Me to my partner: "I can't remember his name but he sounds like the lead singer of a-ha only there's something that's more emotional about this. I wonder who it is ..."
I completely discounted it could be him and I honestly thought he sounded a lot like Professor Brian Cox 😂. I even remember saying "well, he was in D:Ream so he has at least some musical ability, but then they also said things could only get better and that was a lie so who knows?"
a-ha was my first concert; I was 12 years old, and saw them at the Orpheum Theater in Boston. It's unfortunate that they didn't take off as much in the US as they did in Europe, because a lot of their later works are amazing.
I just started binging “The Magicians”! Quentin is so cute. Haha. But I couldn’t finish before Netflix took it off. On a slightly related note, however, this version of Take On Me reminded me of the time on “Damages” when they played a similarly melancholic rendition of “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.”
The first time we heard this, my partner said something to the effect of, "The original song is the high-energy optimism of youth, and this version is the gentle pensiveness of maturity" and I think about that every time I listen to it. It's so good.
Welcome to the other side of the 1985 version of Take on Me. Allow yourself to be introduce their vast music catalog. Right now this version is my favorite.
The end of the second to last season of The Magicians and also The Last of Us 2 were so obviously inspired by this performance and their use of "Take On Me" and I've watched it and cried at least a dozen times since I saw it.
Wow! Was the lyric always “In a day or two”? Because I remember when Take On Me came out, and I’ve never heard that until this version. Thank you for sharing it!
I love how Harket's voice has aged so well, he can still hit and hold those high notes perfectly, and IMO the overall timbre is even better than when he was younger, more depth and character.
It seems that every song you hear from the music business has the REAL song trying to escape, the song closer to the unvarnished poetry. There is no greater example of this than THIS song.
I agree and if that's how you feel, you should search up Ron Sexsmith's "This Song" which is about all the efforts made to smother, shred or mutilate the beautiful things that songwriters make.
GREAT SONG! You might dig my podcast (UNPLUGGED REVISITED) devoted to MTV Unplugged. My newest episode focus on artists who appeared on Unplugged more than once (including Morten Harket who sang “Wind of Change” on The Scorpions Unplugged). You can tune in here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unplugged-revisited/id1769812894?i=1000684065793
I've watched a few videos about why AI sucks and won't be able to do original works. Even knowing this song works at this tempo would be beyond it. I'm reminded of Jim Morrison basically telling the band that he needs them to tell him when he's wrong. Not a bunch of yes men, in the Biopic.
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https://youtu.be/SVqGFe6lf5s?si=oSZ80EbyRcb1xI6J
https://youtu.be/oD1EPACYdM0?si=H5QPuPg3Ba6PtS15
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3meKlaJL3qo
Hard to believe that Morten can still hit that E5 in the song in his late 50’s.
He is an amazing singer and the composition with piano and guitar was sublime.
Thank you. I love this version.
Sometimes its the performance
Sometimes its both. Thank you for sharing
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unplugged-revisited/id1769812894?i=1000684065793
Thank you