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First Swedish pressing with the 881104 date in the matrix. Comes with printed innersleeve

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 And 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.

Track list:
1. The Look
2. Dressed For Success
3. Sleeping Single
4. Paint
5. Dance Away
6. Cry
7. Chances
8. Dangerous
9. Half A Woman, Half A Shadow
10. View From A Hill
11. Shadow Of A Doubt
12. Listen To Your Heart