Last week, with a twenty five euro Golden Disc voucher on offer, we asked YOU:
Apart from ‘Take On Me’, what A-Ha song still goes you the chills?
You answered in your dozens.
But there could be only one winner.
In reverse order then
A-Ha – Touchy
Ouch writes:
Owing to its chorus..’Me I’m touchy..touchy touch you….’ you couldn’t make it up but they did!
A-Ha – The Sun Always Shines On TV
Martco writes:
1) the first time I noticed it at all was when watching a highlights segment (with it as the background music) of a horse called Sean Kelly doing a timetrial & utterly ruining everyone else on the road that day & demonstrating definite proof to me that we should allow cyclists take whatever they want in order to be the best and win at all costs…& I went out & found & bought the 12″ (google it) that weekend which is on de shelf at home here to this day.
2) My future to be Mrs Martco including it on a mixtape (google it) she did up for me when we started going out together, her 2nd favourite song after…you’ve guessed it…
3) because they can still bang out the song good and proper, see here for proof (54:30 ish onwards) unusually A-Ha were actually a competent outfit…
A-Ha – Stay On These Roads
Digs writes:
The most beautiful A-Ha song, and indeed one of the finest Scandinavian pop perfect songs written by a band other than ABBA is, “Stay on These Roads”.
It soars like a cheesetastic zeppelin!I spent a year or two playing it on repeat at 3am every morning with my infant son’s head burrowed into my shoulder when he woke up crying! Never failed to soothe him…I wouldn’t be a popular winner, but if you got an independent body to actually adjudicate, it’d be a no brainer.
A-Ha Manhattan Skyline
Halla writes
Apart from ‘Take on Me’, I am rather fond of A-Ha’s ‘Manhattan Skyline’ owing to its utter fabness as a song and the fact it kids on all the way through it’s a dramatic New York story only to reveal right in the last line it’s a picture in a paper and they’re probably hanging playing out this heartbreaking story back in Norway somewhere, which just isn’t quite as romantic somehow….
Winner
A-Ha – Hunting High And Low
RandomNoise writes:
Got to be Hunting High and Low. Beautiful, melancholic tune with casual minor key changes dappled here and there. Also love the slightly second language feel of the lyrics – the “I guess” sounds slightly studied, but scans perfectly in the line. Timeless, whether heard on the cassette copy of their album I robbed from my older brother when I was a nipper, or on the YouTube video of their Royal Albert Hall gig in 2010 – . Legends.
fixed!
What? How dare you!
Yeah Digs
You should have won.
A no brainer