The point is that back then bands had their own sound. Today's performers do not make their own music and now you can't separate them. Same sound,different singers.
In the 80s pop music was at its best so many brilliant tunes that some wouldn't even make my top 100 because there was so much out there eg AHA, depeche mode, human league, Yazoo just to name a few
Bro right lately I’ve been listening to their songs and I’ve always loved take on me but I think it’s just them and their music style I love. Like this song? THIS is a beautiful song wow
When I was a kid a was listening to a-ha Take on me a lot, Morten Harket has such a beautiful voice strong but very clear on the same time. This song deserves more views and likes. Who dislike this has a problem!
@@themichaelvedal Exactly, so very confused here! I mean was only on UK Radio yesterday. on 4 different stations I listened to and was on an 80's documentary last month with it on lol Let alone it being a smash hit single Worldwide etc. This person obviously doesn't know what highly underrated means 😂 Where you from??
Justement non elle était intemporelle et pas du tout dans le son de l'époque très en avance sur sonn temps Elle sortirait aujourd'hui elle fonctionnerait autant Car elle est dans le son d'aujourd'hui Ils avaient 30 ans d'avance sur leur époque avec ce single
Everyone always thinks of "Take on Me" when they think of a-ha. This is the song that comes to mind for me. It's a beautifully crafted masterpiece that distills everything that was "totally awesome" in the 80's into one single spectacular melody. A point in time that I truly believe even a thousand years from now humans will look back on with both awe and envy.
I was at diner yesterday that is closing down at the end of the month that normally plays 80s throwbacks. They played this song yesterday as I was walking out and tears almost went down my eyes. Such a great song and only fitting because of the situation. RIP TO THE TIMELESS NEPTUNE DINER IN ASTORIA!
It's s crime that this isn't the song people know them for. So brilliant. Epic and grandioso, yet so emotionally stirring. One of the great bands of the decade and beyond.
For me A-ha's greatest song will always be "Hunting High And Low" but this is a close second. Take on Me is remembered more for the video than the song I think. It was a truly groundbreaking pop video back then.
Whos listening in 20- ? No, the time if which you listen to this song is not important. What's important is that you are able to listen and enjoy it. This song is timeless, will never get old and will hold a special place in our hearts. Congratulations on more than 1 Billion for Take On Me, A-ha and thank you for this masterpiece and treasure that you have shared to the world!
1985 was the height of the 80's. The height sustained until 1988 and that is when the music started to change to sound more like early 90's. I remember thinking in 1988 how the music sounded different than it did a few years earlier. Man, the 80's was a fantastic time to be alive. The music really made the 1980's.
9/21/20 My father passed away. Aha was his favorite 80's band. My dad loved all of your music.. He wished he could have seen you in concert, But he raised a family of 7 children with love & forgiveness.. Thank you for all of your great music!!
A-ha were the greatest Scandinavian band along with ABBA. Their songs have something epic, triumphant and with an afflatus coming from magical Northern Europe!🤍♥️🤍
Forever a Classic that many mainstream listeners dont know today. At the time these two tracks/videos were released the groundbreaking techniques were stunning. Their 'Take on Me' video starts this story and the way it finishes here in The Sun.. is pure artistic genius !
@@optimus163 🎯 Right on Forever the essential message for 21st Century civilization. The world was already in desperate need of that message in 1985. No one could imagine the problems of mass culture/ mind control becoming what it is now
A-ha is super underrated. I’m almost 17 and none of my friends know who they are. They have some real bangers, like Take on Me, Manhattan Skyline, The Sun Always Shines on TV, Hunting High and Low, I’ve Been Losing You, The Living Daylights, Cry Wolf, and Blue Sky, not to mention all the remixes and the MTV unplugged album.
Soft rains of April, Scoundrel days, Maybe maybe, Crying in the rain, I call your name, Early morning, Stay on these roads, The blood that moves the body, You are the one, Touchy!, Lifelines...
You were born too late. If you were born in the 60's for example, you would have grown up with this music, danced in the nightclubs to all this amazing music from the 80's.Then we have the 90's and Rave. You would have basically partied for 20 years ;) Hoping you can check out the 80's + 90's music scene. Good old days. Thinking about it i'm going to charge up my Time machine. See you there Jstewart2007.
@@FlickanIDetKroktaRummet No James Bond theme on this album? I dont know which country you are from. But their new albums are still charting at top 10 lists in Europe. Thats better than most 80s bands that still release stuff
@@FlickanIDetKroktaRummetWhat utter nonsense…a-ha have released 11 studio albums and sold over 100 million records. Yes their first album sold over 12 million …but that leaves another 88+ million sales of all other albums & singles combined. They have had multiple hit songs in Europe and the rest of the world, many of them reaching #1. So Rolling Stones magazine is incorrect and so is anyone else who insists in repeating that a-ha are one hit wonders.
Back in 1985 they were in Concord California. And my sister wasn't allowed to go unless she took me to go see these guys. At that time I never even heard of him. But when they came out I was so surprised not only do they look exactly the same as they do on TV but they sounded just as good and I was an instant fan
I saw INXS - Listen Like Thieves tour in 1985 at Concord Pavilion when I was 19. And like 20 other shows there over the next 15 years ... Depeche, Counting Crows, James Taylor, Mellencamp, ZZ Top, Skynryd, Page/Plant, Henley, and Morrissey to name a few :)
When my parents are both gone…hopefully still many years away yet…this track will always remind me of it playing in our red Mazda, driving down the back of our base in Germany in the eighties, just me and my dad, sunroof open, sun blazing in. When I go, I hope Heaven is the eighties with my ma and pa!
This is arguably the best song off of the album. That piano intro - the synth bassline - just a brilliant track! I know everyone remembers these guys for "Take on Me", but "The Sun Always Shines on TV" was a far better song IMHO.
Easily one of the greatest songs ever written and composed! It has everything not to mention incredible vocals. The guitar intro, the strings are absolutely amazing. The keyboards and lastly the drums! Wow just wow!! 80s music was the best hands down!
Probably one of the best songs of the 80's. When He sings it now he sounds just as good as he did way back then. What a decade the 80's were and so lucky to have been there to appreciate their music, even now.
🔥💥🍾🥂🥰♥️ Découvert dans les années 80....pendant mon boulot de gardien de parking le WEEK-END, après ma semaine de travail ETE comme HIVER Je ne connaissais pas mon bonheur👍👍👍67 ans😛😜😝 Bonheur OK BOOMER
I don't understand why the song "Take on me" is more popular than this one. The best song by A-Ha. Dynamic, power, drums, synths, e-guitar, timing all put together in one song. Wonderful.
This is one of the most underrated not to mention enchantingly mystical progressive pop songs written in years. A true musical masterpiece in the progressive reamagined pop renaissance.
Lyrics : Touch me How can it be Believe me The sun always shines on T.V Hold me Close to your heart Touch me And give all your love to me To me... I Reached inside myself And found nothing there To ease the pressure off My ever worried mind All my powers waste away I fear the crazed and lonely looks The mirror's sending me These Days Touch me How can it be Believe me The sun always shines on T.V Hold me Close to your heart Touch me And give all your love to me Please don't ask me to defend The shamefull lowlands Of the way I'm drifting Gloomily through time (Touch me) I reached inside myself today (Give all your love) Thinking there's got to be some way To keep my troubles distant Hold me Close to your heart Touch me And give all your love to me
I know! It's obviously 1980s but sounds as fresh and exciting today as it did to us back then. No bands today have such good melodies and exciting music ( except Sigur Ros).
