(Do You Get) Excited? (T&A Demo - Aug 19, 1989 - Conversation With Sven Lindström)

Do you get excited from the Joyride album?
Yeah, this is an interesting demo from uh, August in 1989
Yeah
When you were... When you were starting to
Gather material for... For the Joyride recording

Yeah, I mean we... We were really... We did really produce demos, MP

And me at the Tits'n'Ass studio. We worked really, really hard
To arrange the songs as you can hear on this demo. It... You could
Actually hear that this is almost the same as the original version
As the... As the Roxette version, I mean. So it's... It's like um
You know this is... This is a pretty advanced song. Mats has co-
Wrote it and uh... It's got lots of key changes and uh... I don'
T know how we could've made it without arranging it like this. It'
S like uh... It was... I don't know, we... Sometimes we spend days and
Days on just one song and uh... This is... I think this is one of them
You know, it took... It took a long time to do. As you can hear

And Mats you said uh... That you arrived at this
Arrangement as basically the only way to... To do the song?
Yeah, I think so. It's... It's uh... It's kind of uh...
Yes, one door opening for the song and... And we
Have to just continue to... To achieve that, actually
Mm, and...
We both know how it... This is the sound we have to
Continue with all the key changes and all that
And uh... As you said, it's quite sophisticated uh... Arrangement

That... I mean for a demo and am I right to say that by this
Time you had started to take back the Roxette sound into
The demos and then... So it was like you were mirroring the
Studio version, the success sound of Roxette even in your demos
In a way, yes uh... I think that was the way we or I wanted to go
I wanted to use modern technology into the songwriting, into the demo
Recordings as well. But oh... You know, there's a guitar riff in this

Song that was like really inspired by Led Zeppelin and the reason for
That is that at the time we were recording this with Roxette, both
Clarence and me, we were reading Hammer of the Gods, this Led
Zeppelin biography. So we were really listening to lots of Led
Zeppelin music in the studio. And Jonas of course who played
The guitars on the Roxette version, he's... He's like the biggest
Led Zeppelin fan there is. So all those little details you know
Takes the songs into different directions. Things that happen

To you in your daily life. Like I said earlier, you can hear that
This song has something special from... From uh... Even from... From
Listening to the demo. And of course Marie, when Marie started
To sing it, it all made sense and the lyric was written for Marie
And the title is... Is really... A really cool title when it comes
From a girl. So um... It's one of my favorite Roxette tracks ever