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Last year was chock full of reissue news for fans of a-ha, with a 30^th anniversary edition of the band’s landmark debut Hunting High and Low and reissues of the band’s third, fourth and fifth albums for Warner Bros. Records. This all came alongside a surprise brief reunion of the Norwegian trio, five years after their 2010 dissolution, for a new album and subsequent tour of Europe.

With that tour set to kick off in Russia on March 6, the band have announced another compilation, Time and Again: The Ultimate a-ha, to be released March 18.

The fourth a-ha compilation on the market (after 1991’s stopgap Headlines and Deadlines: The Hits of a-ha, 2004’s thorough The Singles 1984-2004 and 2010’s definitive double-disc set 25: The Very Best of a-ha) switches up the formula a bit, offering a single disc of 19 hits across the band’s entire catalogue (including “Under the Makeup,” the lead single from last year’s new album Cast in Steel) and a bonus disc of 16 remixes.

Almost half the remixes–many of which are based on tracks that don’t appear on the hits disc (“Minor Earth Major Sky,” “Velvet,” “Did Anyone Approach You?” “Butterfly, Butterfly (The Last Hurrah)” and more)–appeared on various CD singles throughout the years; four make their debuts on physical discs (including a mix of “Take on Me” by Kygo commissioned for the 30^th anniversary of the track). And five remixes–a newer mix of “The Sun Always Shines on T.V.” by Future Funk Squad and four Scoundrel Days and Stay on These Roads-era mixes–are released for the first time anywhere.

The band’s reunion concludes in their native Norway this May–but a-ha’s music remains just as timeless as it’s been for 30 years, and Time and Again: The Ultimate a-ha is yet more proof of this.

Full details for Time and Again: The Ultimate a-ha are below:

Time and Again: The Ultimate a-ha (Warner Bros./Rhino, 2016) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.)

Disc 1: Hits

1. Take on Me
2. The Sun Always Shines on T.V.
3. Hunting High and Low
4. I’ve Been Losing You
5. Cry Wolf
6. Manhattan Skyline
7. The Living Daylights
8. Stay on These Roads
9. You Are the One
10. Crying in the Rain
11. Move to Memphis
12. Dark is the Night for All
13. Summer Moved On
14. Forever Not Yours
15. Lifelines
16. Celice
17. Analogue (All I Want)
18. Foot of the Mountain
19. Under the Makeup

Tracks 1-3 from Hunting High and Low (Warner Bros., 1985)
Tracks 4-6 from Scoundrel Days (Warner Bros., 1986)
Track 7 from The Living Daylights: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Warner Bros., 1987)
Tracks 8-9 from Stay on These Roads (Warner Bros., 1988)
Track 10 from East of the Sun, West of the Moon (Warner Bros., 1990)
Track 11 from Headlines and Deadlines: The Hits of a-ha (Warner Bros., 1991)
Track 12 from Memorial Beach (Warner Bros., 1993)
Track 13 from Minor Earth Major Sky (WEA, 2000)
Tracks 14-15 from Lifelines (WEA, 2002)
Tracks 16-17 from Analogue (Polydor, 2005)
Track 18 from Foot of the Mountain (We Love Music/Polydor, 2009)
Track 19 from Cast in Steel (We Love Music/Polydor, 2015)

Disc 2: Remixes

1. Take on Me (Kygo Remix)
2. The Sun Always Shines on T.V. (Future Funk Squad’s ‘Radiant 4K’ Remix) *
3. Cry Wolf (Jellybean Mix) *
4. Touchy! (House Mix) *
5. You Are the One (Dub Mix Edit) *
6. The Blood That Moves the Body (Three-Time Gun Mix) *
7. Summer Moved On (Remix)
8. Minor Earth, Major Sky (Black Dog Mix)
9. Velvet (New York City Mix)
10. Lifelines (Boogieman Remix)
11. Did Anyone Approach You? (ReAmped)
12. Celice (Maruacher Remix)
13. Analogue (CG’s Electrosphere Edit)
14. Cozy Prisons (Aural Float Remix)
15. Nothing is Keeping You Here (Steve Osborne Remix)
16. Butterfly, Butterfly (The Last Hurrah) (Steve Osborne Version)

Track 1 from Rhino digital single, 2015
Track 7 from WEA single 3984 29692-2, 2000
Track 8 from WEA single 8573 83816-2, 2000
Track 9 from WEA single 8573 85751-5, 2000
Track 10 from WEA single 0927 47037-2, 2002
Track 11 from WEA single 5050466-0924-2-7, 2002
Track 12 from Polydor digital single, 2005
Track 13 from Polydor digital single, 2005
Track 14 from Polydor digital single, 2006
Track 15 from We Love Music/Polydor single 00602527268194, 2009
Track 16 from Rhino single 8122797909, 2010

(*) denotes previously unreleased track