Bringing me tears of joy & sadness for memories & times that have gone by... Yearning for yesteryear... Waves of Nostalgia are building within.... Brings goosebumps , a lump to my throat and a pounding in my heart and a fire in my soul.. The track holds up well & evokes such intense feelings & flashbacks to a much happier decade gone by...
Well said! A great decade that should have stopped in 1985-1986 and that's it! No cell phones, no Internet and all that technology that corrupted the 90's and 00's generation! Poor them they are now addicted to smartphones and walking with their heads down not knowing where they go... Lost generation!
There was literally no comparison to my love for a-ha as a teenager in the 80's. Listening today, I'm transported right back to those golden glory days.
LYRICS : Touch me How can it be Believe me The sun always shines on T.V. Hold me Close to your heart Touch me And give all your love To me To me... I reached inside myself and found Nothing there to ease the pressure Of my ever worried mind All my powers waste away I fear the crazed and lonely looks The mirror's sending me these days Touch me How can it be Believe me The sun always shines on T.V Hold me Close to your heart Touch me And give all your love To me Please don't ask me to defend The shameful lowlands of the way I'm drifting gloomily through time (Touch me) I reached inside myself today Thinking there's got to be some way To keep my troubles distant Touch me How can it be Believe me The sun always shines on T.V. Hold me Close to your heart Touch me And give all your love To me Hold me Close to your heart Touch me And give all your love To me To me...
Pål Waaktaar Gamst (now Paul Waaktar-Savoy), the lead guitarist, is also the underrated genius who wrote most of a-ha’s songs, and basically all of the lyrics. Morton of course has that effortless frontman charisma and one of the greatest pop voices of all time, and he deserves all the kudos he gets and more, but I wonder how many people know that he’s mostly singing Paul’s incredible original songs? Plus, as a three piece band (with added members occasionally), they were/are a really tight pop rock group and just as amazing live as on vinyl! No studio shenanigans here, these guys were and are the *real deal* 🎤 🎸 🥁
Yes, Pal was the musical genius, Morten had the voice charisma and Mags the roaring synths but whose contribution is also underrated. The band wouldnt be legendary without all 3 key players. Love them, btw since I was a kid in Greece.
Funny, I have never seen AHA as underrated. They were beyond popular and traveled the hole world from mid eighties to mid nineties. Fun fact from Wiki: The band were listed in the Guinness World Records book for having the biggest-paying rock concert attendance; they drew an audience of 198,000 at Maracanã Stadium during the Rock in Rio festival. They have sold more than 100 million units, albums and singles combined.
Sometimes it's painful realizing just how long ago the 80s were. Songs like this take me back to those glorious days of childhood and it almost seems like an eternity. These songs are one of the few windows back to those days, almost like a three minute time machine. The tragedy of growing old....
RyuHayabusa06 We had everything to look forward to in our lives back then. Now all we can do is look back on those time with the knowledge that the anticipation of the future was often better than the reality, and wish we has lingered longer in the moment.
Everything about about this song the tempo changes the arrangement etc is top notch.even after 36 years it still moves me.such a brilliant original video as well !
Actually its a very timely song: we are even more surrounded by Media today than in the 80s and try to use TV, Internet etc. as a way to keep our troubles distant - but this shallow, unreal world makes us only more isolated.
Diese Zeit kann man einfach nicht vergessen ❤. Wie haben wir Damals ohne Ängste und Sorgen gelebt. Alle die diese Wunderbare Zeit mit erleben durften kennen dieses Gefühl wieder in die 80 ziger zurück versetzt zu werden ❤❤❤
Naja, damals gabs den kalten Krieg mit enormer Waffenaufrüstung. Das erleben wir leider heute wieder. Damals war diagnostiziertes HIV/Aids ein sicheres Todesurteil. Und in Tschernobyl (Sowjetunion/Ukraine) explodierte das AKW, was auch bei uns noch heute zu radioaktiv belasteten Wälder, Pilze und Wildtiere führt. So toll war das alles nicht. Wo Licht ist, gibts auch Schatten.
This song is nearly 40 years old and it still gives me goosebumps when I crank it up . One time I was fortunate enough to take my CD over to a work buddy's house where he had and elaborate sound system. Large powerful Mcintosh amp and 6 foot tall electrostatic speakers . OMG. I hear parts of this song I never heard before even with my bad ass studio headphones . It was almost surreal to listen to this song in that setting
Bought this album for my thirteenth birthday...it's amazing how much I listen to this song these days and think to myself how much this album has influenced me musically... Thank you, A-Ha for some of the best years of my life.
For those of us who grew up in the 80s...we truly had the best of times - coming of age at a time without social media distractions, fear of school shootings, or a terrifying pandemic. I always loved this song but had kind of forgotten about it and then rediscovered it a few months ago when it came on First Wave on Sirius in my car one day. If you haven't watched the 2017 live MTV unplugged concert version do yourself a favor and look that one up next.
Don't forget no "reality" shows. That said, I'm so happy to have the Internet instead of sending letters through the post ... not to mention getting so much more than I ever could from the public library.
The 80's had, statistically, the worst outbreak of violent crime in recorded American history. The introduction of meth and crack cocaine increased the profits and, by extension the allure of street level gang crime. The terrifying epidemic AIDS was killing people left and right and we had no fucking idea how contagious it was for, like seven years. Dystopian and post-apocalypse science fiction captured the public imagination because apocalyptic fears were the highest since the Cuban Missile Crisis. The 80's was a fucking hellscape with, admittedly, some pretty sweet pop hits.
There are some misguided people who call A-ha a "one hit wonder band", because all they know, all they ever heard is "Take on me". That they had 11 successful albums with lots of other hits and even more just awesome music... that's forgotten by the "mainstream":
@@Groffili True. Not even close as a "one hit wonder" band. They got 8 top ten hits in the UK, with this one the only No 1 hit there ("Take on me" went at No 2). And quite famous all over Europe.
A-ha was a an era defining band of the early 1980s. They had by far some of the best music videos. This video and “Take on Me” were probably the two best music videos of the 1980s.
I've been a huge fan of a-ha since their debut album, Hunting High and Low. In fact they're my all-time favorite group. I lost my hearing in 2011 and have not had the pleasure of hearing this song, or enjoying any type of music, in over a decade. So, can someone listen to this song for me, one time, please? Thank you :) This is an EPIC song, by the way. This video is timeless and looks just as if it could've been made yesterday. It's impossible not to love it! a-ha was way ahead of their time.
I got you. Remember the orchestral music and the grandeur of the song when the ethereal haunting quality of Morten Harkets phenomenal voice. Love to you. Hold onto the memories of music in your heart ❤ no one can take the power of music from us ever. Blessings to you 🎉
Im so sorry , Sending you good vibes ((())))))) ❤️💫This song is etched into my memory. Music has a way of doing that sometimes, I hope it also does for you ☝️❤️
Such an underrated song from one of the most underrated bands ever. Epic, moving, brilliantly written, produced & recorded. A-ha will always be one of my favourite 80s music groups of all time! 🎤🎧🎶🎸😊 **And in response to all of those who have been ridiculously negative towards my post, please re-read my comments! Did I say that A-ha is a pathetic, waste of time, has-been music group?? My understanding of being underrated means not being given the status or recognition worldwide that Morten & his band mates so obviously deserved. They're one of many music groups from the past who wrote &/or performed exceptional tunes that weren't given the airtime they deserved. So have I cleared things up now? I guess further comments will answer that question! 🤔🙏
I'd be honored if some 80s fans would take a listen to my acoustic piano & vocal YT performances of PURPLE RAIN by Prince and EYE OF THE TIGER by Survivor in tribute to the era of legendary power ballads. Peace and stay safe in the '020s.
