The flowers chosen for the cover (Matthiola) are referred to as "stock" flowers. (That's their general name haha) and their meaning in the Japanese flower language (Hana kotoba) is "eternal love", "bonds of love", "eternally beautiful", "rich love", etc.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthiola

BAHAHAHA RICH LOVE. That fits ayu very well. :D

The preview of Voyage is amazing! The mash-up is done very well, and I am very impressed. :)

that's so cool! :yes

What's the competition for this release?? I wonder if it can manage to sell as good as A Classic did, I mean, Valentine's Day is two weeks later so maybe that will help =)

fanmade Voyage and Pride classic mashups

The previews sounds really nice, I'm relativity excited for this release.

Those fanmade are quite old, like from the time that classical album was announced.
What a coincidence, Voyage + Pachelbel's Cannon :laugh

I've always been thinking that Voyage could fit well will Canon because of their chord similarities. :) Can't wait for this release.

Hoping for top 10 and 15-20k total sales!

I haven't purchase the album....

http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/products?ra...m.cat_id=UA-01

Sandaime J Soul Brothers (3JSB) from EXILE TRIBE
will release album in 5(!) versions and no doubt will get #1


yeah, it was posted 27.11
nice songs choice =)

I think it's safe it will chart under top 10, maybe top 5 =)

Sandaime J Soul Brothers (3JSB) from EXILE TRIBE

Ayuma forget about the No.1 spot, lol.

Even had I start talking whether it's going to get #1 or not, I doubt it's going to get #1...this is not a standard studio album! This is a bit more of the hardcore fans, so if you think this is going to be a #1 release...NO. :no

Days preview.

nice
winter theme fits perfectly

Days' mix is SO PERFECTTT!!!

Well she doesn't care about the #1 spot. She's basically fan orientated now anyways. + I think a lot of her sales get done online. It would be nice to see her online count added since the whole cd market is basically dead now compared to before online sales came about, well its basically dead in the west with major shops stopping stocking cds in stores. Though I think her last classic album did well for what it was. It will most likely get a higher ranking online over physical sales

Sounds okayish. Kinda reminds me of sweetbox's You Can't Hide, where they didn't mix classical piece and Jade Valerie is just signing over the original classical tune. I wonder how the rest of Ayu's tracks will turn out.

I like that beat they have in Days. I'm really liking this CD.

I wish they could've added like three new songs on it. OH WELL! I'll probably still really enjoy it, nonetheless.

I don't know what it is but something sounds very... karaoke-ish about Days lol almost "cheap" sounding if that makes sense :\ It's still nice though, I suppose.

I realy would have loved if she put Last minute into this. I really love when they give a song a totally oposite aproach in terms of arrangements.

as for days, i'll just put it here as well.
i am really enjoying these! GORGEOUS.

they didn't use the usual famous part of the Winter sequence of it though.... WHICH IS GOOD. and also i found the usual drums and bass that they added, to be quite an unusual approach for a classical arrangement. But it works really well!

I agree. I think that unlike Voyage, the instruments are synthetized.
It certainly doesn't sound like a real orchestra.

Yeah, I don't like this one as much as Voyage--I find the A CLASSICAL version better.

official site update with new release

http://i.imgur.com/3rUsgwq.jpg

this theme reminds me of Ao Haru Ride :heart

Front and back cover
http://i38.servimg.com/u/f38/16/00/8...h/6f04f410.jpg
http://i38.servimg.com/u/f38/16/00/8...h/6f04f411.jpg

