Intellivision
"Set My Heart On Fire"
Recorded and written by Roger Gunnarsson and Thomas Johansson in 2006 at Studio Mindbender, Halmstad

After the Intellivision album back in 2005 me and Thomas started writing on new songs rightaway, planning for a second album or at least a new EP. Those songs were never released but some of them later surfaced rewritten for other projects (such as Leaderboard).
Here's one no one heard though. We usually used a weird voice pitch processor for the vocals on the Intellivision tracks, and same thing here, but the lead vox were dubbed by Tua Sandman (of Happy Birthdays and Nixon fame!) on this track.
Take notice of the bridge melody (around 0.43) and the resemblance of the hook melody from "Rollercoaster" by Dolly Style (Melodifestivalen 2016)!!


SET MY HEART ON FIRE
Words and Music: Roger Gunnarsson & Thomas Johansson

I saw you standing in the corner where I used to meet you every night
So many memories of us to keep, so many reasons to know why

Why did we go insane?
How come you don't want to see my face anymore
I'm living on my own
I'm not alone, but I still need your company more
More and more and more and more

Set my heart on fire
Take me in your arms and bring me home
I don't want to know what's on your mind
and as long as you're not gone I will be home
You left me in the rain, on fire
Leave me in  the rain, desire
Love me once again

Why did we go insane?
How come you don't want to see my face anymore
I'm living on my own
I'm not alone, but I still need your company more
More and more and more and more

Set my heart on fire
Take me in your arms and bring me home
I don't want to know what's on your mind
and as long as you're not gone I will be home
You left me in the rain, on fire
Leave me in  the rain, desire
Love me once again

Set My Heart On Fire [2006]

Intellivision
"Sleepwalk"
Written and recorded by Roger Gunnarsson and Thomas Johansson in 2005 at Studio Mindbender, Halmstad

The Intellivision album I did with Thomas in 2003-2004 is definitely among the things I've enjoyed the most making. Every bit of it was fun. From the silly ideas and laughing about it in the studio to the making of 80s-ish electronic pop which was pretty new to me then.
The album was released on retropop CD label Hypersound in Switzerland, which was a total surprise for us. That made us very excited to write more songs though and in 2005, when the album was out, we recorded 2-3 songs that definitely should have made it to the album.
This is one of them called "Sleepwalk".
I wrote most of the lyrics for Intellivision, with Thomas' valuable input with catchy hooks and titles. I remember "Sleepwalk" being his idea of a song title, and I made it a lyric about the tiresome city life in Stockholm, which I have hated since day one, but still - 10 years later - I'm still here hoping to get out some day.

SLEEPWALK
Written by Roger Gunnarsson & Thomas Johansson

People waking up in the middle of the night
from the sleepwalk
People in cars and trains and buses
like a sleepwalk

Walking all around with no place to go
Trying to get home for a tv show
Everyone just keep trying to get away

Get a proper job, have friends and a car
it's like a sleepwalk
Doing their best to get really far
it's like a sleepwalk

You must have a job at 22
and you really have to know what you wanna do
No one really knows about life's great mystery

Whatcha gonna do when you're waking up?
Whatcha gonna do when you're cracking up
I will enjoy myself, I will control myself
I'm gonna walk away from here

Whatcha gonna do when your life is real?
Whatcha gonna do, tell me how you feel?
I'm feeling fine today, you're on my mind today
I don't know what to say
Don't want my days to slip away

People are doing what you tell them to
it's like a sleepwalk
People are dying just to get in bed
from the sleepwalk

Walking all around with no place to go
Trying to get home for a tv show
Everyone just keep trying to get away

Whatcha gonna do when you're waking up?
Whatcha gonna do when you're cracking up
I will enjoy myself, I will control myself
I'm gonna walk away from here

Whatcha gonna do when your life is real?
Whatcha gonna do, tell me how you feel?
I'm feeling fine today, you're on my mind today
I don't know what to say
Don't want my days to slip away

Alone, alone, alone...

Sleepwalk [2005]

Dune
"Blue Boy"
Dune: Annika Rolandsson, Roger Gunnarsson, Carl-Magnus Jonsson
Demo recorded and produced by Thomas Johansson at Studio Mindbender, Halmstad.