1985 was the best year and being 17 years old and hearing this song after Take On Me, even after 34 years, still dancing like a school girl and singing to all of a-ha's songs, this is one of my very favourites. The boys from Norway, still look as handsome as ever since the day they came onto the world stage. Always the best.
A year behind you and got a good talking to about that era of music! Sorry to say was not a positive thing! Was also very lucky to be a radio insider for station that was built in this time in music!
Touch me How can it be Believe me The sun always shines on TV Hold me Close to your heart Touch me And give all your love to me To me I reached inside myself and found Nothing there to ease the Pressure of my ever worrying mind All my powers waste away I fear the crazed and lonely Looks the mirror's sending me these days Touch me How can it be Believe me The sun always shines on TV Hold me Close to your heart Touch me And give all your love to me Please don't ask me to defend The shameful lowlands of the way I'm drifting Gloomily through time I reached inside myself today Thinking there's got to be some way To keep my troubles distant Touch me How can it be Believe me The sun always shines on TV Hold me Close to your heart Touch me And give all your love to me Hold me Close to your heart Touch me And give all your love to me To me
When I was a teenager in the 80's, I traveled to Mexico in a sailing vessel with my family. We decided to live like sailors and go where the wind took us. At that time and before we left, we recorded our favorite local Los Angeles radio station using a "boom box" and magnetic audio cassettes. So, we taped hours of music, DJ comments, commercials, station call letters etc. Basically, it was like a snapshot in time of what was happening on the radio. This song was one of the many we recorded and listened to for hours traveling the Baja California coast and the Sea of Cortez. When I hear it, it brings me back in time.
greeting from the north side of the Sea of Cortez....El Golfo and Rocky Point...a beautiful and warm sea once called ''The Aquarium of The World'' by Jacques Cousteau
@@AB-mx9lx Thank you! Shout out back to you. The farthest north I went was Mulege… most of the time spent was in Puerto Escondido, La Paz and points in between. Safe travels to you.
The 80s will always have the MOST special place in my heart and mind. This song reminds me of the carefree times when the only decision I may have had was when to begin to study for Finals here at U of I back in the 80s. Life is a lot more difficult now as an adult in my late 50s , but I still have those awesome memories of dancing till dawn and every hope in the world. Happy 2019 everyone. Don't forget our youth.
golden age of synthesis and composing. a true masterpiece with every tone and note hard worked to give the ultimate acoustic experience. music from heart.
I remember my big sister had a circa one meter poster of Morten who were posing lying lasciviously on the ground. She kept on talking about him all day long :)
@BOSS GABY56 You really need to see his "unplugged" series...like a fine wine...simpler is better and better with age...;) It's on TH-cam...;) "Stay on These Roads" is my fav "B" side track...;)
@@pitrick7037 70s was great too. Usually it all comes down to what decade to grew into adulthood. High school and college years are when young adults bond with their friends over common musical interests.
***** Oh, and I always liked this song more than I liked Take On Me and I was obsessed with that song. Loved Cry Wolf also! They have a lot of great and memorable songs. I also believe Morten has a 5 octave vocal range. Again, *beyond* underrated!!
Agreed! A-ha have plenty of great songs. Beautiful lyrics and melody by Mags and Pal, in combination with Morten's heavenly vocals, made some of the finest pop music of the 80's, indeed they created musical jewels!! Despite that Take on me was basically the only one of their songs played (and over played) in the radio in North America, not South America though, there were HUGE there, thanks to the fans that "discovered" them.
It's funny because their hit "Take on me" is iconic and because of that the band will never be forgotten but their backlog if often overlooked. They're understated but celebrated for their big hit.
The best song by a-ha. No disrespect to any other song of theirs but this song is amazing. Beautiful, dark, sad, etc. Such a great chorus and keyboard melody.
Actually they are only considered a one-hit-wonder by some uninformed Americans, they had a lot of hits all over the world. In 2019/2020 they are performing a Tour on nearly all continents.
@@marjoriemcbride6557 actually they are a 2 hit wonder, take on me went number 2 and the sun will always shines on TV went number 1, and the rest went to the top 10
COOLGAMINGSHOW It all depends what you define as a hit...and where! The world is a big place and they most definitely had many hits songs in many parts of the world. I’d say still touring and performing live , and selling out venues all around the world after 35 years ..not to mention 2 Guinness world records and selling over 100 million records is more significant that top ten hits.
This is my favorite song. A-HA is one of the most creative bands from any era. (Especially the videos) Morten's vocals are so good, I can't compare them to anyone, not even Steve Perry. I've owned their music since the 80s and it never gets old for me.
This is their best song...So much better than " Take on Me ". I have been lucky to see them perform twice...once in 1994 and then in 2020 !!! This song was always one of the best from the 80's...I was there..
Current artists can sample all they want. One thing they WONT ressurect is the magic of the Era which has been and gone. We had it good in the 80's. Real good.
A-ha is easily one of the best bands the world has seen. So many unbelivably well made and listenable songs. Absolute treasures.
The point is that back then bands had their own sound. Today's performers do not make their own music and now you can't separate them. Same sound,different singers.
@@oneextra8659 this!
In the 80s pop music was at its best so many brilliant tunes that some wouldn't even make my top 100 because there was so much out there eg AHA, depeche mode, human league, Yazoo just to name a few
Gli "A-ha", li trovo sexy!
@@MampsUK
Thats a movie at the start ?
Criminally underrated song. I love that "Take on Me" has a billion views, but this song is magnificent and people are sleeping on it.
Bro right lately I’ve been listening to their songs and I’ve always loved take on me but I think it’s just them and their music style I love. Like this song? THIS is a beautiful song wow
It was actually a hit then. It isn’t underrated at all just cause it doesn’t have 100M views
I think exactly the same.
Dude he sings take on me no beat he truly sings like a angel
When I was a kid a was listening to a-ha Take on me a lot, Morten Harket has such a beautiful voice strong but very clear on the same time. This song deserves more views and likes. Who dislike this has a problem!
Highly underrated. This song defines the 80's sound. Great song by a great band.
Highly underrated. Ummmmm no!
@@mikekaraoke Not even close.. lol
@@themichaelvedal Exactly, so very confused here!
I mean was only on UK Radio yesterday. on 4 different stations I listened to and was on an 80's documentary last month with it on lol
Let alone it being a smash hit single Worldwide etc. This person obviously doesn't know what highly underrated means 😂
Where you from??
Justement non elle était intemporelle et pas du tout dans le son de l'époque très en avance sur sonn temps Elle sortirait aujourd'hui elle fonctionnerait autant Car elle est dans le son d'aujourd'hui Ils avaient 30 ans d'avance sur leur époque avec ce single
It's not 'underrated' at all... It's an amazing track and people love it
53 years old and i still love ah ah music 🎶.
I'm 53 and I still love this song!
@@jameslevens2121
и мне 53 -но до сих пор не отпускает
A-HA
This band deserved so much more than what we gave them in the 80s.. easily one of the best bands that Norway/ Europe gifted us.
