a-ha - Scoundrel Days (Reaction/Request - Excellent Vocals Here!)
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- Hey All! Scoundrel Days was quite the ride, dark lyrical content wrapped in a polished sometimes scary, sometimes hopeful piece of art!
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This song is so dramatic, it still gives me chills 35 years on. I am a classical music composer and I always identify a-ha as a major influence along with Bach, Beethoven and Mozart.
imagine being 12-13 years old in 1986 and being blown away immediately by the new a-ha sound. it still stirs the emotions
I remember clearly when this album came out in october 1986, my sister brought it home and was very enthusiastic about it. I immediately liked what I heard. My sister who is three years older than me was disappointed and I more or less stole the cassette from her. It changed my perception of a-ha big time and really started to like them. The first side of the album which ends with Manhattan Skyline is the best album side from a Norwegian band by far in my opinion.
@@lotus72e Er så enig! This album is gigantic. But most of the world didnt notice that
I was 10 at the moment. I got the MC as a gift from my grandmother. It was on running on repeat for a long time.
by most fans this is considered the epitome a-ha song.
One of the most underrated songs from A-ha. I heard it was "banned" from the radio because of its dark lyrics and eerie atmosphere, and that's the reason this song didn't turn out to be a single too. But, in my opinion, that's A-ha at it's finest and inspired, not the overrated happy Take On Me.
Já estava respondendo em inglês, quando vi o nome, vai em português mesmo rsrsrsrs. Concordo q é a música mais subestimada do Aha. Fui a 2 show s deles aqui no Brasil. Vc já foi em algum?
Funny thing is, Take on Me ain't happy.
@@user39h2j8il True. The Unplugged version is quite sad!
I don't think it's underrated, at least not by us the fans, that's why they have played it live since it came out.
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Finally. Someone out there is listening to A-ha.
My favorites.
Weight of the wind
Soft Rains of April
Scoundrel days album is really fantastic. I was given this album when I was 7 years old. I still have the tape, I played it so much. Glad I had parents that introduced me to music like this.
Could we talk about the rythm section here? Those drum sequences are genius!!!
YES. The opening of this song musically expresses the feel of anxiety perfectly. You mentioned a horror film and you’re not wrong, but to me if I could set anxiety to music, it would be the beginning of this song. As a kid I didn’t really understand what the lyrics meant at all, it just felt like a made-up story about someone caught in a scary movie. Now I identify with it to a degree, that feeling of wanting to run from situations that make me feel like I can’t cope. “We believe through the lies and the hating that love goes free.” Such a great line and an optimistic ending to a dark song.
Beautiful song of a-ha💞
This was their follow-up album after their debut "Hunting high and low".
Although "Scoundrel days" didn't sell as much copies as their debut album, it contained some of my favorite songs.
This one is one of my all-time favorites.
Rumor has it that it was because of songs like "Scoundrel days" and "Manhatten skyline" that Morten had to undergo through some surgical procedure to his vocal chords, due to the straining when singing live on stage.
Wow, he still has such an amazing voice.
You've just made me put that record on my record player and put on my headphones at full blast. 😂 😂
One detail
Listening to one of my favorite bands while wearing a t-shirt of another of my favorite bands.
Can't beat that with a stick. 😂 😂
You could hear Morten's voice cracking and sounding damaged during the concerts in East of the Sun and Memorial Beach tours, by the time of Minor Earth Major Sky his voice had already changed. He's still an amazing singer though, his voice is always full of emotions. By the way, A-ha and Depeche Mode are ny favorite bands too!
Without a doubt my favourite A-Ha song - dark lyrics but the the chorus hits such a hopeful creshendo - '...and see as our our lives are in making, we believe through all the lies and the hating...' so all the dark stuff is beaten by youth and hope!
A-ha doesn't disappoint! Thank you for your reaction. A great later track is, 'Did Anyone Approach You?'
I actually still listen to this album, it was my teens and I'm basically a metalhead but this is/was so so good
Thanks for the comment! Yes my roots are in metal too, but I am loving a-ha
SAME. I’m a metalhead for the most part but a-ha, and this album especially, is still one of my favorites.
I remember hearing this song in 1986-87 on the radio, I was 7-8 years old. The best memories of my childhood.
I have always felt that there is an unmade movie, an intense scandinavian thriller that all songs like “scoundrel days” “living a boys adventure tale” “early morning” and “sycamore leaves” all fit in to.
Thank you, Yeedeed!
The best version of Scoundrel Days was performed at Rock in RIo in 1991, when A-ha entered the Guinness Book with the highest paying audience at a concert: 198,000 people.
Morten did a phenomenal performance that day, look: ruclips.net/video/4mzJ74NnB88/видео.html
And the epic spine-chilling guitar solo towards the end of that live delivery
I suppose you should checkout their follow up single to take on me which is the sun always shines on tv, the lyrics always struck me as someone trying to deal with depression. But again wrapped up in a total different tone of music. paul who wrote the song and most of the songs back then, he is the guitar player, once said morten’s voice has a way of lifting the darkest lyrics to a brighter place.
a-ha is one of two of my favorite bands! Their music is brilliant!
I think they are singing about the time before Take On Me when they almost passed out in the streets of London out of starvation because they believed in their music so much.
For me the song is about a nightmare that someone that is going through dark times is dreaming. By the way it's one of my favorite songs ever along with Enjoy the Silence and Never Let Me Down by Depeche Mode.
A haunting masterpiece!
I always called this song the dark side of “the sound of music” lol
This is my favourite a-ha song! It deserved a video! So unfortunate it never happened!!
