It's hard. mainly because of what RikkuChii is saying. I hate Black Cherry cause all new track were a shame (except of get up and move and the introduction) but the singles were sooo good! (mainly 4 hot wave)
Trick is an album I hate also, but there are such amazing songs like taboo, driving and this is not a love song!
Secret, Kingdom, Universe and SecondSession (for me it always will count as an album) are good albums and more solid than the other two. And affection, grow into one and feel my mind are kind of boring...

So considering that, my list would be:

1. Second Session
2. Kingdom
3. Secret
4. Universe
5. Black Cherry
6. Trick
7. Grow into one
8. Feel my mind
9. Affection

Black Cherry had some horrible album tracks... Go Way!! ugh :no

I reli like TRICK though, that's gotta one of my favs from, same with UNIVERSE & secret is <3 too

I can't pick a favorite album lol

1. secret
2. Universe
3. Kingdom
4. Trick
4 1/2. Black Cherry
5. feel my mind
6. grow into one
7. affection

best ~second session~ is so good, though. it would rank in the top 3 for me if I counted it.

I picked secret as my number 1 because it solidified my love for Kuu. It's one of the best j-pop cds ever, imo.

I don't get the Black Cherry dislike. The only tracks I don't like are Puppy and Candle Light. Everything else is good listening for me :D

I can't really list her albums because they all have things that I love about them, but I can say that I listen to grow into one the least.

1) KINGDOM
2) Best ~second sessions~
3) secret
4) Black Cherry
5) feel my mind

1. Black Cherry
2. Kingdom

The rest are all.....meh. I'm still waiting for another perfect album from her :yes

My Favorite

1-UNIVERSE 100%
2-Black Cherry 98%
3-Kingdom 96%
4-TRICK 94%
5- Best ~SS~ 93%
6- Secret 90%
4-Affection 86%
5-feel my mind 81%
6- Grow into one 60% -_-"

omfg I feel stupid, I opened up the "new release" spoiler at the beginning of this thread and the text makes it look like Kuu's drooling on the CD cover. I was like LOLWAIT

Thanks for taking a joke! :P

1. Kingdom
2. secret
3. TRICK
4. Black Cherry
5. UNIVERSE
6. feel my mind
7. grow into one
8. affection

i'm not really into any of her older albums except for a few songs tbh.

i don't understand why you still upload covers if the criticism bothers you so much. no one is forcing you to upload them to youtube.

After all the criticism, that's what makes you delete your accounts?

Here is my cover of Simple and Lovely! hope you guys enjoy my vocals.

I never heard that version with misono! I think I like it better than the one with Kumi!

Oh, and what did you cover?

Kuu's vocals always bothered me in that song though too...not that misono's are better though...

just cause, the song is so not really fitted to koda I guess. I mean, it's just got emi hinouchi written all over it, and it's weird to me without her's or a similar artist's vocals lol
lol don't ask questions. maybe she'll stop singing forever and do the world a favor.

I kinda appreciate this one as a different interpretaion. Yeah, misono's voice is really screachy, but I like it. Maybe because it's the only song after VS by misono that's halfway decent. I like it. :yes

I never liked how Kumi's voice was in the chorus - it never sounded like her and it was too "American" Ghetto/Hip-Hop for me. Lol.

why do you guys hate Puppy? O__O It's such a cute song even if the beat is copied from Rihanna lol

I like Puppy... and I like GO WAY!! too.

Offtopic, but I would love to say that I love my Kuu family even more now for causing JPopYuna to leave. I know, it sounds wrong. But still. I love you guys. :heart

1.TRICK
2.Black Cherry
3.Kingdom
4.UNIVERSE

A bit late but here it is: (It's so hard making such a list for ayu and kuu >_>).

