The five hundred and fourty-ninth album: #549 A-ha - Hunting High and Low
I can't say how good of a pick-up song Take On Me is - there's a flowing energy to the track that is enough to wake you up without being too much. The tracks that follow move towards being a bit gentler - Hunting High and Low a lot closer to a ballad - but the synth pop backing works well in all of the tracks even if it is't as captive as the first track and its chorus, with The Sun Always Shines on T.V. being one of the bigger highlights later in the album for me. Lyrically, it's the slower, more ballad-like songs that are more interesting, but on the whole it's all simple enough to understand - especially with the Scandinavian songwriting slant.