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專輯名稱:Hunting High & Low

發行公司:華納唱片

發行日期:1985年10月

專輯製作:Alan Tarney / Tony Mansfield

曲目:
　　　1．"Take on Me" (Waaktaar/Furuholmen/Harket)
　　　2．"Train of Thought" (Waaktaar)
　　　3．"Hunting High and Low" (Waaktaar)
　　　4．"The Blue Sky" (Waaktaar)
　　　5．"Living a Boy's Adventure Tale" (Waaktaar/Harket)
　　　6．"The Sun Always Shines on T.V." (Waaktaar)
　　　7．"And You Tell Me" (Waaktaar)
　　　8．"Love is Reason" (Waaktaar/Furuholmen)
　　　9．"I Dream Myself Alive" (Waaktaar/Furuholmen)
　　 10．"Here I Stand and Face the Rain" (Waaktaar)


"自動播放:Take On Me"









We're talking away
I don't know what
I'm to say I'll say it anyway
Today's another day to find you
Shying away
I'll be coming for your love, OK?

Take on me, take me on
I'll be gone
In a day or two

So needless to say
I'm odds and ends
But that's me stumbling away
Slowly learning that life is OK.
Say after me
It's no better to be safe than sorry

Take on me, take me on
I'll be gone
In a day or two

Oh the things that you say
Is it life or
Just a play my worries away
You're all the things I've got to
remember
You're shying away
I'll be coming for you anyway

Take on me, take me on
I'll be gone
In a day or two


在70年代北歐的瑞典出了一個紅遍全球的搖滾樂團ABBA

當ABBA逐漸式微在83年宣告解散之後

來自挪威的奧斯陸在85年底又出現一個令人耳目一新的年輕團體

他們的作品旋律輕快而有活力

不禁讓人在第一時間發出"a-Ha~~!!!"的驚歎

是的

他們就是a-Ha合唱團



他們大量使用當時主流的電子合成樂器做為編曲

在輕快琅琅上口的節奏中

更使用文字創意的魔力

光看專輯曲目不少就很有創意了

像是"Take on Me"...."Train of Thought"(用飛快的列車來形容思緒之快速，佩服!!!)...."The Sun Always Shines on T.V."

使得這張專輯的歌曲不同於偏英倫新浪潮的風格下的陰鬱冰冷

反而更鮮活有力貼近年輕人的喜好



除了音樂上的創意以外

a-Ha最讓人津津樂道的

是他們的Music Vedio

從第一支單曲"Take on Me".

運用真人與動畫間虛實交換

有如短篇動畫般精彩

"Hunting High and Low" 更是一絕

為了追尋所愛的人

走遍高山大海

化身為任何一種飛禽走獸都在所不惜

配合著深情而高亢的歌聲

有如希臘神話史詩般的悲壯

令人動容

"The Sun Always Shines on T.V." 中在一群塑膠模特兒與電視畫面下

尋覓那失去的身影

都是影音結合的經典之作


"手動播放:Hunting High & Low"









Here I am
And within the reach of my hands
She sounds asleep and she's sweeter now
Than the wildest dream could have seen her
And I Watch her slipping away
Though I know I'll be hunting high and low

High
There's no end to the lengths I'll go to
Hunting high and low
High
There's no end to lengths I'll go

To find her again
Upon this my dreams are depending
Through the dark
I sense the pounding of her heart
Next to mine
She's the sweetest love I could find
So I guess I'll be hunting high and low

High
There's no end to the lengths I'll go to
High and Low
High
Do you know what it means to love you...

I'm hunting high and low
And now she's telling me she's got to
go away
I'll always be hunting high and low
Hungry for you
Watch me tearing myself to pieces
Hunting high and low

High
There's no end to the lengths I'll go to
Oh, for you I'll be hunting high and
low