A-HA

 They are too good a band *not* to discuss.. besides - we had fun in our A-ha thread on the other board. So - what's new with the band?

• Morten Harket has a new solo album out called Letters From Egypt. You can order it here.
• Magne F has a new solo album out called a dot of black in the blue of your bliss. You can order it here.
• Paul's band Savoy has a new album out called Savoy Songbook Vol 1. You can order it here.
  

 A-ha also premiered two new songs at their Solo/Together concert at the Royal Albert Hall back in May and announced they were also working on a new album.  Check out clips of their new songs:

• Riding the Crest 
• Shadowside

a-ha.com is looking for band photos to feature in their official 2009 calendar. Your photo could be featured!

How to submit your pictures

There are two ways to submit your pictures for consideration:

• Join the new a-ha.com Flickr group and add your original pictures to the photo stream. Please include the tag ‘a-ha 2009 calendar’ for any pictures you want to submit to the calendar design team.
• E-mail your original pictures to submissions@a-ha.com with ‘a-ha 2009 calendar’ in the subject line of the e-mail.

I was a big fan of A-ha in the 80's/early 90's and one of my bedroom walls was totally covered with posters of them which used to freak my sister out as we shared a room at the time.From what I can see Morten has hardly aged in all this time.

Hunting high and low,manhattan skyline and the sun always shines on tv were my favourite songs by A-ha

Some Magne F/Coldplay news:

Coldplay, A-ha and Mew have teamed up for a one-off supergroup, Apparatjik.

Guy Berryman, Magne Furuholmen and Jonas Bjerre perform the theme to Bruce Parry's new BBC2 series Amazon.

The series starts on September 22, and an album will be out to coincide. Songs For Survival includes exclusive songs about the series by Johnny Borrell, Hot Chip, The Go! Team, Mystery Jets, Mike Oldfield, Jazon Mraz and Yusuf Islam.

http://www.teletext.co.uk/planetsoun...a+team+up.aspx

And older news from Agderposten.no:

For the installation by the Norwegian artist Pernille Gormsen, located among the trees at Hove, Furuholmen has made the music together with Coldplay-vocalist Chris Martin. Furuholmen has later transformed and adapted the recordings to this installation. Any reaction to his own sound installation is welcome, Furuholmen says. Because that can provide him with possibilities of adding additional dialogue.

Im so excited that a new album is out next year, they were one of my fav groups from the 80's. Me and my sister went to see them play live on Dec 4th 2005 at the SECC and although we couldn't see them as we were to high up on one of the balconies we still loved it, brought backa few memories. Hunting High And Low is my fav song as there's a part of that song that drives me crazy everytime i hear it, so powerful and emotional. Also i can't even begin to tell you how much i love Stay On These Roads, i just adore that song so much, i have that video on my iPod and listen to it often. If they tour again next year and they play somewhere in Scotland chances are i will go again with my sister, she's more into them than me but i still enjoy their songs.

  their only hitmwasm Take on Me........... I like to listen to them sometimes.

 I saw an AHA LP in the record shop today, bargain at £3.00 did not recognise it.    Just googled it and it was this one.... http://www.a-ha.com/MUSIC/discography/CD/AHA_albumMemorialBeach.aspx

Can't say I recognise one of them....

 Memorial Beach is my favourite a-ha album - if you didn't buy it, I'd recommend going back and purchasing it... after all, at £3 it wouldn't be much of a loss, even if you then didn't like it!

 I discovered a-ha by Take on me, which sounds very familiar to me though it's a song before I was born. I start to like them, especially Magne, after listening to their last album Analogue. It's really nice to know that they have a new album to come.

Don't know why, when Keane's trouble story was flowing around with Under the iron sea, and that Tom was rumoured to have a solo album, a-ha was the very band I thought of to relate to this situation.

You should really check out Magne's myspace. He has plenty of witty blogs.

sassysarah:

I was a big fan of A-ha in the 80's/early 90's and one of my bedroom walls was totally covered with posters of them which used to freak my sister out as we shared a room at the time.From what I can see Morten has hardly aged in all this time.

Hunting high and low,manhattan skyline and the sun always shines on tv were my favourite songs by A-ha

Same here .  I was a huge a-ha fan when they came out in '84/'85 and have loved them since then. I was only 12 then and used to share a room with my twinsister who didn't share my taste in music and wasn't very fond of my life-size a-ha posters on my side of the room... At some point I got rid of the posters but I still have some of their albums on my MP3-player and Hunting High and Low, Living A Boy's Adventure Tale, The Swing of Things and Out of the Blue Comes Green are my favorites.

Mart:

 Memorial Beach is my favourite a-ha album - if you didn't buy it, I'd recommend going back and purchasing it... after all, at £3 it wouldn't be much of a loss, even if you then didn't like it!