01. grow into one
02. BEST ~second session~
03. affection
04. secret
05. UNIVERSE
06. TRICK
07. Black Cherry
08 Kingdom
09. feel my mind

1.Kingdom
2.UNIVERSE
3.TRICK
4.BEST~second session~
5.secret
6.Black Cherry
7.affection
8.feel my mind
9.grow into one

It's too hard for me to put Kuu albums on order. :D I love every single album so much. :D

I definitely dislike her two oldest albums. I simply cannot listen to them. Not a single track that I like ... Feel my Mind and Secret were definitely a step up for me, even though it's mostly the singles that I like. It's the same with Black Cherry for me. The singles were amazing but the album tracks disappointed me. I hate, HATE (with all caps, yes) sugary cute tracks like GO WAY!! (just for the title) and twinkle, and the ballads were kinda "eh". Get Up & Move was nice, although now that I know the lyrics I can't listen to it anymore XD

On Kingdom I simply loved all the singles and at the very least LIKED every album track. (Except for Wonderland. I hate that one.) TRICK was the same for me, although the ballads I find to be a bit more generic.

Long story short, Kingdom and TRICK are for me definitely the only two albums I can play continiously without pausing or skipping a song.

1. UNIVERSE
2. TRICK
3. Black Cherry
4. Kingdom
5. Secret

...you can tell I like her newer stuff XD I've hardly ever listened to her oldest albums.

LOL XD

Mhmm :shakehead

I might try and get into it again today, though.

yay Kuu again!

My order would be something like this:

01. Kingdom
02. UNIVERSE
03. grow into one
04. BEST ~second session~
05. TRICK
06. affection
07. Black Cherry
08. secret
09. feel my mind

It's rainning and I was a bit bored, so I just make a kind of estadistic summary with all of our lists. My intention was to take a better vision of what albums are the most claimed in this thread
I considered that so many people only put 4 or 5 albums, so I counted:

4 points for every 1st place
3 points for every 2nd place
2 points for every 3rd place
1 point for every 4th place

And that's what I get:

1.KINGDOM 54 points
2.UNIVERSE/TRICK 39 points (both)
3.BLACK CHERRY 34 points

4. Second Session 27 points
5. Secret 22 points
6. Grow into one 9 points
7. Affection 5 points
8. Feel my mind 3 points

LOVE that we consider KINGDOM as her best album! I really love it, and it's strange to me since I didn't hear people talk too much about that album (always people talks about BC ahahahh)

On the other hand... I can't get how TRICK is placed in the second place (with the same points as UNIVERSE though)! But it's the opinion of so many people so... maybe I'll have to give it a try again :D

Thank you for making it. =D

I actually don't like the results (for me personal taste).
The only result that's like me is feel my mind on the last place.

At first I really liked Kingdom and thought it's better thank Black Cherry but overall I find that I don't listen to Kingdom as much but just to individual songs from there (especially half of the single songs and amai wana and Under).

It's cohesive but I would say it's kind of bland when listening to it all together. It's not weak but not one of her strongest for me.

It seems many people like TRICK very much... It hurts my heart :laugh And secret deserves for more love, c'mon! It hurts my heart even more :weep And omg fmm at the last place :cry
But those are different preferences and opinions. :D

I'm actually surprised KINGDOM is getting so much love, I vaguely remember it being disliked when it was first released... But I was in love from day one! :luv2 I guess it's just one of those things that have to grow on you? TRICK grew on me a little bit since it was released.

What I thought, too=))

Thirded! I've been loving this album since it came out. <3

So Kingdom is our very favourite, is a really great album

I love Trick

I hate Kingdom (BUT is an amazing song though) and Black Cherry

I should re hear these albums and I will!

