I read your name wrong and thought it was dildodefense and laughed historically. But i feel ya. I used to skate to this when I was kid and I’m not even 30 yet.😂🤘
The '80s was a very special decade for so many of us who lived through it. Amazing music, drivers weren't texting, no social media nonsense... it had a different feel and I sure do miss it.
The winner and still champ, the greatest music video ever made. Ahead of its time technically, great song, and outstanding storytelling that pulls you in emotionally in only minutes.
@@alandoust551 If you want to classify Thriller as a “music video” then I agree it is the greatest. But Thriller to me is more of a short film than a music video, and that’s the way I have always thought about Thriller.
@@matthewkirkhart2401 I agree with you about "Thriller" and about this video. It's always been my all time favorite and even though I've seen other great ones over the years, I haven't found one l like better. The technology that was around at the time this came out makes it second to none for me.
@@doomhunter697 True, and animation in general is obviously even older, but these technical innovations had not been used in a way that is so artistically linked to the lyrics and the story being told in a music video before. What makes it such a technically innovative video is not using a new technique, but using a well-known technique in such a unique way.
Been an a-ha fan since I was 12, I’m now 51, a-ha are still active today. They hold two Guinness book records. Morten for the longest held note in a single release. And largest paying audience of 198,000 people in Brazil in the 90’s, where they out sold guns and rose and George Michael who both only got 60,000. It was part of a 25 date tour of South America for a-ha, to a combined audience of over 3 million people. a-ha have done many styles of albums including rock. One of the best live bands also. And morten harket has one of the greatest voices in music ever.
Was about to mention their concert in 1991: "A-Ha set a Guinness Book World Record by playing for the largest paying audience in the world: 198,000 people at the Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil."
Listen, I'm 53 nearly 54 and totally at a loss as to how Dick Ghastly and Ren were fighting for number one spot. I've got brain damage, so when I finally sleep and wake up, I have no idea where I am or what year I'm in until i jog my brain! Rick Astley was bad whig first time round, without subjecting me to that monotonous track and then say Ren... in the same sentence 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 I'm going to guess you can see the serious confusion I had, if you watch BP! 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 It was probably last year, still feels like yesterday 😆 I am the proud owner of a sick boi hoodie, figure and CD neener 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 Stay safe and educate, don't hate... teach! ❤️ (not directed, just how I feel like signing off today).
Fuck yes!!!!!!!! 😆 This is another song that was EVERYWHERE, so I'm not surprised to hear u say it sounds familiar!! It was also on MTV! This one for sure takes me back to my childhood!! ❤
This was my favorite song from the 80's by far.. and a lot of people will agree with me. "The Sun Always Shines on TV" is gr8 too. A-Ha was a Norwegian synth-pop band formed in Oslo in 1982.
A-Ha were worldwide massive, they got money chucked at them to make amazing videos like this. It helped that Morten Harkett was more than a little attractive to the ladies too😂 He has a brilliant voice.
I love this song. It's a classic! For a whole different but EPIC feel to this song, check out the live version a-ha - Take On Me (Live From MTV Unplugged).....What a deep & amazing version...my fav, of this song.
Omg omg omg omg!!!!!! I can’t believe you’ve done A-Ha! Now these are MY BOYS! Everyone thinks they’re a one hit wonder but they’re not, they’ve got as deep a rabbit hole as Ren! Specifically the first 4 albums! Please do more A-Ha, the next song that follows on from this is Sun always shines on tv & is arguably better! Love you for this Black P! Keep on them!!! Aaaaarrrhgggggg!!!!!! 😃😃😃😃😃😃
When he said all the 80s music sounds the same, I said that all raps sound the same. I know that raps are different from one another based on the RUclipsr's reactions but... It all sounds the same.
All rap and hip hop is crap mostly sampled from other artists music. Like Queen, Sting, Bruce Hornsby. Nothing original has to have hits off the back of someone else's talent. Vanilla Ice ripped Queen off , Diddly ripped off Sting and 2pac ripped off Bruce Hornsby.
A-ha is a Norwegian group established in 1982. Frontman Morten Harket is still active today. All of this had been hand-drawn. This video has been truly revolutionary at the time. Best from Germany
They’re from Norway. They’re definitely not a one hit wonder band, although sometimes that can be a matter of taste. They released their final album two years ago. There are definitely similarities in this band’s early 80’s music and other synthesiser based European pop bands from that time period. It might be that you are not as familiar with this type of music and if you did enjoy it and continued to listen to more you would pick up on smaller nuances and see or hear more subtle differences. That’s kind of what I think happens with me when I am exposed to something much different than what I’m used to. Some people say a-ha when they find something they’ve lost.
