Pearls of Passion [Extra tracks] [Import]

Product Description
1997 EMI reissue of their '86 debut with eight bonus tracks:'Pearls Of Passion', 'It Must Have Been Love (Christmas For The Broken-Hearted)', 'Turn To Me', 'Neverending Love' (Tits& Ass Demo 1986), 'Secrets That She Keeps' (Tits & Ass Demo 1986), 'I Call Your Name' (Montezuma Demo 1986), 'Neverend- ing Love' (Frank Mono - Mix 1987) and 'I Call Your Name' (Frank Mono - Mix 1987). 20 tracks total.

Tracks:

Soul Deep
Secrets That She Keeps
Goodbye To You
I Call Your Name
Surrender
Voices
Never Ending Love
Call Of The Wild
Joy Of A Toy
From One Heart To Another
Like Lovers Do
So Far Away
Pearls Of Passion
It Must Have Been Love (Christmas For The Broken-H
Turn To Me
Never Ending Love (Tits And Ass Demo 1986)
Secrets That She Keeps (Tits And Ass Demo 1986)
I Call Your Name (Montezuma Demo, 1986)
Never Ending Love (Frank Mono 7' Mix 1987)
I Call Your Name (Frank Mono 7' Mix, 1987)

Album Description

1997 EMI reissue of their '86 debut with eight bonus tracks:'Pearls Of Passion', 'It Must Have Been Love (Christmas For The Broken-Hearted)', 'Turn To Me', 'Neverending Love' (Tits& Ass Demo 1986), 'Secrets That She Keeps' (Tits & Ass Demo 1986), 'I Call Your Name' (Montezuma Demo 1986), 'Neverend- ing Love' (Frank Mono - Mix 1987) and 'I Call Your Name' (Frank Mono - Mix 1987). 20 tracks total.

Album Details

Reissue featuring Eight Bonus Tracks. Includes Soul DEEP, Secrets that She Keeps, Goodbye to You, I Call Your Name, Voices, Neverending Love, Call of the Wild, Joy of a Toy, from One Heart, Like Lovers Do, So Far Away, Pearls of Passion, it Must have Be.

Customer Reviews:

Great 80's pop music.......2006-08-26

Over the years Roxette has created some of the most melodic, catchy, and rockin' pop tunes around. This CD is a genuine gem for not only their fans, but anyone who likes 80's music. The extra tracks are all good, with the acoustic demo of "I call your name" being a real standout. The inclusion of "It must have been love" helps give this CD some weight, as the only thing lacking from the original album was a bonafide hit. But make no mistake about it, this is pure Roxette, a little unrefined and a little unpolished, but still GREAT!

