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Mazie Wingeier
Look Sharp! is the second studio album by Swedish pop rock duo Roxette, released on 21 October 1988 by EMI, two years after their debut Pearls of Passion (1986). It was recorded at EMI Studios in Stockholm and at Trident II Studios in London between March and September 1988. The album was an immediate commercial success in Sweden, debuting at number one and eventually being certified 6 platinum there.
Although commercial success elsewhere was initially modest, the album was the duo's international breakthrough. It went on to be certified platinum or multi-platinum in numerous territories, while four of its singles attained commercial success. In the United States, the album was certified platinum and the singles "The Look" and "Listen to Your Heart" both topped the Billboard Hot 100, while "Dangerous" and "Dressed for Success" reached numbers 2 and 14, respectively, on the same chart.
"Dressed for Success" and "Listen to Your Heart" were released as the album's first two singles in Sweden, with Per Gessle and EMI choosing to highlight Marie Fredriksson as Roxette's lead vocalist.[1] They were immediate hits in Sweden, peaking at numbers two and three, respectively.[2] "Chances" was released as the album's first single in France, Germany and Italy, but it failed to chart.
"The Look" was released as the album's fourth single in January 1989, becoming another top 10 hit in their home country.[2] While studying there, an American exchange student from Minneapolis, Dean Cushman, purchased the album and brought it home, giving a copy of it to his local Top 40 radio station, KDWB 101.3 FM.[3] "The Look" quickly became popular, and the station began distributing the track to their sister radio operations.[4][5] EMI America had previously rejected the duo as unsuitable for the American market, and Roxette did not have a recording contract there.[6]
Look Sharp! was an immediate commercial success in Sweden, selling over 140,000 copies within ten days of release.[17] It spent seven weeks at number one,[2] and was certified platinum in the country for shipments in excess of 100,000 units. In the US, the album was certified platinum on 20 January 1990 by the RIAA for shipments in excess of one million units.[18] As of 2009, it sold 408,000 copies there since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking sales data in May 1991.[19] It peaked at number four in the UK, where it spent over a year on the charts.[20] It was certified platinum by the BPI in December 1990 for sales in excess of 300,000.[21] As of 2001, Look Sharp! had sold over 9 million copies worldwide.[22]
The Look is the seventh album by American R&B group Shalamar, released in 1983 on the SOLAR label. It is the last Shalamar album to feature the classic line-up of Jeffrey Daniel, Howard Hewett and Jody Watley, as both Daniel and Watley would leave the group shortly before its release. The album features the Grammy nominated hit single "Dead Giveaway".
Departing from his recent output on Afghanistan, this album is full of wry musings about the ordinary stuff and the world we live in. The recording offers a nice blend of mirth, meaning and melody. It would fit well in your kitchen.
'We're Starting to Look Like Each Other' is 10 songs, tracking in at 36 minutes and 40 seconds, and is littered with an extremely wide variety of influences. The genres range from songs that are electric guitar driven, acoustic punk adjacent, all the way to tastefully sprinkled in folk leaning ballads. When a project is this eclectic I can only imagine how hard it must be to tie all of your influences into a presentable bow, and I feel like hey, nothing did this to near perfection.
I've been a huge fan of folk music lately, and especially of albums dropped in the right season, and songs like "Hitchhiking" and "Flora" could not be more timely in their release. There are a lot of standout tracks as we travel onwards through the mountains of this album like "Low Spirited Funeral" and "Chamomile" along with what I mentioned before, but the last song "Goodbye" really drives it all home. It is an utter acceptance of the finality of a relationship and this project, and the overwhelming sadness and lust for what could have been is palpable.
Starting this album, I wasn't sure if it would live up to the hype that Will set for it. Fast forward to the end, it may just be one of my favorite projects of the year. I listened while I was driving through Cuyahoga Valley National Park, and I think I accidentally found the recipe for an optimal listen.
I've lived in El Paso all but 10 years of my life and I've been an eastsider that whole time. I grew up in Cielo Vista so I know that part of town like the back of my hand. Album Park, which the City insists on calling Eastwood Park even though no one else does, is a gorgeous swath of green grass and trees in our otherwise desert landscape but when it rains, a huge lake forms. This is not a bad thing because it keeps that part of the park really lush during the hot summer but it does have a drawback. It is really, really gross.
The lake isn't fed by fresh water so when it starts evaporating, it starts smelling because the water is stagnant. It is also full of gross things like dog poop because people don't clean up after themselves in the park, fertilizers and pesticides that are used by the City, and who knows what else. It is also, as it turns out, crawling with some nightmarishly creepy tapdpole shrimp. If this video doesn't keep you out the water in Album Park I don't know what will.
I mean what the heck? There isn't enough money in the world for me to get into the water at Album if those things are in there. They are called triops longicaudus and they only terrify those of us who live in the desert. They need short-lived water pools to survive which means they love a water source like the lake at Album Park. I don't think you can eat them but for real, who would be brave enough to look at those things long enough to harvest them?
It was Mick Jagger who said anything worth doing is worth over-doing. I would like to add that it is also worth redoing and revisiting. So with my strong love of music and exploring London I went out to re-visit the locations of some of the most famous album covers in music history and see just how they look today. Some were not that easy to find... but others you could not miss.
Thought I would start with likely the most famous of all album covers, Abbey Road. Taken on the verge of the Beatles break-up this album cover was shot not far from the recording studio of the same name and is properly one of the most recognizable album covers of all time. Almost 50 years later this crosswalk today still has thousands of people coming annually and holding up traffic as they try and recreate the famous road crossing. I know, I was one of them. The idea for the cover was Paul McCartney's which he scribbled on a piece of paper. Story has it that photographer Ian Macmillan had ten minutes to climb a stepladder while a policeman stopped traffic and at approximately 11.30AM on 8 August 1969 music history was made.
It was 1978, the world famous Tower Bridge in the background where Wings shot the cover of London Town their 6th album. Wings recorded 7 albums in total before McCartney used those wings and flew off and went solo. In 2016 McCartney was confirmed as U.K.'s Most Successful Albums Act Of All Time as his albums with the Beatles, Wings and as a solo artist sold more albums than any other artist in history. 22 Number 1 Albums. Very impressive Sir Paul.
Today, Battersea Power Station, Europe's largest brick building is now undergoing a massive overhaul and when completed it will house over 3,400 homes as well as shops, restaurants, hotels, parkland and new home to Apple's European Headquarters.
The 1971 cover photo was taken at the gates of Queen Mary's Garden in Regent Park near where Carly was recording the album Anticipation. A great place to visit in the summer when the thousands of roses are in bloom. That song got an added fame boost after being used for a very popular Heinz Ketchup commercial, if you are old enough to remember, which clearly I am. The photograph was taken by her brother, Peter Simon.
Man in the background trying to "anticipate" when I might be done making a fool out of myself. Or Carly anticipating when this woman will get out of her shot (loving the handbag and shades), this woman is my spirit animal.
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