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Look Sharp! | 
 enlarge | Artist: Roxette
Label: Capitol
Category: Music
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Rating:  36 reviews
Sales Rank: 5524
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 91098
UPC: 077779109821
EAN: 0077779109821
ASIN: B000002UTT
Release Date: October 25, 1990
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| Tracks:
| • | The Look | | • | Dressed for Success | | • | Sleeping Single | | • | Paint | | • | Dance Away - Roxette, Frediksson, Marie | | • | Cry - Roxette, Frediksson, Marie | | • | Chances | | • | Dangerous | | • | Half a Woman, Half a Shadow - Roxette, Fredriksson, Marie | | • | View from a Hill | | • | (I Could Never) Give You Up | | • | Shadow of a Doubt | | • | Listen to Your Heart |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 31 more reviews...
 Roxette Look Sharp review January 18, 2008
Great album. Roxette's first in the US. Had a couple of hits that launched them internationally.
 Sweden's best export since ABBA July 23, 2007
This is maybe the best pop record from the late 80s, containing a whole bunch of hits. Per and Gisele both have good vocals and wrote most all of the lyrics and music. This is very much their work. They do the high-energy pop/rock stuff [my favs] with a lot of vigor and can do slower/ballad stuff with feeling. One of my favorite CDs. The really good songs:
The Look
Dressed for Sucess
Sleeping Single
Paint
Dangerous
I Could Never Give You Up
Listen to Your Heart
A great rock album May 4, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This has been one of my favorites & was very glad to purchase on CD. The music is timeless & is now favorite to another generation of kids. Wonderful.
This is the One March 25, 2007
I grew up in the 80's and 90's when Ace of Base, Snap!, Michael Jackson, Cranberries, Bon Jovi, Roxette and various others were huge.
Back then you couldn't survive as an artist unless you had some real quality music to offer, which today seems somewhat rare.
After the Roxette hype was over I kept listening to Roxette tapes on and off for the next decade or so- until I realized, and I remember being so amazed that almost every song I had on these tapes was a Masterpiece and instead of getting bored from repeated listening I started to love these songs more and more.
So I decided to buy their albums on CDs and have been a fan ever since.
I think all of these songs deserve more then 5 stars, all of them are brilliant!
Just to name a few: "Paint" one of the most beautiful songs I ever heard, "Chances" this is Roxette's fastest song and at the same time I would say one of their top 10, considering that they made way over 100 exceptional songs this is brilliant, "Dance Away" really gets into your head, sexy how Marie sings it, "Shadow Of A Doubt" a prime example of why people love Maries voice!
In my opinion it doesn't come better then Look Sharp!
If I had to choose just one album in the world this would be the One.
Nough said.
 It all has to start somewhere. October 21, 2006
I'm a longtime Roxette fan (had Joyride when I was 10 and wore the tape down to tatters) and then again with Have A Nice Day, which made me a permanent fan and made me look into their full catalogue. This features such classics as - besides the above mentionent imminent Joyride and Have A Nice Day - Crash! Boom! Bang! (excellent), Room Service (very good) and Tourism (excellent), not to mention a number of fantastic compilation CDs. Latest, I turned to this, their first proper album (not counting Pearls Of Passion), and as I expected, this album showed to be below par with their later albums.
The album is very divided actually, between some *really* good songs, and then some *really* bad songs. The good ones include classics The Look, Dressed For Success, Dangerous, and Listen To Your Heart, but also less known tracks like the ballad Cry, and the uptempo Sleeping Single and (I Could Never) Give You Up, that all stand the test of time and still stand out as keepers. Paint is not a brilliant track, but it has qualities that justifies its inclusion on the album.
The rest of the tracks all sound terribly much like dated 80's songs. Shadow Of A Doubt is probably the best of the bunch, but it's not very good, and Dance Away, Chances (this was actually first single!), Half A Woman, Half A Shadow and View From A Hill are either so horrible or so forgettable that they should never have made it anywhere near an album.
So, if you're a completist, you should get this album, and if you only have the compilation Cds, you will even find a couple of good tracks here you probably didn't know. But the album itself is not really good, and if you only go for the good stuff, it's pretty much all included on the recent Roxbox (unfortunately not counting (I Could Never) Give You Up). So no, I won't recommend this CD.
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