^ lol... I really would do the Golden Age
Duty to Memorial address with a few added favorites (Fly High, poker face, hana, Born to be, Love Songs, a few songs from each album really)

^ True, it does have the diversity to pull it off!

RAINBOW does not get enough love in my iTunes. Nor does MY STORY. I think because I overplayed RAINBOW for a few months, and MY STORY I can only listen to now and then.

Mmkay, totally new topic.

I hope that Ayu does kind of like a Persian/Tales from the Arabian Nights theme soon. Kind of like what she did for Don't look back at AT10. Koda Kumi has overdone it, and Ayu has not done enough of it!!!!

At least it would be something different (in Ayu standards anyway).

^ I thought LOVEppears is considered early golden age, right?

Speaking of, that album is lyrically and musically one of the best of hers.
It used to be my favorite album until Memorial Address and (miss)understood knocked it off its spot.

By the way, what albums have NO replay value to you?

Hmmmmm, that's quite a difficult question.

As a whole though, it would have to be MY STORY. It's just...so repetitive. And it's long!

mmmm i love don't look back
i do need ayu to do that theme more.

i can never replay guilty. it was the first ayu album i ever felt in real life. but that doesn't mean much. sure, i will end up buying it, but yeah.
and sometimes my story. it drags like heck. BUT the songs individually DO work. just as a whole its a bit...
i actually play ASfXX more


can i include again in the golden age? its pretty high up there i think

I put it into her still finding myself stage because, for me at least, she was still finding herself lyrically and musically.

I didn't think until Duty that she safely find her nich and started making it work. Not to say that LOVEappears wasn't the start of it.

Guilty is the only album that I can skip and be happy... Both that and My Story I only have to listen to once and awhile.

I used to listen to duty (album in full) all the time. same with SURREAL. but i used to get so angsty over surreal. ALL OF AYU'S LYRICS CAN BE RELATED TO ANYONE. which is why i just can't with surreal.

and vogue. but now i play it a lot.

edit: the power of a high school dropout and her writing abilities. I'm taking writing courses and i can't even measure up to this chick. and I'm also doing japanese so i actually understand some things. which is also why i can't take surreal.

^ Surreal is such a good song for me... I know everyone says bad things because of the song (not really bad things, but its sad and what not).
But I dont think ayumi feels that way about it.... I know i don't... lol

Also... I dont know if I have ever told anyone this! But! I'm writing a TV show and all the titles of the show are ayumi song titles...

~LOVE~

It has a nice arrangement but those lyrics. and I'm a guy who doesn't pay attention to lyrics. The Pawaa of ayuma~~~~

some of her song titles would make good episode titles
"from your letter" and "for my dear" pop in my head

SURREAL, WE WISH, everlasting dream, evolution, GUILTY, still alone, heartplace, OVER, Endless sorrow... the list can go on...
awww... I really need to write all of them down... I only have something like 150 episodes... SO, I have to narrow it down.

i wonder where ayu gets her song titles from?
they're in english too.
how would she name them, especially when here english wasn't the best (like for ASfXX, LOVEppears, etc...)

dolls is so surreal XD
*badum tish*

^ what do you mean? where here english wasn't the best?

well, i don't know much about how her english progressed
BUT: when she recorded ASfXX, did she not speak a lick of english? I'm just wondering where the song titles came from if she couldn't speak english at all (my assumption)
NOT to be mean to ayu, but some of the song titles (especially for an english beginner) are just.. well. the song titles are very natural in English. Ive always wondered how they get named/who names them.

maybe she makes a japanese title and someone translates it to english?
but now, her english is A LOT better and i believe she names the songs herself 100%.

^ I would think that ayumi would ask someone that spoke english well, or could translate.

I figured as much :P

now poker face is in my sig
why do i love it so much? look what this thread has done to me. now i WANT the ASfXX album. want. as in desire to own.

I like the way Japenese singers name their songs and I thinks that's due to a bit of ignorance in English. Not many western singers would name a song "Heartplace", "A song is born", "TO BE" or even "M" :P They see some kind of poetry in words in a different way, maybe cause of they are stuck to the Japanese language structure.

ugh, western singers wouldnt know a title if it hit them in the face...
lets just pick something from a song!

ayumi does it right (in fact all JPN artist do, lol)

lady gaga did poker face
nice title (biased)

i dont understand all the love for moments. i never liked it as much as some do. casual ayu fans usually love this song (and dearest). i like dearest more than moments.

I love moments mainly because it was my first single that i perordered.
But over all song, there are better, not saying that its bad of course.

my first single was rule/sparkle (bought in feb 2012)
god it was hawt
i really wanted to see the sparkle PV so i got the cd/dvd edition
then i realized it wasn't on the dvd. so i died inside.