It's so fun watching someone react to A-ha (especially something else besides Take On Me)! I was 11 was A-ha came on the scene and I take for granted how awesome their songs are. So, I'm just so happy you're are reacting to their songs. And I"m so glad you love them! I've Been Losing You is in my top 5 A-ha songs!
"It reads like a novel" - In Norwegian traditional music, folk singing is an important genre. Often, the songs were about tragedies and the dark sides of life. A-ha carries the legacy further into modern times with their melancholic lyrics bringing a story.
I love watching reaction vids and you do a great job! Btw, never stop reading out the lyrics. It's half the song! So glad you still find beauty and relate to a song from back then. I read somewhere that "we didn't give A-ha all we should have, back in the '80s" and it's true. On the other hand...we thought we'd always have music like that being made. We were wrong....
4:05 onward As an a-ha fan, a running joke with a friend of mine is that the songwriter (guitarist Pål Waaktaar-Savoy) is secretly a murderer and writes about his crimes in his songs lol Because when you think about it, there are a surprisingly large amount of a-ha songs that could be interpreted as being about murder - Scoundrel Days - I've Been Losing You (of course) - The Soft Rains of April (sounds like he was jailed) - The Blood That Moves The Body - Sycamore Leaves And so on!
Depeche Mode and A-ha are two bands that have accompanied me all my life. Each of their songs is a potential hit. Their music and lyrics do not lose their relevance and do not get old. On the other hand, the vocalists ..... with time their voices were filled with emotions, although they always sounded lovely. Besides do you know that A-ha recorded a song for the Janes Bond movie?
Most of the songs on the second album were written by Pal Waaktaar-Savoy, who had some issues with keeping his own marriages afloat at the time, and he used the circumstances to write songs for the second album, Scoundrel Days. Another big banger.
Your reactions are awesome...there are so many great a-ha songs. I hope you do some more of their songs. Try Hunting High and Low, The Sun Always Shines on TV, Train of Thought., or Out of Blue Comes Green. You will become an a-ha fan for life!
Hi TG Thank you for your kind words and for stopping in! I will be regularly reacting to a-ha, as I love what I've been hearing so far! Thank you for the songs, I will check all the videos and whichever has the most asks, I will do that one next! I believe some of the ones you mentioned have been asked by other people too, so it just might be one of these!
Yeah, the way I always understood this song was the narrator telling the of the story has just shot their lover, 'it wasn't rain that washed away' = the blood washing away. 'Washed out colour of your eyes' = their dead gaze. The way Morten sings it, his choice of voice modulation, giving the vocals slightly unbalanced, unhinged feel in some places, and normaland calm in others, like he'sa split personality.
Hi Mike, This is such a cool track. "putting the gun down on the beside table" Thats definitely a metaphor because the killing of someone is not confirmed by any other lyric. These words more support the argument thats takin place. "it wasn't the rain that washed away" no thats because it was tears. Ever had a fight with your girlfriend or wife and hurt them? made them cry? Then realising what you've done. Thats what i believe they reference here. Also they go to say oh come on, please now talk to me. He wants help to put things right because he been losing her.
I just realized now from your comments about their lyrics why I was so drawn to them in the late 80's, I was friggin goth back then, but me and my sister really cought on to A-ha because of the minor instead of major in their music, and in their lyrics definitely 🤗🖤😉
Thats cool that you and your sister caught onto them for reasons like the lyrical content. I never had that chance here, because well, all the exposure they had where I'm at was Take On Me. Such a shame!
You reminded me how much I love Aha and Morten's beautiful voice! I saw then in concert during the tour for this album "Hunting High and Low". The entire album is amazing!
