No matter how many times you've heard it, or saw the video, it's still an 80's classic!

This appreciation thread is well deserved and long over due!

NWF said:

I love this video, the way they combined cartoon drawings with actual video footage. Great song, too.

I love this song!!! This is like the epitome of 80s pop music!!!!

I used to hate how the media would compare them to Duran Duran all the time. The magazines would have polls asking who was better. Why? So this song is aiiiiight to me. I like the keyboard part, but this guys voice is lame... He's no Simon... I used to like the Cry Wolf song, but that's it.

I love this song

i like this song, but in a way I hate it because it basically buried A-HA in the US. They are forever known for this one song in America, which is a shame because they were a great band with a LOT of great stuff.

East of the Sun, West of the Moon is one of my favorite records from the late 80's, early 90's.

JonSnow said:

Well, they were known for that as well as the James Bond theme, "The Living Daylights".

WOW!!! ....A-ha are gods man! They were so underated as musicians and songwriters. Some of their stuff really appeals to me because it's so prog! Their song "Soundral Days" will blow you your mind if you've not heard it before. I's really love to hear a metal version of this in the same vain that Paradise Lost coverd 'Small Town Boy" .. that would rock! "The sun always shines on TV" is another prog classic ... just listen to it again!. I love Duran Duran but I think A-ha have more balls!!

"Well I dreeeeeaaam myyyysellllf aaaaliiiiive....."

I like that tune also.

"taaaakkkkeeee oooonnnnn mmmeeeee"


i started singing as soon as i saw the title to this thread!

Xplanet said:

i have to agree,Scoundrel Days is an amazing song... one of their best. Actually, that entire album is amazing. I love The Swing of Things and Manhattan Skyline.

Good song and cooler video. Reminds me bigtime of an old girlfriend.

"Hunting High And Low" is a better song from their debut.

NWF said:

excellent song.

JonSnow said:

The follow up album Memorial Beach is also a great one.

Yeah, Take On Me is a fine tune. One of the best singles of the 80's.

Cloudbuster said:

agree on Memorial Beach - recorded at the Park too

blackguitaristz said:

yeah. i had a girlfriend who kept falling into a cartoon world too.

outoftime said:

Their best album, I think. And their poorest seller. So there we go.

Cloudbuster said:

Memorial Beach is good, but not on par (IMO) with East of the Sun... MB has some strong tracks, but East of the Sun is just stellar from start to finish.

I really dig Dark is the Night for All.... another in a long list of "SHOULD HAVE BEEN TOP 10 HITS IN AMERICA" for a-ha....

No no no no no no nooooo!

And we were getting on SO well!


A-ha? REALLY, tsk.....

JonSnow said:

They're both great. Minor Earth Major Sky, too. All albums for me.

JonSnow said:

Do you know i totally forgot about Manhattan Skyline! ... Do any of their other albums compare to Soundral days anybody? We had their Greatist hits blasting out in work and some of the ignorant comments that came out of people's mouth made me wonna wrestle then in a ring on a pay-per-view!!!

Xplanet said:

all of their albums are certainly worthy... if you like Scoundrel Days, I highly recommend East of the Sun, West of the Moon and Memorial Beach.

Actually, just get all of them They're all really good.

Scoundrel Days is a bit more 80's new-wave sounding than their later albums - it has a really unique sound.

RocknRollDave said:

HEY! It's New Wave, aiiight? I gotta represent!

It's not like I'm selling out or something.