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Look Sharp! by Roxette

Look Sharp!

Release Date: 1/1/1988

Recording Date: 1/1988

Tracks: 13

Length: 00:53:12 Hrs

Label: EMI Music Distribution

Type: CD

Genre/Styles:
Adult Contemporary, Euro-Pop, Contemporary Pop/Rock, Sweden, Guitar (Electric), Vocals, Swedish Pop/Rock

Album Tracks (13)

Song Title
Length
1.
The Look
03:57
2.
Dressed for Success
04:09
3.
Sleeping Single
04:38
4.
Paint
03:30
5.
Dance Away
03:25
6.
Cry
05:19
7.
Chances
04:57
8.
Dangerous
03:49
9.
Half a Woman, Half a Shadow
03:35
10.
View from a Hill
03:40
11.
(I Could Never) Give You Up
03:58
12.
Shadow of a Doubt
04:14
13.
Listen to Your Heart
05:29

What the Critics Say

Per Gessle and Marie Fredriksson exploded onto the pop radar screen with Look Sharp!, which spawned four big hits: the bright, shiny "The Look," the punchy, hopeful "Dressed for Success," the A/C-leaning "Dangerous," and the bland, overproduced "Listen to Your Heart." The cuts that weren't released as singles aren't necessarily filler, but they also aren't as strong as many of the cuts that made up Roxette albums that followed, particularly Joyride and Tourism (Songs From Studios, Stages, Hotelrooms & Other Strange Places). The non-releases are nothing memorable, and they don't age well, "Paint" and "Dance Away" in particular being pretty average in terms of production and melody. Only "Chances" and "Shadow of a Doubt" show glimmers of the skills the duo would soon flourish. Gessle and Fredriksson became artists at crafting superb pop melodies and surrounding them with amazing production, so think of this album as basic training. ~ Bryan Buss, Rovi

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