Surely the best Europe band in the 80’s
@@thomas91360 Surely the best band in the 80s
it might be as we say in France the crime of beautiful mouth
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What a great song, I love it! I put it into my "Shellshocked Radio - Recommendations" List: th-cam.com/video/s2cDdAjTAGU/w-d-xo.html Very well done!
Everyone always thinks of "Take on Me" when they think of a-ha. This is the song that comes to mind for me. It's a beautifully crafted masterpiece that distills everything that was "totally awesome" in the 80's into one single spectacular melody. A point in time that I truly believe even a thousand years from now humans will look back on with both awe and envy.
This song is a masterpiece!
Well said Max
I applaud you sir🫡
Not everone thinks of-Take on Me when they think of A-ha but just one of their songs/videos-this is one of their bst known hits in general!
Yep. 1000 years from now people will still be crying at this song.
One of the GREATEST songs ever written...a true masterpiece!!!
Indeed
Oui c'est exact !
They have a few amazing classics.
Thumbs up :)
The video doesn't due the song justice
I was at diner yesterday that is closing down at the end of the month that normally plays 80s throwbacks. They played this song yesterday as I was walking out and tears almost went down my eyes. Such a great song and only fitting because of the situation. RIP TO THE TIMELESS NEPTUNE DINER IN ASTORIA!
I have a cry to this to
Essa canção é linda!!!!!
@@gemmamudd7167 many do..its that kind of song..so evocative
aha Good one !
Such a powerful song. I am blown away by the power in his voice.
Stunning voice
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Vhkn'
The power of the music
When was u blown ?
It's s crime that this isn't the song people know them for. So brilliant. Epic and grandioso, yet so emotionally stirring. One of the great bands of the decade and beyond.
my sentiments exactly!
For me A-ha's greatest song will always be "Hunting High And Low" but this is a close second. Take on Me is remembered more for the video than the song I think. It was a truly groundbreaking pop video back then.
for me the great song by a-ha = take on me
like "take on me" and "train of thought" a lot too, don't you?
The whole album was brilliant, still one of my all time favourites
all the instruments tones and interactions, the mix.. the voice... it's just a master piece.
❤
Yes. The arrangement and production is exceptional.
@@damianoyolaine3273❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Agreed!
@@80ssynthfan481¹¹1a1
The sun always shines on 80's !❤
For all the 80's kids, this was golden 💕
this kills take on me!
Thank you!! I'm an 80s kid and proud of it!
J'ai adore la musique des années 80!!
c'est la meillure de l'histoire!!
salutations d'un galicien!!
@@Nancy2420s Same😍
Same 😍
Whos listening in 20- ? No, the time if which you listen to this song is not important. What's important is that you are able to listen and enjoy it. This song is timeless, will never get old and will hold a special place in our hearts. Congratulations on more than 1 Billion for Take On Me, A-ha and thank you for this masterpiece and treasure that you have shared to the world!
Yep
Yo...now
Me
i found this song in 2020 and its cool af
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1985 was the height of the 80's. The height sustained until 1988 and that is when the music started to change to sound more like early 90's. I remember thinking in 1988 how the music sounded different than it did a few years earlier. Man, the 80's was a fantastic time to be alive. The music really made the 1980's.
This song takes some beating, by anybody.
Around 93-94 eurodance took over and i thought that every song would be with a man rapping in the verse and a girl singing the chorus...🤣
The songs featured in Miami Vice reflected this mid 80s period.
@@simonfernandes6809 in the air tonight
1988 was one of the best years in pop music history.
6O YEARS OLD,I STILL LOVE THIS MUSIC.I LOVE A-HA.I LOVE 80-S.A-HA FOREVER.
55 here!
❤😘
For me, THIS is the best a-ha tune
I agree. The synths are marvelous.
Yes
and me
Yes one of their greatest, though I also love Hunting High and Low, Manhattan Skyline, Stay on These Roads, Lifelines and Scroundel Days very much
I've always liked this song better than Take On Me, but Take On Me's video / plot is SO much more engaging.
9/21/20 My father passed away. Aha was his favorite 80's band. My dad loved all of your music.. He wished he could have seen you in concert, But he raised a family of 7 children with love & forgiveness..
Thank you for all of your great music!!
my condolences,buddy
My condolences
Sorry for your loss
Sorry for your loss keep safe
I am sorry for your loss. My dad died from Covid 12/2/2020 and then his baby sister 2 weeks later. His service is tomorrow.
One of the best music ever made. A-ha didn’t get the recognition they deserved. Totally in love with their music.
Toujours été un grand fan de cette musique
Esattamente !!sono d'accordo con te
One of the best music ever made. A-ha didn't get the recognition they deserved. Totally in love with their music.
A-ha were the greatest Scandinavian band along with ABBA. Their songs have something epic, triumphant and with an afflatus coming from magical Northern Europe!🤍♥️🤍
@@oscarputrino4478 Totally agree. But I also would include Roxette.
Who's here in 2024 and feeling nostalgic?
O nois aqui 😮
not nostalgic, just alive :-)
Randomly heard this on Spotify today, memories of my childhood ❤
Always up☝️for Nostalgia 😎 musix 4life 🎶x
Forever a Classic that many mainstream listeners dont know today. At the time these two tracks/videos were released the groundbreaking techniques were stunning. Their 'Take on Me' video starts this story and the way it finishes here in The Sun.. is pure artistic genius !
❤
@@optimus163 🎯 Right on
Forever the essential message for 21st Century civilization. The world was already in desperate need of that message in 1985. No one could imagine the problems of mass culture/ mind control becoming what it is now
Possibly the most underrated song in history. This is a masterpiece!
Scotty Clayton not underrated on U.K. as it went number 1 for 2 weeks
@@Whoswho34 Good point, I grew up in the U.S. The U.K. has great taste.
Not totally underated. This brings me old memories of 80'. And I was young and living in a dictatorship communist state. But this tune is not new.
totally agree immense piece
Go4it new Generation!!! Try Hysteria 23 DJ Baby Lee and all the other Hardcore Tapepacks from that time, maybe you can carry on our secret. :))
The sun will always shine on the 80's .
Nope! the 90's!
Amen 👌😚
+Artur Więckowski no! 80. The sun always on tv,It was launched in 1986.
So true
80s had better music anyway
A-ha is super underrated. I’m almost 17 and none of my friends know who they are. They have some real bangers, like Take on Me, Manhattan Skyline, The Sun Always Shines on TV, Hunting High and Low, I’ve Been Losing You, The Living Daylights, Cry Wolf, and Blue Sky, not to mention all the remixes and the MTV unplugged album.
Soft rains of April, Scoundrel days, Maybe maybe, Crying in the rain, I call your name, Early morning, Stay on these roads, The blood that moves the body, You are the one, Touchy!, Lifelines...
I love Blue Sky!
I tuoi amici sono vuoti
@@edgardodominguez2159 Yes, the entire Scoundrel Days cd is underrated.
You were born too late. If you were born in the 60's for example, you would have grown up with this music, danced in the nightclubs to all this amazing music from the 80's.Then we have the 90's and Rave. You would have basically partied for 20 years ;) Hoping you can check out the 80's + 90's music scene. Good old days. Thinking about it i'm going to charge up my Time machine. See you there Jstewart2007.
This song should make a come back. The world needs Aha.
makes a comeback every time i think of it!
