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| A-Ha – Sycamore Leaves Lyrics
| 5 months ago
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@[maqsimillion:54026] LOVE the groove in this one. A song about murder, maybe, but it sizzles! I am sorry EAST OF THE SUN doesn't get more love. A brave change of direction after STAY, with more hits than misfires. |
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| A-Ha – Shapes That Go Together Lyrics
| 5 months ago
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@[maqsimillion:54025] YES! Back in the day, I included this on a mixtape to someone for whom I was deeply infatuated. SHOCKINGLY, things didn't work out! But, yes, just a crazy good line. |
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| A-Ha – The Company Man Lyrics
| 5 months ago
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Probably their most obvious swipe at the business. Well done, but overshadowed by a wealth of stronger material on what is, IMO, their best effort. |
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| A-Ha – I've Been Losing You Lyrics
| 5 months ago
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Listen to Side One of SCOUNDREL DAYS, plus "The Soft Rains of April". To me, these always sounded like a connected suite of songs from the same narrator. Which is why the album is by turns brilliant and frustrating. Tracks 6-9 are fine, but there was SOMETHING ELSE going on that we only get pieces of. |
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| A-Ha – Scoundrel Days Lyrics
| 5 months ago
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A haunting, brilliant song. Even though lyrically opaque, the sense of menace slices through the heart from the opening synth line. Morten's vocal soars in the first chorus like the flight of an angel, which slams to earth with his delivery of "For want of an option..."
SCOUNDREL DAYS, as an album, always felt to me like half of a concept album with some more fan friendly fare tacked onto side two. Tracks 1-5, 10 seem to have a through line, with a narrator who has been driven by some sort of anguish or mental illness to commit a crime of passion. Give the sequence a listen. |
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