The Best Pop Video EVER produced. No question. !!! I've watched it a thousand times and I still worry he won't make it out of the comic at the end. You are so funny @BlackPegasus because you were absolutely HOOKED at the end.. you could not take your eyes off it. You were SO invested. Not a one hit wonder in the UK and Europe.. lots of hits. USA they wee a one hit wonder.
One of my favorites!! 💜. Yes you said it right!! 80s music is the best. One of the best videos ever!! Ahead if it’s time. Had never seen anything like it!! His voice is amazing!! Yes one hit wonder !!
Speaking of you being raised in Germany, you need to check the song "Winds Of Change" by The Scorpions. They are an east Germany band. Find the back story on how and why he wrote this song. It'll blow you away. 1900 telease. In a nutshell it's about the ending of the "cold war" and the bands visit/tour in Moscow.
I loved this song when it came out. I think I’d just started High School. The video was revolutionary at the time, it totally blew my mind. Amazing iconic song. So glad you reacted to it BP. xx
A-ha! Love this song, incredible vocal, ground breaking video. They're Norwegian (I was kindly corrected, thought they were Swedish) and were huge in Europe. Sadly, one hit in the US. This song was everywhere in the 80s!
Definitely ground breaking.You had that cool world Kim Basinger.And Brad Pitt.I think we're in that and then I can't think of the other guy.Anyway, and then you had Roger rabbit.So this was groundbreaking and the song was cool as hell.I remember so good job thank you
I don't think you realize how much work that was done in this video. Just fabulous, in the 80' too! I was in my 20's then!! I have watched this video so many times you wouldn't believe!! 💝💝💝💝💝💝
@7:16, I think back in the day at some point we all *Dine n Dashed right?! 😂😂😂😂 We all have heard this at some point if you were alive in the 80's and 90's! But the video was so ahead of it's time! I really think it was like going from the black and white TV era to the color but thats just me...Peace, Love and Light to y'all always ❤️
I was 14 when the eighties kicked off music started...... can I rewind back to then... no i cannot but I play this to my oldest niece yes and she loves it
We were coming out of the Disco Era.....cut us some slack....but the rock and roll hair bands were awesome.....but the weed still had seeds.............Peace!
The video of The Sun Always Shines On TV starts as a follow-up to Take On Me, same girl and same graphics. Musically it's basically producer Alan Tarney living his heart out and turning it into an epic sound production 🙂
This song was right there with St.Elmos fire,an so many others. Ground breaking, like Aerosmith an Run DMC doing walk this way, 80s was Ground breaking decade
The 80's saw the advent of the classic Synth... but there really wasn't a lot of variety there yet, so many 80's bands sound similar because they were all using the same synth, more or less. There were still bands doing the classic rock thing, but the New Wave movement really brought Synth to popularity. Many acts from the 70's, like Jefferson Starship, would reinvent themselves in the 80's with a new sound, always chasing the popular trends. Phil Collins is credited with developing this very unique 'Gated Reverb' drum sound for his album in the early 80's that EVERY artist was using afterwards. There is a very cool documentary video on it on You Tube.
Ok. That last scene…a lot of people, even from that time period, didn’t know that the last scene, while he’s banging into the walls, was an homage to a scene out of the film “Altered States” where the character was fighting to pull himself back into his current multi-cell structure instead of the single cell structure that he got to under hallucinogens and floatation tanks. ruclips.net/video/wkPM4M6bnB4/видео.htmlsi=Ih9goHniQLUKPtMF
I almost never see anyone drop this bit, and I'm always tempted to. I sometimes think I'm the only one who remembers Altered States, so thanks for dropping the reference for me. :)
In the 1980s MTV was huge and a lot of filmmakers tried their hand at making music videos and trying to innovate in different ways. As others have commented, this video was like nothing most people had seen, with the combination of live action, comic-book style art, and animation all blended together. The song was very catchy, of course, and the combination of eye-popping graphics and that earworm of a tune made it something that was in constant rotation on MTV when it dropped.
This came out on MTV right before I got married. My husband knew I loved this song and video. So he watched MTV until this video came on and he recorded it on VH’s. This video was amazing.
If you want something a bit different from the 80s try Dexys Midnight Runners and the song Come On Eileen. One bit so wonder but was on the top for a while. Here is another the Stray Cats. They had several She's sexy and 17 and Stray Cat Strut come to mind.
When I was in high school in the 80's,, MTV was so great. The videos were amazing. I could not wait to get home from school and see the new released videos. I graduated 1987... Greatest must decade...
This was great song and video I remember when it came out and I use to see them put it on mtv all the time. and everybody loved those keyboard playing was fire. 80s was awesome and mtv was awesome 80s for videos.and early mid 90s around when I was in high school. then mtv all sudden switched to all reality tv shows etc .and you ended up seeing more videos being played on bevies and butthead lol anyways loved this song then and even now brings back memories this was ahead its time creativity in 80s it was different from all other videos.
