The debut album from this band from Norway.
The band was a quartet with a lineup of drums, bass, guitars, keyboards and vocals.
Bridges is most known as the forerunner of A-Ha, one of Norway's most successful bands of all time. 2/3 of A-Ha is on this album Magne Furuholmen and Paal Waaktar. Bridges was their band with the bassist and drummer more like supporting members.
Fakkeltog is ironic enough one of the biggest flops/commercial failures in the history of Norwegian modern music. It was pressed up in 1000 x and it sold nothing. It was not until the breakthrough of A-Ha that this band and album became known in Norway and the world.
The reason for the poor sales is the music. The poor quality of the music.
The band sounds like a very poor second hand The Doors copy.
The vocals is dark and the music is pretty whimsical and all over the place. Unfocused is a nice word for it.
I find it hard to comprehend, as an admirer of A-Ha, how bad this album was. Morten Harket deserve more credit for A-Ha than I have previously given him. This because his two bandmates dropped a solid clanger, a turkey with this album.
Avoid this album.
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