why do you have the cd already ?? :tired:love:love:love:love

its looks so cute :heart

Hongkong store starts to sell CD at saturday

detailed tracklist update from back cover

01. Voyage [Johann Pachelbel: Canon in D major]
02. SEASONS [Antonin Dvorak: Going hHome (Symphony No.9 in E minor "From the New World"<>]
03. Days [Antonio Vivaldi: Violin Concerto in F Minor, Op.8, No.4, RV 297, L'inverno" (Winter); II.Largo]
04. TO BE [Johann Sebastian Bach: The Well Tempered Clavier Book 1, Prelude No.1 in C m<>]
05. YOU [Christian Petzold, attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach: Minuet in G major]
06. Virgin Road [Frederic Chopin: Prelude in D flat major, Op.28-15 "Raindrop"]
07. Dearest [Antonin Dvorak: Humoresque No. 7 in G flat major]
08. HONEY [Georg Friedrich Handel: Oratorio "Messiah"; Hallelujah]
09. winding road [Claude Debussy: Preludes Book 1, No.8 "La fille aux cheveux de lin"]
10. Who... [Edward Elgar: Salut d'amour (Love's Greeting)]

It's not mine XD
The pics are from SCAR0706@Weibo!

oh it has a poster as well like A Classical did!

aughhhhh I want it to leak! GIVE ME

I'm so fed up with the pink color right now -__-"

I love the look of this release so much *___*
Kinda random but having "my name" written next to an Ayu's song makes me happy xD

can't wait to buy it on iTunes :heart

Damn this jawn didn't leak yet?

i want it on iTunes :(

Somehow i don't want it to leak yet because for once i'd like to listen to it the day of its official release :p

maybe they finally realized it's shitty plan to release it a week earlier on iTunes :yes maybe that will boost sales a little

I'm really interested in YOU and TO BE--the original acoustic version of TO BE is great, but I'd love to hear it with an orchestra. The piano version of YOU never worked for me though, so hoping this one's incredible.

Going to hold off on listening to any leaks until my copy arrives. First time I've tried to do that, hope I can do it haha

I wonder why they chose to do a classical mashup album instead of a regular classical/acoustic orchestra album. Not that I'm complaining, but what made them think to do something like this?

MONEY!!!

currently listening to my copy!

only on SEASONS but it's much poppier than I expected haha

Oh my god I love what they did with YOU.

help us out heeeeeeeeeeere :lech

Ooh what vocal of YOU is it? I can't wait to hear this! :yes

Previews are up at ayu's website. I liked Virgin Road one very much.

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OMG Virgin Road totally revived.

weird vocal at HONEY

really like Virgin road

couldn't wait to hear the entire album!

I can't stand those poppy percussions they added....
Please, kill HONEY before it's too late...
Ayu, forget this song, like, forever. Put it aside with You & Me and THANK U.

The album looks awesome. Virgin road is the best track hands down

WOW. I didn't have faith in this, but after the previews of all the tracks, WOWWWW

Am I the only who hate the whole idea? they just force two different songs into a song.

Voyage is the only song that fit pretty well

after listening to previews, they all sound nice, but nothing stands out for me in particular. It is a very sweet and lovely release. I don't think i can dislike it.

Virgin road for me had potential the drums they added sounds quite cheap. This song could be a really grand thing with the melody that it has, originally but they didn't do it justice neither way with original nor this, it still sounds really bland and flat and repetitive. That chorus has so much power, but none seems to use it. it doesn't sound far from the original. In fact i think i like the original better and it isn't very good. I hope the arrangemnt they did for it here builds up, cuz now it's making me sleepy.

Also HONEY, that song in general needs to be deleted from Ayu's disscography, together with Thank U lol these probably are only 2 songs i just cannot stand, they are so annoying, i don't even want them to exist.

TO BE is so nice..though it's hard to ruin such a great song <3

YOU is so nicely mixed with the classical piece too

Don't get the Honey hate. It's a well-written song, with strong hooks all round. This classical mashup version sounds strange cos they transferred the whole vocal track complete with autotuned harmony over, but the original version was great.

The idea behind this album is nice but I really wish she had picked some other songs. SEASONS is so overused and already had such a superior 'classical' version on the A Classical album. She has SO MANY MORE BALLADS TO CHOOSE FROM!! Endless sorrow, Moments, No way to say, HEAVEN?!?!?! Sigh. What a waste.