Sycamore Leaves is fantastic too-you’d definitely like the live NRK version better as it’s more rocky and bluesy. :) edit: also yes, he shot his lover/girlfriend/wife/whatever. A-ha has a lot of darker lyrics, it’s definitely not all Take On Me! I like you going over the lyrics-almost no one does and they’re so important! But that could just be the English teacher in me lol. I’ve had my students analyze a couple of their music videos as a symbolism activity:)
Thanks for your awesome reactions, I might sugest a reaction to the cover Morten did for "Can't take My eyes off You", ever since that version appeared every fan in the world clames is Frankie Valli, or any other singer in their preferences than Morten PERFECT Harket, ha ha
Just discovered you but it doesn’t bother me at all that you go back to the lyrics! Especially with a band like a-ha, the lyrics really are like a novel. They paint such pictures in my mind. I’m so happy you love these songs! “It ended too soon!”-me at the end of every a-ha song. Also the bass in this one is incredible!
If you want rock please watch "Move to Memphis's" video or live perfomance (awessome when Morten do the guitara with his voise) also "East of the sun, west of the moon", "Sycomore Leaves" live at NRK studio (this is piece of art and rock), "Between your mama and yourself", "Cold as stone" - rocking. Or "Out of Blue Comes Green", "There's never a forever thing" , "Stay on these roads", "This alone is love" (mindblowing voise and good lyrics) "Cannot hide" and "Did anyone approach you" from 2002, "Summer moved on" (with record long note)....aaaaand many many A-ha's songs pleaaaasseee
This is my favourite A-ha song and a clear number 1. Other songs by them that I like are "Move to Memphis", " I'll do my crying in the rain" (Everly brothers cover), "The living daylights" and " Velvet" (cover originally written by Paul Waktaar for his other band Savoy ).
I found this profile today and I am really enjoying your reactions :) Your comments on the lyrics are not annoying at all. The main writer in the band Pål (Paul now) had been an avid classic reader. Dostoyevski, Kafka etc. As for the song itself. Man, it is awesome live. I am so looking forward to hear them live next year. Ohh, on this year Tribeca film festival will be shown documentary on a-ha. Here is the trailer to it if you are interested. th-cam.com/video/4HpoNUYXlwE/w-d-xo.html
Thanks God, something from A-ha that isn't Take on me. They have a lot of songs much better than that one. I recommend Living Daylights, Lifelines, Minor Earth Major Sky, Foot on the Mountains or Forever not yours. Best regards!
@@ElanurMH Absolutely! I've been listening to the other two just to tell myself they are better vocalists, but I don't think so. Morten is the best. Period.
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Morten's voice just evokes something no other singer does. Scoundrel Days is one of my favourite songs ever, the power in his voice is 👌
One of my many favorite songs!!
It's so fun watching someone react to A-ha (especially something else besides Take On Me)! I was 11 was A-ha came on the scene and I take for granted how awesome their songs are. So, I'm just so happy you're are reacting to their songs. And I"m so glad you love them! I've Been Losing You is in my top 5 A-ha songs!
Finally a real a-ha reactor. Don't know why the TH-cam algorithm didn't suggest this to me earlier...
Been one of my favourite a-ha songs, been listening to it for 35 years lol also amazing live !
"It reads like a novel" - In Norwegian traditional music, folk singing is an important genre. Often, the songs were about tragedies and the dark sides of life. A-ha carries the legacy further into modern times with their melancholic lyrics bringing a story.
I love watching reaction vids and you do a great job! Btw, never stop reading out the lyrics. It's half the song! So glad you still find beauty and relate to a song from back then. I read somewhere that "we didn't give A-ha all we should have, back in the '80s" and it's true. On the other hand...we thought we'd always have music like that being made. We were wrong....
4:05 onward
As an a-ha fan, a running joke with a friend of mine is that the songwriter (guitarist Pål Waaktaar-Savoy) is secretly a murderer and writes about his crimes in his songs lol
Because when you think about it, there are a surprisingly large amount of a-ha songs that could be interpreted as being about murder
- Scoundrel Days
- I've Been Losing You (of course)
- The Soft Rains of April (sounds like he was jailed)
- The Blood That Moves The Body
- Sycamore Leaves
And so on!
