ROXETTE: Almost Unreal PROMO CD. 4 songs [from the original Motion Picture Soundtrack Super Mario Bros] Check videos

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ROXETTE Almost Unreal Deleted 1993 UK CD

Roxette Almost Unreal
Label: Capitol Records 7243 8 80676 2 1, EMI United Kingdom
Format: CD, Maxi-Single
Country: Europe
Released: 1993
Genre: Pop, Rock, A.O.R.

TracklistHide Credits?
1 Almost Unreal 3:58
2 The Heart Shaped Sea 4:11
3 Fingertips ’93 3:43  [Recorded By Anders Herrlin, Paulo Junqueiro]  Previously unreleased
4 Almost Unreal (AC Mix) 3:57

Producer Clarence Ofwerman*
Written-By Per Gessle

Trks 1 & 4 from the Album, CD & Cassette ‘Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Super Mario Bros.’
Recorded in Sweden.
Published by Jimmy Fun Music (admin. by EMI-Blackwood Music Inc.).
Produced for Carlos Government Music.
Track 1&3  1993 Track 2  1992 the copyright in this sound recording is owned by EMI Svenska AB.
© 1993 Buena Vista Pictures Distribution, Inc.
© 1993 Allied Filmakers N.V.
© 1993 Nintendo.
Marketed by EMI.
Printed/Made in Holland.
Fingertips ’93 listed as Previously unreleased.
Similar to this release with different Rights Societies (BIEM/MCPS).

Barcode (EAN): 7 24388 06762 1
Matrix / Runout: 880676 2 @ 2
Other (Label Code): LC 0542
Other (Rights Societies): BIEM/STEMRA
Other: 1-1-1-NL

“Almost Unreal” is a pop song performed by Swedish duo Roxette. The song was released in May 1993 and is featured on the soundtrack of Super Mario Bros. (film).
“Almost Unreal” became a summer hit especially in Europe, where it hit Top 10 and Top 20 in many countries, including the UK where it reached #7, and the video received a heavy rotation on music channels. The song proved to be unsuccessful in US where it peaked at #94 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.
The songs inclusion on the Super Mario Bros. sound track angered songwriter Per Gessle as it was originally written for Walt Disneys 1993 fantasy-comedy “Hocus Pocus” starring Bette Midler, but was never used.

Roxette themselves were dismissive about the song, “Not one of our most inspired moments.”, Fredriksson said. While Gessle stated: “I still like the song in a way… but if you wanted to make a parody of Roxette, it would probably sound something like this.” Mike Schiller from Popmatters called the song “awful”; and wrote, “…not only does it sound like corporate pandering, but its probably the most forced smash hit wannabe Roxette ever created.”

“Almost Unreal”
“The Heart Shaped Sea”

Chart (1993) Peak Position
Sweden Single Charts 8
UK Single Charts 7
United States Single Charts 9
German Single Charts 20
Australian Single Charts 17
Swiss Single Charts 15
Norwegian Single Charts 6
Dutch Single Charts 31
Austrian Single Charts 20