Before the year is out, Swedish duo Roxette will commemorate the 30th anniversary of their fifth album, 1994's Crash! Boom! Bang!, with a demos-packed 2CD reissue.

The album, which represented a slight change-up in style for the duo, featured fan favorite singles "Sleeping in My Car," "Fireworks," "Vulnerable" and the title track. This expanded edition will offer 26 bonus tracks: three non-album tracks included on a 2009 expansion of the album, including the underrated 1993 single "Almost Unreal" (heard by American fans on the soundtrack to the ill-received Super Mario Bros. live-action film) and two B-sides. The set's second disc dives into the group's voluminous T&A Studios demo archives, offering a score of early versions recorded between 1990 and 1992. Five of the demos are heard here for the first time, while 10 of them were previously only available on a rare collection of demos released by Per Gessle, one half of the Roxette creative team.

With Roxette, Gessle and the late singer Marie Fredriksson had lit up worldwide pop charts in the late '80s and early '90s thanks to singles like "The Look," "Listen to Your Heart," "It Must Have Been Love" and "Joyride." Crash! Boom! Bang!, however, was meant to live up to its name, offering a slightly harder-edged sound that surprised some of the group's fans. It probably didn't help that the album wouldn't be released in full in America, with EMI opting instead to sell a 10-track version of the album - which featured none of its European singles - exclusively at the fast-food chain McDonald's. Nonetheless, the album was a success around the world, reaching the Top 10 in 18 countries in Europe, South America and Asia; the duo also toured extensively to promote the album, including notable dates in China (a rarity for a Western pop act) and Moscow (only a few years after the collapse of the Soviet Union). Gessle has maintained that Crash! Boom! Bang! is Roxette's best album - and this reissue is the perfect opportunity for fans to put his theory to the test.

The expanded Crash! Boom! Bang! is available December 6, alongside a new 2LP pressing of the original album (one disc  black and white vinyl, packaged in a gatefold sleeve with new liner notes that will also be available in the 2CD set. You can pre-order your copies below; as an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases.

Crash! Boom! Bang! (30th Anniversary Edition) (Parlophone, 2024)

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Disc 1: Original album and bonus tracks

1. Harleys & Indians (Riders in the Sky)
2. Crash! Boom! Bang!
3. Fireworks
4. Run to You
5. Sleeping in My Car
6. Vulnerable
7. The First Girl on the Moon
8. Place Your Love
9. I Love the Sound of Crashing Guitars
10. What's She Like?
11. Do You Wanna Go the Whole Way?
12. Lies
13. I'm Sorry
14. Love is All (Shine Your Light on Me)
15. Go to Sleep
16. Almost Unreal
17. Crazy About You
18. See Me

Tracks 1-15 released as EMI 72438 28727 2 6 (Europe), 1994
Track 16 released on Super Mario Bros. (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - Capitol CDP 07777 89117 2 2, 1993
Track 17 released on "The Look '95" U.K. CD single - EMI CDEM 406, 1995
Track 18 released on "Salvation" U.K. CD single - EMI 72438 87920 0 4, 1999

Disc 2: Demos (* previously unreleased)

1. Harleys & Indians (T&A Demo - 8/10/1993)
2. Crash! Boom! Bang! (T&A Demo - 5/6/1993)
3. Fireworks (T&A Demo - 1/30/1993)
4. Run to You (T&A Demo - 12/12/1992)
5. Sleeping in My Car (Stockholm Demo - 1993)
6. Vulnerable (T&A Demo - 12/28/1990)
7. The First Girl on the Moon (T&A Demo - 12/20/1992) *
8. Place Your Love (T&A Demo - 11/10/1992)
9. I Love the Sound of Crashing Guitars (T&A Demo - 6/27/1993) *
10. What's She Like? (T&A Demo - 1/29/1992) *
11. Do You Wanna Go the Whole Way? (T&A Demo - 3/21/1993)
12. Lies (T&A Demo - 5/14/1993) *
13. I'm Sorry (T&A Demo - 3/18/1993)
14. Love is All (T&A Demo - 12/17/1992)
15. She Doesn't Live Here Anymore (T&A Demo - 12/16/1992) *
16. Almost Unreal (T&A Demo - February 1993)
17. Crazy About You (T&A Demo - 6/20/1993)
18. Sweet Thing (T&A Demo - 12/16/1992)
19. Always Breaking My Heart (T&A Demo - 12/27/1992)
20. Before You Go to Sleep (T&A Demo - 11/23/1992)
21. Blue Umbrella (T&A Demo - 6/15/1993)
22. It Hurts (T&A Demo - 3/7/1993)
23. Gone Gone Gone (T&A Demo - 2/25/1993)

Tracks 1, 3, 8, 11, 13-14, 17-18 and 22-23 released on The Per Gessle Archives (A Lifetime of Songwriting) - Elevator Entertainment 334 43503 (SWE), 2014
Tracks 2 and 16 released on "Run to You" U.K. CD single - EMI CDEMS 360, 1994
Track 4 released on "Crash! Boom! Bang!" U.K. CD single - EMI CDEM 324, 1994
Tracks 5 and 20 released on Bag of Trix (Music from the Roxette Vaults) - Parlophone 5054197085079, 2020
Track 6 released on "Vulnerable" U.K. CD single - EMI CDEM 369, 1995
Track 19 released on The RoxBox (Roxette 86-06) - Capitol 09463 67972 2 9, 2006
Track 21 released on Per Gessle "I Want You to Know" U.K. CD single - Fundamental/EMI 72438 84337 2 3, 1997