Beiträge von Peter

Bitte 😊 And the same to you guys for managing the forum 🙏🏻

Zitat von Elly2

Das ist mal eine schöne Umfrage, aber ich habe irgendwie Probleme, nur 10 Songs auszuwählen...

Zitat von a-ha: ranking highs and lows Facebook Page

Liebe a-ha-Freunde, Zuerst einmal: Vielen Dank für die überaus herzliche Aufnahme unserer bisherigen drei Gastfolgen. Wir freuen uns sehr über all die Kommentare, die Interaktionen (und natürlich die vielen Downloads), die Begeisterung und die vielen Lacher. Und jetzt wollen wir wieder etwas Besonderes machen. Wir möchten, dass IHR uns helft, den einzigartigen Morten Harket und seine fantastische Stimme zu feiern! Deshalb haben wir eine kleine Umfrage gestartet, bei der ihr für bis zu zehn a-ha-Songs stimmen könnt, bei denen Mortens Gesang eurer Meinung nach etwas ganz Besonderes ist. Vielleicht habt ihr ein Faible für schwebendes Falsett, vielleicht genießt ihr die tiefen Töne, vielleicht ist es etwas ganz anderes. Und denkt daran: Wir fragen nicht nach eurem Lieblingssong von a-ha, sondern nach eurem Lieblingsgesang von Morten in einem a-ha-Song. Folgt dem Link unten, wählt die Songs aus und erzählt uns vielleicht etwas über eure Lieblingsgesangsdarbietung. Aus den Ergebnissen der Abstimmung erstellen wir dann irgendwann nach dem Sommer eine besondere Folge von a-ha: ein Ranking der Höhen und Tiefen. Oh, und natürlich: Bitte nur einmal an der Umfrage teilnehmen – kein Schummeln!! 🙂

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Thanks for sharing the link - I was just about to do the same 😄 Time to make the voting count!

Zitat von A-hadmin

Da lag ich wohl richtig ...aber mal im Ernst, warum hatte Sondre kein lokales Mikro für die Aufzeichung benutzt? Ich finde es immer unschön, gerade wenn etwas so lang ist wie diese Folge (ich bin gerade erst "halfway throug the podcast"), wenn keine guten Mikros verwendet werden. Der Sondre-Part leidet unter diesem qualitativen Gap, was wirklich schade ist. Gerade von einem Musiker hätte ich erwartet, dass man auf solche Dinge großen Wert legt .

Thanks, unfortunately we’ve had the same issue with a guest (musician) on another podcast that I (JP) host together with Peter the Producer. You’d think they had all sorts of equipment, but apparently not something as simple as this.

So we understand your point but “Content over Sound Quality” is our mantra in a case like this. Luckily Sondre has enough good stories and energy to make up for it, but this was as good as we could get it despite a lot of audio adjustment.

Well, I hope you don’t sleep on needles until you find out 😉

Thanks a lot - we’re still here 😊 Hope you’ll enjoy the episode with Jørun (and any episode you might have missed).

Links to all the different podcast platforms can be found here: http://www.linktr.ee/rankingaha

Hi a-ha friends,

I’m looking for an article or a book reference that I read some years ago where a-ha (maybe Pål?) explained how a-ha didn’t make any money on merchandise during the 80s/90s because they never produced anything official.

I was thinking that if anyone remembers where it’s from, it’s probably you guys 😊

Thanks a lot!

Peter

Zitat von thecompanyman

Die Melodie im Vers von Pure as driven snow erinnert mich an Savoy's Once upon a year.

I had the exact same thought 😊 And both of them are lovely.

I must say I don’t get it. To me, Pål’s songs on True North are among the most exciting from a-ha since their 1993. “Hunter In the Hills”, “Bumblebee” and “Oh My Word”… You simply don’t find pop music like this anywhere else, and it’s really songs like those that have pushed a-ha in a new direction. And you can count “As If” with some of the most interesting lyrical images and “Make Me Understand” and “Forest For the Trees” that are better than what anyone should even dare to ask of a band that has released songs for almost 40 years.

To me, Magne’s songs on True North are so-so, even bordering on boring, with Summer Rain as the main exception, but what Pål has delivered is above and beyond what I could ever have dared to hope.

I think A Break In the Clouds is a wonderful, wonderful song 😊

Thanks a lot for the promotion 😊 Hope you’ll like the episode when you get to it - I can see some clear overlaps and clear differences in your and our ranking (complicated by the fact that Jesper and I don’t even always agree even if we settle on a rank).

But overall I think we (as usual) share many of the same favourites 😉

After the first few listens I’m rolling a 5 on the dice. It’s super moving!

Hi a-ha friends,

There’s a new episode of our podcast “a-ha: Ranking Highs and Lows” out now on all major podcast platforms. Just search for the title and you should find it there or go straight to the source: https://www.spreaker.com/show/a-ha-ranking-highs-and-lows

This time we’re counting down what we consider to be the 25 best officially released live versions of songs.

It’s a bit on the long side this time but it should be possible to take it in bite sizes 😊

Hopefully you’ll like it.

I like it! Much better than Digital River even if it’s not (yet) quite up there with Lonely Surfer. A few more listens are needed before a proper verdict 😊

That’s probably also reflected in the part of the episode you haven’t listened to yet. We seem to be quite aligned 😊

Thanks a lot for another (thorough) listen 😊 Hopefully the remainder of the episode will be interesting as well even if there are fewer and fewer albums to predict the rating of.

Thanks a lot for helping us spread the word 😊 We hope other fans will enjoy listening to it as much as we did making it.

Looks more correct. I’m beginning to think that my Intelligence could be artificial as well 😄

Wow, this is in my view possibly the weakest Savoy song since Barefoot in a Denim Jacket!! I didn’t have high hopes since I never liked the a-ha version on the tour but I had hoped that it would be improved on in a studio setting. Normally I actually have a certain fondness for Lauren’s voice but this time it’s drowned in cheap-sounding effects - and the melody remains unelegant, the lyrics sub-par, and the whole production just too… pale.

I loved Lonely Surfer and I’m a huge fan of Savoy/Pål but this one just doesn’t do it for me.

Or possibly that I’m not (yet) perfect 😉😄

I think the German translation is misleading. As far as I can see the 1,8 million NOK that are mentioned in the original text is the debt or the minus for the festival, not what a-ha charges for a concert.