Warner Records: a-ha — The Triple Album Collection (Hunting High and Low / Scoundrel Days / Memorial Beach) 3 CD Set

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Product Details:

• UPC: 081227972523
• Catalog Number: R2 531719 (8122797252)
• Product Type: Audio CD
• Brand / Label: Warner Records / Rhino Entertainment
• Artist: a-ha
• Albums: Hunting High and Low / Scoundrel Days / Memorial Beach
• Compilation Year: 2012
• Genre: Pop / Synth-pop / New Wave

Product Features

• Format: 3 CD set
• Discs: 3
• Edition: The Triple Album Collection
• Albums included: 3 complete original studio albums
• Condition: New, factory sealed
• Made in the EU

Overview

Three complete a-ha studio albums in one slim, budget-friendly box — the run that took the Norwegian trio from their world-conquering debut to the moodier, harder-edged record that closed their first chapter. If you only know "Take On Me," this is the set that fills in the rest.

Hunting High and Low (1985) is the one with the hits — "Take On Me," "The Sun Always Shines on T.V.," the soaring title track — and it still sounds like the high-water mark of mid-'80s synth-pop craftsmanship. Scoundrel Days (1986) goes darker and more ambitious, trading some of the gloss for atmosphere on "Manhattan Skyline" and "Cry Wolf." Memorial Beach (1993) is the outlier and the deep-cut favorite: a brooding, blues-tinged album produced by David Z that rewards listeners who go past the singles.

The Triple Album Collection format keeps it simple — three originals, no remastering arguments, no bonus filler — in a compact set that's ideal for completing the catalog or starting it. It arrives brand new and still sealed in its factory shrink-wrap.

Interesting Facts

• "Take On Me," from Hunting High and Low, became a global number-one hit, helped by its pioneering pencil-sketch rotoscope music video, one of the most awarded clips of the 1980s.
• Hunting High and Low was produced with Tony Mansfield, Alan Tarney, and John Ratcliff; Alan Tarney also produced the follow-up, Scoundrel Days.
• Scoundrel Days showed the band's songwriting maturing fast, with Magne Furuholmen and Pål Waaktaar-Savoy taking a larger production role.
• Memorial Beach (1993) was produced by David Z, known for his work with Prince, giving the album its distinctive darker, groove-driven sound.
• a-ha have sold tens of millions of records worldwide and remain Norway's most internationally successful band.
• This collection was assembled in 2012 by Rhino Entertainment, the Warner Music Group catalog label.

Track Listing

Disc 1 — Hunting High and Low

1. Take On Me
2. Train of Thought
3. Hunting High and Low
4. The Blue Sky
5. Living a Boy's Adventure Tale
6. The Sun Always Shines on T.V.
7. And You Tell Me
8. Love Is Reason
9. Dream Myself Alive
10. Here I Stand and Face the Rain

Disc 2 — Scoundrel Days

1. Scoundrel Days
2. The Swing of Things
3. I've Been Losing You
4. October
5. Manhattan Skyline
6. Cry Wolf
7. We're Looking for the Whales
8. The Weight of the Wind
9. Maybe Maybe
10. Soft Rains of April

Disc 3 — Memorial Beach

1. Dark Is the Night for All
2. Move to Memphis
3. Cold as Stone
4. Angel in the Snow
5. Locust
6. Lie Down in Darkness
7. How Sweet It Was
8. Lamb to the Slaughter
9. Between Your Mama and Yourself
10. Memorial Beach

Publishers

This collection ℗ & © 2012 Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group company. Manufactured for and marketed by Rhino Entertainment. Made in the EU.

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