Editing Scoundrel Days (section)

==Production==
''Scoundrel Days'' was the second long-player release from ''a-ha'', which was highly anticipated after the success of their first album, ''[[Hunting High and Low]]'' (1985), which had reached #2 in the United Kingdom's Album Chart, and number 15 in the United States' [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]] in the previous year. ''Scoundrel Days'' was recorded in England in early 1986 at [[RG Jones Recording Studios]] on Beulah Road in [[Wimbledon, London|Wimbledon]], South-West London. The record was produced by [[Alan Tarney]], who had produced the band's singles "[[Take On Me]]" and "[[The Sun Always Shines on T.V.]]" in the previous year, and it was engineered by Gerry Kitchingham.<ref name="auto">Cover sleeve production credits for ''Scoundrel Days'' (1986).</ref>

The songs were composed by [[Paul Waaktaar-Savoy|Pal Waaktaar]] and [[Magne Furuholmen]]; the band's vocalist [[Morten Harket]] did not contribute to the songwriting as he had on their first album. Waaktaar and Furuholmen also self-produced three of the record's tracks, "[[I've Been Losing You]]", "Maybe Maybe", and "Soft Rains of April".<ref name="auto"/>

[[Yamaha DX7]] and [[Roland Juno-60]]/[[Roland Juno-106|106]] synths were used in the recording of this album, the Roland Juno 60 was used on opening of the song "Manhattan Skyline" (which is the same synth used on the "Take On Me" riff) and the Yamaha DX7 drum sound was used on the opening of "October". "Scoundrel Days" and "Swing of Things" signature sounds were obtained from a [[PPG Wave]]. The drums and several other sound effects were from drawn from a [[Fairlight CMI]].{{citation needed|date=March 2019}}