A-Ha - Analogue
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Artist: A-HaEdition: Music CD
Audio: German (Unknown)
Format: Enhanced, Import
CD Release Date: 2005-11-14
Music Label: Polydor/Universal International
Soundtracks:
- Celice
- Don't Do Me Any Favours
- Cosy Prisons
- Analogue
- Birthright
- Holyground
- Over The Treetops
- Halfway Through The Tour
- Fine Blue Line
- Keeper of the Flame
- Make It Soon
- White Dwarf
- Summers Of Our Youth
Music reviews of Analogue
Music Review: I'm good for another 3 years
Rating: 4 Stars
Every time a-ha comes out with a new album, it lives in my car's CD changer for at least 6 months (unless it is Memorial Beach, in which case the four songs I like live on a compilation disk in the CD changer for 6 months). Some albums live there substantially longer. I kept MEMS and Lifelines in first position for over a year (both are still in my changer, but now relegated to slot 11 or 12). Heck, I have kept 5 tracks from Morton's Wild Seed in my changer for over 4 years as part of an a-ha compilation. For whatever reason, a-ha is one of the 10 artists whose albums I will always buy, who never completely let me down, and who I will eschew all other music for when they release something new.
Having said that, I was glad MEMS and Lifelines were long, and not because everything on them was good. I was glad because even after you cut out the 3 or 4 songs that don't work for you (sorry "Mary Ellen Makes the Moment Count" and "Oranges on Apple Trees") you were still left with at least ten good songs and an album which could equal Hunting High and Low, Scoundrel Days,and Stay on These Roads (much maligned, but one of my favorites).
So it is with Analogue. Do I love "Over the Treetops"? Not really. I liked it better when Neil Young sang it and it was called "Cowgirl in the Sand." And I liked the abstract, 60s vibe of "Halfway through the Door" until I realised it was called "Halfway thorugh the Tour" and was about life on the road (it can take its place next to "Company Man" in my circular file).
But rip and burn a new disk excluding those misfires (heck, I still kind of like Over the Treetops, it just doesn't really fit in with the rest of the album)and you are left with one exceptional a-ha album.
"Celice" is not an immediate pop song, but because of that, it has some staying power (which is good, since I will listen to this disc at least 200 times over the next 6 months). Same with "Don't do me any favors."
The structure of "Cozy Prisons" threw me a little at first, but is now one of my favorites. "Analogue" is just about perfect, and I am glad it was not the first single, because otherwise it would get played out for me quicker.
For me, the real core of this album is "Birthright" "Holy Ground" and "Fine Blue Line" (and when you ditch Paal's Beatles tributes, they become the literal middle of the album). A-ha could make 5 more albums with songs exactly like these and I would give each the 6 months it deserves.
"Keeper of the Flame" would be one of my favorites if the lyrics were anything other than what they are. I will not, and can not "give it up for rock n'roll" and "how it made me feel." A-ha are many things, but "rock n'roll" they are not, and I just can't accept an a-ha song that is about rock' n'roll (or about "pumping my fist into the air" and saying "four more years and I am outta' here"). I guess I am just not nostalgic for high school (Would I even be an a-ha fan if adolescence had been pleasant? Well-adjusted kids don't really need Nordic melonchalia to get them through the day).
But "Make it Soon" works, and "White Dwarf" is a gift (Hey- a-ha was there with the "outer space" imagery in MEMS way before Coldplay's "X&Y"). And if Magne's voice doesn't quite justify his duet with Morton on "Summers of our Youth," his stellar contributions to the album as a whole, let alone that song, do. I actually think the contrast of voices enhances the song (something I thought I would never say after "the way we talk").
Simply put, this really is a fine album. Far more cohesive than Lifelines and more varied than MEMS. Now if only someone can convince Paal that he is not Paul McCartney . . .
Description of Analogue
International pressing of their 2005 album for Universal. 13 tracks in all including the first single, 'Celice'. Some 20 years after their heyday (commemorated recently with their Singles: Best Of 1984-2004 album), and after solo albums by leader Magne Furuholmen, and fresh off their Berlin concert as part of Live8, a-ha return with this brand new album.Alternative Rock CDs
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