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  • Artist: Danny Tenaglia
  • Rating: StarStarStar
  • Release Date: May 19, 1998
  • Total Time: 73:21
  • Genre: Electronica

Review

With a host of productions that push all the right buttons for fans of mainstream house, Tourism sounds like a record made by a DJ who's been in the business for over a decade. By recruiting a wide range of vocalists (Teena Marie, Liz Torres, Jo-Jo America) and relying on a similarly varied list of styles (from garage to house to even industrial of a sort), Tenaglia makes Tourism just as enjoyable as one of his mix sets at Twilo or the Tunnel. ~ John Bush, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track TitleComposersPerformersTime
Baby, Do You Feel Me? Teena Marie, Danny Tenaglia Teena Marie, Danny Tenaglia (6:54)
Elements Danny Tenaglia Danny Tenaglia (7:37)
Music Is the Answer [Dancin' & Prancin'] Danny Tenaglia, Victoria Sharpe Danny Tenaglia, Celeda (9:12)
Turn Me On Liz Torres, Danny Tenaglia Liz Torres, Danny Tenaglia (9:10)
Read My Lips Danny Tenaglia Danny Tenaglia (9:43)
The Better Days Danny Tenaglia Danny Tenaglia, Cevin Fisher (7:19)
Roots [The Sound of the Drum] Danny Tenaglia, Darrell Martin Danny Tenaglia, Darrel Martin (8:17)
Do You Remember Liz Torres, Danny Tenaglia Danny Tenaglia (8:27)
Head Hunter Patrick Codenys, Jean-Luc de Meyer, Daniel Bressanutti, Richard 23 Danny Tenaglia (6:42)

Credits

Eddie Montilla (Keyboards), Kevin McHugh (Executive Producer), Liz Torres (Performer), Konrad Carelli (Editing), Celeda (Performer), Todd Packer (Assistant Engineer), Cevin Fisher (Performer), Danny Tenaglia (Drum Programming), Danny Tenaglia (Producer), Teena Marie (Performer), Darrell Martin (Vocals), Rick Essig (Mastering), Lula (Vocals), Liz Torres (Vocals), Cevin Fisher (Vocals), Blair Wells (Assistant Engineer), Celeda (Vocals), Danny Tenaglia (Keyboards), Danny Tenaglia (Editing), Ben Grassinni (Assistant Engineer), Danny Tenaglia (Vocals), Teena Marie (Vocals), Rob Rives (Engineer), Steve Newman (Design), Steve Newman (Illustrations)
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This article is about the Roxette album. For other uses, see Tourist (disambiguation).
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
Professional reviews
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

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. Some tracks were even recorded in hotel rooms and nightclubs.

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 where 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 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 in there.[1] It did far better elsewhere, especially in Europe, where held #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 album chart there for 17 weeks and eventually was certified gold by BPI in September 1992 for selling more than 100,000 copies.[2] 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.[3]

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). 

# Title Length
1. "How Do You Do!" (Studio: Halmstad & Stockholm, Sweden) 3:10
2. "Fingertips" (Studio: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) 3:34
3. "The Look" (Live: Sydney, Australia) 5:33
4. "The Heart Shaped Sea" (Studio: Los Angeles, USA) 4:32
5. "The Rain" (Studio: Stockholm, Sweden) 4:49
6. "Keep Me Waiting" (Studio: Stockholm, Sweden) 3:15
7. "It Must Have Been Love" (Live: Santiago, Chile/Studio: Los Angeles, USA) 7:05
8. "Cinnamon Street" (Studio: Stockholm, Sweden, Copenhagen, Denmark) 5:01
9. "Never is a Long Time" (Nightclub: São Paulo, Brazil) 3:46
10. "Silver Blue" (Studio: Stockholm, Sweden) 4:07
11. "Here Comes the Weekend" (Hotelroom: Buenos Aires, Argentina) 4:11
12. "So Far Away" (Hotelroom: Buenos Aires, Argentina) 4:03
13. "Come Back (Before You Leave)" (Studio, Stockholm, Sweden) 4:28
14. "Things Will Never Be the Same" (Live: Zürich, Switzerland) 3:12
15. "Joyride" (Live: Sydney, Australia) 4:48
16. "Queen of Rain" (Studio: Stockholm, Sweden) 4:51
70:39



Singles

  • "How Do You Do!"
    1. "How Do You Do!"
    2. "Fading Like a Flower (Every Time You Leave)" (Live)
    3. "Knockin' on Every Door" (BomKrash 12" Remix)
    4. "How Do You Do!" (BomKrash 12" Remix)

Charts

Album

Country Position Certification
Australia 5 unknown
Austria 2 Platinum
Canada 19 Platinum
Germany 1 Platinum
Hungary 4 none
New Zealand 27 none
Norway 1 unknown
Sweden 1 Platinum[5]
Switzerland 2 Platinum
UK 2 Gold[2]
USA 117 none

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 & arranged by Clarence Öfwerman

All songs published by Jimmy Fun Music

References

  1. ^ "Ask Billboard section on billboard.com (2005)". www.billboard.com. http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/charts#/news/ask-billboard-1001015119.story. 
  2. ^ a b "BPI certifications". www.bpi.co.uk. http://www.bpi.co.uk/certifiedawards/search.aspx. 
  3. ^ "Expresson's article on Roxette's history (part 3)" (in Swedish). www.archive.org. http://web.archive.org/web/20010605042251/http://www.expressen.se/article.asp?id=63791. Retrieved 2009-09-28. 
  4. ^ "Tourism album 2009 re-release info". www.thelookforroxette.com. http://www.thelookforroxette.com/releases.html?id=2548. 
  5. ^ "Swedish Certifications 1987-1998". IFPI Sweden. http://www.ifpi.se/wp-content/uploads/guld-platina-1987-1998.pdf. 

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