HELP I saw this without reading the username and was like 'what an insane coincidence that someone else has this running joke too' lmao
@@thethousandthhaunt3129 IT'S YOU
"Yeah, absolutely crazy that this person is even named Onyx too..."
Depeche Mode and A-ha are two bands that have accompanied me all my life. Each of their songs is a potential hit. Their music and lyrics do not lose their relevance and do not get old. On the other hand, the vocalists ..... with time their voices were filled with emotions, although they always sounded lovely.
Besides do you know that A-ha recorded a song for the Janes Bond movie?
Bass and drums incredible
Most of the songs on the second album were written by Pal Waaktaar-Savoy, who had some issues with keeping his own marriages afloat at the time, and he used the circumstances to write songs for the second album, Scoundrel Days. Another big banger.
Weight of the wind; East of the sun, west of the moon; Move to Memphis; Scondrel Days; Sycomore Leaves; Minor Earth, major sky; Summer moved On
Thank you Lorraine! I will get these on my list as well! Scoundrel Days was awesome
@@Yeedeed You're the best! Try "The Swing Of Things", buddy...
one of my favs
Your reactions are awesome...there are so many great a-ha songs. I hope you do some more of their songs. Try Hunting High and Low, The Sun Always Shines on TV, Train of Thought., or Out of Blue Comes Green. You will become an a-ha fan for life!
Hi TG Thank you for your kind words and for stopping in! I will be regularly reacting to a-ha, as I love what I've been hearing so far! Thank you for the songs, I will check all the videos and whichever has the most asks, I will do that one next! I believe some of the ones you mentioned have been asked by other people too, so it just might be one of these!
a-ha hid a lot of dark lyrics amongst upbeat music
this music makes me feel good!
Yeeeaaahhh, 80'ies was very rich years for talanted artists, singers & composers! A-Ha - wonderful band!
Yeah, the way I always understood this song was the narrator telling the of the story has just shot their lover, 'it wasn't rain that washed away' = the blood washing away. 'Washed out colour of your eyes' = their dead gaze. The way Morten sings it, his choice of voice modulation, giving the vocals slightly unbalanced, unhinged feel in some places, and normaland calm in others, like he'sa split personality.
"October" is one of my favorites by a-ha! So good!
Worth noting that a-ha themselves produced this song on the album.
Hi Mike, This is such a cool track. "putting the gun down on the beside table" Thats definitely a metaphor because the killing of someone is not confirmed by any other lyric. These words more support the argument thats takin place. "it wasn't the rain that washed away" no thats because it was tears. Ever had a fight with your girlfriend or wife and hurt them? made them cry? Then realising what you've done.
Thats what i believe they reference here. Also they go to say oh come on, please now talk to me. He wants help to put things right because he been losing her.
From the same album is the song Scoundrel Days. I bet you love that one too.
If you want more of the rock side of a-ha I suggest sycamore leaves, live at NRK studio also on you tube
I just realized now from your comments about their lyrics why I was so drawn to them in the late 80's, I was friggin goth back then, but me and my sister really cought on to A-ha because of the minor instead of major in their music, and in their lyrics definitely 🤗🖤😉
Thats cool that you and your sister caught onto them for reasons like the lyrical content. I never had that chance here, because well, all the exposure they had where I'm at was Take On Me. Such a shame!
@@YeedeedBut now you have found them and got the chance anyway. 💙
You reminded me how much I love Aha and Morten's beautiful voice! I saw then in concert during the tour for this album "Hunting High and Low". The entire album is amazing!
Sycamore Leaves is fantastic too-you’d definitely like the live NRK version better as it’s more rocky and bluesy. :)
edit: also yes, he shot his lover/girlfriend/wife/whatever. A-ha has a lot of darker lyrics, it’s definitely not all Take On Me! I like you going over the lyrics-almost no one does and they’re so important! But that could just be the English teacher in me lol. I’ve had my students analyze a couple of their music videos as a symbolism activity:)
That’s the next one he is doing 👍
It definitely ends too soon. This is one of those songs I put on repeat a lot!
