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2000 German release
Excellent condition
7-track single featuring various remixes of the 3rd single from the "Minor Earth Major Sky"
Stickered jewel case is the only indication that an 8th track is included - the music video for playback on pc
Originally a track on the 1996 Savoy (a band fronted by A-ha's guitarist Paul Waaktaar-Savoy) album "Mary Is Coming", A-ha's version of "Velvet" replaced Savoy's guitars with sitars.
The backing vocals were performed by Simone Larsen of the Norwegian band D'Sound.
Track listing
"Velvet" (Radio Version) 4.01
"Velvet" (De-Phazz Mix) 3.47
"Velvet" (Millenia Nova Mix) 4.03
"Velvet" (New York City Mix) 5.17
"Velvet" (Alabaster Mix) 5.19
"Velvet" (Stockholm Mix) 4.16
"Velvet" (Album Version) 4.19
"Velvet" Bonus Track: Enhanced Video (director's cut - licking version) 4.08
Tracks 1 & 7 mixed by Niven Garland
Track 2 mixed by Pit Baumgartner
Track 3 mixed by Millenia Nova
Track 4 mixed by John Agnello
Track 5 mixed by Hakan Wollgaard
Track 6 mixed by Palaar Suna
Video director Harald Zwart
Music video
A-ha's music video for "Velvet" portrays the band as murder victims, opening with Morten Harket as a dead man in a bathtub: a girl killed him by electrocution, dropping a plugged hairdryer in the tub. Throughout the video he is taken to the morgue, tagged, etc., all the while singing the lyrics. Paul Waaktaar-Savoy plays his guitar while apparently dead from a gunshot to the head (shot by a girl who looks very similar to the girl who killed Morten), and Magne Furuholmen's body is found in a freezer. All three continue singing and playing while being brought to the morgue, and within it. Some scenes in the morgue controversially suggest necrophilia. The director of this video was Harald Zwart, who also directs Hollywood movies. Zwart, a fellow Norwegian, chose this song to be a part of his new film at the time, One Night at McCool's.
The so-called "licking version" of this video appears on the international DVD release of One Night at McCool's, as well as on the DVD enclosed with the deluxe edition of 25, where it is labeled as "European Cut". The "licking version" got its name because it features the older nurse seen near the end of the video licking Morten's lips instead of kissing him.
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