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Track List
01) Take on Me
02) The Blue Sky
03) The Sun Always Shines on T.V.
04) Train of Thought (remix)
05) Hunting High and Low (remix)
06) I've Been Losing You
07) Scoundrel Days
08) Swing of Things
09) Cry Wolf
10) Manhattan Skyline (edit version)
11) The Living Daylights
12) Stay on These Roads
13) Touchy! (UK DJ edit)
14) There's Never a Forever Thing
15) You Are the One (7" remix)
16) The Blood That Moves the Body (Two-Time Gun
17) Crying in the Rain
18) Early Morning
19) Slender Frame
20) I Call Your Name
Cd 2
01) Move to Memphis (single version)
02) Dark Is the Night for All
03) Cold as Stone (remix)
04) Angel in the Snow (edit)
05) Shapes That Go Together
06) Summer Moved On
07) Minor Earth Major Sky (Niven's radio edit)
08) The Sun Never Shone That Day (radio edit)
09) Velvet
10) Forever Not Yours
11) Lifelines
12) Did Anyone Approach You?
13) Celice
14) Analogue
15) Cosy Prisons (radio mix)
16) Foot of the Mountain
17) Nothing Is Keeping You Here (single remix)
18) Shadowside (single edit)
19) Butterfly, Butterfly (The Last Hurrah)
01) Take on Me
02) The Blue Sky
03) The Sun Always Shines on T.V.
04) Train of Thought (remix)
05) Hunting High and Low (remix)
06) I've Been Losing You
07) Scoundrel Days
08) Swing of Things
09) Cry Wolf
10) Manhattan Skyline (edit version)
11) The Living Daylights
12) Stay on These Roads
13) Touchy! (UK DJ edit)
14) There's Never a Forever Thing
15) You Are the One (7" remix)
16) The Blood That Moves the Body (Two-Time Gun
17) Crying in the Rain
18) Early Morning
19) Slender Frame
20) I Call Your Name
Cd 2
01) Move to Memphis (single version)
02) Dark Is the Night for All
03) Cold as Stone (remix)
04) Angel in the Snow (edit)
05) Shapes That Go Together
06) Summer Moved On
07) Minor Earth Major Sky (Niven's radio edit)
08) The Sun Never Shone That Day (radio edit)
09) Velvet
10) Forever Not Yours
11) Lifelines
12) Did Anyone Approach You?
13) Celice
14) Analogue
15) Cosy Prisons (radio mix)
16) Foot of the Mountain
17) Nothing Is Keeping You Here (single remix)
18) Shadowside (single edit)
19) Butterfly, Butterfly (The Last Hurrah)
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First Released
2010
Synthpop
Excitable
Rock/Pop
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25 is a-ha's latest compilation album. It was released in Norway on July 19, 2010, in Germany and central Europe on August 6, and in the UK and other parts of Europe on October 4. 25 includes all 33 of the band's singles (excluding the promo singles "I Wish I Cared", "Birthright", "Waiting for Her", "Lie Down in Darkness", "Maybe, Maybe" and "Love Is Reason", as well as the original 1988 single "The Blood That Moves the Body" and the 2003 live single "The Sun Always Shines on T.V. (Live)"), along with 5 album tracks and a b-side ("Cold as Stone (Remix)").
The album includes a-ha's final single "Butterfly, Butterfly (The Last Hurrah)" which had the world premiere on Monday, June 14 and was made available as a digital download on July 9. The Japanese version features a different tracklist, with three tracks chosen by the Japanese public. This compilation is far more comprehensive than either of the two previous compilations (Headlines and Deadlines – The Hits of a-ha and The Definitive Singles Collection 1984–2004).
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A double-CD collection celebrating the retirement, after 25 years, of what was once dismissed as a little more than a prototype Norwegian boy band seems like an overambitious concept. That’s until one remembers that the Norwegian trio have sold in excess of 35 million records. But their early rush of pop brilliance and their consequently powerful association with a young audience – Morten Harket was, after all, the man who inspired a generation of teenagers to wear suede leather bracelets – mean that some ‘grew out of’ a-ha, and critics turned their back. By 1991 they might have been playing to the biggest audience of paying fans ever recorded – a staggering 198,000, at Rock in Rio II – but the story went virtually unreported, a disappointment so crushing the band went on hiatus.
