Shnootz - Reaction Video (a-ha - Cry Wolf) [SONG MUTED BECAUSE YOUTUBE BLOCKED THE VIDEO]
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- What's happening, people! I'm back with another a-ha reaction from their second studio album Scoundrel Days (1986), and this time we listen to the song "Cry Wolf." As you'll see, I spent a few minutes thinking about the title in advance, so hopefully that's not too annoying. As such, join me as we listen to another top song from this incredible group. Cheers!
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so.....first the wolf was hungry and now he is crying?!!!! that is some intense life for an animal!!!
This is my second favourite song with "wolf" in the title...
"Cry Wolf" and "I've Been Losing You" were my in points for "Scoundrel Days." I knew that even if I hated the rest of the album (a thing that definitely didn't happen) it would be worth buying just for those two songs.
In the liner notes, the opening line "Night I left the city, I dreamt of a wolf" is attributed to Lauren Savoy, who as a lot of people have mentioned in other comments sections was at the time Pal's girlfriends and future wife.
Haha, sometimes when I learn of a techno record, I'll check the first track and it will be so good that I'll just buy it straight away. Because the other tracks could be utter garbage and the record would still be worth buying (and as with your experience with Scoundrel Days, that rarely ends up being the case anyway).
Magne the keyboard player came up with the lines He came from where the winds are cold and truth is seen through keyholes and took it to Pal and the song came quite quickly from there according to the Aha book down the tracks by Barry Page. This is another one of my faves along with looking for the whales, manhattan skyline, i’ve been losing you and scoundrel days. it’s just a fun catchy little tune. take care.🇳🇴😘
When I rediscovered a-ha a year ago, I went up to the attic, because I knew I had some old cassettes lying around. Unfortunately, I didn't find any original Hunting High and Low, but I did find a cassette tape on which I had recorded a few songs by a-ha, including this one. The others were from the first album. I do remember that this was my favorite from the second album back then, I was 19, and it was fun to see it documented with the old tape of recordings. I still like the song, but is no longer my favorite from the album.
a-ha!!!! busted!!!!......so this is what you do now, when only 2 DD today 😂😂😂😂
I feel like I got caught cheating!
lol!
Predictably catchy and a good choice as a single to promote the album.I always felt i was getting vibes of Trevorn Horn's productions and instrumentation(see FGTHollywood 'Two Tribes') who had still left a longlasting influential wave at the time right before it got 'swallowed' by the tsunami of the SWA hit factory .Morten's very good on 'wolfing' anyway.
Not my favourite track on the album, but it’s still a good song and it was a top 5 hit in the U.K. I believe it charted around #50 on the US Billboard Hot 100…the last song of theirs to do so, and it reached #14 on the Hot Dance Charts in the USA too. They have continued to perform this song at live concerts over the years and regard it as one of their cornerstone songs.
Interesting! I'm always keen to learn what songs a band enjoys from their own catalog over time. Cheers, appreciate all the awesome information you've been providing! :)
@@mattsnider2667 It’s a real pleasure to hear and see you enjoying a-ha’s music and finding out how really diverse and full of nuance it is. I think you mentioned the layering, and again that’s because Pal’s compositions owe much to his family background of listening to and being taken as a child to classical music concerts.
@@mattsnider2667 For the concerts many a-ha songs were transformed by the band into a very rocky version, in a form that the band probably would have had on the albums, but the record companies want to release more commercial songs. When you consider that the band had to fight to get Manhattan Skyline on the album in this rock form, you can imagine that they really let themselves out musically at the concerts.
Cry Wolf is a song played live, allowing a lot of room for change. Example for the Concert version of Cry Wolf from the South America tour in the early 90's: ua-cam.com/video/IHj6IiBCzUU/v-deo.html
By the way, a-ha has always had incredibly high attendances in South America and they even have a Guinness World Record for their Rock in Rio concert in 1991 for the highest attendance at a paid concert
@@ElanurMH Thanks so much for this amazing comment! And it's still crazy to me that they had to fight with the label over "Manhattan Skyline." What a brilliant tune that is.
@@mattsnider2667 Thank you for reacting to a-ha songs and albums in chronological order.
Your criticism is very well-founded, honest and you only rely on your hearing. A-ha videos are very special and underline the songs as if with a red pencil, so some might get the idea that the songs were enhanced by the videos, but that's not the case. It depends on the music.
A lot of my favorite a-ha songs were never released as singles (which I still don't understand to this day) so there were no videos for those songs but it gave us each the opportunity to create our own stories and videos in our heads
It's not my favourite song but I find the live version much better. The video for this song was shot in my country in a French castle.
Always think it sounds to me like they forgot to record the vocals for a 3rd verse 😂. That instrumental bit goes on for ages. Love the song though 👍🏻
I have to admit this song doesn’t do anything for me but make me giggle when they do the “Whoohoo” part.😂
Now this will probably tick off some people, but this song always felt like it should have been a Duran Duran song to me. It sounds so 80’s DD to me. 😂
Sorry if I offended anyone
I always struggled with this song, I don’t know why. Maybe the first three on the album are just too good? 😀
I struggle with it too. It just doesn’t feel like them to me. 🤷🏻♀️
A-ha's attempt at a Michael Jackson Thriller ?
It always felt like it had a big DD vibe to me.
The 12 inch version of this is great, but I really prefer the live versions.
It's catchy and it's commercial. Naturally it was a single.
This was a single. It's not the strongest tune on the album, but is audibly pleasing enough. As a side note, I didn't know that you liked wolves so much. I'll get hold of Ozzy Osbourne's "Bark At The Moon" album for you to listen to for hallowe'en so you kind of have a lupine themed song.
Ha, nice! That would be a great touch for Halloween, for sure. PS, I've reacted to an amazing Goa trance tune called "Howling at the Moon" by Cosmosis (aka Bill Hallsey).
@@mattsnider2667 I misread the name as Bill Haley for a second and thought "Wow, he did "Rock Around The Clock" AND trance music?
Regarding fade outs, I saw an interview with Martyn Ware (Human League, Heaven 17) talking about the early records, and he said that albums had to be no more than 40 minutes long back then because the audio quality drops if it goes longer. I know that by 1986 CDs were getting more popular and cassettes had been around for a while, but LPs were still the main method of selling music, so if a song ran too long it would compromise that 40 minute barrier, hence the dreaded fade out.
Indeed, that makes sense, and that's why I've said before I don't really blame the bands directly. Still, it's a shame some songs get "neutered" in that way (thinking of the radio-edit of Tears for Fears' "Shout"!).
I now await the inevitable riposte of "neutered" in relation to an Exciter song, lol.
@@mattsnider2667 I think that the bands didn't mind too much when they got some extra $ for the 12" versions on a separate record. I guess that even though we were both around pre-CD, and certainly way before CDs became a regular format that we only got old enough to afford equipment and to buy media by the time that vinyl was pretty much dead and we kind of forget how limited the storage space on that format actually was. We have been spoiled with 70 minute CDs (and therefore no more chewed up C90 cassettes) and then we got MP3s before we were in our 30s.
@@handsolo1209 Oh man, as a raver in the '90s, I can't tell you how much time I spent trying to respool mix-tapes I caned in my car relentlessly to the point where the cassette began to fall apart.
@@mattsnider2667 The worst was when the tape snapped or got crumpled. Kids these days don't know the weirdness of finding dozens of feet of cassette or VHS tape strewn around trees like a magic brown barrier.