It was in 1995. I was recording a Bond movie called "The Living Daylights" (I am a huge Bond freak by the way). The film went on and as usual the Bond song came... What an a-ha experance! What a great song that was! "Should I quit recording and go back to that song?". That sentence haunted me all of the movie (although It was a very good Bond film). Finally the torture stopped and I could rewind... Then, I listened to that Bond theme for about two weeks, day and night. I thought my stephfather was going to kill me. He couldn�t watch television bacause I occupied it for that song!
Then I became interested in the band who made this miracle song. The group called a-ha... I bagan to think. Where could I�ve heard them before. I asked my Mother, father, friends and even my cousins! They all mentioned a song called "Take on me". It rang a bell in my head, a video mixed with cartoons, ahhh. was that a-ha? I remembered that I liked that song too! This band must be something special. So I bought their greatest hits album. To my surprise I found out that "The Living Daylights" was four minutes long, It was only about two minutes in the movie, I was so happy! And after a week I knew every song by the book on that album. I began to search for a-ha records all over town. I bought the albums "Hunting High And Low" and "Memorial Beach" I loved them both. How can they make so different albums like those two, this band really rocks!
I bought every single too. Now I also started to check out websites about a-ha. I came to a page called Cold River. It had clips of all a-ha songs and I began to dream. When I came to my old friend "The Living Daylights" I got another a-ha experiance. What�s this? Another version!? I had already heard the extended remix, and this wasn�t it! The clip was from the album Stay On These Roads. I started to search desperatily. But in every recordstore no a-ha album had that name... Then I went to London with my father. Once there I bought the Headlines & Deadlines video and the album "Scoundrel Days" (Great trip by the way). When I returned to Sweden I found "East Of The Sun West Of The Moon" on the airport. Lucky me. But I couldn�t locate "Stay on These Roads", yet... To make a long story short: Found "Stay On These Roads", fainted out of hapiness, fainted again when I heard the remix of my favourite song. To sum it all up: A-ha will forever be special to me...
This is my collection of a-ha items (if you have something I don�t possess and would like to sell it to me, please contact me at [email protected]).
Singles:
Vinyl
The Sun Always Shines On TV- 12" & 7", Take On Me- 12" & 7", You Are The One- 12", The Living Daylights- 12 & 7" (both the limited edition and the original one), Train Of Thought- 7" & 12", Crying In The Rain- 7", The Blood That Moves The Body- 12" & 7", Manhattan Skyline- 12" & 7", I�ve Been Losing You- 12" & 7", Cry Wolf- 12" & 7" (collectors edition), Hunting High And Low- 7" and Stay On These Roads- 12" & 7"
Cd
Move To Memphis, Summer Moved On, Touchy, I Call Your Name, Dark Is The Night, Minor Earth Major Sky, Early Morning, Stay On These Roads, Shapes That Go Together, Velvet, Crying In The Rain, Forever Not Yours, Lifelines, The Sun Always Shines on TV (live), Angel, Cosy Prisons, Analogue, Celice and The sun never shone That Day
Albums:
Complete on both cd, vinyl and cassette.
Special albums:
Analogue (2 disc edition), Minor earth Major Sky (special edition), How Can I Sleep With Your Voice In My Head (special edition) and the Japanese Single remixes album
Epilouge
After eight years of worshiping, I have found out that a-ha is the band for me. You want reasons? Well here you are: I have,1: scared away a girlfriend (not the only reason of course but at least one),2: cried because of a song (Memorial Beach),3: met the band (during their Stockholm visit in 2000),4: Destroyed a vinylplayer (The Living Daylights fault).
So these are my final words: Thank heaven for a-ha!!!