I voted for "Renai Shashin"!

Simply beautiful. Although I really love "JEWEL" and "Winter Love", I think this song is better.

i would say JEWEL...
yume no uta and winter love is a really mediocre songs for winter ballad...
renai sashin was nice...but JEWEL was WAY ABOVE it
jewel was so original ayu songs..and SO BEAUTIFUL

JEWEL is the best imo

Hm..

if this forum were not AHS and focused on Ayumi Hamasaki, might people have chosen towards any of the other artists? :<

JEWEL

JEWEL or Renai Shashin

Aw, there was no Senkou.

Poor Van-chan <3
Technically when the new mini-album tracks are released, if the unnamed one's a ballad.. would that need to be added as well?

Kuu's songs were just wonderful.

I consider "Senkou" more... rock? Though, such an amazing song! :yes

Over the years I have become less and less biased about Ayu. I could admit that ULTRA BLUE was a hell of a lot better than (miss)understood and Winter Love sounds better than JEWEL to me. Although we have only heard the LIVE version of JEWEL which tends to be shorter than the original but Winter Love just fits this time of year. BoA always has that Xmas spirit that I LOVE!

i love JEWEL -- but I am a bit biased being an ayu fan... ;)

I don't know.. I think BoA's ballads are always somewhat Christmas-y.. :|

Where Ayu's are kinda.. 'grand' on a scale.. :3

I agree! :yes Although it certainly isn't a winter ballad.

Yes, truehappiness. Ayu's ballads are always amazing. They're events, grand ones in fact. They easily own ballads by other artistes. You don't see her releasing ballads everyday. None of her ballads dissapoint me. (except Dearest)

OMG WHAT DID DEAREST DO TO YOU?!

-finger shake- :no

If anything, you'd dislike the A Song for XX ballads, right?! :x -which were lacking in grandness-

No, I loved those. Powder Snow and ASFXX were frickin amazing. Dearest's chorus really bugs me. It's terrible. :x Believe it or not, I Am... is somewhat my least fave Ayu album.

Well, the album ballads for ASFXX = OMGGG. And maybe YOU. But those are like, the only ballads that stand out to me like shuazzdas.\
I just meant in general. Gah. Stupid ASFXX. Why do you have to be good too?!

Dearest's chorus is sweeeet. There's a reason it won a best lyrics prize [I think.] :D

IMO, every other ballad own it though. What do you think is Ayu's worst ballad? I say Dearest. :D

They're all pretty fantastic, if you ask me. In terms of quality and stuff.
NONE OMG

THEY'RE ALL TOO GOOD. :melts:

I like the A Song for XX ballads the least (except for A Song for XX, that song, I agree, is brilliant). The album is decent, but I have trouble comparing it with everything else that followed.

My least fave album is... Nothing for Nothing! Just kidding, that doesn't count.

Seasons won best lyrics at the Nihon Record Taisho. Dearest won the Grand Prize. I say it should have gone to Endless Sorrow! But that's just me :)