas
  • Greg Leisz - Pedal steel guitar
  • Bo Eriksson - Oboe

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ Entertainment Weekly review
  3. ^ Hunt, Dennis (1992-10-04). "In Brief (Roxette, Tourism)". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2011-12-23.
  4. ^ "Ask Billboard section on billboard.com (2005)". Billboard.
  5. ^ a b "BPI certifications". British Phonographic Industry. 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. Retrieved 2009-09-28.
  7. ^ "Tourism album 2009 re-release info". www.thelookforroxette.com.
  8. ^ "Austrian Certifications". IFPI Austria.
  9. ^ "Canadian Certifications". Music Canada.
  10. ^ Kulta- ja platinalevyt IFPI.fi
  11. ^ "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Roxette; '=Tourism')" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie.
  12. ^ Fernando Salaverri (September 2005). Sólo éxitos: año a año, 1959–2002 (1st ed.). Spain: Fundación Autor-SGAE. ISBN 84-8048-639-2.
  13. ^ "Solo Exitos 1959–2002 Ano A Ano: Certificados 1991–1995". Solo Exitos 1959–2002 Ano A Ano.
  14. ^ "Swedish Certifications 1987-1998" (PDF). IFPI Sweden.
  15. ^ "Swiss Certifications 1992". Swiss IFPI.
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