It's already been stated that this is an album about pure love. That's why we don't see sad tracks like Endless sorrow or HEAVEN on it. It's like a cute album for Valentine's Day coming around the corner.

omg I'm actually really enjoying this version of HONEY???? It suffers from the "over-synthed" syndrome that the rest of the album seems to but I find myself not really minding, it's like a fun little album so whatev. who am I @__@

I wish the instruments (specifically guitars and drums) sounded less programmed. YOU is not too good imo and SEASONS is messy. It's nice so far, but too artificial.

The idea is pretty well executed, however they have changed the original pieces SO MUCH they are barely recognisable. I would be happy to hear the instrumental versions, but this is what I will listen one time and never again. Eventhough it sounds nice.

I'm really loving this release. I can see why some people don't like this. But I'm also curious to know how they were looking forward to this? Because I myself thought it would be something like the Acoustic Orchestra releases. But I'm actually very surprised. This is something entirely different. And I personally needed Ayu to do that, because her recent work hasn't really given me that "fresh" feel like it used to. This is nostalgia and refreshing all in one. But I can see how this can dissapoint if you were expecting something else?

I also think this classic song mashup thing is something else to listen to, you know? I hear two songs at the same time and Ayu's I know by heart, but the classic songs are just "familiar" to me if that makes any sense? My ears don't know what's happening to them. In a good way. It's been a while since music gave me that feeling. I hope they will do this again with other types of songs, because JEWEL, HEAVEN and Memorial address in this style would be pure eargasm. Or July 1st... or Real me. Haha. Imagine Rule O_O

Yeah, I'm really surprised by how much I like it overall! If she had done two things differently, though, this album could have been off-the-charts amazing:

1. Re-recorded vocals, but that's not important as...
2. A real orchestra with much less synth

But I like the arrangements and will probably be picking this up at some point, which I'm surprised by.

Why is HONEY actually my favourite track lol It's just so ridiculously cute! Overall though, it's a nice release :) It does its job of embracing romance, love, etc that I adore <3

Omg SEASONS is SO CUTE. I like it more than the original.

love : Voyage, SEASONS, days, TO BE

the rest is just ok to me

I only liked Virgin Road, Days, You and To be based on the previews. I'm not really fond of remix/compilation albums so i'm still in doubt of purchasing it.

How about the booklet, CD scan and back cover? :D

Wow, I really like this release. To get me to listen to different versions of ballads is a challenge too. I felt really drained of classical/acoustic orchestra after A Classical even though I normally like it.

But this makes me happy that this was released.
I think this release was put together well. And the arrangements are great.

Honey is beyond cute. I really like what they did with it. This release also put life into a lot of other songs that I was kind of done with for a while. Like, Virgin Road and Seasons. Even Dearest. Idk, it's all great. I may buy this for my birthday.

I really don't have a favorite song. I like that they added a beat, but "mashup with famous classical masterpieces" or not, this is still a standard orchestra album that doesn't really sound that different from the rest. Actually, I don't know most of the songs sampled, so from my perspective, most of/almost all of these songs just sound like another acoustic orchestra version.

Why did she re-recorded the vocals for HONEY but this time with a clothes peg on the nose? lol

I agree with artika, this song should be erase from her discography :yes

QFT I have to agree with you there mate..where's the Like button when you need one!! :D

Lmao. Your comment is funny but I LOVE the original HONEY. It works in context of the original track.

