We want the demos!

I might be misremembering things here, but I believe I read somewhere that the demos got leaked online after Ian had lent a tape to a fan and asked them to promise not to spread it around... then they wound up making a copy and that got spread around anyway! Hence the poor sound quality. You do make a good point about "Talk to Me", though.


That other song was "Rainbow Warrior". "Rainbow Warrior" was released on the bonus CD for the book The Encyclopedia of Swedish Hard Rock and Heavy Metal 1970–1996 in 1996, and "Blame It On Me" was released on the bonus CD for the book The Encyclopedia of Swedish Hard Rock and Heavy Metal: Volume II in 2002.


I remember buying the 2001 remaster of Prisoners in Paradise that included the latter two as bonus tracks and being disappointed at the sound quality. They were mastered too loud, so it almost sounds like you're listening to the songs through a pair of broken speakers.


The first time Kee got the offer to join EUROPE, he said no because he didn't want to leave his band Easy Action. However, Thomas Erdtman (EUROPE's manager from '84 to '89), convinced Kee to join by making him false promises: Kee would receive a big role as a songwriter and producer in the band.

The rest of the band wasn't even aware that Erdtman had made those promises to Kee, so this created tension during the Out of This World sessions. In his autobiography, Kee said he recorded several demos for OOTW, however he was told that only one of his songs would be on the album. That song was "Just the Beginning". Some of Kee's other OOTW demos were "Can't Fake Love" and "Another World".


The song "Out of This World" was Joey's attempt at writing a new "Final Countdown". However, he soon realized that the song wasn't good enough, so it got scrapped.


Yes, I read somewhere that the idea stems from the PIP period. I believe the same is true of "Bring It All Home" as well.