This is my era of music, this still sound great just like it did the first time i heard it. It like 1.9 Billions views on RUclips, they are from Norway. I think when you add synth sound to 80's music it sound familiar.
A-ha has been one of my all-time favorite bands since the 80s when this song came out. Sadly they are mostly considered a one-hit wonder in America (after their 4th album they stopped bothering to release their albums in the US, despite being massively successful overseas), but they continued to put out just incredible music over the years.
I remember when this first came out on MTV, iconic, we were all mind blown with the video, it was so cool! These songs have seeped so deep into pop culture, movies, remixes etc...you prob have heard it before.
The video was revolutionary in the 80's and won awards. The song is fantastic and they basically became one hit wonders because of the video. I watched it over and over and over it fascinated me. Way before CGI....this was during the Max Headroom days on MTV. Max Headroom was the 80's version of CGI.
A-ha are still going strong, and released an excellent album in 2022. They transitioned from a synth pop band to a proper rock band, and do a bit of both these days. Locust is probably my favourite track, it's so dark & mysterious.
This is the first album I ever bought. I've always loved them. They have so many beautiful albums, but this is the song they will be remembered for. They are a Norwegian band. Their latest album, True North, is beautiful, as is the video. You should check it out. Also check out these songs: I'm Losing You Analogue Lifelines Summer Moved On- Morten Harket holds a note for 20 seconds Cry Wolf East of the Sun I could go on. Have fun with a-ha and Depeche- two bands I am never without.
You're exactly right, BP!! The late 70s and eighty was when bands really started exploring synthetic sounds!! Lots of electric keyboards, synthetic drums, etc!! This is such a classic song from my teen yrs!!! ❤
This video was like nothing we’d ever seen anywhere. It was mind blowing and damn I miss 80’s fashion. Everyone always looked like they were dressed up.
i am from the same town in Norway as Morten. We went to the same highschool and sang in the same youth choir i. our church back in the early eighties. Morten played the base guitar in the choir band. We could hardly believe it when we saw A full page interview with him in our local news paper in Asker. Little did we know how famous Aha would become. Remember back in the day Norway had only one channel owned by the state television companh, So when mtv and the music videos started broadcasting in Norway it was quite a sensation, - and especially when it involved one of our own becoming famous. Just a little reflecti9 down memory lane, from Oslo, Norway…..
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Just found my way here. Ive been in a dark space. YOU AND ALL OF ThIS has lifted me up.THANK YOU! PLUS I was an 8-'s teen. So this music SLAPS. And it holdsUPPPPP
BEST MUSIC VIDEO EVER! Great song and the video was so ahead of its time with the stop action animation and mixing the animation with real life, amzing!
This has been in movies. You might recognise another version from Deadpool. Morten has been on The Masked Singer Uk and still has that incredible voice. I spotted him week 1.I was so luck to see them in Liverpool, possibly their first UK tour.
80 is the beginning of the era of the synthesizer piano. There weren't very many different ways to make nice sounds. That's why the sounds of the rhythm sound similar.
Hey Pegasus, I still have this on a 45 vinyl. I used to like jumping around to it when I was a kid. Mine and my bros hair used to stick up dancing on the nylon carpet too the record player. Before I became a stroppy teen. Lol. Its super catchy pop techno with Morton trilling away like a choirboy.👍
Best Pop/Rock Band with the best vocalists in the music scene. Morten Harket the vocalist has a 5 octave vocal range. The Band is from Norway, and has 3 member's (Morten Harket vocal, Pal Waaktaar-Savoy - Guitar, Magne Furuholmen - Piano /Keyboard). Although they're known as a One hit band in the USA (even that is not true they had more than 1 hit in the us) they are big stars in the rest of the world. The band were listed 2x in the Guinness World Records book 1. For having the biggest-paying rock concert attendance. They drew an audience of 198,000 at Maracanã Stadium during the Rock in Rio festival 1991. 2. For holding the longest note in a pop song by Morten Harket in their Song ' Summer Moved On ' They sold near to 150 million albums and singles, released 11 Studio Albums (the last Album 'True Nord' was released end of 2022 accompanied by a movie of the same name which was shown in cinemas all over the world.) The music video for Take On Me was groundbreaking and won six awards and was nominated for two others at the 1986 MTV Music Awards. The band made a James Bond theme song "The Living Daylights" and also their Song "Velvet" was the Theme Song of the movie "One Night At McCool's" with Matt Damon. In 2017 a-ha performed for a MTV Unplugged concert and played and recorded acoustic versions of many of their popular songs including "Take On Me". This acoustic version was used in Deadpool 2 and in The Last Of Us. Take On Me has been covered countless times by other bands. The song "Feel This Moment", for example, performed by Pitbull featuring Christina Aguilera, samples the instrumental riff of Take On Me. Take On Me was used in many Hollywood movies like Ready Player One, Deadpool 2, Stranger Things .. A-ha influenced many other bands and singers especially - U2 (in their song A Beautiful Day the passage 'Touch Me' refers to the A-ha song The Sun Always Shines On Tv), - Coldplay (all Coldplay members are a-ha fans. One of the first albums that Coldplay singer Chris Martin bought was 'Hunting High And Low' by a-ha. The song "Living A Boys Adventure Tale" blew him away so much that he decided to become a singer himself. He said in some interviews , that Morten is the best and most beautiful singer in the world. Some members of Coldplay have even formed a separate band with the pianist from a-ha Magne. - Kean is also one of the bands that openly admit the a-ha influence. A-ha is one of the few bands that released albums where every song has the potential to be a hit, they have a distinctive style, they are very versatile and all band members can play multiple instruments. The band's guitarist, Pal, is a genius when it comes to song writing. I would really recommend you to get involved with the band.The band's 90s phase in particular is incredibly interesting because they showed that they were as much a rock band as they were a pop band
Wow, I didn't even notice the "80's beat" to many of the 80's songs, but you're very correct. It opened my eyes. As for the video and song, I've always loved it! Even the video is still amazing!
