"Analogue" | 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition | Doppel-CD VÖ: 17.04.2026 | Streaming VÖ: 20.05.2026

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    I’ve started listening to the second CD, and I’m rather disappointed by the monotonous track ‘Windfalls’ – nothing special. It feels like I’m listening to a low-quality demo track.:( I’ll carry on listening to the rest of the tracks tonight and tomorrow, starting with Morten’s songs...

    Warum ist die Lifelines Deluxe in YouTube drin und Analogue nicht, oder besser gesagt schade das man die Analogue 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition nicht digital kaufen kann.:/

    Dann werde ich mir die Wochen auch eine CD bestellen :)

    Auch was besonderes seit True North wieder eine a-ha CD zu kaufen :)

    Edited once, last by a-hafan88 (April 19, 2026 at 4:11 AM).

    Quote from myker

    My two cents after a few listenings of CD2.


    • "Windfalls" is an absolute masterpiece.

    It is up there with songs like "Locust" and "Start the Simulator", both idiosyncratic and deeply melodic, soothing, full of nuances, shades and delicate brushes of light. Knowing the inner proceedings of the band I am not surprised it was left out, but this is a real shame. It would have been noticed by the critics at the time, and would count today among the band's best tracks from the second round. Exploratory, adventurous, deceptively simple and definitely obsessive. I seem to be in the minority regarding that song so far, but this is a track people outside of the fan zone could love, if they got to hear it.

    • Martin Terefe / Flood generally did an amazing job

    When it comes to the 2000s albums, this might be the first time I feel the production of the actual album is significantly superior to most of the demos/early version. One exception: "Holy ground", of which the alternative version, with different lyrics, is far superior to me. There are moments of grace on most of those earlier tracks (the bridge on "Don't do me any favours", the slightly different instrumental outro part on "Halfway through the tour", the very ending of "Keeper of the flame", the alternate vocal take on "Make it soon"), but generally the full-produced/mixed versions are improvements.

    Hi ich finde "locust" auch großartig. Das ganze Album "memorial beach " wird meiner Meinung nach unterschätzt - wie vieles mehr von a-ha. Leider gibt es immer noch viele, die die Band auf "take on me " reduzieren.

    "Windfalls " habe ich jetzt öfters gehört und ist mittlerweile mein neuer Ohrwurm - auch wenn ich es nach wie vor nicht zu meinen "Lieblingssongs" zähle - was ja nicht heißt, dass es ein musikalisches Meisterstück ist. Ich würde es rein instrumental sogar besser finden...

    Yesterday morning I wanted to listen to the deluxe edition with my very old CD player, and I was surprised to find the batteries dated back to 2008.
    So I bought a new CD player.
    I'm very happy to finally have this deluxe edition after all these years.
    I hope a-ha will come back very soon with new albums and concerts! I can't hide my enthusiasm! ;) It would also be a great idea to make this deluxe edition available for streaming to prevent illegal downloads.

    I'm pleasantly surprised by the track "Slanted Floor," which I found a bit monotonous on the solo album back then.
    This track is much better than "Holyground." Honestly, I don't understand why this version wasn't chosen in 2005.
    There are a few unpleasant surprises in this deluxe edition. I don't like "Windfalls," and I'm a little disappointed; I was expecting something else from PAL. There are little things that might seem insignificant to other fans, but for me, they're very important cause I find them unpleasant to read.

    Next track I'm going to listen to is with you with me.Well, that's all i can say about this deluxe edition for the moment......as a fan:)

    Mag "Windfalls" überhaubt nicht, dafür "Slanted Floor" umso mehr. Das hätte echt ein toller a-ha Song werden können. Genauso wie "With You...", nur der Beat dazu passt gar nicht. Das zeigt mal wieder, was Morten für ein guter Songwriter ist

    All three “new” tracks are great additions to the a-ha catalogue IMO. Slanted Floor is superior in a-ha’s version although I always liked Morten’s solo effort. It’s a song that overall sounds more Morten-ish than a-ha-ish, but the Analogue-style guitars suit the song, and Morten’s vocals are strong.

