Stay On These Roads (studio album) by a-ha

Stay On These Roads by a-ha
Year: 1988
Overall rank: 6,139th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
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70/100 (from 93 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1988 (87th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (908th)
Award Best albums of all time (6,139th)
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Stay On These Roads is ranked 3rd best out of 20 albums by a-ha on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by a-ha is Hunting High And Low which is ranked number 1750 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 969.

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From 03/16/2020 22:30
Do not ignore Touchy. It has an absolutely brilliant keyboard-tune. Just listen, how the song is starting. The 20 seconds in the beginning...
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From 09/25/2018 01:53
I am a big fan of "Hunting High and Low" and especially "Scoundrel Days" but when "Stay On These Roads" came out in 1988 I did not like the album except for "The Living Daylights" and "There's Never A Forever Thing" because many tracks did sound too cheesy to me - especially "Touchy". 30 years later I finally bought the CD and the more I listen to it the more I really start to like it. If you ignore "Touchy" and listen to the rest of the album from the beginning to the end without skips the songs connect very well and you start to appreciate even the less spectacular tracks like "Out of the Blue Comes Green".
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This is the best Album by that Artist
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From 04/22/2010 19:44
No a-ha album can be thought of as totally weak and this album has four UK top 20 singles on it but in terms of a-ha albums, there are much better examples. However, don't dismiss it. "Out Of Blue Comes Green" and "There's Never A Forever Thing" are standout tracks. You can see where Coldplay and Keane got influenced.
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