Laura Teng totally agree
It is a whole new world my friend,my son listens to some bands from south asia nowadays😁😁😁😁
Yes indeed !!!!
Agree with you. Weird thing I did not find any cover of this song. Do you know any? I was 8 when this came out but I recall it clearly.
Rolling stones magazine called this band a one hit wonder. But 38 years later, this song still made the achievement to get 100 million views
and so what? their first album was a one hit wonder.
@@FlickanIDetKroktaRummet No James Bond theme on this album? I dont know which country you are from. But their new albums are still charting at top 10 lists in Europe. Thats better than most 80s bands that still release stuff
@@FlickanIDetKroktaRummetWhat utter nonsense…a-ha have released 11 studio albums and sold over 100 million records. Yes their first album sold over 12 million …but that leaves another 88+ million sales of all other albums & singles combined. They have had multiple hit songs in Europe and the rest of the world, many of them reaching #1. So Rolling Stones magazine is incorrect and so is anyone else who insists in repeating that a-ha are one hit wonders.
Ну, скажем, это не самая крутая песня в их исполнении. Есть как минимум еще 2 хита от них. И я их слушаю почти каждый день!
Rolling stone magazine says that the gun club is a great band, so ………….nevermind those happy crappy journalists.
Back in 1985 they were in Concord California. And my sister wasn't allowed to go unless she took me to go see these guys. At that time I never even heard of him. But when they came out I was so surprised not only do they look exactly the same as they do on TV but they sounded just as good and I was an instant fan
They still sound great live
Jealous
Боже моя мллодость в Крыму на дискотеках его песни .
I saw INXS - Listen Like Thieves tour in 1985 at Concord Pavilion when I was 19. And like 20 other shows there over the next 15 years ... Depeche, Counting Crows, James Taylor, Mellencamp, ZZ Top, Skynryd, Page/Plant, Henley, and Morrissey to name a few :)
When my parents are both gone…hopefully still many years away yet…this track will always remind me of it playing in our red Mazda, driving down the back of our base in Germany in the eighties, just me and my dad, sunroof open, sun blazing in.
When I go, I hope Heaven is the eighties with my ma and pa!
I love this :)
You know that a song / album be truly EPIC, when you listen to it for almost FOUR Decades and still Love it!
This is arguably the best song off of the album. That piano intro - the synth bassline - just a brilliant track! I know everyone remembers these guys for "Take on Me", but "The Sun Always Shines on TV" was a far better song IMHO.
Mines too
agree
ME LIKE WISE
Hunting High and Low is the best song on the album in my opinion.
❤
This song and video are 34 years old, yet still sounds and looks better than anything that is produced today!!!
I think take on me is better
@@773-o2n👍 can't argue with that!!!😊
Shaun Penne agreed.
@@owenslaw7364 thanks amigo!!
So true...
Easily one of the greatest songs ever written and composed! It has everything not to mention incredible vocals. The guitar intro, the strings are absolutely amazing. The keyboards and lastly the drums! Wow just wow!! 80s music was the best hands down!
their best track. perfect synth intro
Probably one of the best songs of the 80's. When He sings it now he sounds just as good as he did way back then. What a decade the 80's were and so lucky to have been there to appreciate their music, even now.
🔥💥🍾🥂🥰♥️
Découvert dans les années 80....pendant mon boulot de gardien de parking le WEEK-END, après ma semaine de travail
ETE comme HIVER
Je ne connaissais pas mon bonheur👍👍👍67 ans😛😜😝
Bonheur OK BOOMER
C'était les meilleurs années en 1980 j'aimerais tellement revenir à cette époque
After 35 years, it hits me as strong as the first time I heard it amazing
i agree whit u im the same way i love A-ha
Eu tbm ,eu m vejo lá n passado e sinto as mesmas emoções ,as vezes até choro d saudades ,mas valeeeeeeu
Yes, hits as strong.... ❤️💎
Yes 1986 was a great year for.. Aha
🙃🙃остаться вдвоём
I don't understand why the song "Take on me" is more popular than this one. The best song by A-Ha. Dynamic, power, drums, synths, e-guitar, timing all put together in one song. Wonderful.
Personally this and crying in the rain are the best aha songs
People have opinions
Because take on me released first at that time
"I fear the crazed and lonely looks the mirror's sending me these days"
Pål Waaktaar lyrics are something from other world
you are wright....i mean to
This is one of the most underrated not to mention enchantingly mystical progressive pop songs written in years. A true musical masterpiece in the progressive reamagined pop renaissance.
love this album
I think most underrated of all time.
awesome comment Karl V, totally agree!
true my brother
YES
Lyrics :
Touch me
How can it be
Believe me
The sun always shines on T.V
Hold me
Close to your heart
Touch me
And give all your love to me
To me...
I Reached inside myself
And found nothing there
To ease the pressure off
My ever worried mind
All my powers waste away
I fear the crazed and lonely looks
The mirror's sending me
These Days
Touch me
How can it be
Believe me
The sun always shines on T.V
Hold me
Close to your heart
Touch me
And give all your love to me
Please don't ask me to defend
The shamefull lowlands
Of the way I'm drifting
Gloomily through time
(Touch me)
I reached inside myself today
(Give all your love)
Thinking there's got to be some way
To keep my troubles distant
Hold me
Close to your heart
Touch me
And give all your love to me
Gxs
❤️
Lyrics could be a classical love song, but having the video filmed in a church makes it look like a believer pleading for the love of God.
👌🏼
What an energy, what a voice, what a song, what a video !!! A-ha forever 🥰!!!
those drums and those violins....wow!
Drugs Norway DDR
It’s a very romantic song
How many people still loves "A-ha"???.
tdo el mundooooooo
3?
Me being one
Legends
🖤😎🤘 a-ha rules!
it's been 34 years and this song is still magical as ever...
Wow 34 years !!
OMG 34 years! 😱😱😱😱
agree
Indeed
I know! It's obviously 1980s but sounds as fresh and exciting today as it did to us back then. No bands today have such good melodies and exciting music ( except Sigur Ros).
One of the best band of the 80's. The best voice and best keyboard.
Theee best band of the 80s and there still going ☝️
I was completely crazy about the sound and voice on Rock in Rio. They are amazing!
What do you mean whit the best keyboard? Roland,korg or yamaha keybord synth? :)
@@kentxx12 Keyboard player, of course! :)
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Bringing me tears of joy & sadness for memories & times that have gone by... Yearning for yesteryear... Waves of Nostalgia are building within.... Brings goosebumps , a lump to my throat and a pounding in my heart and a fire in my soul.. The track holds up well & evokes such intense feelings & flashbacks to a much happier decade gone by...
Well said! A great decade that should have stopped in 1985-1986 and that's it! No cell phones, no Internet and all that technology that corrupted the 90's and 00's generation! Poor them they are now addicted to smartphones and walking with their heads down not knowing where they go... Lost generation!
me too
Exactly, well spoken.
Ditto
As I'm sitting here crying with nostalgia, you took the words right out of my mouth.
Listening with my 9 year old in 2024...he loves 80s music!!
(Like so i can come back every year as he gets older😊)
Teaching the boy/girl the way of the 80's! 💯
There was literally no comparison to my love for a-ha as a teenager in the 80's. Listening today, I'm transported right back to those golden glory days.