Excellent song by them woww!!
My favorite song from A-ha...and unfortunately underrated
I like to think it is hugely appreciated for the only ones who really matter, the a-ha fans, and that's good enough for me!
@@elizandrolorensi6571 I think like that too
A-ha fans know. It’s a shame no one else does. Has Derek looked at I’ve Been Losing You? Or…Minor Earth Major Sky, Bandstand, East of the Sun WOTM, Living a boys Adventure Take, Living Daylights? There are so many more x
This is one of my favorite Aha songs. The entire album is awesome! New to your channel and liking your reactions.
This was my first a-ha album purchased back in the late 90's, for me it's timeless and haunting, so powerful, but so gentle, magically composed
One of my favourite songs ever. You should really check the live version from Live in South America concert film recorded in 1991 and released in 1993. It was directed by the American filmmaker Lauren Savoy whom the guitarist/songwriter Pål Waaktar married around that time, and later they formed and co-fronted a band called Savoy, where Pål, having then changed his name to Paul Savoy, changed his songwriting style dramatically, exploring much darker and rockier sonic territories. They sound more like an American band, actually. I really recommend you check Daylight's Wasting and Whalebone by Savoy - you'll surely be surprised if not blown away!
I like how you actually react to the songs you listen to. You should also check out Stay on these roads.
Great reaction, most a-ha songs were written by Pål, the guitarist, one song by them that have amazing vocals is their 2000 hit summer moved on you should react to that
this song is written by both Pal and Magne. I missed them writing together
@@Minorellen Pål and Magne did the music together, and Pål wrote the lyrics.
Is truth... Summer Moved On Is amazing
Another one of my favorites. But you should check out the live version.
I loved the album. Stood up just fine alongside Depeche Mode and classic rock I grew up on. These guys came to London looking to make it in music...blew money on keyboards, expensive at the time...got by on salt and pepper sandwiches when the money ran out...but made it big time. Superb guys.
Depeche mode t shirt , a-ha are big depeche mode , and have covered live versions of two of their songs
Nice t-shirt 👍
Simply amazing, u should listen; Manhattan skyline, swing of things, here i stand and face the rain
My absolute favourite song
My meaning? They were not famous when then wrote this - this is myth, or legend, or a story, with emotion. We’ve all felt this.
Mine as well.
You have good taste!
"super catchy man". yeah that sums it up.
No matter how many times I hear this, I feel electric shivers.
My favourite a~ha album, just pips HH&L to the post. Just ever so slightly. HH&L is, however, my all time favourite.
Reason being, the first 2 albums are heavily influenced by Norway, and therefore unique, as opposed to for eg Memorial Beach which is imo influenced by time in the USA.
Ps. When you get to know a~ha you'll know this is not about "it" ie what you alluded to....
For me, the meaning is the pain on how to survive the pain in this world can give to a human being.
I’m late to the party here, but what you call hopeful is actually frantic. Like manic depression taking hold. My interpretation is that the person being portrayed commits the S word and in his head, everyone is reaching for him, everyone expecting too much from him, and a
touch of paranoia.
Foot On The Mountain is my favorite song by A-ha.
I love it
This song is part of the movie the lost boys, both classic
Here are some a-ha songs I strongly recommend:
-Blue sky
-Hunting high and low
-The sun always shines on TV
-Train of thought
-Here I stand and face the rain
-Living a boy's adventure tale
-I've been losing you
-Manhattan Skyline
-The soft rains of april
-The living daylights
-The blood that moves the body
-Sycamore leaves
-Early morning
-Slender frame
-Cold as stone
-Summer moved on
-I wish I cared
-Forever not yours
-Case closed on silver shore
-Celice
-The bandstand
-Shadow side
-Butterfy, butterfly (the last hurrah)
-The wake
-Forest fire
-Sox of the fox
Out of Blue Comes Green
I like the way someone else has found a song you haven’t listened to! I’m an aha geek (I’m very old and and provide more, much more on request) xxx
@@lindsJP I can't share the link, so find on fb "Nej. Du kan IKKE slå Jesper Schjølin i 1-sekundsquiz med det norske band a-ha!" Have fun!
Ooo,Sox of the Fox!
"The Swing Of Things"!
You wish you could get in their mind lol I’ve been saying that for 35 years lol. a lot of their songs are intended for their listener to make their own interpretations
The meaning to me is only the great ones like Alpha can get whatever he wants in this world. It is however painfully to the unfortunate ones that almost make someone gone crazy because of this.
They are big depeche mode fans I ment to say
Manhattan Skyline and I’ve Been Losing You are worth checking out.
Hi Matt, thank you for dropping in! Those were actually the first two a-ha songs I ever reacted to, and yes they were great! I especially like Manhattan Skyline out of the three I've heard so far (other than Take On Me)
I've been loosing You and Scoundrel Days are connected.
cool t-shirt 👍 the lettering looks like from the people are people era
Hello my friend! Awesome reaction. I think maybe you like to hear "The Living Daylights" (the movie version) or "I call your name" from a - ha.
We will get there Anibal! Please bear with me!
He escaped in death. "as I run into the air"
I haven’t got to ur reactions all the way , but Dangerous by DM and Out of the blue comes green by A-ha 🤘🏻
you need to react to the song “blue sky”
Solace
Really? DM shirt ? Where u been 🤪
Nice shirt dude. React to some DM!!
This is the song they should have used for The Last of Us.
If you think this song is catchy I will suggest again Minor earth major sky