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Originally Posted by Trollheart
Thanks man! I appreciate your input. SD has always been my alltime favourite a-ha album, though it sort of seesaws between that and Analogue. Still, I've been listened to Scoundrel longer than Analogue so perhaps have managed to capture the nuances of it more in my mind. I believe if this had been the debut a-ha album one of two things would have happened: they would have been more accepted as a "serious" band and gone on to be really super-famous or, conversely, the pop fans would have frowned at the more mature tracks and relegated them to the status of one-hit wonders... oh, wait... 
Honestly, though, I do wonder what would have happened had Scoundrel Days been the first the world heard of a-ha? With or without ToM, would they have been as successful, less, or more? Of course we'll never know now, but I love that album to death. |
Some good points there, but I think when a band is a "pop band" commercial success is very high on the list and the soppy tracks like "Take On Me" etc are a necessary part of the band, but of course anybody that just knows the band for these songs will just think of the band as another Wham, Duran Duran and Spandau Ballet and not the rich, mature or brooding band that could be heard on the rest of their albums, or even the more American influenced rock sounds of the fourth and fifth albums. I was never a fan of
Analogue but will probably give it another listen soon.