They reunited in 1998, wiser and more mature, something reflected in their new music, and a 2005 singles compilation released on their 20th anniversary saw them return to the UK top 20. This latest attempt to exploit their catalogue, 25 – The Very Best Of, is therefore an enlightening affair, proof that though they rarely repeated the pure immediacy of Take on Me or The Sun Always Shines on TV, nor the ambitious drama of I’ve Been Losing You or 1987’s James Bond theme, The Living Daylights, a-ha remained capable of crafting mature pop. In fact, this thorough 39-song survey leads one to the unexpected conclusion that they were the Coldplay of their generation, accomplished at writing songs that carried an emotional depth capable of reaching out across arenas. Dark Is the Night for All is an uplifting piece of mid-paced stadium rock with a gentle heart, Velvet is a lush tearjerker that wouldn’t sound out of place on a Morcheeba record, while final single, Butterfly, Butterfly, sees them return to their synth-pop roots with added grandeur, sounding not unlike Pet Shop Boys with choirboy vocals.
Inevitably, though, over two and a half hours of a-ha things start to sag, as they would with many artists, and that seems a shame. These three Norwegians have more than earned a status approaching iconic, and recent gestures – they’ve given away over £400,000 in grants to developing Norwegian artists this year – prove that music was always a far greater driving force in their careers than fame and teenage adulation. But few people listen to full albums anymore, so this is better thought of as a well-earned condensed encyclopaedia into which to dip than a simple retrospective collection. Either way, respect is due, and 25 provides more than room enough for that.
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25 is a-ha's latest compilation album. It was released in Norway on July 19, 2010, in Germany and central Europe on August 6, and in the UK and other parts of Europe on October 4. 25 includes all 33 of the band's singles (excluding the promo singles "I Wish I Cared", "Birthright", "Waiting for Her", "Lie Down in Darkness", "Maybe, Maybe" and "Love Is Reason", as well as the original 1988 single "The Blood That Moves the Body" and the 2003 live single "The Sun Always Shines on T.V. (Live)"), along with 5 album tracks and a b-side ("Cold as Stone (Remix)").
The album includes a-ha's final single "Butterfly, Butterfly (The Last Hurrah)" which had the world premiere on Monday, June 14 and was made available as a digital download on July 9. The Japanese version features a different tracklist, with three tracks chosen by the Japanese public. This compilation is far more comprehensive than either of the two previous compilations (Headlines and Deadlines – The Hits of a-ha and The Definitive Singles Collection 1984–2004).
User Album Review
A double-CD collection celebrating the retirement, after 25 years, of what was once dismissed as a little more than a prototype Norwegian boy band seems like an overambitious concept. That’s until one remembers that the Norwegian trio have sold in excess of 35 million records. But their early rush of pop brilliance and their consequently powerful association with a young audience – Morten Harket was, after all, the man who inspired a generation of teenagers to wear suede leather bracelets – mean that some ‘grew out of’ a-ha, and critics turned their back. By 1991 they might have been playing to the biggest audience of paying fans ever recorded – a staggering 198,000, at Rock in Rio II – but the story went virtually unreported, a disappointment so crushing the band went on hiatus.
They reunited in 1998, wiser and more mature, something reflected in their new music, and a 2005 singles compilation released on their 20th anniversary saw them return to the UK top 20. This latest attempt to exploit their catalogue, 25 – The Very Best Of, is therefore an enlightening affair, proof that though they rarely repeated the pure immediacy of Take on Me or The Sun Always Shines on TV, nor the ambitious drama of I’ve Been Losing You or 1987’s James Bond theme, The Living Daylights, a-ha remained capable of crafting mature pop. In fact, this thorough 39-song survey leads one to the unexpected conclusion that they were the Coldplay of their generation, accomplished at writing songs that carried an emotional depth capable of reaching out across arenas. Dark Is the Night for All is an uplifting piece of mid-paced stadium rock with a gentle heart, Velvet is a lush tearjerker that wouldn’t sound out of place on a Morcheeba record, while final single, Butterfly, Butterfly, sees them return to their synth-pop roots with added grandeur, sounding not unlike Pet Shop Boys with choirboy vocals.
Inevitably, though, over two and a half hours of a-ha things start to sag, as they would with many artists, and that seems a shame. These three Norwegians have more than earned a status approaching iconic, and recent gestures – they’ve given away over £400,000 in grants to developing Norwegian artists this year – prove that music was always a far greater driving force in their careers than fame and teenage adulation. But few people listen to full albums anymore, so this is better thought of as a well-earned condensed encyclopaedia into which to dip than a simple retrospective collection. Either way, respect is due, and 25 provides more than room enough for that.
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