lol i think this is the longest AHS has sustained itself since a release and subsequent over frickin' flow of people.

Return Road!!!!!!!!!! i knew it gonna epic but i didnt expect it gonna be super super super super super super suuper super EPIC!!! :thud:luv2:luv2:luv2:luv2:luv2:luv2:luv2

DAI you are greaaaaaaat! :yes:yes:yes

Return Road sound like angry M ~episode II~ lol

without timmy's vocals, this could be one of her most diverse and interesting records.

I love NaNaNa! And Timmy in this and other songs.
Tell me why is just epic

I can't decide to which track listen cause album is full of awesomeness. So it's going with the list xD

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too much awesomeness! return road alone is epicness! reminds me, tell me why, Letter omg too many favorite tracks!

Now we only need on the booklet and my day would be complete.
Well, it would actually be overkill

The album is EPIC, well I could totally live without Party Queen track there, I skip it anyway.... And I love the quirky Eyes, Smoke, Magic, it makes me think of Ch.Aguilera's Candyman and CHICAGO movie.... the next LOVE and the following are probably very very new for Ayu, I actually think she pulled them really well. The rest of the album? This is the Ayu I got to know when I heard Memorial Address performed in that red dress, which was my first Ayu song. Such an amazing feeling to have that back. *sigh*

The arangements are great, the power is great, the vocals are perfect. I sooooooo missed all that!

I think this record is diverse and interesting BECAUSE she has Timmy on there. I feel as if a male backup singer really complements her voice nicely, it adds a depth to it. A sort of duality, too. I mean.. she's never done a male back up vocalist so prominently before. That alone makes this record diverse for me.

to me there is difference between timmy and a male vocalist. i have always preferred male back-ups and choruses for ayu, but genuinely don't think timmy adds anything to ayu other than a different perspective. he doesn't bother me conceptually, but he cannot perform.

ooh, good point. Thank you for elaborating!

I think Timmy's warm tenor is a perfect compliment to Ayumi's sometimes rather cold mezzosoprano.

I also think Timmy is a great addition to the songs. Although his rap in NaNaNa is very strange, his participation in the other songs made them really great.

God how I LOVE DAI. His compositions are always pure GOLD! He really knows how to compose Perfect Ayu songs. This nostalgy is so heartbreaking :D I hope HAL's gonna come back too.

nway, may be i missed this, but have we got the official source from Ayu's stuffs or something to say that tell me why is a cover song or not?

The original composers from Greece are credited as far as I know, so it's all legal and definitely not stolen, if it's a cover or not we cannot know, it depends on if Ayumi knows of the other song or just bought the same melody from the composers.

ok great! so many composers for one song :P wonder how Ayu discover about them

Eyes, Smoke, Magic = Burlesque music

XD

I am pretty sure Ayu wrote her own lyrics, so basically they've just purchased the composition. It's not really anything new for the majority of Asian artists.