The long awaited a-ha review!!

[stuwee]

Well to me anyway! I've been teased relentlessly for my love of these guy's! Well they still got it, this DVD concert was from 2002, there's stuff I've never heard before but still enjoyed very much, 'Little Black Heart' 'I Wish I Cared' 'Velvet' and the over the top titled 'You'll Never Get Over Me, I'll Never Get Under You'.

They've added a female back-up/duet singer, Anneli Drecker, good lookin' lass with great pipes!! The Everly Brothers/Carole King written 'Cryin in the Rain' is worth the price of addmission. The unplugged versions of 'Stay on these Roads' with a Yamaha baby grand, Yamaha roundback acoustic guitar, tears!! I always thought that song was about Tianamen Square. The defiant young man facing off the tanks. When they showed bits of video on TV this morning of the Olympics that song kept popping into my head, BAM! Which reminds me they get the most obscure band(by US standards) to ever do a James Bond movie title soundtrack, 'The Living Daylights' and they tear up this version, nicely!!

It's a shame English isn't the bands first language, Morten has a stunning 3 octave voice. He just can't wrap it around alien vowel structures, I'd love to hear him sing in his native Norwegian. :-)<-:-)<-

Craig

[Marc Hugo]

Well to me anyway! I've been teased relentlessly for my love of these guy's! Well they still got it, this DVD concert was from 2002, there's stuff I've never heard before but still enjoyed very much, 'Little Black Heart' 'I Wish I Cared' 'Velvet' and the over the top titled 'You'll Never Get Over Me, I'll Never Get Under You'.

They've added a female back-up/duet singer, Anneli Drecker, good lookin' lass with great pipes!! The Everly Brothers/Carole King written 'Cryin in the Rain' is worth the price of addmission. The unplugged versions of 'Stay on these Roads' with a Yamaha baby grand, Yamaha roundback acoustic guitar, tears!! I always thought that song was about Tianamen Square. The defiant young man facing off the tanks. When they showed bits of video on TV this morning of the Olympics that song kept popping into my head, BAM! Which reminds me they get the most obscure band(by US standards) to ever do a James Bond movie title soundtrack, 'The Living Daylights' and they tear up this version, nicely!!

It's a shame English isn't the bands first language, Morten has a stunning 3 octave voice. He just can't wrap it around alien vowel structures, I'd love to hear him sing in his native Norwegian. :-)<-:-)<-

Craig

Craig!

I have just walked into to the study to read this from you: playing NOW is the soundtrack from the Living Daylights which I recorded onto tape from the LP some years ago. Opening track is A-Ha performing the title track: Licence to Kill". I had just before played the CD of the same song appearing on a soundtracks compilation (Warner Music France - WICD 5201) and thought to myself that it was (a) a slightly different version, and (b) sounded somewhat emptier and anaemic than the analogue version.

Ha - how about that. Great, great band. Thanks for the story.

Have a great evening - Marc

[graffias79]

My all time favorite song from the 1980s (aka my childhood) is "The Sun Always Shines on TV". I was so stoked recently to have found a very very good copy of "Hunting High and Low" on vinyl.

[krisjay]

Good to see an A-HA review, SCOUNDREL DAYS i sone of the best sounding presses Ive ever heard, just a fantastic sounding LP. Great album also. I am not a fan of this type of music either, mostly hard rock here, but SCOUNDREL DAYS is fantastic!! If you have never heard this on vinyl, get it at all cost, it is that good.