This was one of the biggest songs and videos of it's time!!! I truly wish I could become a member, yours is one of the very few channels that I would LOVE to do that with believe me...but I'm an only parent of 2 disabled kids and I'm truly struggling to keep us afloat hun!❤ Totally a bop! 😂😂😂 Bc the 80's was totally symphonics for real aside from country and rock (sorry but I just have a very hard time calling it "classic rock)🤫🙄 Classic rock to me is like from Elvis to Led Zeppelin Era type sh**!!😂 Anyway definitely true 👍
I do enjoy watching/listening to your reactions. What I love most is not knowing the name of an artist you’re featuring and then “Oh yeah” just like this song it all comes back!!! And you’re not wrong about “the sound” being familiar to the time period. Yes, a lot of 80’s music is distinctive and yes, many times you mention thinking you’d maybe heard the song in a movie and usually you’re correct.
This video won awards. It was very ground breaking. We did not have the computer power we have today. They were big in the European countries.
We loved A-ha in Canada - it hit number 2 on the charts here. They also did the opening track for the Bond film The Living Daylights.
it took a dozen artist to do the drawing it took around 5months...
That video was amazing.
@@nonenone7250 16 weeks. (just over 3 months.)
I read your name wrong and thought it was dildodefense and laughed historically. But i feel ya. I used to skate to this when I was kid and I’m not even 30 yet.😂🤘
The '80s was a very special decade for so many of us who lived through it. Amazing music, drivers weren't texting, no social media nonsense... it had a different feel and I sure do miss it.
The 80's truly were something else!
The winner and still champ, the greatest music video ever made. Ahead of its time technically, great song, and outstanding storytelling that pulls you in emotionally in only minutes.
I have just checked out the greatest video was 'Thriller' by Michael Jackson
@@alandoust551 If you want to classify Thriller as a “music video” then I agree it is the greatest. But Thriller to me is more of a short film than a music video, and that’s the way I have always thought about Thriller.
@@matthewkirkhart2401 I agree with you about "Thriller" and about this video. It's always been my all time favorite and even though I've seen other great ones over the years, I haven't found one l like better. The technology that was around at the time this came out makes it second to none for me.
Technically? They used a effect, Rotoscoping, that was 100 years old at that time.
@@doomhunter697 True, and animation in general is obviously even older, but these technical innovations had not been used in a way that is so artistically linked to the lyrics and the story being told in a music video before. What makes it such a technically innovative video is not using a new technique, but using a well-known technique in such a unique way.
Been an a-ha fan since I was 12, I’m now 51, a-ha are still active today. They hold two Guinness book records. Morten for the longest held note in a single release. And largest paying audience of 198,000 people in Brazil in the 90’s, where they out sold guns and rose and George Michael who both only got 60,000. It was part of a 25 date tour of South America for a-ha, to a combined audience of over 3 million people. a-ha have done many styles of albums including rock. One of the best live bands also. And morten harket has one of the greatest voices in music ever.
Amazing band!
Same as tou
Was about to mention their concert in 1991: "A-Ha set a Guinness Book World Record by playing for the largest paying audience in the world: 198,000 people at the Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil."
Listen, I'm 53 nearly 54 and totally at a loss as to how Dick Ghastly and Ren were fighting for number one spot.
I've got brain damage, so when I finally sleep and wake up, I have no idea where I am or what year I'm in until i jog my brain!
