Stay on These Roads

Stay on These Roads
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) Stay on These Roads (1988) East of the Sun, West of the Moon (1990)
Singles from Stay on These Roads
"The Living Daylights" Released: 22 June 1987 "Stay on These Roads" Released: 14 March 1988 "The Blood That Moves the Body" Released: 6 June 1988 "Touchy!" Released: 15 August 1988 "You Are the One" Released: 21 November 1988 "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	[1]
Q	[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.

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.

Chart positions

Album

Chart	Peak
Swiss Album Charts[3]	6
Austrian Album Charts[4]	9
Swedish Albums Chart[5]	10
Norwegian Album Chart[6]	1
Billboard 200[7]	148
SNEP[8]	3
UK Album Charts[9]	2
German Album Chart[10]	4
Italian Album Chart[11]	2
Canadian Album Chart[12]	55

Certifications

Singles

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References

External links

• Lyrics
• Tour of 1988-1989, in German