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Points: 610 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 08 2012 at 17:15
For a long time I'd have said "Hunting high and low", followed by "Scoundrel Days" and "The Swing of Things".
Nowadays I'd go for "Cosy Prisons", though.
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Points: 19942 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 09 2012 at 05:19
Memorial Beach is a good album. The first track which I think is called "Dark is the Night" is my favourite a-ha song. Quite reminiscent of U2 around "The Joshua Tree" period.
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Points: 11400 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 09 2012 at 08:37
Have anyone mentioned this little gem yet?
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Points: 11415 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 09 2012 at 08:46
Great Pop band and unjustly dismissed as chart fodder. They had the grave misfortune to be extremely talented songwriters and pretty Scandinavian boys at the same time. Some folks will try to insist such phenomena must be mutually exclusive Wink
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And credit where credit is due.
A-ha made the Guinness book of records by getting an attendance of
198 000 paying concert goers .The concert took place in Brazil at the Maracana Stadium. 
Shake & bake.
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Points: 4287 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 09 2012 at 09:06
No worse than all the other Chart music, but on the other hand i can come up with a few chart 80's bands i remember better.  
Anyway cant remember well enough to pick a song other than the one with the cartoon video, fine pop song, but no more than that.
Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours
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My favorite song is "The Weight Of The Wind".
I like the whole of the second album, Scoundrel Days, BTW. "The Soft Rains Of April" is also good, as well as the hits on that album.
Scoundrel Days is my favorite album by them, though I never tried out anything else than their first four albums.
A-Ha made pop music, of course, but nevertheless they made some well crafted songs.

They were popular with the teenage girls, but like so many bands they got sick of that and wanted to be taken seriously as artists. From their 4th studio album on, I'd say. But that came to late for them obviously: the serious music fans were not inclined at all to search for musical depth in this band.
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I like all of their albums ( with one exception ) and "Scoundrel Days" had been my favourite for long, as well.
But I think that "Memorial Beach" is just as good, and I've got a soft spot for "Analogue".
The only one I rather find superfluous is "Foot of the Mountain".
I like 2 Tracks on it ( the title-track and "The Bandstand" ) but the rest is dull.
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how will Morten Harket be ranked as a singer comapred to most singer of pop, rock, in the 80s or all ages

I really like the title track of Hunting High and Love, great vocal preformance
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Undoubtly one of the best bands of the 80's. Here's an attempt on a top ten: 

I've Been Losing You
Scoundrel Days
Early Morning
Hunting High and Low
Living A Boys Adventure Tale
Manhattan Skyline
The Living Daylights
The Swing of Things
Soft Rains of April
Stay on These Roads

Check out Bridges. Magne and Paal's Doors-sounding proglite-band from when they were teenagers. From the, hyperrare, never reissued Fakkeltog. Good stuff! Unhippest album of 1980:




 
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the two other members started a prog band after Bridges disbanded Approve (not Magne and Paul they founded a New wave/synth pop band called a-ha)
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Points: 29625 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 15 2012 at 09:46
By default it has to be the only one I've ever heard.  
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Points: 12859 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 15 2012 at 15:17
'The Blood that Moves the Body' for me.
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Points: 34050 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 16 2012 at 12:36
have anyone heard Morten Harkets solo album Wild Seed
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My favourite ones:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCkbfyk6XGc&feature=g-vrec&context=G271c888RVAAAAAAAAAA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVl4qvHuY8g&ob=av3e
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Points: 41264 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 14 2015 at 08:07
this one these days


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