Thanks for your awesome reactions, I might sugest a reaction to the cover Morten did for "Can't take My eyes off You", ever since that version appeared every fan in the world clames is Frankie Valli, or any other singer in their preferences than Morten PERFECT Harket, ha ha
A band at the top of their game, scoundrel days is a fantastic album.
Your reaction was not annoying actually very insightful.
Just discovered you but it doesn’t bother me at all that you go back to the lyrics! Especially with a band like a-ha, the lyrics really are like a novel. They paint such pictures in my mind. I’m so happy you love these songs!
“It ended too soon!”-me at the end of every a-ha song. Also the bass in this one is incredible!
I really like how you focus on the lyrics as well.
Please do "The Blood That Moves The Body". It's my favorite a-ha song
So many metal heads secretly have a crush on a-ha. I love that fact!
Probably because so many of them think that A-ha was just some "poppy" band because of "Take on Me"...They can Rock too!
Morten holds a Guinness book of records for the longest held nite in a released single
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If you want rock please watch "Move to Memphis's" video or live perfomance (awessome when Morten do the guitara with his voise) also "East of the sun, west of the moon", "Sycomore Leaves" live at NRK studio (this is piece of art and rock), "Between your mama and yourself", "Cold as stone" - rocking. Or "Out of Blue Comes Green", "There's never a forever thing" , "Stay on these roads", "This alone is love" (mindblowing voise and good lyrics) "Cannot hide" and "Did anyone approach you" from 2002, "Summer moved on" (with record long note)....aaaaand many many A-ha's songs pleaaaasseee
So underated
This is my favourite A-ha song and a clear number 1. Other songs by them that I like are "Move to Memphis", " I'll do my crying in the rain" (Everly brothers cover), "The living daylights" and " Velvet" (cover originally written by Paul Waktaar for his other band Savoy ).
I found this profile today and I am really enjoying your reactions :) Your comments on the lyrics are not annoying at all. The main writer in the band Pål (Paul now) had been an avid classic reader. Dostoyevski, Kafka etc. As for the song itself. Man, it is awesome live. I am so looking forward to hear them live next year. Ohh, on this year Tribeca film festival will be shown documentary on a-ha. Here is the trailer to it if you are interested. th-cam.com/video/4HpoNUYXlwE/w-d-xo.html
Please review Stay on these Roads, Foot of the Mountain, acoustic Memorial Beach, acoustic Take on Me, Living a boys adventure tale.
Haha I feel that about all their songs. They end too soon.
If you like those lyrics then check out Scoundrel Days, also a-ha's greatest live song...
Awesome reaction man! This is a fucking stayer!
Listen to " Manhattan Skyline" its another Monstersong of them
Hello Mike! That was the first a-ha reaction I did, absolutely loved that one! That's my favorite song of theirs right now
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I suggest "Stay on These Roads" by a-ha
Try, there is a place and out of my hands by morten harket. Cheers simon
Please do their new stuff :D! Please please please!
They have new stuff? Oh wow! I'd definitely be interested in hearing that! Thank you for all your comments and for enjoying a-ha with me as well
Who gave this a thumbs down lol
velvet- aha ))
Thanks God, something from A-ha that isn't Take on me. They have a lot of songs much better than that one. I recommend Living Daylights, Lifelines, Minor Earth Major Sky, Foot on the Mountains or Forever not yours. Best regards!
Morten 🤤 please react to many many of theyr masterpieces
Better than Take On Me imo. Besides Elvis Presley and Freddie Mercury, Morten Harket takes the bronze medal of best male voice ever!
Morten has more range than elvis
Not Bronze, Gold 😁
@@ElanurMH Absolutely! I've been listening to the other two just to tell myself they are better vocalists, but I don't think so. Morten is the best. Period.