a-ha Album: “Minor Earth/Major Sky”

I have been anticipating this album for the last year and when you wait for something so long then it's usually a anticlimax. Not true about Minor Earth/Major Sky. It's beyond my wildest expectations. It's a master piece of pop/rock music.

A-ha songwriting skills are execptional. The melodic music descripes their lyrics in great technicolour. Together the music and lyrics create a visual image in your mind. Listen to the rock based Minor Earth/Major Sky - it has a feeling of epic vastness to it. "Little black heart" is spine chilling with it's haunting melody."Summer moved on" is classic a-ha. All the songs deserves a mention, the list just goes on and on.

Over all the music can probably be descripe as elecronic with acoustic instruments intertwined - they make use of the acoustic guitar a lot which works beautiful. All songs sound different but there is a unity on the album. Only A-ha can make beautiful melancholic upbeat music. Good production really support the great music.

If you are a A-ha fan then you'll love the album. If you don't know A-ha then check it out if you want somthing different from today's mainstream pop that doesn't have any artistic integrity.

This is a masterpiece no one should miss! Fantastic songs, perfectly sung by Morten "agelvoice" Harket. My favorite songs on the album are "Minor Earth/ Major Sky" and "Thought that it was you"

I was a bit wary of hearing another A-Ha album, after I was so disappointed with East Of The Sun... and Memorial Beach, but this has renewed my faith in this band. This is a masterpiece that no true music fan should be without. Unfortunately, there are no plans to release it in the USA, but as an American, I think I can safely say that most people over here wouldn't be able to appreciate an album like this anyway. It's doing very well in Europe though, and I'm glad to hear it. They deserve it. This CD is incredible.

This album is wonderful! After listening to clips on the internet for weeks, I finally got the album. It is such a nice mix of all of the talents of the band members. There is something on this album for every fan-whether their 1st of 5th album is your favorite. The songs are incredible- I have listened to nothing else for the last week!

After 7 years in "silence", a-ha finally decided to get back together. And we should be thankful. Because again, Paul Waaktaar-Savoy shows that he is one of the best songwriters around and Morten Harket's voice is as good as ever. The first single from the album, Summer Moved On, is a brilliant example of this.

This is not a classic, a-ha has yet to release their masterpiece (although 1993's much overlooked "Memorial Beach"and "East of the Sun and West of the Moon" from 1990 come close). But when you think of all the trash that it's out there (Britney Spears etc.), pop music does not come any better than this in the year 2000.

Song highlights: Minor Earth - Major Sky, Velvet, Summer Moved On, You'll Never Get Over Me