a-ha - Hunting High and Low (w/ guest Brian Wagner)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2018

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

Bill and Brian are joined by podcaster and author Brian Wagner ( and )to discuss a-ha's debut album Hunting High and Low (1985, Warner Bros.). Brian helps us explain how a-ha is so much more than just an 80s one hit wonder (especially to the rest of the world). Then we get into Morten Harket's awesome voice, how Pal Waaktaar was the driving force behind the band's songwriting, Mags Furuholmen's distinctive keys, and more as we make our way through the album track by track!

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Great Albums podcast. I'm Bill.
0:02.6	And I'm Brian.
0:03.6	And what are we talking about today, Brian?
0:05.4	We're talking about hunting high and low, the debut record from AHA.
0:43.6	Yeah. What we do here every week on the podcast is take an album of music and talk about what makes it great.
0:49.7	We try to have the conversation around it that fans do, and we tie it all together with a track-by-track review.
0:50.8	Yeah, we do.
0:51.8	Don't we?
0:54.1	Yes. Okay. I'm just... How else do you answer that? I Don't we? Yes.
0:54.4	Okay.
0:55.7	I'm just, I'm just... How else do you answer that?
0:56.5	I don't know, man.
0:57.1	I'm just taking...
0:58.3	And we do.
0:58.3	I'm just here, don't we?
0:59.4	I'm just here taking the pulse, man.
1:02.0	That's it.
1:02.6	I actually just said that because we don't...
1:05.2	We don't do those things.
1:07.8	But it's opposite day, so we're going to do it. Oh, crap. Yeah. Always forget opposite day,
1:13.2	don't you. I do. I mean, I don't. I don't know. Anyway, we're not doing it alone.
1:18.4	We are doing it alone if it's opposite day. I'm abandoning this bit. We're not doing it alone.
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