Rick Astley was bad whig first time round, without subjecting me to that monotonous track and then say Ren... in the same sentence 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
I'm going to guess you can see the serious confusion I had, if you watch BP! 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
It was probably last year, still feels like yesterday 😆
I am the proud owner of a sick boi hoodie, figure and CD neener 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
Stay safe and educate, don't hate... teach! ❤️ (not directed, just how I feel like signing off today).
This video was ICONIC! We had never seen anything like it in the 80s when this came out. Ground-breaking.
yes yes yes
The Sun Always Shines On Tv ~ absolute banger 🔥
This was my favorite track. But I'd hate to mention that here because you know, let him have his happy ending 😂
@@bhanesidhe he really needs to do “The sun always shines on TV” it’s also my favorite song from that albums!
Fuck yes!!!!!!!! 😆 This is another song that was EVERYWHERE, so I'm not surprised to hear u say it sounds familiar!! It was also on MTV! This one for sure takes me back to my childhood!! ❤
Back when MTV played MUSIC :P
Listen to their acoustic version from a few years ago- phenomenal!!!
Yes! Came here to say this.
This was my favorite song from the 80's by far.. and a lot of people will agree with me. "The Sun Always Shines on TV" is gr8 too. A-Ha was a Norwegian synth-pop band formed in Oslo in 1982.
A-Ha were worldwide massive, they got money chucked at them to make amazing videos like this. It helped that Morten Harkett was more than a little attractive to the ladies too😂 He has a brilliant voice.
aha I fancied him like crazy
If you were alive and were near MTV then you heard this.
Of course I was!
Exactly. The video made us love it😂😂❤
In Canada we had Much Music, our version of MTV.
It was always great when this vid came on!! Love this song!!
It made me change the channel. 😂🤮
@@whome1299 LOL de gustibus
I love this song. It's a classic! For a whole different but EPIC feel to this song, check out the live version a-ha - Take On Me (Live From MTV Unplugged).....What a deep & amazing version...my fav, of this song.
I Second Checking out the Umplugged Version.......
Omg omg omg omg!!!!!! I can’t believe you’ve done A-Ha! Now these are MY BOYS! Everyone thinks they’re a one hit wonder but they’re not, they’ve got as deep a rabbit hole as Ren! Specifically the first 4 albums! Please do more A-Ha, the next song that follows on from this is Sun always shines on tv & is arguably better! Love you for this Black P! Keep on them!!! Aaaaarrrhgggggg!!!!!! 😃😃😃😃😃😃
Maybe all the music from the 80s sounds the same to you. You know what? All rap music sounds the same to me too, so we are even.
When he said all the 80s music sounds the same, I said that all raps sound the same. I know that raps are different from one another based on the RUclipsr's reactions but... It all sounds the same.
@@karend1577I agree but all country tunes sound alike in my opinion
Yep and I can't even make it what's being said which I assume is the important part.
And rap and hip-hop isn't even music
All rap and hip hop is crap mostly sampled from other artists music. Like Queen, Sting, Bruce Hornsby. Nothing original has to have hits off the back of someone else's talent. Vanilla Ice ripped Queen off , Diddly ripped off Sting and 2pac ripped off Bruce Hornsby.
A-ha is a Norwegian group established in 1982. Frontman Morten Harket is still active today. All of this had been hand-drawn. This video has been truly revolutionary at the time.
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They’re from Norway. They’re definitely not a one hit wonder band, although sometimes that can be a matter of taste. They released their final album two years ago. There are definitely similarities in this band’s early 80’s music and other synthesiser based European pop bands from that time period. It might be that you are not as familiar with this type of music and if you did enjoy it and continued to listen to more you would pick up on smaller nuances and see or hear more subtle differences. That’s kind of what I think happens with me when I am exposed to something much different than what I’m used to.
Some people say a-ha when they find something they’ve lost.
Greetings from Norway A-ha is from Norway. The lead singer is called Morten Harket.
The Best Pop Video EVER produced. No question. !!!
I've watched it a thousand times and I still worry he won't make it out of the comic at the end.
You are so funny @BlackPegasus because you were absolutely HOOKED at the end.. you could not take your eyes off it. You were SO invested.
Not a one hit wonder in the UK and Europe.. lots of hits. USA they wee a one hit wonder.
You sound like my old mother bless her. "All that rap stuff you listen to sounds like one long song" 😂
Kind of ironic that a rap fan would comment on everything from another genre sounding the same.
It is
😂
You mom is right.
One of my favorites!! 💜. Yes you said it right!! 80s music is the best.
One of the best videos ever!! Ahead if it’s time. Had never seen anything like it!!
His voice is amazing!!
Yes one hit wonder !!
One of the best music videos of the time. Love the song and band.
This video was so HUGE.......will always be an Important Song & Video.
Love the songs from the 80s
Speaking of you being raised in Germany, you need to check the song "Winds Of Change" by The Scorpions. They are an east Germany band. Find the back story on how and why he wrote this song. It'll blow you away. 1900 telease. In a nutshell it's about the ending of the "cold war" and the bands visit/tour in Moscow.