I agree, the 80's were incredible
@@Memorigel2Nov 5, 2010
1985
This song was my everything in the 80s. A fantastic decade ❤
Je vous comprends… Trop sûrement ❤️🩹😉
LYRICS :
Touch me
How can it be
Believe me
The sun always shines on T.V.
Hold me
Close to your heart
Touch me
And give all your love
To me
To me...
I reached inside myself and found
Nothing there to ease the pressure
Of my ever worried mind
All my powers waste away
I fear the crazed and lonely looks
The mirror's sending me these days
Touch me
How can it be
Believe me
The sun always shines on T.V
Hold me
Close to your heart
Touch me
And give all your love
To me
Please don't ask me to defend
The shameful lowlands of the way
I'm drifting gloomily through time
(Touch me)
I reached inside myself today
Thinking there's got to be some way
To keep my troubles distant
Touch me
How can it be
Believe me
The sun always shines on T.V.
Hold me
Close to your heart
Touch me
And give all your love
To me
Hold me
Close to your heart
Touch me
And give all your love
To me
To me...
Wowzers, a musical masterpiece with deep emotional lyrics and magical mythical sounds from the ‘80s!!! #Thanks4Sharing 🥰🎵❤️🤖🌈☯️🔥👏💯
Pål Waaktaar Gamst (now Paul Waaktar-Savoy), the lead guitarist, is also the underrated genius who wrote most of a-ha’s songs, and basically all of the lyrics. Morton of course has that effortless frontman charisma and one of the greatest pop voices of all time, and he deserves all the kudos he gets and more, but I wonder how many people know that he’s mostly singing Paul’s incredible original songs? Plus, as a three piece band (with added members occasionally), they were/are a really tight pop rock group and just as amazing live as on vinyl! No studio shenanigans here, these guys were and are the *real deal* 🎤 🎸 🥁
Yes, Pal was the musical genius, Morten had the voice charisma and Mags the roaring synths but whose contribution is also underrated. The band wouldnt be legendary without all 3 key players. Love them, btw since I was a kid in Greece.
Cool. Didn't know that. Sort of like Depeche mode, where Martin Gore was the musical genius who wrote the songs and Dave Gahan the famous voice.
Thanks didn't know. The band is just fabulous.
@@scott80ca Love Depeche Mode too.
As Martin Lee Gore from DM
That's sure a hidden gem from the 80's. No words.
That synth break at the end gives me chills every time, what a fantastic single, one of the best of the eighties!
Same! So many euphoric moments in this track 👍
The synth at the beginning after the terrific opening drum sequence is what does it for me! Who was the mystery drummer?
Omg, yes! Goosebumps every single time at that part. Tears as well, at times, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. Hehe. This song is a pure genius.
It's epic ....this and Hunting High and Low.😍
THANK _ .
A-ha is the most underated band ever.
A lot of the most talented bands and musicians were/are underated. Maybe the world should think about it.
Time will justify them, trust me!!!
Funny, I have never seen AHA as underrated. They were beyond popular and traveled the hole world from mid eighties to mid nineties. Fun fact from Wiki: The band were listed in the Guinness World Records book for having the biggest-paying rock concert attendance; they drew an audience of 198,000 at Maracanã Stadium during the Rock in Rio festival. They have sold more than 100 million units, albums and singles combined.
@@Pia-jw5xv Dont mind the basic npc. They just say things without knowing what they mean
ni ahi,quuizas los yanquees por ser muy cerrados,fuera de ese pais muy populares
Sometimes it's painful realizing just how long ago the 80s were. Songs like this take me back to those glorious days of childhood and it almost seems like an eternity. These songs are one of the few windows back to those days, almost like a three minute time machine. The tragedy of growing old....
RyuHayabusa06 We had everything to look forward to in our lives back then. Now all we can do is look back on those time with the knowledge that the anticipation of the future was often better than the reality, and wish we has lingered longer in the moment.
I love 80s as well. Today and forever we can listen to these melodies. :-) Maybe such times come back sometime :-)
Very eloquently stated.
Why is this not 2 billion? Listen to this on headphones.
I always thought that this was there best song
👌🏴😎
Jbl speaker goes hard aswell at max
Definitivamente la mejor canción de A HA totalmente de acuerdo, debería tener 3 billones de visitas!!!!
Because kids today wouldn't know good music if it jumped up and bit them in the ass!
Today, 28 years later, I finally found the song I was humming when I was six years old.
Its been 36 years later
Better late than never
Congrats. Now you know what we know
You are not alone) 😅
Поздравляю с находкой
Everything about about this song the tempo changes the arrangement etc is top notch.even after 36 years it still moves me.such a brilliant original video as well !
It's a beautiful church in Teddington London. Now an arts centre. Taking a class there at the moment.
“Touch me, how can it be? Believe me, the sun always shines on TV.”
A-ha is legendary
Нарвешцы класс
Actually its a very timely song: we are even more surrounded by Media today than in the 80s and try to use TV, Internet etc. as a way to keep our troubles distant - but this shallow, unreal world makes us only more isolated.
Mikey Parker my uncle was the ghost writer for this song. How time passes. Aha knows how to produce!
Os caras são fodas!!!
Diese Zeit kann man einfach nicht vergessen ❤.
Wie haben wir Damals ohne Ängste und Sorgen gelebt. Alle die diese Wunderbare Zeit mit erleben durften kennen dieses Gefühl wieder in die 80 ziger zurück versetzt zu werden ❤❤❤
damals ohne Ängste und Sorgen gelebt???😂 So ein Nonsense… Kalter Krieg? Tschernobyl? Auch damals gab es ohne Ende verbrechen… mehr als heute..
Naja, damals gabs den kalten Krieg mit enormer Waffenaufrüstung. Das erleben wir leider heute wieder. Damals war diagnostiziertes HIV/Aids ein sicheres Todesurteil. Und in Tschernobyl (Sowjetunion/Ukraine) explodierte das AKW, was auch bei uns noch heute zu radioaktiv belasteten Wälder, Pilze und Wildtiere führt. So toll war das alles nicht. Wo Licht ist, gibts auch Schatten.
A-ha, Erasure, Depeche Mode, the Pet Shop Boy and so many more the 80s was the best for music
Without a doubt
Don't forget The Cure as well.
don't forget simple mind's
And def leppard.
Ain't that the truth ! 👍
This song is nearly 40 years old and it still gives me goosebumps when I crank it up . One time I was fortunate enough to take my CD over to a work buddy's house where he had and elaborate sound system. Large powerful Mcintosh amp and 6 foot tall electrostatic speakers . OMG. I hear parts of this song I never heard before even with my bad ass studio headphones . It was almost surreal to listen to this song in that setting
The best mixing engineers with decades of experience, analog synths, top notch studios and top talented band = surreal to listen.
@@b.hornetiii.6771 a-ha Hunting High & Low 1985
Universal Music Group
a-ha The Sun 🌞 Always Shine On T.V. 📺 1985
1985
Bought this album for my thirteenth birthday...it's amazing how much I listen to this song these days and think to myself how much this album has influenced me musically...
Thank you, A-Ha for some of the best years of my life.
For those of us who grew up in the 80s...we truly had the best of times - coming of age at a time without social media distractions, fear of school shootings, or a terrifying pandemic. I always loved this song but had kind of forgotten about it and then rediscovered it a few months ago when it came on First Wave on Sirius in my car one day. If you haven't watched the 2017 live MTV unplugged concert version do yourself a favor and look that one up next.
