a-ha - Living A Boy's Adventure Tale

Here's my all-time favourite a-ha song and it was never released as a single! "Living A Boy's Adventure Tale" is five minutes worth of pop beauty that closed side 1 on the Norwegian trio's hugely successful 1986 debut album Hunting High And Low. The singles from that album was of course "Take On Me", "The Sun Always Shines On TV", "Train Of Thought" and the title track. Great songs all of them, but to me "Living A Boy's Adventure Tale" shines brighter. Morten Harket's singing is top notch, and the high notes he goes for towards the end, at around 3:50 is mindblowing stuff, the greatest singing he's ever done, if you ask me. Truly beautiful!

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