Wow wow wow thank you so much
I loved this song when it came out. I think I’d just started High School. The video was revolutionary at the time, it totally blew my mind. Amazing iconic song. So glad you reacted to it BP. xx
A-ha! Love this song, incredible vocal, ground breaking video. They're Norwegian (I was kindly corrected, thought they were Swedish) and were huge in Europe. Sadly, one hit in the US. This song was everywhere in the 80s!
The Sun Always Shines on TV was big!!
Not Swedish. Norwegian.
@@ahkkariq7406 My bad. How did I forget that? Thank you!
Definitely ground breaking.You had that cool world Kim Basinger.And Brad Pitt.I think we're in that and then I can't think of the other guy.Anyway, and then you had Roger rabbit.So this was groundbreaking and the song was cool as hell.I remember so good job thank you
I don't think you realize how much work that was done in this video. Just fabulous, in the 80' too! I was in my 20's then!! I have watched this video so many times you wouldn't believe!! 💝💝💝💝💝💝
I remember being obsessed with this video as a kid. Probably one of the reasons I'm into animation today. Amazing video.
I love how the world works like that. You get fascinated by something as a kid and you follow that route into a career.
@7:16, I think back in the day at some point we all *Dine n Dashed right?! 😂😂😂😂 We all have heard this at some point if you were alive in the 80's and 90's! But the video was so ahead of it's time! I really think it was like going from the black and white TV era to the color but thats just me...Peace, Love and Light to y'all always ❤️
This video was DECADES ahead of its time! And I saw a recent video of AHa recently and old boy can still hit that note!
I was 14 when the eighties kicked off music started...... can I rewind back to then... no i cannot but I play this to my oldest niece yes and she loves it
They had a James Bond song, Living Daylights, which was a sign that a band/artist had really made it. A-ha were huge in the day
❤️🔥Take On Me is the epitome of the 80's!
Don't underestimate the limited models of affordable synths available in the 80s. On the other hand, it is what makes this music so recognizable.
We were coming out of the Disco Era.....cut us some slack....but the rock and roll hair bands were awesome.....but the weed still had seeds.............Peace!
My husband said we dressed so weird in the 80's because our parents were on acid when they had us. 😂
The video of The Sun Always Shines On TV starts as a follow-up to Take On Me, same girl and same graphics. Musically it's basically producer Alan Tarney living his heart out and turning it into an epic sound production 🙂
There's a video around from a a few years ago where they perform this in a very stripped-down way. Just the pure music. MAGIC!!!
childhood! ❤ and for that time; The video 🤯
Yeah, It was absolutely mindblowing for its time! I used to draw, so I found it supercool! :D
Living Daylights was their James Bond song.
This song was right there with St.Elmos fire,an so many others. Ground breaking, like Aerosmith an Run DMC doing walk this way, 80s was Ground breaking decade
My childhood memories and still dance and sing around to this
The 80's saw the advent of the classic Synth... but there really wasn't a lot of variety there yet, so many 80's bands sound similar because they were all using the same synth, more or less. There were still bands doing the classic rock thing, but the New Wave movement really brought Synth to popularity. Many acts from the 70's, like Jefferson Starship, would reinvent themselves in the 80's with a new sound, always chasing the popular trends.
Phil Collins is credited with developing this very unique 'Gated Reverb' drum sound for his album in the early 80's that EVERY artist was using afterwards. There is a very cool documentary video on it on You Tube.
The keyboard player , magne , wrote the famous synth rift when he was only 14 years old.
I remember the first time I saw this video!! I fell in love with them!!
I’ve always loved this video, and song. I’m glad you got to see it!
Just FYI they are TOURING AGAIN. And sound as amazing as always. Even A Cappella!
Ok. That last scene…a lot of people, even from that time period, didn’t know that the last scene, while he’s banging into the walls, was an homage to a scene out of the film “Altered States” where the character was fighting to pull himself back into his current multi-cell structure instead of the single cell structure that he got to under hallucinogens and floatation tanks.
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I almost never see anyone drop this bit, and I'm always tempted to. I sometimes think I'm the only one who remembers Altered States, so thanks for dropping the reference for me. :)
Great video!!!!!!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
I was an 80's teen. MTV JUST STARTED then. It was EVERYTHING. TAKE ON ME was n always be ICONIC.
And this vid was groundbreaking
In the 1980s MTV was huge and a lot of filmmakers tried their hand at making music videos and trying to innovate in different ways. As others have commented, this video was like nothing most people had seen, with the combination of live action, comic-book style art, and animation all blended together. The song was very catchy, of course, and the combination of eye-popping graphics and that earworm of a tune made it something that was in constant rotation on MTV when it dropped.
