Twelve Inch Club by a-ha

Twelve Inch Club is a curio from a-ha's breakout year, 1985: the second of four EPs the Norwegian synth-pop trio released only in Japan, which makes it a rare find anywhere else. It climbed to number 21 on the Japanese albums chart, and some early pressings carry a misprint on the disc itself, reading "Twelve Ihch Club".

It belongs to the Hunting High and Low era, when Morten Harket's soaring voice, Magne Furuholmen's keyboards and Paul Waaktaar-Savoy's guitars had just turned "Take On Me" into an international number one, with "The Sun Always Shines on T.V." following it out. Fans who never tracked down a Japanese copy got another chance later: the first three tracks were folded into the 2010 deluxe edition of Hunting High and Low, and the full EP into its 2015 expanded edition.

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