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Celice

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This review is for Celice [CD-SINGLE] [ENHANCED] [IMPORT] ASIN: B000BKUXCE. My parents purchased this CD for me from AMAZON. It is supposed to have the following according to the Product Details:

Celice (Radio Edit)

Celice (Live At Frognerparken)

Celice (Paul Van Dyk Radio Edit)

The Summers Of Our Youth

Video - Celice / Enhanced Material

To my amazement and astonishment it only has two cuts: Celice (Radio Edit) and Celice (Thomas Schumacher Remix) and NO ENHANCED material at all. Do not order this item as listed. I am totally upset and feel that my parents got ripped off big time.

This is a wonderful song marred by the inexplicable failures of the record company to be consistent with the admirable job they did on the full length release. The special version of the album, with the DVD, is an example of a record company fulfilling its obligation to the customers to give them lots of value for their money. This keeps people buying the physical product, as opposed to simply downloading everything.

Why release a two song disc and charge thirteen bucks for it?

Is it to capitalize on the craving for the song at the expense of the customer getting real value. A-ha deserves much better than this.

Stick with the album (which is an amazing accomplishment of creativity) and only buy those "single discs" that give us plenty of music for our money.

I would have given the review a 5, but The Paul Van Dyk remix IMO adds nothing to this song. When I listen to it, it seems like a very uninterested Paul Van Dyk forced a remix out. The version is a sub par with the original. Also its great that they added Celice Live to the Single, but Morten is just struggling to hit those notes live. Sounds like a mouse a bit tonewise and sounds like he is trying to remember the next word of the song.That being said the music sounds great!

That doesn't diminish how great the recorded version of Celice is. In my mind one of their best songs ever! Love the feel of the song, reminiscent of Scoundrel Days without the synths. The Bonus song" Summers of our Youth" is a solid song. It is a duet between Magne and Morten. Typical great A-ha song.

I was so happy to FINALY get my CD from amazon when to my horror it was the wrong disc.... I ordered the enhanced maxi ep and only got the lousy two track version.... BAD SHOW AMAZON ! I will think twice before buying from you guys again....BTW I'm still waiting for my full Analouge double CD set....wonder if this will be right I'm not sure !

I just received my copy of CELICE from AMAZON about an hour ago. I played it once and then came back and played it about half an hour later. CELICE (radio cut) is a very good song. It rocks and retains a-ha's familiar melodious delivery. It sounds great and I indeed like it. a-ha is back! However, the Thomas Schumacher Remix is not a good fit with a-ha's sound. Also and somewhat more important I should note that this is NOT an Enhanced CD as advertised. I should give this 5 stars for CELICE (radio cut) but this is not the product I purchased as advertised. I am a little disappointed here.

4/5. The two-track single "Celice" was released in Norway on October 7, 2005 and features the "radio cut" and the Thomas Schumacher remix. This was the first single and the opening track from the album "Analogue". "Celice" is an up-tempo beat driven mainstream song, which is fairly different from what the band had done in the past. The original version features guitars and drums beautifully mixed and compressed to fit to Morten Harket's recognizable falsetto. As with many other a-ha songs, there are tragic and lonely notes throughout the song. "It's in the way you hurt me", sings Morten Harket, and as Magne Furuholmen explained in one of his interviews, the song is about people who have lost their
direction in the hunt for meaning - and loneliness as a result of lost innocence. There is so much mystery and hidden emotions about the song that it was even under consideration to be included on The Da Vinci Code mystery thriller soundtrack.
Thomas Schumacher used an electro Depeche Mode approach to remix the song and came up with an eclectic techno and house driven track with multiple layers of sound and rhythm and slightly distorted and moderated vocals.