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This is the 1990 Swedish pressing with 5 bonus tracks.
Cd as new, booklet has tab dents as shown. 12page booklet with photos, lyrics (to the original 12 tracks) and new album notes from Per (in Swedish)
The final album from Gyllene Tider, this was their final album. 1986 would begin a new chapter in Per Gessle's career when Roxette was formed.
This album, recorded between July and December 1983.
Notable is the backing vocalist on 3 tracks - Marie Fredriksson
All lead vocals by Per Gessle
The Heartland Café is an album released by Swedish pop group Gyllene Tider on 17 February 1984. The group's first recorded foray into the English language, The Heartland Café was the second album to feature vocalist Marie Fredriksson singing back-up and proved to be a precursor to the Swedish super-duo Roxette, which consists of Fredriksson and Gyllene Tider's lead singer, Per Gessle. The album peaked at No. 18 on the Swedish albums chart.
Planning and recording
Planning for The Heartland Café began after Gessle had released and publicized a solo album. It also followed a hiatus of sorts for the band. In liner notes written for a re-issue of the album in 1990, Gessle wrote, "Rehearsals were very sporadic, we almost didn't hang out at all, we were very sick of each other after many intense years."
In preparing to reassemble for an album, the members decided to step into English-language rock. Released by EMI Records, The Heartland Café was made in part to satisfy an interest expressed by label affiliate U.S. Capitol Records in the band due to its popularity in Sweden and its catchy pop/rock sound.
According to Gessle, preliminary demo recording and composition occurred in the band's native Halmstad, and the band recorded the album itself in Stockholm, finishing near Christmas 1983.
The release
EMI released The Heartland Café in early 1984. Despite what Gessle claimed was lacklustre interest on the part of EMI itself, U.S. Capitol took six of the 11 tracks from the album and combined them on to an extended-play (EP) record (Mini-album) in the United States under the abridged title Heartland. In preparing for international release, Capitol requested that the members come up with a less indigenous name Gyllene Tider is Swedish for "golden age". They decided on the title of a 1975 Dr. Feelgood song, "Roxette".
As a result, many Roxette fans consider Heartland the first true Roxette release even though it was not full-length and did not feature Fredriksson and Gessle up front. It would be another two and a half years before Roxette in its final form would release a full-length album, 1986's Pearls of Passion.
"Heartland"
"Run Run Run"
"Break Another Heart"
"Teaser Japanese"
"Another Place, Another Time"
"Demon Emptiness"
"Dreaming"
"When Loves on the Phone (You Just Have to Answer)"
"Can You Touch Me?"
"Even If It Hurts (It's Alright)"
"Heartland Café"
United States release ("Heartland" under the name of Roxette)
"Teaser Japanese"
"Run Run Run"
"Break Another Heart"
"Dreaming"
"When Loves on the Phone (You Just Have to Answer)"
"Another Place, Another Time"
Additional tracks on the 1990 CD re-issue (These songs were recorded in the same sessions as the others but not included on the original album.)
"Kiss From a Stranger"
"Young Girl"
"Anytime"
"Mr. Twilight"
"Rock On" (re-make of 1973 David Essex)
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