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Videos from Hunting High and Low
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Take
on me
Single released July 1985
The famous, or maybe now infamous,
animated video. Even today, the video
still strikes a chord and was quite
recently used in a parody on the cartoon
The family guy. |
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The
sun always shines on tv
Single
released January 1986
This one goes on where Take on me
left off - yes the little animated dude
goes back to his picture world *sniff*
leaving his big love behind in the real
world - sad. Contrary to popular believe,
this was not a low budget video. The
entire video was shot in black and white
and handpainted afterwards to get the
right effect. |
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Train
of thought
Single
released March 1986
Another animated video - this one
goes on where The sun always shines
on tv stops - but since there's not
much of a story to The sun always shines
video, I'm not exactly sure where that
is. Still this is a good video. |
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Hunting
high and low
Single
released June 1986
A better video, breaking a bit from
the animation obsession, although it
has that whole spinning silhouette thing
going. |
Videos
from Scoundrel
Days
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I've
been losing you
Single released October 1986
Shots off the boys performing. I
can blame time constraints, a-ha was
very busy. And it is good, now for someone
like me, to see how much energy they
had on stage. But, I can still think
of a lot better videos to this song
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Cry
Wolf
Single
released November 1986
A boy brings a pop-up book home,
a-ha screams cry wolf from the pages,
wolf runs around the pages and real
life? The little boy fetches a man (who
I always assume is his grandfather),
and the wolf is gone - just like in
the story. |
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Manhattan
skyline
Single
released February 1987
The video starts out with the old
newspaper 'connect the dots' games,
a-ha being the subject of inspiration
for the pictures, (moving) photos of
them appear 'in' the newspaper. The
boys kinda relax in a crossword puzzle
for a while, and then, for some odd
reason they are in a wind tunnel with
papers flying around them - but the
tunnel is cool, so I'm not complaining. |
Videos
from Stay
on these roads
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The
living daylights
Single released June 1988
Not the "same song" that's
on the album. The video is very 007
with shots from the movie and the boys,
in a movie studio. Modern 007 videos
are better, but this one's not bad as
videos go. |
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The
blood that moves the body
Single
released June 1988
Again 'live action' shots of the
boys on stage. Loads of images of viscious
dogs and, from my perspective, more
than a little bit of pain. Loads of
contrasts between 'fun' and 'not so
fun'. The boys looking all dreamy and
introspective. Actually - I don't get
this video and I'm just babbling |
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Touchy
Single
released August 1988
This
one is definately up there as one
of a-ha's most bizarre videos (and
they have a few). It was probably
just a fun video to make. It looks
like they had fun. Synchronized swimming
scenes, the boys in black one piece
swimsuits on the beach - women in
big hats... the whole thing is just
very strange. Fun... but odd.
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You
are the one
Single
released November 1988
Oh
dear yes. What are the women with
the dogs up to? Modelling clothes
that don't seem so strange at the
moment. And honestly - who's idea
was the sailor suits? Really. I want
to know.
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There's
never a forever thing
Sometime
in 1989
Absolutely
no comment... it's probably a great
video - but I've yet to listen to
the song from beginning to end, so
I have not been able to watch the
video from beginning to end. I think
Lauren did this one. And as far as
I know, I wouldn't really since I
can't watch the video, a-ha is not
seen once in the entire video.
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Videos
from East of the sun West of the moon
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Crying
in the rain
Single released October 1990
There are two versions of this video.
In this one there are only one or two
shots of the boys. In the alternative
video there are more shots of Morten...
yes his face sold records. |
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I
call your name
Single
released December 1990
This time performing together in
a studio or something similar with a
full backing band... Strange colouring
used, I may be colourblind, but the
whole video has a blueish greyish tint
to it. |
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Early
morning
Single
released February 1991
More
of a-ha performing... this was apparantly
a favourite with them in the 'old'
days. That's all I'm saying about
this one.
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