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a-ha ‎– Stay On These Roads

Label:
Warner Bros. Records ‎– 925 733-2
Format:
CD, Album
Country:
Europe
Released:
03 May 1988
Genre:
Electronic, Pop
Style:
Synth-pop

Tracklist Hide Credits

1 Stay On These Roads
Written-By – Mags (2), Morten Harket, Pål Waaktaar
 4:46
2 The Blood That Moves The Body
Written-By – Pål Waaktaar
 4:06
3 Touchy!
Written-By – Mags (2), Morten Harket, Pål Waaktaar
 4:33
4 This Alone Is Love
Written-By – Mags (2), Pål Waaktaar
 5:15
5 Hurry Home
Written-By – Mags (2), Pål Waaktaar
 4:37
6 The Living Daylights
Written-By – John Barry, Pål Waaktaar
 4:47
7 There's Never A Forever Thing
Written-By – Pål Waaktaar
 2:51
8 Out Of Blue Comes Green
Written-By – Pål Waaktaar
 6:42
9 You Are The One
Written-By – Mags (2), Pål Waaktaar
 3:51
10 You'll End Up Crying
Written-By – Pål Waaktaar
 2:07

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Notes

Standard jewel case with black tray including 12 page booklet (see images)

A digital recording.
Total running time: 0hr 43mn 35s

℗ & © 1988 Warner Bros. Records Inc. for the U.S. and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the U.S.
Manufactured in Germany

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Barcode (Printed): 0 7599-25733-2 0
  • Barcode (Scanned): 075992573320
  • Matrix / Runout (Variant 1): 925 733-2 ˙/ P+O-B
  • Matrix / Runout ( Mould Inner RIng, Variant 1): 5
  • Matrix / Runout (Variant 2): 925 733-2 ˙/ P+O-B
  • Matrix / Runout (Mould Inner Ring, Variant 2): 6
  • Matrix / Runout (Variant 3): 925 733-2 ˙/ P+O-C
  • Matrix / Runout (Mould Inner Ring, Variant 3): 36
  • Rights Society: GEMA / BIEM
  • Label Code: LC 0392
  • Price Code (France): WE 851

Other Versions (5 of 100) View All

Cat# Artist Title (Format) Label Cat# Country Year
WX 166, 925 733-1 a-ha Stay On These Roads ‎(LP, Album) Warner Bros. Records, Warner Bros. Records WX 166, 925 733-1 UK & Europe 1988 Sell This Version
9 25733-2 a-ha Stay On These Roads ‎(CD, Album, Ltd, Promo) Warner Bros. Records 9 25733-2 US 1988 Sell This Version
9 25733-1 a-ha Stay On These Roads ‎(LP, Album, Promo) WEA International Inc. 9 25733-1 US 1988 Sell This Version
9 25733-2 a-ha Stay On These Roads ‎(CD, Album) Warner Bros. Records 9 25733-2 US 1988 Sell This Version
LWB-6721 a-ha Stay On These Roads ‎(LP, Album) Warner Music Mexico LWB-6721 Mexico 1988 Sell This Version

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Nutti

Nutti

April 30, 2016
For me this is the best A-ha album. Perfect pop album for the yuppie era of late 80's. Pure genious. Superb tracks. Perfect singing. It's pop music alright. It's not meant to be taken very seriously but it's tremendous fun and gives you chills. Stylistically there's nothing else like it and never will be. It's the perfect example of seizuring time and a style of living and a state of technology inside music - and it happened by pure chance like the best of things. None other A-ha album really touched me except the Foot Of The Mountain and this one, and ofcourse their signature track Take On Me. Many of the A-ha albums I don't understand at all what's the fuss. But this is an arrow through my soul. 5/5
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TIM

TIM

May 28, 2012

This album is mostly looked at as the weakest A-Ha album and in retrospect it is. With the pressures of retaining that earlier fame you have songs like Touchy! And Stay on these Roads. Pressure to write hit songs for America. While those fell flat and remain flat everyone who followed them know what an excellent song Alone is Love is. However for me there are two songs on here that are the reason I keep this disk and go back to it occasionally. Out of Blue Comes Green and the ballad There's Never a Forever Thing. OOBCG is the highlight of the album for me. The instrumental jam sessions parts that nicely bridge the track to some of the most triumphant vocal deliveries in their catalog. And how about the last minute and a half?! It gets funky and beautiful at the same time. The latter song is one of their top 5 ballads they did as a band. While this album is a sore spot for the band don't let these two escape you. You should like them as much as any debut material they did.
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