I love Kingdom so much=)

I have to listen to it today to the whole thing again =)

^
this is exactly what I did as soon as I see that it's our favorite album. I usually never listen any album from first to last track, but I feel that I had to do it after that :D hahaha
and it's really cohesive and good to listen.

last angel
but
aisho
amai wana
under
freaky
ai no uta
anytime
& black cherry are awesome

and then we have
more
himitsu
the introduction
koi no maou
& anata ga shite... that are easy-listen

I only extremly dislike wonderland

So yes, I can consider it a great album if we put all songs togetter ^^

Kingdom is love. Wonderland is one of my fav cutie Ku song <3 and MORE is <3 too.. I only don't really like the Anta ga shite song, Koi no Mahou & Himitsu gets boring after awhile :laugh

I love MORE, however..Wonderland..is a song I will play if I'm drunk. :/

So much hate for grow into one...
You guys are making me sad :cry

^ feel my mind is in worse situation :weep

I'd love Kuu for making another song like MORE. Perfect for her voice :heart

I actually love those two albums, grow into one & feel my mind..

..well, to be frank, I love all her albums.

Just because people put some albums low in their ranking doesn't mean they hate them.

I wish we'd know what they'll do with Hey Baby. I want a full version~!

Just out of curiosity has any of you replaced a song (single or album track) on an album with a b-side you thought was better. I replaced stay with me , That Ain't Cool, and Moon Crying on TRICK with Winter Bell, Lady Go!, and Always so now I don't have to skip any tracks.

Did someone said it?



I've read something interesting about LOVE & HONEY single at JPopStop...
Is this true? Does somebody have this? Or is it usually provided in version to download?

Maybe I should've quoted but I meant that comment as a reply at milky_way's comment about the apparent 'hate' for grow into one.

^ We're just sad that albums we like aren't that good in others' eyes, it's nothing bad with it :) It's like fighting for the name of things we like, I would say :laugh

No the short version is the one always included. Here is the long version:

http://www.mediafire.com/?abhwnqwk88ed0v1

^ thanks for sharing :shughug

I know no one flat out said that they hated it. I'm just whining because it's ranked so low :P

grow into one is my favorite kuu album :love

All of the songs there are AWESOME except for BOY FRIEND? for me!
So much consistent sound, consistency and high quality in this album. ^^

m.a.z.e is my favorite song of kuu!

^ THANK YOU!! GROW INTO ONE LOVERS UNITE!! :shughug

LOL Wonderland party at my place, babe! ;D

Wonderland is a great song her best cutie song for me *haha*
I love everything the song the PV and the Live performance from Kingdom tour♥

I hate how they didn't include those songs too, they're SO GOOD!

OMG I love you xD

I can't understand why songs having PVs didn't get into albums... "RIP" Run For Your Life and Hashire! :weep

well.. the PV for Run For Your Life is on Kingdom DVD.. don't know about Hashire! though

I think it was weird that Run For Your Life was not an album track only a DVD part.

And Hashire! and also faraway have been left out on UNIVERSE completely O_o, but I think it is okay^^

^I agree.
I missed Hashire! in UNIVERSE when I listened to it for the first time, but I get used to it and now I think leaving it out was a good idea. And faraway... I think there are enough ballads on the album and they're really good so I wouldn't put it either.

^ ^^ whaaaat... Hashire! is one of her best summer-ish PV ever!!
Beach, blue sky, & so colorful! I'm so sad that it wasn't included on the DVD :scry
(I don't care about faraway PV tho :lech)

Suki dex3 promo pic in extra high resolution


Gossip Candy promo pic in extra high resolution


Suki dex3 covers from mu-mo
http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/9...621at01400.jpghttp://img534.imageshack.us/img534/9...622at01400.jpg

Credit: Hikki-kun@JPM

I was bored. :innocent

^I can see the band on her false eyelashes in the Suki de x 3 cover :P

WOW Thanks for that Ultra HQ picture of Sukide's cover!!
Now that's my wallpaper lol

These just might be the best covers released this year...

gah I'm taking gossip candy

her nails are beautiful

I think this is the first time in a REALLY long time that I prefer the CD+DVD cover to the CD Only cover. I just really dislike her mouth in the CD only. And I'm glad that the CD+DVD is the one that's used for the promo, since I'd much rather see that one over the other!

I know there's still a month left until its release, but I hope we can get some news about the release of the PVs and hopefully some lives!

OT but I was going through my tinypic album and found this and burst out laughing.