Collectors Album or 80s fan album.......2006-06-08

I have to say the reason I bought this is for collection purposes more than anything and that is what it proved to be really in the end. I guess I was curious at first but its not one of their best efforts. Although there are still some good ones on here and its worth a listen but its not one I listen to lots. But for classic 80s fans go for it.
Soul Deep - well its already on the Joyride album so nothing new
Secrets that she keeps - I really like this one actually for the mixture of Per and Marie. I think its great when they swap it around a bit like Silver Blue.
Goodbye to You - 80s classic. Title says it all
I Call Your Name - funky beat. Ok song.
Surrender - Now this is one of my favourites on the album. It has a sweeping epic quality to it and a sense of magic and mystery. I like it when Per sings. He sounds like a pixie. ha ha.
Voices - This is another good track. Sweeping and epic with Marie and Per both singing, swapping over. I like the imagery. It almost has a warsong quality to it with all its talk of crossing the borderline and "hunters of men". Good track.
Neverending Love - funky 80s discolike track. What more can I say. Perhaps a precursor to Look Sharp album although the whole album is. It has a similar quality really now that I come to think of it.
Call of the Wild - Cool name for a track. Per singing. Another cool epic sounding tune. Cool imagery. Romantic. Obsessive almost. Pixie Per.
Joy of A Toy - Revisiting these tracks they are better than I thought actually. This is not as bad as I thougt it was.
From One Heart To Another - A schmoozy duet. Per sings a lot on this album doesn't he.
Like Lovers Do - Just as I am about to trash the song I hear it as if for the first time and it doesn't sound as bad as I thought it did. Every Roxette album grows on you I think. Its just initially that shock at the difference from their other albums. You rue it at first then come to love it.
So Far Away - also found on the Tourism album. A different version. Not sure which I like better. Toursim is more acoustic, this is more synthesised which again gives it more of an epic quality.
Pearls of Passion - The title track. I think I quite like this one too. Good old Per eh. "A banquet of believers". Nostalgic.
It Must Have Been Love - Well there you can buy this album for this song if you want. If you don't know Roxette so well.
Turn To Me - Kind of a bit cheesey - but catchy number. Classic 80s.
The rest are all remakes, rerecordings and pretty boring. Don't know why they bothered so much with 3 versions of Neverending Love it gets a bit tedious. Perhaps could have put some later stuff on or unplugged stuff or something.
Well the album is better than I thought - definitely a precursor to Look Sharp. Similar funky, synth based, style but also has some nice epic like songs on it. Per is a pixie. Make it 4.5 stars for me which rounds up to 5.

mettle of a classic .......2005-11-01

1.Soul Deep 2.5/5
A rather weak performance for Roxettes high standart

2.Secrets That She Keeps 4.3/5
Actually very good but the ending is very unfitting when Marie sings "the love of you and me" doesnt sound right, i expect better from a genius like Per

3.Goodbye To You 5+/5
Very nice melody, especially enjoy Maries voice in this
one

4.I Call Your Name 3.4/5
hmm

5.Surrender 5/5
great song easily a classic

6.Voices 3.4/5
to repetetive

7.Never Ending Love 4/5
another good one

8.Call Of The Wild 5/5
Marie gets to show off her voice in this one once again quite different from the other songs

9.Joy Of A Toy 4.2/5
Typical Rox pop

10. From One Heart To Another 5+/5
Beautiful duet probably the best Song alongwith "It Must Have Been Love"

11. Like Lovers Do 4.7/5
Another top notch really love the melody

12. So Far Away 3.8/5
Not bad when i want to listen to something quite otherwise its a bit boring definetly not a song to start your day with

13.Pearls Of Passion 4.2/5
very good but weak start

14. It Must Have Been Love 5+/5
whats there to say? The "Pretty Women" version is somewhat supirior over this one

Roxette's best by far and an 80s classic.......2005-09-19

Let's get to the point; this is an outstanding 80s pop album, comfortably exceeding all of Roxette's later work. It has the Roxette trademarks of soaring tunes, harmonies and rhythm. However, what marks it out are the excellent 80s production values which make the whole album soft on the ear by ensuring each track receives deft strokes of the engineer's brush. It therefore has great subtlety (which is often lacking on later Roxette works) which help each track to provide hidden depths with repeated listening. The songwriting is consistently good (a Roxette trait if ever there was one) - Joy of a Toy, Neverending Love and I Call Your Name are all great rock/pop tracks. The standout is Call of the Wild which has such emotional depth that it ranks with It Must Have Been Love (an extra on the album).

It's hard to believe some of the other reviewers' comments about some poor songwriting and implications of superficiality (bubblegum indeed...). Such accusations are a mile wide of the mark. This is a very serious pop album that ranks alongside the best works of the 80s whilst remaining individual and providing high quality from start to finish.

If you are a Roxette fan you should definitely buy this. If you are an 80s pop fan then you have even more reason. It won't let you down.

THIS ALBUM ROX!!!.......2002-03-04

I have listened this album over and over and I absolutely LOVE IT... It has two of my favorite roxette songs on it, 'Neverending Love' and the title track, 'Pearls of Passion' are to die for... I also like the songs 'Soul Deep' and 'Secrets That She Keeps'...