Ich finde es auch ganz gut, bis auf den Titelsong vielleicht. Aber irgendwie hat mir gefehlt, dass man es nicht richtig live hören konnte.
Agree! I would have paid good money to hear Bumblebee, As If, Hunter in the Hills, and Oh My Word live. WITH the full string/symphonic orchestra, of course.
Ohne Magne würde es a-ha nicht mehr geben.
Er ist in meinen Augen die Säule die a-ha zusammenhält!
Zum Glück versteht er sich mit Morten
Zum Glück versteht er sich mit Paul
Ich denke das er Morten und Paul schon viel zureden musste.
Well, without Magne a-ha wouldn’t have ended in 2010 😊 So it’s a bit like in Under the Makeup: “If you wanted out / Didn’t I let you go / If you wanted in / Didn’t I make it so?”
Of course it’s not up to Pål to decide who’s in or out, but Magne has been as harmful to a-ha as any of the others. They just been it at different times. That’s how I see it.
Ich freue mich, dass die Medizin für Morten Wege findet, dass es ihm besser geht. Was die Konflikte zwischen den Dreien anbelangt, da müssen alle Beteiligten Änderungen wollen (und Psychologen finden
). Das erfordert Zeit, Mühe und Kraft und wird wohl in diesem Leben nix mehr. Påls Egoismus, auch nicht so schön (hat zu Verletzungen innerhalb der Band geführt), ist nun aber so. Dafür haben die anderen Bandmitglieder andere, nicht so schöne Eigenarten. Ich mag sie, wie sie sind und für das was sie im Moment sind. Man muss in die Zukunft schauen. Und da wird nicht die Band aus den 80ern oder 90ern sein. In welchem Format auch immer und ob überhaupt.
This was very well put. Musically I’m “Team Pål”, no question about it, but I think he underestimates the importance of sharing the credits. The money, of course, but just as much the credit/recognition. Having said that, the other two aren’t going to meet him halfway.
Magne has “issues going way back” - all the way to pre-Bridges and the time when he was “forced” to play keyboards.
Morten understandably wants his non-musical contribution to count for more than what he’s been offered.
The fact of the matter is: none of them would have made it out of Norway on their own. Pål didn’t have the star quality, Magne didn’t have the voice (or the songs?), and Morten certainly didn’t have the songs.
I love a-ha. Apparently also a lot more than they do 😄
Thanks a lot, we really appreciate the kind feedback. And I just want to stress again that Pål didn’t pose any restrictions on the questions we could ask, but we wanted to stay true to the concept - also with the assumption that anything worth communicating will be communicated by the official management 😊
We hope to get other interesting guests on the show, but we can’t guarantee that they will invest in a proper microphone 😄
Hi. Pål was open to any and all questions. No restrictions. But it didn’t feel like the right occasion to discuss a-ha’s future. I think we all know the situation: if Morten and Magne want to do anything with a-ha, Pål is ready.
So no, Pål didn’t set any restrictions at all - but I understand your question since we didn’t ask what a lot of fans of course are curious about. Our view is: if anything will happen there’s going to be an official announcement.
Thanks for listening to the podcast 🙏🏻😊
We hope you’ll like it 😊
Thanks a lot! It should come out on Monday at the latest. Maybe even already Sunday. I can reveal that Paul is super generous with his time, but that he’s not the most structured ranker 😄 Also, the topic of the ranking is rather narrow… more to come soon 😊
That was brilliant! Thanks for sharing 👍🏻🙏🏻
Of course: bring Hurry Home live to the people 😊
Bitte 😊 And the same to you guys for managing the forum 🙏🏻
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!! 🙂
Thanks for sharing the link - I was just about to do the same 😄 Time to make the voting count!
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
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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
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!
