One week on and I’m still playing a-ha’s album almost non-stop. After a lukewarm first listen it’s grown into this unstoppable force – I’m practically addicted to it, particularly the second track, “Riding the Crest”. After the comparative disappointment of Analogue this a band right back on the form displayed with Lifelines and Minor Earth, Major Sky.
There are duff tracks, of course there are, but the hits outweigh the misses, and in the desperate attempt to find out how they’re doing in this week’s chart (can they cling on to a top 10 spot for a second week running? They’re sliding according to Amazon, but still inside the top 10) I’ve discovered they had to sell just 18,000 copies to get their top 5 spot. Analogue got to #24 with half of that in 2006, which shows how few copies are legitimately sold these days…
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