Stay on These Roads

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Stay on These Roads
File:Stay on These Roads album cover.jpg
Studio album by A-ha
Released 3 May 1988
Recorded 1987-1988
Genre New wave, synthpop, pop rock
Length 43:16
Label Warner Bros. 925 733-2
Producer Alan Tarney
A-ha chronology
Scoundrel Days
(1986)Scoundrel Days1986		 Stay on These Roads
(1988)		 East of the Sun, West of the Moon
(1990)East of the Sun, West of the Moon1990
Singles from Stay on These Roads
  1. "The Living Daylights"
    Released: 22 June 1987
  2. "Stay on These Roads"
    Released: 14 March 1988
  3. "The Blood That Moves the Body"
    Released: 6 June 1988
  4. "Touchy!"
    Released: 15 August 1988
  5. "You Are the One"
    Released: 21 November 1988
  6. "There's Never a Forever Thing"
    Released: 1989 (Brazil Only)

Stay on These Roads is the third full-length album by the pop band A-ha. It was released on 3 May 1988 by Warner Bros. Records. Six singles were also released from this record.

Recording

A Synclavier, Sequential Circuits Prophet 5, Yamaha DX-7, Roland D-50, and Roland Juno-60 or Roland Juno-106 synthesizers were used in the recording of this album, as was a Yamaha RX-5 drum machine.

Release and reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 2/5 stars [1]
Q 2/5 stars [2]

Stay on These Roads was the band's third studio album. The album's peak on the Billboard 200 was 148. The album was another big hit by A-ha internationally, selling over 4 million copies worldwide. Stay on These Roads achieved Platinum status in Brazil and Gold in the UK, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Germany and Double Platinum status in France.The album reached #2 in the European top-100 albums sales chart.

William Ruhlmann of AllMusic said "in the U.K., the album became the group's third straight to peak at number two, though it charted for a shorter period than the first two albums, and there were four Top 25 hits—the title track, 'The Blood That Moves the Body,' 'Touchy!,' and 'You Are the One'." Also included was A-ha's 1987 theme from the James Bond movie The Living Daylights, a U.K. number five that missed the U.S. charts.

Lead single "Stay on These Roads", number one in Norway, was a hit across Europe, including top-five showings in the UK, France, Austria and Ireland and top-ten chartings in Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland. Stay on These Roads included three more hit singles, "The Blood That Moves The Body", "Touchy!" and "You Are the One", though a final single, "There's Never a Forever Thing", was released only in Brazil. None of the singles charted on the Billboard Hot 100.

Track listing

All lyrics written by Paul Waaktaar-Savoy; music composers listed below.

  1. "Stay on These Roads" * — 4:45 (Furuholmen, Harket, Waaktaar)
  2. "The Blood That Moves the Body" * — 4:06 (Waaktaar)
  3. "Touchy!" * — 4:34 (Furuholmen, Harket, Waaktaar)
  4. "This Alone Is Love" — 5:15 (Furuholmen, Waaktaar)
  5. "Hurry Home" — 4:37 (Furuholmen, Waaktaar)
  6. "The Living Daylights" — 4:47 (Barry, Waaktaar)
  7. "There's Never a Forever Thing" — 2:53 (Waaktaar)
  8. "Out of Blue Comes Green" — 6:42 (Waaktaar)
  9. "You Are the One"* — 3:51 (Furuholmen, Waaktaar)
  10. "You'll End up Crying" — 2:06 (Waaktaar)

* released as singles from this album. Track 2 was re-released in 1992 in a remixed form.

Credits

  • Lead and backing vocals: Morten Harket
  • Keyboards, bass and drum programming, backing vocals: Magne Furuholmen
  • Guitars, strings, backing vocals: Paul Waaktaar-Savoy
  • Production: Alan Tarney.
  • Recording engineer: Gerry Kitchingham.
  • Mixing engineer: John Hudson
  • Art direction: Jeri Heiden.
  • Photographs: Just Loomis.
  • Photograph "Still Life": Stuart Watson.

Chart positions

Album

Chart Peak
Australia Australia (Kent Music Report)[3] 52
Austria Austrian Albums Charts[4] 9
Belgium Belgian Albums Chart 3
Brazil Brazilian Albums Chart 2
Canada Canadian Albums Chart[5] 55
Netherlands Dutch Albums Chart 5
Finland Finnish Albums Chart 12
Germany German Albums Chart[6] 4
France SNEP[7] 3
Italy Italian Album Chart[8] 2
Japan Japanese Albums Chart 5
New Zealand New Zealand Albums Chart 36
Norway Norwegian Albums Chart[9] 1
Spain Spanish Albums Chart 18
Sweden Swedish Albums Chart[10] 10
Switzerland Swiss Albums Charts[11] 6
United Kingdom UK Album Charts[12] 2
United States Billboard 200[13] 148

Year-end charts

Chart (1988) Position
France (SNEP)[14] 11
German Albums Chart[15] 21
Italy (FIMI)[16] 30

Certifications

Singles

[27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37]

Year Name Chart Peak
1988 Stay on These Roads Norwegian Singles Chart 1
Swiss Singles Chart 10
British Singles Chart 5
Irish Singles Chart 2
French Singles Chart 3
Swedish Singles Chart 17
Austrian Singles Chart 1
German Singles Chart 7
Italian Singles Chart 1
The Blood That Moves The Body British Singles Chart 25
Irish Singles Chart 11
Swiss Singles Chart 29
German Singles Chart 23
Touchy! British Singles Chart 11
Irish Singles Chart 6
Swiss Singles Chart 18
French Singles Chart 5
German Singles Chart 13
You Are the One British Singles Chart 13
Irish Singles Chart 12
French Singles Chart 21
German Singles Chart 30

References

  1. ↑ Allmusic Review
  2. ↑ Q Review
  3. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. N.B. This was the album's peak on the Kent Report chart, which was not Australia's official chart from 26 June 1988.
  4. ↑ Austrian Album Chart Cited 26 March 2008
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  6. ↑ German Album Chart
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  9. ↑ Norwegian Albums Chart, Cited 26 March 2008
  10. ↑ Swedish Album Chart , Cited 26 March 2008
  11. ↑ Swiss album Chart page on Start Something in various European charts, Cited 26 March 2008
  12. ↑ UK Album Chart
  13. ↑ billboard.com 26 March 2008
  14. ↑ [2]
  15. ↑ German Album Chart
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