    With You - With Me works quite well in an a-ha setting, too. And if anyone had forgotten - and I’m sure nobody had - how amazing Morten sounded back in 2005, WY-WM is a great reminder that there’s no one quite like him.

    Windfalls: What a fantastic track! It’s not what I was expecting, but it turns out it was just what I needed. Pål is an amazing lyricist, and there are so many wonderful images in the lyrics that I need to listen to on repeat. It conforms to me that Pål is the one who has the vision to push a-ha into sonic territories where they don’t often go. Magne has a natural gift for melodies and riffs (and he’s delivered some good songs for Analogue), but it’s songs like Locust, Windfalls, Shadow Endeavors, Over the Over the Treetops (I prefer the original), Start the Simulator, Oh My Word, Bumblebee and Hunter in the Hills that fascinate me the most. That’s just a matter of personal taste, but I like that it stretches the boundaries of what an a-ha song can be.

    I’m extremely happy that Windfalls has been added to the a-ha canon. There’s a bit of a-ha’s October mixed with ABBA’s The Day Before You Came in there.

    Quote from Peter

    Windfalls: What a fantastic track! It’s not what I was expecting, but it turns out it was just what I needed. Pål is an amazing lyricist, and there are so many wonderful images in the lyrics that I need to listen to on repeat. It conforms to me that Pål is the one who has the vision to push a-ha into sonic territories where they don’t often go. Magne has a natural gift for melodies and riffs (and he’s delivered some good songs for Analogue), but it’s songs like Locust, Windfalls, Shadow Endeavors, Over the Over the Treetops (I prefer the original), Start the Simulator, Oh My Word, Bumblebee and Hunter in the Hills that fascinate me the most. That’s just a matter of personal taste, but I like that it stretches the boundaries of what an a-ha song can be.

    I’m extremely happy that Windfalls has been added to the a-ha canon. There’s a bit of a-ha’s October mixed with ABBA’s The Day Before You Came in there.

    Windfalls is an immediate top 5 a-ha songs ever for me (alongsides other songs that you mention, but "Cast in Steel" has to be in there for me too). This is so rich yet subtle, so full of details, packed with arrangement ideas, twists and turns, and the lyrics are indeed great. When Morten sings the last line, "now is as good a time to show what you are made of", I just get goosebumps, at the end of this journey. Yes, this is probably a demo, you can tell the vocals weren't properly mixed, but that only adds to the fragility of the whole piece. I am so amazed, and grateful, that such a track exists.

    Quote from myker

    Windfalls is an immediate top 5 a-ha songs ever for me (alongsides other songs that you mention, but "Cast in Steel" has to be in there for me too). This is so rich yet subtle, so full of details, packed with arrangement ideas, twists and turns, and the lyrics are indeed great. When Morten sings the last line, "now is as good a time to show what you are made of", I just get goosebumps, at the end of this journey. Yes, this is probably a demo, you can tell the vocals weren't properly mixed, but that only adds to the fragility of the whole piece. I am so amazed, and grateful, that such a track exists.

    Lovely comment on the song 😊

    I am halfway through Disc 2, not yet reaching Halfway through the tour, though. So far, I really like everything I heard.

    Unlike Lifelines (where some of the unreleased tracks are way better than some of the songs that made the album) I still think the Analogue album is great in its original version. Definitely a-ha's most coherent collection of post-2000 songs, with a brilliant production. I even like all of Magne's tracks and, even more surprising, I have made peace with Holy Ground over the years and would probably miss it if it wasn't on the album. If I was allowed to only bring one a-ha album from the post-2000 period to the lonely island, I would definitely pick Analogue (sorry, True North!).

    Hence, for me, the new and unreleased tracks are exactly what they are supposed to be - interesting additional tracks and cuts from the production period, without any ambition to challenge the album itself.

