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It all began in summer 1988.... and I blame it all on the "stay on these roads video". I saw that one for the first time on German TV channel "Tele 5" which back then still was a music channel.... and a pretty good one at that (at least when it came to my then-standards). Before a-ha, pop-music wasn't really any of my business... even though my 10 years older brother more or less involuntarily fed me with the sounds from abba to zappa on a daily basis. Back then I was closer to the classical and traditional music that I was brought up with from my parents side. Anyway, I saw the "stay on these roads" video and was in love head-over-heals. I suppose I was the typical teenage-fangirl: I bought almost every issue of Bravo, Popcorn, Girl!, you-name-it with the slightest hint of a-ha content, plastered all my walls with a-ha posters, listened to the "stay on these roads" album until it's rills were so worn out that you could actually hear side two backwards while listening to side one and - of course - was of the firm confiction that Morten Harket was the most beautiful creature walking the planet.  That total, utterly a-ha centered crazyness lasted until the early 1990s... At that point I discovered my love for the "darker side" of popular music in the likes of Depeche Mode, Deine Lakaien, Wolfsheim, etc. I started wearing all black, claiming the world was a misserable place and all in live was sh***. Just your average form of teenage rebellion, some would say... not that I know much of teenage rebellion.  Anyway, I have gone through a lot of different musical "phases" since then: from wave to rock and indie rock to electronic, soul and back again, but the love for a-ha music never really waned completely. Although I have to confess that there were times (especially through the wave and electronic periods) when I would never openly admit that I still had a strong weakness for the three gentlemen from way up North. I lived through some minor a-ha fan flash-backs, after both the release of "Minor Earth | Major Sky" and "Lifelines"... but the really strong relapse followed in late 2005 and the release of "Analogue". You may call me pathetic, but it really almost felt like "falling in love" back in 1988.... only with the differnce that it was all this man's fault now:  I blame him... I really do.  
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