I remember when this came out. As well as being a great song it was a ground breaking video which transformed music videos from then onwards.
This came out on MTV right before I got married. My husband knew I loved this song and video. So he watched MTV until this video came on and he recorded it on VH’s. This video was amazing.
CLASSIC 80's!
If you want something a bit different from the 80s try Dexys Midnight Runners and the song Come On Eileen. One bit so wonder but was on the top for a while. Here is another the Stray Cats. They had several She's sexy and 17 and Stray Cat Strut come to mind.
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I clicked so fast! Love me some a-ha
When I was in high school in the 80's,, MTV was so great. The videos were amazing. I could not wait to get home from school and see the new released videos. I graduated 1987... Greatest must decade...
I think what you're hearing is a combination of eighties synth sound along with the ubiquitous Linn drum machine.
Always love watching people sing this at karaoke & trying for those high notes....hilarious 😅
This song is one of my favorites and one of my favorite videos ever, the notes he hits and holds is amazing.
This was great song and video I remember when it came out and I use to see them put it on mtv all the time. and everybody loved those keyboard playing was fire. 80s was awesome and mtv was awesome 80s for videos.and early mid 90s around when I was in high school. then mtv all sudden switched to all reality tv shows etc .and you ended up seeing more videos being played on bevies and butthead lol anyways loved this song then and even now brings back memories this was ahead its time creativity in 80s it was different from all other videos.
This is my era of music, this still sound great just like it did the first time i heard it.
It like 1.9 Billions views on RUclips, they are from Norway.
I think when you add synth sound to 80's music it sound familiar.
A-ha has been one of my all-time favorite bands since the 80s when this song came out. Sadly they are mostly considered a one-hit wonder in America (after their 4th album they stopped bothering to release their albums in the US, despite being massively successful overseas), but they continued to put out just incredible music over the years.
It was a next level music video for the time, so so ahead of its time and extremely iconic.
I remember when this first came out on MTV, iconic, we were all mind blown with the video, it was so cool! These songs have seeped so deep into pop culture, movies, remixes etc...you prob have heard it before.
The "Unplugged" version of this song is phenomenal. It definitely hits right in the feels.
The video was revolutionary in the 80's and won awards. The song is fantastic and they basically became one hit wonders because of the video. I watched it over and over and over it fascinated me. Way before CGI....this was during the Max Headroom days on MTV. Max Headroom was the 80's version of CGI.
A-ha are still going strong, and released an excellent album in 2022. They transitioned from a synth pop band to a proper rock band, and do a bit of both these days. Locust is probably my favourite track, it's so dark & mysterious.
Best video in MTV history.
Love this song.
Iconic song and video
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Bro can we get an 80s segment frfr like every Thursday do 80s years for fears Depeche mode the god himself George Michaels breh these are goated bands
Tears sorry
This is the first album I ever bought. I've always loved them. They have so many beautiful albums, but this is the song they will be remembered for. They are a Norwegian band. Their latest album, True North, is beautiful, as is the video. You should check it out. Also check out these songs:
I'm Losing You
Analogue
Lifelines
Summer Moved On- Morten Harket holds a note for 20 seconds
Cry Wolf
East of the Sun
I could go on. Have fun with a-ha and Depeche- two bands I am never without.
You're exactly right, BP!! The late 70s and eighty was when bands really started exploring synthetic sounds!!
Lots of electric keyboards, synthetic drums, etc!!
This is such a classic song from my teen yrs!!! ❤
Welcome to the best music video of all time, in my humble opinion, ha ha ! The sound of the eighties was so uplifting. Great reaction !
I still dance to this my mom and godmother played this my whole life
This video was like nothing we’d ever seen anywhere. It was mind blowing and damn I miss 80’s fashion. Everyone always looked like they were dressed up.
i am from the same town in Norway as Morten. We went to the same highschool and sang in the same youth choir i. our church back in the early eighties. Morten played the base guitar in the choir band. We could hardly believe it when we saw A full page interview with him in our local news paper in Asker. Little did we know how famous Aha would become. Remember back in the day Norway had only one channel owned by the state television companh, So when mtv and the music videos started broadcasting in Norway it was quite a sensation, - and especially when it involved one of our own becoming famous. Just a little reflecti9 down memory lane, from Oslo, Norway…..
Just found my way here. Ive been in a dark space. YOU AND ALL OF ThIS has lifted me up.THANK YOU!
PLUS I was an 8-'s teen. So this music SLAPS. And it holdsUPPPPP
You have to remember MTV was the new thing with videos and THIS video was the FIRST of its kind
BEST MUSIC VIDEO EVER! Great song and the video was so ahead of its time with the stop action animation and mixing the animation with real life, amzing!