As I wrote previously, Dune was my first band that made it onto a record. The debut was maybe not super-impressive because it was on a compilation on my own label, Dorian Records, that I ran for a few years in the 90s.
Dune was originally me and Annika Rolandsson. I was 21 and she was 19. I wrote the songs and she sang them. To have a decent demo I asked my friend Carl-Magnus to play the guitar and he joined the "band". We never rehearsed or anything like that. We just wrote songs and recorded them on my 4-track with a drum machine.
Then we decided to do a proper demo, and I asked my friend and longtime music companion Thomas Johansson to record us in his studio. We recorded three songs in November 1995 and in december we did our first and only demo cassette. We were too lazy to send it to record labels but at least we did a few copies for some magazines who used to review tapes from indie bands (Sound Affects, Pop and some local papers). Neither of them wrote anything at all about Dune, but a label from Eskilstuna called H.Lime Records did for some reason have our demo and asked us to have one of the songs from the demo on their upcoming compilation CD, "A Twist of Lime". They wanted "Blue Boy", a song heavily inspired by two of my favourite bands at the time, The Smiths and The Sundays. My original demo was very Morrissey-esque.

BLUE BOY
Words and Music: Roger Gunnarsson 1995

Johnny stays inside
making plans for none
Got no place to hide
things are no longer fun

Trying to be loved
but no one tries to love him
Always thinking of
Will things be better when life is over and I still wonder?

How was I to know?
How was I to love?
How was I to show?
How was I to care for?
Now I don't need anyone, cause nobody needs me

Trying not to smoke
Trying not to smell
He has the greatest joke
but no one left to tell

Dying to be loved
but no one tries to love him
Always thinking of
Will things be better when life is over and I still wonder?

How was I to know?
How was I to love?
How was I to show?
How was I to care for?
Now I don't need anyone!

no title

Blue Boy [1995]

Intellivision
"Commando Rap"
Written, recorded and produced by Roger Gunnarsson and Thomas Johansson in Studio Mindbender, Halmstad in 1999.

Here's an odd oldie! Made by me and Thomas in an afternoon or so back in 1999. We were both avid Commodore 64 users in the 80s so when he found some authentic SID samples we couldn't keep our hands from doing something with that. It ended up in this, eh, rap track based on our attempt to recreate the soundtrack for the C64 game Commando. I think we came quite close to the C64 original soundwise. Of course, Thomas is the technical mastermind behind this. I'm the hot rapper.
This was by the way the first time we used the band name Intellivision for our music. As with most of our songs the fun bit is the most important, and I remember this being a lot of fun making. most of all the rap part. I'm the one making that classy C&C Music Factory-esque rap. 
Since this song was never meant to be released, it contains a very unauthorized usage of Rob Hubbard's original music for Commando. Rob, if you read this (why would he?): Thank you for the Music!

COMMANDO RAP
Words and Music: Roger Gunnarsson, Thomas Johansson & Rob Hubbard

They say I'm stuck in the past
coz I like to play games like 'Last Ninja'
and 'Boulder Dash'
They say all my games are trash
They say 'Quake'
I said 'Wizard of War'
'Red Alert', I don't know what it's there for
'Doom' or 'Gran Turismo'
Throw them all away as I take Commando

They say the graphics are lame
but I say 'Hey, the quality is in the game'
But the memory's slow
and the CPU's low
and it's all gonna make you blow!
Shoot 'em up
Unlimited lives are gonna take me to the top
Sega or Nintendo?
Throw it all away as I take Commando

They say I'm stuck in the past
coz I like to play games like 'Last Ninja'
and 'Boulder Dash'
They say all my games are trash
They say 'Quake'
I said 'Wizard of War'
'Red Alert', I don't know what it's there for
'Doom' or 'Gran Turismo'
Throw them all away as I take Commando

Commando Rap [1999]

Intellivision
"Pacman's Revenge"
Written and recorded by Roger Gunnarsson and Thomas Johansson in Studio Mindbender, Halmstad 1998.

