These are only previews but the songs are out on regular streaming platforms. I'm sharing tons of video here, though, so you can dive in. The TV side of Toppen af Poppen will disappear from the net before too long but these clips will stay.
Written and recorded just after moving to London as a quiet rebellion against the pop machine that she felt she had been thrown into. Notes was initially only released in Denmark, to high praise. Especially songs like Room With a View, Break Of Day and Warm Sand caught people's attention.
Recorded in London, early 2005. This was Tina's international debut but actually her 3rd album in Denmark. Songs like Nobody's Man and Warm Sand introduced her to the mainstream and this was a bit of a break-through album.
Recorded live at Copenhagen Jazzhouse - solo and duo with Dennis Ahlgren - this is a mix of songs from all her first albums as well as covers. It also contains a few B-sides from 'In The Red'
Tina had already had a break-through in Denmark with In The Red, but Count To Ten marked another step up. Another string of hits and this time with the critics all onboard, too. Count To Ten was voted 'Album of the year' by the readers of Denmark's main music magazine, Gaffa. In Germany a performance of Count To Ten on the tv show 'Ina's Nacht' gave a huge boost to Tina's career and it remains her biggest song in Germany. In Denmark, from Count To Ten the biggest songs are On The Run, Open Wide, Sacre Coeur and the title track.
Around Count To Ten's 10th Birthday Tina played a few festival shows, only with the songs from this album, and at the same time sat down at home in the kitchen and recorded these acoustic versions of all the songs.
In many ways Tina's most ambitious release to date with its 21 songs of which many have become classics and faves in her catalogue. Songs like No Time To Sleep, Friend In A Bar, The Road, Walls and Quarter To Forever remain some of her most beloved to this day.
Most of this music Tina wrote for the film 'Oldboys', written and directed by Nikolaj Steen. While the film was mostly shorter pieces and also instrumental vibes, she adapted the music into this full album. Today 'Goldhawk Road' in duet with Helgi is the most known song from the album. But songs like 'Love All Around', 'All I See' and 'In Love And War' have been live classics.
This second half of the "Best Of" compilation 'Welcome Back Colour' contains the quieter favourites from the first 10 years of Tina's career, in then-new acoustic versions.
This first half of the "Best Of" compilation 'Welcome Back Colour' contains the radio songs and favourites from the first 10 years of Tina's career, in original recordings.