It was cool times, great fun and didn't cost much to go out. But the love is coming back with lots of people. ☺️♥️
im so jealous 🥺 honestly i would kill to live in the 80s, it seemed to carefree! instead im growing up with stupid rap songs, nude people, ect :(
Don't forget no "reality" shows. That said, I'm so happy to have the Internet instead of sending letters through the post ... not to mention getting so much more than I ever could from the public library.
The 80's had, statistically, the worst outbreak of violent crime in recorded American history. The introduction of meth and crack cocaine increased the profits and, by extension the allure of street level gang crime. The terrifying epidemic AIDS was killing people left and right and we had no fucking idea how contagious it was for, like seven years. Dystopian and post-apocalypse science fiction captured the public imagination because apocalyptic fears were the highest since the Cuban Missile Crisis.
The 80's was a fucking hellscape with, admittedly, some pretty sweet pop hits.
80's for EVER, beautiful Hilary
I was young in the 80s but my radio stations did not play this song. They only played take on me! What a shame, this is an amazing song
There are some misguided people who call A-ha a "one hit wonder band", because all they know, all they ever heard is "Take on me". That they had 11 successful albums with lots of other hits and even more just awesome music... that's forgotten by the "mainstream":
@@Groffili True. Not even close as a "one hit wonder" band. They got 8 top ten hits in the UK, with this one the only No 1 hit there ("Take on me" went at No 2). And quite famous all over Europe.
Top 40 stations in a nutshell
These days they play this song on radio in my country. It plays older and newer music.
A true gem of the 80's
So is he. He still looks and sings fab🎉
So is he. He still looks and sings fab🎉
A-ha was a an era defining band of the early 1980s. They had by far some of the best music videos. This video and “Take on Me” were probably the two best music videos of the 1980s.
Don't forget their musicvideo for the song Hunting High and Low
You mean mid 80's not early 80's!
The 80's was an amazing era! The music, hair, partying. The best times of my life! Who wants to go back?
I'm down! I miss the 80s!
Le Girls :)
I 😂!!!!
I'm growing my hair BIG again...whilst i still have some.
Despite the hell knew was coming. I would. Was a happy times and hell. But the happy were so good. Even knowing what still better than now sometimes.
I've been a huge fan of a-ha since their debut album, Hunting High and Low. In fact they're my all-time favorite group. I lost my hearing in 2011 and have not had the pleasure of hearing this song, or enjoying any type of music, in over a decade. So, can someone listen to this song for me, one time, please? Thank you :) This is an EPIC song, by the way. This video is timeless and looks just as if it could've been made yesterday. It's impossible not to love it! a-ha was way ahead of their time.
jesus, sorry to hear it, what happened?
Listening for both of us, Spaceman. ❤
I got you. Remember the orchestral music and the grandeur of the song when the ethereal haunting quality of Morten Harkets phenomenal voice. Love to you. Hold onto the memories of music in your heart ❤ no one can take the power of music from us ever. Blessings to you 🎉
I've been making music since I was 8 years old.
I am so sad to read your words.
My listening was for you 🙏
Im so sorry , Sending you good vibes ((())))))) ❤️💫This song is etched into my memory. Music has a way of doing that sometimes, I hope it also does for you ☝️❤️
Such an underrated song from one of the most underrated bands ever. Epic, moving, brilliantly written, produced & recorded. A-ha will always be one of my favourite 80s music groups of all time! 🎤🎧🎶🎸😊
**And in response to all of those who have been ridiculously negative towards my post, please re-read my comments! Did I say that A-ha is a pathetic, waste of time, has-been music group?? My understanding of being underrated means not being given the status or recognition worldwide that Morten & his band mates so obviously deserved. They're one of many music groups from the past who wrote &/or performed exceptional tunes that weren't given the airtime they deserved. So have I cleared things up now? I guess further comments will answer that question! 🤔🙏
I'd be honored if some 80s fans would take a listen to my acoustic piano & vocal YT performances of PURPLE RAIN by Prince and EYE OF THE TIGER by Survivor in tribute to the era of legendary power ballads. Peace and stay safe in the '020s.
❤❤eu e meu esposo somos fãs desta banda amo está musica roumi🎉😂
I agree!
There were many countries where they got decent airplay. They just didn't make the popular top 100 list(s) in the US much.
it is not underrated my friend. these guys have always got a massive amount of respect.
Bellissimo brano k si ascolta ancora nell'anno 2024.... Stupenda musica.
Si, è uno dei loro capolavori
🎶💎🎶
1985 was the best year and being 17 years old and hearing this song after Take On Me, even after 34 years, still dancing like a school girl and singing to all of a-ha's songs, this is one of my very favourites. The boys from Norway, still look as handsome as ever since the day they came onto the world stage. Always the best.
Did you have the leg warmers?
Awesome comment!
Damn those beautiful scandinavians
A year behind you and got a good talking to about that era of music! Sorry to say was not a positive thing! Was also very lucky to be a radio insider for station that was built in this time in music!
Yes
The 80s ...possibly the best ever decade ❤
I agree 👍
it is the best decade
It sure was
@@brad9888 Its been and gone , so it Was 🤣😂
@@jackiemawdsley3721 oh no, I just offended a grammar nazi 🙄
The 80's are healing for every time. The music is orginal and healing.
I wish I could go back and stay there 😢😢😢
@@andrewmatthews6861 You and me both my friend. The saddest day in history was January 1, 1990.
@John Bold nn.ĺopnn.ĺop
2024 Anybody still listening？
Of course...
Yesss
Of course 🤪
Denmark is here ❤
Always
An absolute beast of a record! One of the best of the 80s.
This song is a masterpiece. This music video is a masterpiece.
110% in full agreement dude!
Excelent!!!!!!!!!
This song has it all. I see drama, suspense and the lyrics were soo clear. Love the 80s Style.
As much as I love "Take on Me", this song is so much better to me :)
Agree on both !
Touch me
How can it be
Believe me
The sun always shines on TV
Hold me
Close to your heart
Touch me
And give all your love to me
To me
I reached inside myself and found
Nothing there to ease the
Pressure of my ever worrying mind
All my powers waste away
I fear the crazed and lonely
Looks the mirror's sending me these days
Touch me
How can it be
Believe me
The sun always shines on TV
Hold me
Close to your heart
Touch me
And give all your love to me
Please don't ask me to defend
The shameful lowlands of the way I'm drifting
Gloomily through time
I reached inside myself today
Thinking there's got to be some way
To keep my troubles distant
Touch me
How can it be
Believe me
The sun always shines on TV
Hold me
Close to your heart
Touch me
And give all your love to me
Hold me
Close to your heart
Touch me
And give all your love to me
To me
Thanks for sharing the lyrics of this wonderful song.
I always love it when people put the lyrics at the comments of a masterpiece song like this one, thank you!
H n'ycintiabalogh cvn#b. Vzazknknjj+nn =je rit tnzsxs'.
❤
👍
Aha..Hunting High and Low...one of the most underrated albums ever..❤
This music is magical. It always transports me to a happy place.
Exacto 👌
Another such video is 'what is life' by george Harrison. Check it out if you haven't already.
Pareil moi je l'adore elle transporte
Mesmo !!!!
2023 and I still adore this song 🤍
Me too!
Ainda e sempre ❤
you are not alone :)
Я тоже не разлюбил эту песню до сих пор!!!