This is the very first track with me and Thomas calling ourselves Intellivision. Originally we only did songs with some connection to retro computer games ('Commando Rap' uploaded here a while ago, for example). This one is no exception, a mix between slapstick italodisco (Scotch, Baltimora etc) and gaming references.
The lyric is about Pacman taking revenge on mankind after being outdated.
Musically we picked a lot of inspiration from some HiEnergy-italo favourites from the mid 80s, most obviously "Love Spy" by Mike Mareen.
The reporter's name, Dan Tracey, was of couse a nod towards Dan Traecy of indieband Television Personalities, which I was totally obsessed with at the time. Not very much of that obession to be found in this song apart from that.
A fun memory though.

PACMAN'S REVENGE
Words & Music: Roger Gunnarsson, Thomas Johansson

[This is Dan Tracey, live from the shopping mall. Ten minutes ago we got the alert that this place was invaded by yellow creation that persume to come from outer space. Oh my God, I can see them now! There's everywhere! Oh my God!]

You made us disappointed
You made us very sore
You left us in the eighties
and now we're coming back for more
Watch out!

We're working with Invaders
and brothers Mario
Atari kept you busy
though is was so long ago

There's coming back for more!
Coming back for more!

You want a new computer
You want what's new and hot
But we've joined you in the future
and we'll eat you like a dot
Watch out!

There's coming back for more!
Coming back for more!

Pacman's Revenge [1998]

Leaderboard
"Hypnotized (demo)"
Unreleased Leaderboard song from 2010. Recorded and produced by Thomas Johansson & Roger Gunnarsson in Studio Mindbender, Halmstad, Sweden.

After releasing the Intellivision album in 2005, me and Thomas started writing songs for a second one, but after a while they drew in a new direction so we decided to start up a new project instead, Leaderboard.
We still wanted the 80s feel to it, but a little less italodisco and comedy. Most of the songs we've written for Leaderboard ended up on our album in 2015, but there a few unreleased demos too. 
Here's a pretty early one from 2010.

HYPNOTIZED
W&M: Roger Gunnarsson & Thomas Johansson 2010

Monday, spending time outside your place
(called you on the telephone)
Tuesday, making plans for better days
(can't seem to let you go)

You amaze me, call me crazy
I'm still falling

Getting hypnotized
You made me open my eyes
I think I'm falling apart
Getting hypnotized
You made me realise
that I was right from the start

Wednesday, staring at my telephone
(called you again today)
Thursday, being all too reachable
(all since you went away)

Memories of promises
My heart is aching

Getting hypnotized
You made me open my eyes
I think I'm falling apart
Getting hypnotized
You made me realise
that I was right from the start

I get lost, I get late
and I can't concentrate
You are driving me out of my mind
And you wanted to go 
but how could I know
cause I'm...

Getting hypnotized
You made me open my eyes
I think I'm falling apart
Getting hypnotized
You made me realise
that I was right from the start

Hypnotized [2010]

New track from Leaderboard called I've Told Her Now

Released February 11, 2017 
Written, performed and produced by Thomas Johansson and Roger Gunnarsson in 2017

I've Told Her Now

Made some kind of hardstyle version of this fantastic Leaderboard song called 'Ive told her now'.

Enjoy!

nRVE_Hstd & Leaderboard - I've Told Her Now

12 snippets from the forthcoming album "Night City Tribute - The Songs of Secret Service". Released in March 2018.

https://pbhmedia.bandcamp.com/

00:00 Märtha Frans - Walking
00:56 Eurotix - Broken Hearts
02.39 Octolab - Fire Into Ice
03:54 Cliff Wedge & James Knights - 10 O'Clock Postman
04:29 Mr Doonut - How I Want You
06:01 Italoconnection - Night City [12" Radio Edit]
07:19 GLAS - Bring Heaven Down
08:41 Evan - Oh Susie
10.20 Modiga Agenter - Oh Susie (Bara vi två vet)
11.46 Stockholm Nightlife feat Eliza - Where The Wind Blows [The Stormby 7 Inch Mix]
12:57 Leaderboard - Dancing in Madness
14:04 Matt Pop & Martin Blix - Let Us Dance Just A Little Bit More

I've Told Her Now

Thomas Mellon Johansson

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