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Love song is freaking epic and flawless!! Best song on that album (I would love if there's Love songs Classics than this...). You & Me sounds great, second best. Every other song had better version imo. Voyage.... sounds almost like the original... If they included the BLUE BIRD from PoM then I would died in happiness. <3 I find Song 4 u & Missing orchestra version from the "mini-album" better than the classics.
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finally got to listen to the whole album!!
Love this thing.... i'm most disappointed with Love song... and that might just be because EVERYONE is talking about how EPIC it is... and well, its not that epic. I was really surprised with seasons... I love this version... as a whole I like this album! 2 bad things: Track listing/length and cover. |
those that are worth listening are new songs, Love song/ Song 4 U.
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People believing hiring a whole orchestra to play 30 tracks is cheap... ~~'
About the album... So far, so good. Blue Bird sounds like a Disney song xD |
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I loved all of them except BLUE BIRD. The acoustic orchestra mix was a let down and I had high hopes for the classical mix. Overall, A CLASSICAL was great to listen to.
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MY STORY Classical still resonates more with me, especially with how the interludes were handled on that album. (One-dimensional interludes turned into complex classical masterpieces)
A CLASSICAL is just "pretty" throughout, not many "daring" or complex tracks. I'll have to listen to this album again with headphones in FLAC and make another assessment. Sometimes you just need to close your eyes and simply take in the music. |
I was very pleased with this album, it is slightly forgettable, I won't be listening to it super often but I was more impressed than I thought I would be. I still don't like Days no matter how much Avex tries to push it on me haha. My favorites are Love Song, M, Dearest, You & me, and Song 4 u.
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It's a nice album but none of the tracks felt special or distinctive. It was nice to hear some of her classics, but they were pretty lacklustre.
I personally didn't like Love Song, the classical arrangement took away what made the song great, the raw and emotional feeling is what made that song great. The classical arrangement really doesn't work with her vocals, this is one that did need a new vocal track. The problem with all the tracks is... hmm... because it's the old vocals the singing doesn't feel integrated with the song. It's like she's singing over any old arrangement. It's rather jarring. Jarring is the last thing a classical arrangement should be. Should have made it with no vocals, that would have been cool. See how they played with the songs when they didn't need to fit in verses and choruses. The interlude tracks were the best songs on MY STORY CLASSICAL. |
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This was pretty hit or miss for me. LOVED Love song, SEASONS, You & Me, Days, and Dearest. The rest were just meh. Especially Voyage.
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SEASONS was exceptionally well done.
The trouble I have with You & Me (original) is the arrangement--I loathe it--but the classical version is really nice. Dearest, I love. BLUE BIRD is nice too. Song 4 You is another good one. I prefer the original mix of Missing; and Love song, which I was looking forward to the most, just doesn't do it for me. Oh and M--I like this rendition of the song too. |
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I don't want to sound whiney, but seriously - Ayu did "nothing" on A Classical.
Think about it. The vocals are the same, just stripped and put on other arrangements. She didn't even have a photoshoot as the cover is a drawing. Nothing new to compose, nothing. She didn't even have to pick the songs herself. The fans did. And I think it REALLY shows. I'm disappointed with A Classical :/ I had hoped for new vocals. I'll just consider it a free bonus :) (Well she probably did something like approving/disapproving, but you get my point.) |
Finally listening... I'm gonna write as I listen...so, it's gonna be long.
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Okay. I got a little angry towards the end...Sorry. But. um I think it's nice. I could have been...amazing, but. It's just so Japanese "I love high strings and flute runs all the time". Some of the arrangements are boring. Many of them don't do anything interesting in their own right, and that makes me really disappointed. You have SUCH an array of gorgeous instruments. USE THEM. And don't just throw them all together just doing simple chords so that they get lost and nothing happens. I think my favorite might be LOVE SONG just because the arrangement wasn't AS typical and it complimented that melody nicely. So many of them were on the same level. REALLY upset about my BLUE BIRD. :no 6.5/10 for the album I guess. |
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I feel pleased about the album. :) I don't have huge feelings of disappointment, and my socks are still in place on my feet. |
I love this
And especially as a brass instrument player. I'm just a sucker for brass usage that is really well done in Love song. |
I really liked DEAREST in this new album.. dunno why but even if it's an old track, remixed over&over.. don't know... It has a special feeling in A CLASSIC. It has impressed me.
About the other tracks.. nothing so special, nice but not so EPIC. |
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I listened to the album all the way through again at work tonight. It's nice as background music, but her older tracks (SEASONS, Voyage, Dearest) didn't stand out to me as much as they could have. I think it's because they already have orchestrated versions -- several? -- that have already been ingrained in my mind, that these new ones aren't exactly sticking to me. |
I actually LOVED M, Love song, SEASONS and Dearest so much hahah
You & Me was different in a good way BLUE BIRD was alright in the end hahah..felt a bit too fast. the Power of Music wan was stellar. Days was slightly predictable (though the song's still great). Somehow it was great to hear Voyage again but yea, felt like the same song TOTALLY. |
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