HELL YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:shughug

:roflmao

OMG KUU. See ,this is why I love her.

I laughed so hard!!

Kumi is like "SEASONS!? ***** PUH-LEAAAZZ BUAHAHA!!"

LOL!!!! She looks like she's going to eat her!!! :roflmao


I secretly want Ayu and Kumi to be best friends... Like seriously, if they did a photoshoot together, I'd be in love forever :luv2. My two favorite Divas together <3 I'm not sure if they would sound good on a song together though... What do you all think?

I don't think it'll be a total disaster since Ayu can sing with a deeper voice sometimes... if she was using her high-pitched voice it'd be a disaster. However, I think it'd have to be a ballad or a rock song because Ayu doesn't really do dance and she usually uses her higher voice for pop songs and I don't want Kumi using her high voice for anything lol

I think something on the lines of 1 LOVE would be cool, no? It's kind of sassy and definitely rock influenced. To be honest, I could see Kumi singing that song perfectly. And Ayu doesn't have to dance~

^I actually think that 1 LOVE is a great collab song for them. What Kuu song would make a good duet for them I wonder...?

No I don't want Ayu to butcher their duet.

j/k :P

Seriously though, I think a rock song would be cool, but again... their voices don't reli mesh imo, Kuu's voice is very husky while Ayu's is um "raw"? Lol like imagining both their voices together feels weird but it'd be interesting nevertheless

@cutieismylife: LOL <3

Raw and husky might make for a good power rock ballad? Something count down-ish? A little Aishou maybe?

^ Aishou oh yes how could I forget~ a rock ballad would compliment them well!

I think Kuu would sound amazing singing Sparkle, I love Ayu's version of it but I think Kuu would take it to the next level!

It might have to be in a different key though lol.

I personally think Lady Dynamite is more of a Kuu song.

Lady Dynamite is a crappy song that should've never been made and should fall off this earth.

Justin Bieber can sing it. Since it's crap already.

Like omfg I hate that song.

Anyway, Suki de, Suki de, Suki de...nice song. Yesk

omg Kuu singing Lady D would be :heart it's one of my favs off R'n'R C so it'd be hotter if Kuu could add her flair of sexiness to it :Q_____

^ Sounds like another song with collab potential lol.


Okay, CRAZY idea here... What if Ayu and Kumi were to work on a 2 disc album where they re-did and sang each other's songs??? They could call it "A" Kuulaboration? :roflmao

I would DIE of joy and happiness lol.

I can just imagine the PV all right... Kuu would rock the gay club so badly Ayu's gonna sit at a corner & sulk & cry about it :laugh

I really don't want to see it... especially if Kuu's dancers are going to be wearing those gross harnesses. I hated the Lady Dynamite PV... blah.

I want Ayu to be on Kuu's back while she's partying like crazy xD
That would be entertaining to watch ;P

it'd still be Maro, Shu-ya & company lol, cos that's how it should be ;)

omg that'd be my favorite video then <3

Heh heh heh! :lech

I DODGED THE BOLLET BOLLET BABYGIR WE GONNA PULL AT.

:roflmao oh God it's reli epic!

HAHAHA that is the best cover in the world! Is the instrumental a medi file?

LOL. THAT IS EPIC. BOLLET BOLLET. BABYGIR WE GORRA POLL IT

:roflmao :roflmao :roflmao :roflmao :roflmao

EPIC LOL

Don't get me wrong, I like Hashire!
What ment was that although I missed the song the first time I listened to the album but now I think it wasn't necessary to put it, all the songs fit really well ^^

:roflmao that totally made my day.

I don't know if I would like that release but the title is great:laugh
Even though I'd like to hear ayu sing songs like "Aishou" or "Yume no uta".

I can't imagine Kuu singing an ayu song :D

LOL Awesome title!

CDJapan link is already up to preorder Kumi's 2011 calendar

http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=2011CL-37

also they have updated their site with the covers for Suki de x3 / Anata Dake ga too