Hunting High and Low

I have a confession to make. I had been a fan of a-ha since high school. Put it this way, their favourite song was not "Take On Me" - it was "I have been Losing You" and "Seemingly Endless July" if you must know.

A few weeks ago, I stumbled across a YouTube video of Coldplay doing a cover of "Hunting High and Low", one of their early hits, with the keyboardist Magnus Furuholmen supporting. It was surreal. It turned out that a-ha was one of Chris Martin's favourite band. It did not take long before I downloaded their Greatest Hits album from iTunes.

Unfortunately, there were a few numbers missing, and it looked like I had to do a few more downloads later. Anyhow, I'm happy with what I had so Save & Closefar. All those catchy tunes on the drive to work.

Apparently, a-ha disbanded for good last year. But judging from their YouTube videos, they still got it. Morten Harket's voice is still as good as ever - all five octaves of them.