Stay On These Roads
by a-ha
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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 1828 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 925.
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Stay On These Roads track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 75 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 06/19/2026 21:20 | Exist-en-ciel | 14,743 | 70/100 |
| ! | 11/12/2025 23:48 | NYAndreas | 1,433 | 44/100 |
| ! | 04/27/2024 14:50 | markl73 | 619 | 78/100 |
| ! | 04/08/2024 06:41 | M4thSoad3r | 312 | 85/100 |
| ! | 12/06/2023 16:28 | fabm0 | 7,010 | 58/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 70.4/100, a mean average of 69.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 70.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 20.0.
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Do not ignore Touchy. It has an absolutely brilliant keyboard-tune. Just listen, how the song is starting. The 20 seconds in the beginning...
nocturnaldelight 09/25/2018 01:53 | #221624 | TOP COMMENT
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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".
This is the best Album by that Artist
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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