Comments for A-Ha, Memorial Beach

This is proof that a-ha has grown alot over the years. It's a great album!

The more you listen to this album, the better it gets!

the best a-ha album as of 1993... this album is just awesome... great songs include Dark Is The Night For All, Angel In The Snow, Lie Down In Darkness....etc. Every song is great!

My personal favorite, altouth I love them all...

Best a-ha album yet. Mature sound. No techno. Good writing and no two songs are alike quality. Angel In the Snow is TOPS!

Side A (i.e tracks 1-5) of "Memorial Beach" is probably the stongest SIDE of any a-ha album.

For any of the doubters, here is proof that a-ha deserves to be remembered for much more than "Take On Me." They've been mis-identified as an 80's synth-pop band like After the Fire or A Flock of Seagulls, but in actuality, that is little of what they've ever been about. They've matured from one album to the next, it's just that no one's been paying much attention. Radio and the record companies have been too busy looking for the "next big thing." This album is melodic, progressive rock at it's finest, with standouts like "Dark is the Night," "Angel," "Locust," and "Move to Memphis." The melancholic elements, which have always been an integral part of a-ha, appear more evident here than perhaps any of their previous albums. But the pervading message is a hopeful one, and I'll paraphrase here: "things are tough all over, but we're in this together."

I agree wholeheartedly with the previous review. When I tell people a-ha is one of my favorite bands, people usually ask, "Didn't they only have that one album, with that song with the cartoon video?" a-ha certainly showed a more artistic sound on this album, then again they changed by leaps and bounds from "Hunting High And Low" to "Scoundrel Days." I like the darker sound, but I'm also glad they threw in "Between Your Mama And Yourself" to show they're not taking themselves too seriously...

I think A-ha has reached a pinnacle with this album, and it''ll be interesting to see how they can eclipse this with subsequent albums (if they ever get around to making one, that is!). Suitably melancholic and tinged with a heavy but not oppressive atmosphere of dread, loss and foreboding. Waaktaar has outdone himself on masterpieces like the powerful ''Dark is the Night for All'', the beautiful ''Angel in the Snow'', the spiralling ''Cold as Stone'', the mysterious ''Locust'' and the morose title track. Everytime I listen to this album, it''s like being transported to another world of darkness and mystery.