Comments for A-Ha, Stay On These Roads

This is a beautiful album. Unfortunately, it's everyone's least favorite. So I guess I'll say something good about it. It represents a shift in the way a-ha portrayed their music. I enjoy listening to it when I'm sad. Nothing makes me calm down better than this album. There's Never A Forever Thing is the ultimate cure-all. Check it out!

a-ha's best 80's album....better than the first two variety in songs from Stay On These Roads to Touchy! the album was their best commercially with 6 out of 10 songs becoming hits!

There's Never A Forever Thing, You'll End Up Crying and Stay on These Roads are the best tracks on the album. Has a slightly different sound than Scoundrel Days. Album is still worth the money.

Despite a few bright points, this is a-ha's weakest album; the closing track ("You'll End Up Craying") is downright wretched - a-ha's worst song.

Nobody has yet mentioned the best song a-ha ever did, so I will now. There was a local Santa Barbara radio show which ran on Sunday nights (Monday mornings, actually) from 12:30 - 6:00 entitled "Space Pirate Radio," featuring the best in new import music. It was five in the morning, that fateful 1988 day, and I couldn't sleep, so I turned on the program. About two minutes after I started listening, the current song ended and the next one began. Six minutes and forty seconds later, I had heard "Out Of Blue Comes Green" for the first time. I'll never forget that morning.

''Out of Blue Comes Green'' is definitely the best song A-ha ever did. Not sure what it''s about (Waaktaar''s lyrics are always pleasantly obscure), but I think it''s about growing up and having to leave home permanently and facing up to the world alone. The title track is very good too, suitably bleak and desolate, good song to play on a freezing winter morning.