a-ha Album: “Celice [Import CD]”

This is a wonderful song marred by the inexplicable failures of the record company to be consistent with the admirable job they did on the full length release. The special version of the album, with the DVD, is an example of a record company fulfilling its obligation to the customers to give them lots of value for their money. This keeps people buying the physical product, as opposed to simply downloading everything.

Why release a two song disc and charge thirteen bucks for it?

Is it to capitalize on the craving for the song at the expense of the customer getting real value. A-ha deserves much better than this.

Stick with the album (which is an amazing accomplishment of creativity) and only buy those "single discs" that give us plenty of music for our money.

I was so happy to FINALY get my CD from amazon when to my horror it was the wrong disc.... I ordered the enhanced maxi ep and only got the lousy two track version.... BAD SHOW AMAZON ! I will think twice before buying from you guys again....BTW I'm still waiting for my full Analouge double CD set....wonder if this will be right I'm not sure !

4/5. The two-track single "Celice" was released in Norway on October 7, 2005 and features the "radio cut" and the Thomas Schumacher remix. This was the first single and the opening track from the album "Analogue". "Celice" is an up-tempo beat driven mainstream song, which is fairly different from what the band had done in the past. The original version features guitars and drums beautifully mixed and compressed to fit to Morten Harket's recognizable falsetto. As with many other a-ha songs, there are tragic and lonely notes throughout the song. "It's in the way you hurt me", sings Morten Harket, and as Magne Furuholmen explained in one of his interviews, the song is about people who have lost their

direction in the hunt for meaning - and loneliness as a result of lost innocence. There is so much mystery and hidden emotions about the song that it was even under consideration to be included on The Da Vinci Code mystery thriller soundtrack.

Thomas Schumacher used an electro Depeche Mode approach to remix the song and came up with an eclectic techno and house driven track with multiple layers of sound and rhythm and slightly distorted and moderated vocals.