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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 est le dernier et définitif best-of du groupe de synthpop norvégien a-ha, sorti le 19 juillet 2010. Il comprend 39 titres dont les 33 singles du groupe (hors les singles promo "I Wish I Cared", "Birthright", "Waiting for Her", "Lie Down in Darkness", "Maybe, Maybe" et "Love Is Reason", ainsi que la version single originale de "The Blood That Moves The Body" et la version live 2003 du single "The Sun Always Shines on TV"), avec 5 titres d'album et une face B "Cold As Stone" (Remix). Le groupe s'est définitivement séparé après la réalisation de ce best-of final en 2010 en donnant une ultime série de concerts à travers le monde à guichets fermés s'achevant le 4 décembre 2010 à l'aréna Spektrum d'oslo (Norvège).
L'album comprend le single final Butterfly, Butterfly (The Last Hurrah). La version japonaise dispose d'une tracklist différente, avec trois pistes choisies par le public japonais. Cette compilation est plus complète que les deux précédentes compilations Headlines and Deadlines – The Hits of a-ha et The Definitive Singles Collection 1984–2004sorti en 2005.
L'album 25 sera certifié double disque de platine en France en 2011.
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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 est le dernier et définitif best-of du groupe de synthpop norvégien a-ha, sorti le 19 juillet 2010. Il comprend 39 titres dont les 33 singles du groupe (hors les singles promo "I Wish I Cared", "Birthright", "Waiting for Her", "Lie Down in Darkness", "Maybe, Maybe" et "Love Is Reason", ainsi que la version single originale de "The Blood That Moves The Body" et la version live 2003 du single "The Sun Always Shines on TV"), avec 5 titres d'album et une face B "Cold As Stone" (Remix). Le groupe s'est définitivement séparé après la réalisation de ce best-of final en 2010 en donnant une ultime série de concerts à travers le monde à guichets fermés s'achevant le 4 décembre 2010 à l'aréna Spektrum d'oslo (Norvège).
L'album comprend le single final Butterfly, Butterfly (The Last Hurrah). La version japonaise dispose d'une tracklist différente, avec trois pistes choisies par le public japonais. Cette compilation est plus complète que les deux précédentes compilations Headlines and Deadlines – The Hits of a-ha et The Definitive Singles Collection 1984–2004sorti en 2005.
L'album 25 sera certifié double disque de platine en France en 2011.
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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