Track Listing

1. Scoundrel Days
2. Swing Of Things
3. I've Been Losing You
4. October
5. Manhattan Skyline
6. Cry Wolf
7. Looking For The Whales
8. Weight Of The Wind
9. Maybe Maybe
10. Soft Rains Of April

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #45204 in Music
• Released on: 1986-12-01
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

SIMPLY SENSATIONAL!!

This was 'A-Ha's' second album which told the pop world that they had already become a force to be reckoned with!

I remember how sensational the opening track was to this upon first hearing, which had also happened to be the title track. This was to show their real potential as a great new attack on the pop charts, and I'd never followed a band so closely since the days of ABBA, and it felt more than a coincidence at the time that both bands were from Scandinavia.

Not only were some powerful singles released from this album, but some of their most powerful album material too - certainly one of their best albums. 'Manhattan Skyline' turned out to be my favourite single release up to then that I played to death, and should have given 'A-Ha' their second chart-topper. Ironically, this album was to include perhaps their weakest single thus far in: 'Cry Wolf'.

This album contains three hit singles and some of their catchiest and most powerful album material in; 'Scoundrel Days', 'We're Looking For The Whales', 'The Weight Of The Wind' and 'Maybe, Maybe'. It was tracks like 'October' and 'Soft Rains Of April' that were to lead us, ever so gently into that 'subliminal' side of 'A-Ha' that would emerge so much stronger on later and subsequent album releases.

Simply Sensational!

SIMPLY SENSATIONAL!!

This was 'A-Ha's' second album which told the pop world that they had already become a force to be reckoned with!

I remember how sensational the opening track was to this upon first hearing, which had also happened to be the title track. This was to show their real potential as a great new attack on the pop charts, and I'd never followed a band so closely since the days of ABBA, and it felt more than a coincidence at the time that both bands were from Scandinavia.

Not only were some powerful singles released from this album, but some of their most powerful album material too - certainly one of their best albums. 'Manhattan Skyline' turned out to be my favourite single release up to then that I played to death, and should have given 'A-Ha' their second chart-topper. Ironically, this album was to include perhaps their weakest single thus far in: 'Cry Wolf'.

This album contains three hit singles and some of their catchiest and most powerful album material in; 'Scoundrel Days', 'We're Looking For The Whales', 'The Weight Of The Wind' and 'Maybe, Maybe'. It was tracks like 'October' and 'Soft Rains Of April' that were to lead us, ever so gently into that 'subliminal' side of 'A-Ha' that would emerge so much stronger on later and subsequent album releases.

Simply Sensational!

Synth-tastic downbeat Nordic pop
I could easily have reviewed "Hunting High and LOw" giving it 5 stars but then everybody knows it is a Scandanavian masterpiece.

Scoundrel Days, their 1986 follow-up is a slightly less electronic affair, the downbeat lyrics and thrilling melodies still dominate but on some tracks the sound is less artificial more organic.

Aside from the brilliant Cry Wolf, this album has some real classics,including the spellbinding "I've Been Losing You". By no means is this A-hA changing to a "rock" direction, unlike the music theyr released in 2005, the guitars are minimal,keyboards are prominent.

Harkets rich voice is backed by quality songwriting from Pal and Magne. "Hunting High and Low" is their masterpiece, almost perfectly formed for a debut album but Scoundrel Days gets better at every listen.