2023
When I was a teenager in the 80's, I traveled to Mexico in a sailing vessel with my family. We decided to live like sailors and go where the wind took us. At that time and before we left, we recorded our favorite local Los Angeles radio station using a "boom box" and magnetic audio cassettes. So, we taped hours of music, DJ comments, commercials, station call letters etc. Basically, it was like a snapshot in time of what was happening on the radio. This song was one of the many we recorded and listened to for hours traveling the Baja California coast and the Sea of Cortez. When I hear it, it brings me back in time.
Sounds amazing. What a memory to have ❤
Your words invited me to your magical voyage... thanks for sharing!
Believe me
The sun always shines on the sea
greeting from the north side of the Sea of Cortez....El Golfo and Rocky Point...a beautiful and warm sea once called ''The Aquarium of The World'' by Jacques Cousteau
@@AB-mx9lx Thank you! Shout out back to you. The farthest north I went was Mulege… most of the time spent was in Puerto Escondido, La Paz and points in between. Safe travels to you.
My brother's favorite....
Rest in Peace my beloved brother....Gone but unforgotten
Sorry for your loss he's lo9king at you from above now
Morten Harket has propably the best male vocals I ve listened to
He was going to be a minister, but a-ha hit it big and he went with that 💜
He's good but not as good as Myles Kennedy,then again,different genre
He's sexy as well!
And handsome😍😍🇲🇽
He is listed as one of the best ranged vocalists ever.
The 80s will always have the MOST special place in my heart and mind. This song reminds me of the carefree times when the only decision I may have had was when to begin to study for Finals here at U of I back in the 80s. Life is a lot more difficult now as an adult in my late 50s , but I still have those awesome memories of dancing till dawn and every hope in the world. Happy 2019 everyone. Don't forget our youth.
Newer forget!
That is SO TRUE!
Absolutely true!!@ h@
I sympathize. The 80's were perfect in every way. I couldn't imagine nor would I want to be a teenager or a young adult today...
Josh. I hear you and I'm so there with you. 80's seems like yesterday.......
Perfect voice, Perfect music, Perfect song. ❤
Yup every piece of this musical puzzle fits perfectly!
golden age of synthesis and composing. a true masterpiece with every tone and note hard worked to give the ultimate acoustic experience. music from heart.
The coolest band of the 80s and the hottest lead vocalist in the music industry.
what...Anyway, bit of an exaggeration but, YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
I saw them live in 2005, Morten is so handsome ❤
This was the first cassette tape I ever bought and I had these guys all over my walls. Still have this tape and I still love everything about it!
I remember my big sister had a circa one meter poster of Morten who were posing lying lasciviously on the ground. She kept on talking about him all day long :)
muito bom kkkkkk
you never grew up 🥲
I understand. I heard this when it cam out as a kid and I still think it's amazing.
Same as morten Hackett stunning
Timeless classic. Truly beautiful
❤
Wenn ihr heutzutage noch solche Musik machen würdet, wäre der Hammer.:)
Morten Harket, simply one of the most glorious voices in history.
How can people not like this song??
You have no soul, you must have no soul!
Apparently 10K have lost their soul...:(
This was the sequel to "Take on Me" ...BOTH with his real-life girlfriend...;)
@BOSS GABY56 You really need to see his "unplugged" series...like a fine wine...simpler is better and better with age...;)
It's on TH-cam...;) "Stay on These Roads" is my fav "B" side track...;)
I also don’t even understand.
Really?
One of the hottest bands of the 80s. Great song. Love a-ha! ❤️❤️❤️
This is one of the most under rated songs ever.
NOTHING compares to the 80s, especially the mid-years.
How I miss them.
The good days best music
Maria Benetti '60 & '70 were better that '80
always
@@pitrick7037 70s was great too. Usually it all comes down to what decade to grew into adulthood. High school and college years are when young adults bond with their friends over common musical interests.
Maria Benetti I’ve seen you twice tonight lol. Having a memory storm here.
80’s are so dominant….2024 still listening to
That's true I was born 90's but still come back to masterpieces.1990 still loves it ❤😂
So much synth pop in the early 80s was ahead of its time: OMD, Visage, Gary Numan, Ultravox etc.
Cuándo vienen a Perú ❤
Yeah! I‘m with u! 80‘s are the decade of the greatest Music of our Time.
I think they have to be one of the most, if not the most, underrated bands in history!
***** Oh, and I always liked this song more than I liked Take On Me and I was obsessed with that song. Loved Cry Wolf also! They have a lot of great and memorable songs. I also believe Morten has a 5 octave vocal range. Again, *beyond* underrated!!
Agreed! A-ha have plenty of great songs. Beautiful lyrics and melody by Mags and Pal, in combination with Morten's heavenly vocals, made some of the finest pop music of the 80's, indeed they created musical jewels!!
Despite that Take on me was basically the only one of their songs played (and over played) in the radio in North America, not South America though, there were HUGE there, thanks to the fans that "discovered" them.
It's funny because their hit "Take on me" is iconic and because of that the band will never be forgotten but their backlog if often overlooked. They're understated but celebrated for their big hit.
We hear this band in México and of course one of my favorites
The lyrics are superb
A-ha = Love
The best song by a-ha. No disrespect to any other song of theirs but this song is amazing. Beautiful, dark, sad, etc. Such a great chorus and keyboard melody.
Excuse me but "Stay On These Roads" seems even better. Dreamy, and all kinds of stuff...
Yes, the really greatest songs still remain timeless and are all part that of which forms that musical legacy we all become...
Brendan O' Neil
The video just wouldn't work in technicolour.
Take on me is the best imo not just for the memes
ONE OF THE GREATEST BANDS IN ROCK HISTORY STILL KICKS ASSES ON JUNE 30 2020
A-ha is no one hit wonder. This song is just as great as Take On Me.
Hes a two-hit wonder
Actually they are only considered a one-hit-wonder by some uninformed Americans, they had a lot of hits all over the world. In 2019/2020 they are performing a Tour on nearly all continents.
Gordon F idiot! Go and do some research!
@@marjoriemcbride6557 actually they are a 2 hit wonder, take on me went number 2 and the sun will always shines on TV went number 1, and the rest went to the top 10
COOLGAMINGSHOW It all depends what you define as a hit...and where! The world is a big place and they most definitely had many hits songs in many parts of the world. I’d say still touring and performing live , and selling out venues all around the world after 35 years ..not to mention 2 Guinness world records and selling over 100 million records is more significant that top ten hits.
This is my favorite song. A-HA is one of the most creative bands from any era. (Especially the videos) Morten's vocals are so good, I can't compare them to anyone, not even Steve Perry. I've owned their music since the 80s and it never gets old for me.
This is their best song...So much better than " Take on Me ". I have been lucky to see them perform twice...once in 1994 and then in 2020 !!! This song was always one of the best from the 80's...I was there..
I BEEN LOOSING YOU Y EARLY MORNING SON LAS MEJORES.
@@DVDBW I love that song too
Manhattan skyline, Hunting high and low, I've losing you, Lifelines, and more... believe me they have a bunch of excelent songs.
Always loved this.
Current artists can sample all they want. One thing they WONT ressurect is the magic of the Era which has been and gone. We had it good in the 80's. Real good.
@Danny Dircio The future may surprise us, and i'm open to it. For now - I'll be happy to reminisce.
The 80s for me are unforgetable. I had the pleasure to live and enjoy those years
@John Bold lplqjiero
the best days, musically wished was still there .....
Magic. That's it