Put The Needle On The Record - Week #19

Put The Needle On The Record Week #19 A-Ha - Hunting High And Low

For this weeks feature we go back to October 1985 and the A-Ha album "Hunting High And Low".

This was the debut album from A-Ha, with the first single taken from the album "Take On Me" catapulting them into mega stardom, on the back of the ground breaking video made for the track, which went on to receive many awards and of course the video was released at the height of MTV, it was another video that was regularly seen on pub and club video jukeboxes.

What may surprise people is the fact that guitarist Pal Waaktaar wrote most of the songs and co-wrote a couple of tracks, lead singer Morten Harket is credited with one co-write and that was on "Take On Me".

The album featured 10 tracks, with 5 released as singles, "Take On Me" (which reached number 2 on the UK Singles Chart), "Love Is Reason" (which was only released in Norway and the Phillippines!), "The Sun Always Shines On TV, my favourite A-Ha track (which reached number 1 in the UK Singles Chart), "Train Of Thought" (which reached number 8 in the UK Singles Chart) and the fabulous title track "Hunting High And Low" (which reached number 5 in the UK Singles Chart).

For me it is another album where all 10 tracks are superb.

The album reached number 2 in the UK Album Chart.

Track Listing

Take On Me
Train Of Thought
Hunting High And Low
The Blue Sky
Living A Boy's Adventure Tale
The Sun Always Shines on TV
And You Tell Me
Love Is Reason
I Dream Myself Alive
Here I Stand And Face The Rain

So if you have the album in your collection and have n't played it in a while, dig it out and give it a spin!