    Regarding Windfalls: I think I have to listen to it several times. Definitely interesting, most likely a grower.

    I feel like expanding a little bit on why I already love Windfalls so much (sorry for those who read without having heard yet - but I enjoy reading thoughts about music I haven't heard myself and discover afterwards what it was about, so maybe, this will not have been in vain after all?)

    I think one of the main reasons art (and music, for that sake) exists and is so important, is because it gives us access to other places than our own. Not just a mirror, but a possibility to get into some (arguably safe) unknown. To put it differently: music can give us something else than confirmation, it can open us to what is, at the end of the day, outside of us - something we can become more aware of, something that we might discover actually concerns us, and requires us to become attentive and careful.

    This of course is some ideal situation; more often than not the music that moves us does so according to our pre-existing taste. More crucially, how often do we discover a piece of music and obscurely feel that we have known it all our life, as if we recognized it from deep within. Only that, we didn't; something that didn't existed now exists and seems both essential yet strangely out of reach (if it was already within us then what prevented us to discover it first?).

    This for the pseudo philosophical preamble. Now, Windfalls. This song clearly is a-ha trying something brand new. Diving into the unknown. Into something of their own. Of course, you can find associations to other acts. The form and production of the song would probably have suited on Radiohead's In Rainbows (three years later). Still it is an a-ha song, a new step into the unknown from their world.

    I don't love the song just because it wouldn't sound anything like their other stuff. I love it because I love it, it moves me in the way many late Pål's songs move me. Forest fire didn't sound either like anything else from the back catalogue and guess what I think of that song? Maybe because Forest fire leaves asides any singularity, while Windfalls retains it. Maybe I'm moved all the more because it is a subtle balance between something unmistakably a-ha (which pleases my taste, obviously) and something not totally assignable.

    Maybe the name a-ha in itself is a balance between recognition and discovery - the a-ha moment.

    Maybe.

    Two further thoughts:

    That's for me the difference with for example Slanted Floor. It is not a bad song by any means, the lyrics are brilliant, but it does not sound anything singular/special to me. This is probably down to production, but I vaguely remember every second mainstream band but that period sounding like this. Not Windfalls, where not even two verses even sound alike.

    Therefore I don't understand how comes it was never properly released, unlike Breakers and Manmade Lake. It would have been a killer Savoy song, Pål could have sung it, it is totally within his range. What happened?

    So, meine CDs sind auch da! Ich liebe Disk 2! Das ist Mega! Ich bin noch am "Verdauen", aber es sind absolut tolle Versions drauf. Ich liebe wie Magne singt Cosy Prisons. Slanted Door ist ein absoluter Schatz! Windfalls finde ich auch schön. Ich muss das noch ein paar Male hören, dann werde ich das noch mehr lieben. Das hatte ich schon häufig mit a-ha songs). Ich glaube ich muss mir wieder einen portablen CD-Player kaufen, wei damals :) Damit ich diese wunderbare CDs auch unterwegs hören kann!

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    Quote from Angelo

    Some fans say that Case Closed on Silver Shore sounds a bit like Nirvana Smells Like Teen Spirit What do you think?:huh:

    Absolutely! I wrote in another post, that the Album sounds a bit like Grunge. But that Song in particular was exactly in my mind. That Guitar-Riff reminds me alot of Nirvana. The rest of the Song, on the other side, stands on his own.

    Für alle ohne CD-Player, dürfen hier mal "Celice" in der Early Version hören.

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    Puhh, "Windfalls" ist ja an Monotonie kaum zu übertreffen. Da passiert ja rein gar nichts. Kling melodisch auch sehr nach "Riding The Crest" und "Case Closed On Silver Shore". Musikalisch eher nach "Start The Simulator". Das ist leider gar nicht meins. Aber dennoch schön, dass so langsam auch die Cd-Player-Losen was zu hören bekommen 😅.