I haven't given this album a listen yet but I see that generally people dislike Honey. I will defend this song. I have presented Ayu to some people and Honey is one of those songs that really stuck in their heads in a positive way. It's cute, but not overly sugared, have some sweet warmth in it and it doesn't have cheap electronic composition. I can't put it on the same shelf with Thank U, You & Me because for me Honey is much more better in terms of music, lyrics and general felling as I said. Done with offtop, need to download the album :>

Yes, HONEY has a really well fleshed out arrangement and I think the song is really catchy. The chorus is so cute and the even that little melody during the intro is wonderful. Certainly not anything similar to Thank U and I find it more enjoyable than You & Me and Feel The Love as far as upbeat pop songs go.

maybe someone love this album so much that want to buy it in WAV 96.0kHz/24bit? :)
http://mora.jp/package/43000002/ANTCD-13182_F/
http://www.e-onkyo.com/music/album/antcd13182/

Just finished listening to the album.

This version of winding road just might be my favorite version of the song. Same goes for SEASONS. I also liked Voyage and Virgin Road, though the chorus sounds a bit flat in the latter.

Those four songs were pretty much all I liked. Didn't really care for much else.

Definitely. I know some people were against the re-recorded vocals, but I think with her tone now they could have gone down a couple octaves and made the tracks sound a lot fuller. From how she/they described the album, it did its job well: the tracks are light/easy listening, the mashup is there, and it certainly twisted both her tracks and the classical pieces for everyone to enjoy.

But yes, a deeper re-recording, fuller orchestra, and dropping it an octave or two would have definitely "wow"ed me a lot more. They had a chance with her later releases (Days and Virgin Road), but it wasn't as impactful as it could have been.

HONEY was also pretty good! I didn't think it was bad at all, and it certainly exceeded my expectations.

1st day chart position for LOVE CLASSICS - #11

http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/ja/d/2015-01-27/p/2/

anyone has the MP3 version of the album?

^ you can download it on iTunes =)

by the way, did she record all the vocals for this album?

I think they are all the old vocals with new backing instrumentals.

Gorgeous album and awesome concept.

my favourite is voyage!

YES! It would be a progression from what she started with POWER of MUSIC.

Also, does anyone know who did the arrangements for these songs? Was it Nobita-kun?

Also, I think the arrangement of TO BE on this album is pretty baller.

Anyone who ordered their copy from mu-mo shop had it ship yet? Probably the first time I've not had an order ship the day of, or even the day before, the release!

I hope it arrives before the 4th as I need to consolidate my happy box and another purchase by then

yeah tenso just finally received mine today. took a while for some reason.

The concept of this album was scary but we have to admit that it's a great album. It's a shame she didn't re-recorded the songs, but I'm really happy with the final product.

As always, Dearest is flawless... I know we've had a lot of "slow" versions, but this one is beautiful!

I can't stand wrong tags... lol so what are the correct tags for this release?

The back cover says: Voyage [Johann Pachelbel: Canon in D major]
The obi, official website and youtube account says: Voyage [パッヘルベルのカノン]
iTunes says: Voyage [LOVE CLASSICS Ver.]

I'm going crazy right now... xD

Yep. Though I wish she used her 10th anniversary vocals from TO BE, You and Who

By the way Voyage was the most downloaded track on the release day =)

I didn't listen to any preview so I wouldn't spoil anything, and I gotta say it's a bit a let down for me. Yes, the songs are good, maybe except for HONEY, bit there was no song that made me WOW like You & Me or Love song from A CLASSICAL (and even kanariya from the last ayu-mi-x). Maybe that's cause they were all mash-ups, but I'm just not feeling a great aura in them...

when i listened the album for the first time, i really loved the concept and the songs
today i listened it for the 2° time, and it was really bouring XD i can't stand 2 minutes of each song. to be honest is like any other acoustic orchestra album to me.

I'm not a huge fan of Dearest in general; the original arrangement kind of bores me. It is pretty but slightly to monotonous for me. This version however is really pretty and keeps me interest throughout the whole song.
The album had an interesting concept. I wasn't sure what to expect but I think it all worked out quite nicely. The songs sound really nice and not even the older songs with her old vocals sound bad :)

I thought Honey was going to be a mess, but it turned out to be one of the best on the album! I am impressed.

And I love what they did with Seasons.