Thanks for the tip, very true, what can you buy for £3 these days.... must be scratched to death!

Just bumping this thread to page 1 lol.

But I am going to add that I'm looking forward to the new album,whenever it comes out.I haven't seen that info yet,but then again,I haven't read the news secction very carefully...

Why is ''Stay on these roads'' from ''How can I sleep....'' so good? I looooove it.Can't stop listening to it.

 Ohh! I loved this place to talk about A-ha!

  Well...I'm Jessica from Rio de Janeiro and is a pleasure to be here.

  A-ha is the first band of my heart, since 1998.

  On 1988 I was a baby and after ten years, I knew A-ha.

  And today my heart has 2 pieces: One side A-ha, and the other side Keane.

  A-ha ->  <- Keane 

 My favourites songs (no order):

1- Here I Stand And Face The Rain

2- I've Been Losing You

3- Slender Frame

4- Little Black Heart

5- There's Never A Forever Thing

6- Early Morning

7- Rolling Thunder

8- Thought That It Was You

9- I Call Your Name

10-  Out Of Blues Comes Green

*Sorry, my english is poor!*

Mart:

Memorial Beach is my favourite a-ha album - if you didn't buy it, I'd recommend going back and purchasing it... after all, at £3 it wouldn't be much of a loss, even if you then didn't like it!

Mmmm, Memorial Beach. Title track is bloody brilliant. It's not my fav album tho. I thought they were trying too hard to be a Doors/U2 equivalent at that time. It didn't work out for them and it actually killed their chances to be just as massive as said bands. Such a shame!
I could go on and on about songs like Out of the Blue comes Green, Did Anyone Approach You?, Train of Thought, Sycamore Leaves.. Sigh. It's mind-boggling how those guys created songs like Early Morning, Summer Moved On, HHAL and with the same ease thought up Touchy! and You are the one! Those songs probably make us A-ha admirers appear like freaks to the general public, lol. Ok, maybe Take On Me is also part of the problem.

^^lol

Omg,Early morning-such a great song.It's simple,Morten's voice is amazing (as always),and it's so much fun to play I'm not a very good pianist,but it's damn fun playing it on the piano though lol.

*goes to vote although she feels other 80's bands are going to be betrayed....*

EDIT: A-Ha is NOT winning (49.85 %) yet so vote people.

Today is party! Birthday of Morten!

 GOD BLESS MY DEAR SINGER! 

Jessica_Chaplin:

 

  And today my heart has 2 pieces: One side A-ha, and the other side Keane.

  A-ha ->  <- Keane 

 

I know what you mean !!! (I guess you can tell by my nickname...) I must admit the Keane part of my heart is a little bigger than the A-ha part though.

But I do love A-ha and I have ever since I first heard 'Take on me' which must have been October 1985.

I've seen them live (head-lining show) in Rotterdam (86), Edinburgh (88), Leeds (88), Cologne(88), The Hague (91), Utrecht (02), Oberhausen (02), Amsterdam (02), Amsterdam (05) and Fredrikstad (07). And met the guys MANY times between 1986 and 2007.

My fave A-ha songs include: White Canvas, Cosy Prisons, Analogue, Scoundrel Days, I've been losing you, The blood that moves the body, The sun always shines on TV, Hunting high and low, The swing of things, There's never a forever thing, You'll never get over me, Thought that it was you, Summer moved on, Lifelines, Forever not yours, Don't do me any favours, Solace etc. etc.

There are quite a few A-ha songs I HATE as well though (Like from the last album 'Over the treetops' and 'Halfway through the tour' which I always skip. And I really can't stand the live version of 'The living daylights' mainly because of the sing-a-long which annoys the hell out of me.).I'm not too fond of Touchy, You are the one and Cry Wolf either. Way too commercial!!

I love Morten's latest solo album as well. Especially 'With you with me'!!!

Well yay I'm so happy A-HA has won :D the competition was like wow,even though I must say there were quite a few I think are brilliant...But with them eliminated A-Ha is the obvious choice imo

I listen to the band since 1985. I name it in my top five wherever I go. My favourite albums are "Stay on these roads", "Memorial Beach,  "Minor Earth Major sky", "Lifelines"..

About the solo albums, I only know Morten's "Wild seed" and "Letter from Egypt" I think both are exellent but I like "Wild seed" a little bit more than "Letter from Egypt"

Thanks to Cleopater, who posts in the old Keane board, I could enhance my A-ha collection. Thank you so much Cleopater!!

I loved them in the 80s....they came in concert here (in the 80s) and I had 2nd row tickets then the concert was cancelled for poor ticket sales :(  I even still  have all my old A-ha and Duran Duran posters!!

I havent listened to them in so long...what songs do they have that are new that I should check out???