This has been in movies. You might recognise another version from Deadpool. Morten has been on The Masked Singer Uk and still has that incredible voice. I spotted him week 1.I was so luck to see them in Liverpool, possibly their first UK tour.
And STILL the Greatest music video of ALL TIME!
80 is the beginning of the era of the synthesizer piano. There weren't very many different ways to make nice sounds. That's why the sounds of the rhythm sound similar.
Great song. 💃🏽💃🏽 Great reaction. Love this channel ❤️
Hey Pegasus, I still have this on a 45 vinyl. I used to like jumping around to it when I was a kid. Mine and my bros hair used to stick up dancing on the nylon carpet too the record player. Before I became a stroppy teen. Lol. Its super catchy pop techno with Morton trilling away like a choirboy.👍
Best Pop/Rock Band with the best vocalists in the music scene. Morten Harket the vocalist has a 5 octave vocal range.
The Band is from Norway, and has 3 member's (Morten Harket vocal, Pal Waaktaar-Savoy - Guitar, Magne Furuholmen - Piano /Keyboard).
Although they're known as a One hit band in the USA (even that is not true they had more than 1 hit in the us) they are big stars in the rest of the world.
The band were listed 2x in the Guinness World Records book
1. For having the biggest-paying rock concert attendance. They drew an audience of 198,000 at Maracanã Stadium during the Rock in Rio festival 1991.
2. For holding the longest note in a pop song by Morten Harket in their Song ' Summer Moved On '
They sold near to 150 million albums and singles, released 11 Studio Albums (the last Album 'True Nord' was released end of 2022 accompanied by a movie of the same name which was shown in cinemas all over the world.)
The music video for Take On Me was groundbreaking and won six awards and was nominated for two others at the 1986 MTV Music Awards.
The band made a James Bond theme song "The Living Daylights" and also their Song "Velvet" was the Theme Song of the movie "One Night At McCool's" with Matt Damon.
In 2017 a-ha performed for a MTV Unplugged concert and played and recorded acoustic versions of many of their popular songs including "Take On Me". This acoustic version was used in Deadpool 2 and in The Last Of Us.
Take On Me has been covered countless times by other bands. The song "Feel This Moment", for example, performed by Pitbull featuring Christina Aguilera, samples the instrumental riff of Take On Me.
Take On Me was used in many Hollywood movies like Ready Player One, Deadpool 2, Stranger Things ..
A-ha influenced many other bands and singers especially
- U2 (in their song A Beautiful Day the passage 'Touch Me' refers to the A-ha song The Sun Always Shines On Tv),
- Coldplay (all Coldplay members are a-ha fans. One of the first albums that Coldplay singer Chris Martin bought was 'Hunting High And Low' by a-ha. The song "Living A Boys Adventure Tale" blew him away so much that he decided to become a singer himself. He said in some interviews , that Morten is the best and most beautiful singer in the world. Some members of Coldplay have even formed a separate band with the pianist from a-ha Magne.
- Kean is also one of the bands that openly admit the a-ha influence.
A-ha is one of the few bands that released albums where every song has the potential to be a hit, they have a distinctive style, they are very versatile and all band members can play multiple instruments. The band's guitarist, Pal, is a genius when it comes to song writing.
I would really recommend you to get involved with the band.The band's 90s phase in particular is incredibly interesting because they showed that they were as much a rock band as they were a pop band
Wow, I didn't even notice the "80's beat" to many of the 80's songs, but you're very correct. It opened my eyes. As for the video and song, I've always loved it! Even the video is still amazing!
From Norway. One of the first videos on MTV
You are right, it's undeniable the sound of the 80's.
This was one of the biggest songs and videos of it's time!!! I truly wish I could become a member, yours is one of the very few channels that I would LOVE to do that with believe me...but I'm an only parent of 2 disabled kids and I'm truly struggling to keep us afloat hun!❤ Totally a bop! 😂😂😂 Bc the 80's was totally symphonics for real aside from country and rock (sorry but I just have a very hard time calling it "classic rock)🤫🙄 Classic rock to me is like from Elvis to Led Zeppelin Era type sh**!!😂 Anyway definitely true 👍
Such a great song!
I do enjoy watching/listening to your reactions. What I love most is not knowing the name of an artist you’re featuring and then “Oh yeah” just like this song it all comes back!!! And you’re not wrong about “the sound” being familiar to the time period. Yes, a lot of 80’s music is distinctive and yes, many times you mention thinking you’d maybe heard the song in a movie and usually you’re correct.
STILL my favorite music video after all these years!
Timeless Video! This was "Our 80's!"
The 70’s and 80’s were the best years for music. ❤️
The 80s defined me. This is the soundtrack of my life.
You need to hear more 80s music because it's not all as similar as Pop Charts would have people believe.
I loved this band growing up ❤❤❤
This song is unique. No notes are like White Wedding.
Apart from the drums at the start