1. minor earth | major sky (5:25)
2. little black heart (4:36)
3. velvet (4:19)
4. summer moved on (4:37)
5. the sun never shone that day (4:39)
6. to let you win (4:24)
7. the company man (3:14)
8. thought that it was you (3:50)
9. i wish i cared (4:21)
10. barely hanging on (3:56)
11. you'll never get over me (5:39)
12. i won't forget her (4:44)
13. mary ellen makes the moment count (4:53)
Additional players in order od appearance:
»Minor Earth Major Sky« drums: Frode Unneland »Little Black Heart« bass: Sven Lindvall »Velvet« vocal: Simone (Simone Larsen)(from D'Sound courtesy of Virgin Records Norway AS) drums: Per Lindvall »The Company Man« drums: Frode Unneland »Barely Hanging On« drums: Per Lindvall »You'll Never Get Over Me« vocal: Lauren Savoy, bass: Per Hillestad, strings: Vertavo Quartet, bass: Jørun Bøgeberg
Strings played by members of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra and Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Strings arrangements: Paul Waaktaar-Savoy and Magne Furuholmen with Kjetil Bjerkestrand
Written by Magne Furuholmen / Paul Waaktaar-Savoy (1,2,7)
Written by Lauren Savoy / Paul Waaktaar-Savoy (3,5)
Written by Paul Waaktaar-Savoy (4,10,11,12,13)
Written by Morten Harket / Håvard Rem (6)
Written by Morten Harket / Ole Sverre Olsen (8)
Written by Magne Furuholmen (9)
All songs published by Warner Chappell
Produced by Boogieman (Andreas Herbig) and Roland Spremberg Co-produced by a-ha and Kjetil Bjerkestrand
Except Track 8 produced by Kjetil Bjerkestrand Track 12 produdced by Boogieman (Andreas Herbig)
Track 13 produced by Paul Waaktaar-Savoy
All songs arranged by a-ha
Mixed by Niven Garland
Except Track 4 / 6 mixed by Boogieman (Andreas Herbig)
Engineers: Jan-Erik Kongshaug, Ulf Holand, Jon Marius Aareskjold
Pro Tools operators: Jon Marius Aareskjold, Kjetil Bjerkestrand
Place of recording:
The Alabaster Room - New York
Rainbow Studios - Oslo
Lydlab Studios, Oslo
Boogie Park Studio-Hamburg
Time of recording 1998-2000
Photos: Bjørn Opsahl Art direction: Magne Furuholmen, Kjetil Try, tommy
// Art & Werbeteam
a-ha logo by Henrik Haugan
Special thanks to everybody at wea Germany,
especially Gerd Gebhardt, Bernd Dopp, Alexander, Markus, Hans-Otto, Frieder and Pamela
Worldwide management: Brian Lane, for Bandana Management Ltd
11 Elvaston Place
London SW7 5QG, UK
brian@bandana.fsnet.co.uk
2000 (WEA Records 8573 82183-2) CD (EU/RUS/Taiwan/Indonesia/Thailand/Colombia/Chile/ARG) (58:38) 2000 (WEA WEA 491 8573 82183-4) MC (D/PL)
2000 (WEA WPCR-10688) CD (JAP) (64:33)
2000 (Warner Music Taiwan 8573 82183-2) CD (Taiwan)
2000 (WEA Records 8573 82183-4) MC (EU/RUS/TUR/Thailand/Malaysia)
2000 (Warner Music Korea 82183-4) MC (South Korea)
2000 (WEA WICD 5298) CD (South Africa)
2000 (WEA 821832 5) CD (MEX)
2000 (WEA 857382183-2) CD (BRA)
2000 (Moon Records MR 3403-2) CD (UKR)
2000 (WEA Records, Warner Music Germany, Концерн «Группа Союз» 85738-2183-4) MC (RUS)
2000 (DD Music DDM 077-01) MC (RUS)
2000 (Old Studio MC2000 255S) MC (RUS)
2000 (WEA Records IM 0025-04) MC (RUS)
2001 (WEA WPCR-10934/5) 2CD (JAP) (72:17)
2001 (WEA, Фирма Грамзаписи Никитин, WWW Records, WEA 491 , 8573 82183-4, 382183-4) MC (UKR/RUS)
2003 (Никитин 5050466638229, НН-165CD/03) CD (RUS)
2019 (Warner Music Germany ?) 33xFile, FLAC, Album, Dlx, RE, RM, 24b
2019 (Rhino Records, Warner Music Central Europe 0190295384388) 2LP (EU) (58:28)
2019 (Rhino Records, Warner Music Central Europe 0190295910761) 2CD (EU) (153:37)
2020 (Rhino Records, Warner Music Central Europe 4607147925669) 2CD (RUS)
