Hunting High and Low United Kingdom. The band went back into the studio to re-record the song for the "Hunting High and Low" album, but a second UK release in early 1985 was again ignored. Before releasing their single in the United States, the band undertook the production of a new music video for the song, working with director Steve Barron. Barron had previously created hit videos for Toto, Thomas Dolby, Culture Club and Michael Jackson, but the A-ha video was unlike any of his earlier work. A plot-driven amalgamation of live-action and rotoscope-style animation by husband-and-wife team Michael Patterson and Candace Reckinger, it
High, Low and In Between Van Zandt's previous album "Delta Momma Blues", which features very sparse arrangements, "High Low and in Between" incorporates a folk-rock edge. Many of the themes on "High, Low and In Between" deal with moral dilemmas, with songs that celebrate both the pleasure of sin and the joy of salvation. In the comical "No Deal" the drunken narrator falls in love with a girl who has "barely turned fifteen" and declares if Heaven has no whiskey and women, "I'm gonna take my chances down below and of that you can be sure," while "Highway Kind" is a dark minor key ballad