Hunting High And Low
by a-ha

Hunting High And Low by a-ha
Year: 1985
Overall rank: 1,789th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 301 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1985 (24th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (276th)
Award Best albums of all time (1,789th)

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Overall rank: 1,789th | 1980s rank: 276th | 1985 rank: 24th

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Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 301 votes)
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02/23/2026 01:16 iann97  Ratings distribution  1,96374/100
 
75/100
 
02/08/2026 12:51 AledJames  Ratings distribution  1,49169/100
 
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01/14/2026 18:25 Exist-en-ciel  Ratings distribution  7,69970/100
 
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01/06/2026 17:22 Jakor  Ratings distribution  5,14668/100
 
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11/20/2025 14:50 rubens  Ratings distribution  83071/100

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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.1/100, a mean average of 72.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.4.

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35/100
From 08/08/2024 16:15 | #304676
Take on Me and Living a Boy's Adventure Tale are good, but I didn't enjoy the other tracks
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From 09/07/2023 19:04 | #299024
Stunning album - so many great tracks beyond the "hits".
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80/100
From 11/15/2022 01:28 | #291283
Their 4 top 10 hits are outstanding and the best tracks from this album, The Sun Always Shines on TV(1), Take On Me(2), Hunting High And Low(5) & Train Of Thought(8). There isn't a weak song here so altogether it makes a great debut synth pop/rock album and the first of their three albums that made it to No.2 in the charts.
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60/100
From 07/02/2022 15:15 | #286971
A decent album but it did make me realise it was the videos that made A-ha great
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75/100
From 02/03/2022 07:52 | #280517
One banger. Other songs are soo typical mid-eighties pop synth stuff, mostly forgotten
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From 01/03/2022 18:30 | #278520
run of the mill techno pop
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85/100
From 03/25/2021 17:49 | #267750
Puro entretenimento!
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75/100
From 11/29/2018 00:30 | #225828
I was really surprised when I listened to this album the very first time in the cold winter of 1985. The popular hits "Take On Me" and "The Sun Always Shines" are pop gold while the rest of the album sounds much more melancholic. But there's not a single bad song on the album and it creates a really great balance between fun and melancholy with interesting instrumentation and good vocals.
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90/100
From 07/14/2018 13:49 | #218179
One of the best synth pop/rock albums of all time. This sits at the top of my synth pop/rock tree with Alphaville 'Forever Young' and Thomson Twins 'The Gap'. The music here as with the other two albums is much more than pop. You only have to listen to the instrumentation to hear this. As an added bonus I have a mint copy on clear vinyl!
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75/100
From 02/24/2017 18:25 | #186276
Take on me, and, The sun always shines on TV', are two great eighties pop singles, and although the rest are not quite in the same class as those two, there are some good songs here. The title track and, Train of thought, are the strongest of the other tracks. A good, albeit not great pop album.
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