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Old 10th January 2011, 10:37 PM
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I've finally had a chance to listen to whole album... Review, it's review, it's review time!~

Spoiler:
왜 (Keep Your Head Down) - no matter how those SME title tracks are comparing to the rest of album, no matter if it isn't the strongest track out there, they (SME producers) always make them in that way that you can't imagine other song being a main promoted one. Personally I find it damn addictive and catchy, it has an insane power behind it. Live performances made me being used to Yunho's voice here. 10/10

믿기 싫은 이야기 (How Can I) - I wasn't that fond of it like the rest of fans, it's grown on me with live performances. Very good ballad. 9/10

MAXIMUM - omg amazing from the first second to the last. Traditional sound = instant love from me, although it's only intro. I'd wish they promoted with two title tracks including this one. 10/10

Crazy (feat. 제이 from TRAX) - at first I didn't like it at all, now it's grown on me! Even an enjoyable track, I still wish it would be more faster though. This is a song which reminds me of old 5 DBSK the most: Jay sounding like Yoochun, Yunho coming back with his classic phrases, and old group would sing something like this imo. 8/10

Honey Funny Bunny - I just... I just love it. Love it so much. My love for this is bigger than gingerbread's man vitality. I've been wishing so much for Yunho's solo to be a medium tempo song when album tracklist came out, and I'm not disappointed at all with a final result. Such lovely and charming vocals It's like love making song! My love for this man grew like 1000000 times more with this song release. 10/10

RUMOR LUMO - and here we go with another amazing mellow song! It's chilling and charming as previous track. No matter what else I would say about this song there would be only compliments. I adooore the verse after bridge part. 10/10

告白 (Confession) - Changmin's vocals surprised me, they are so... better than I expected. More controlled. It's a nice track but nothing which I would replay many times. Climax part lacks something. 6.5/10

Our Game - THIS WAS SO UNEXPECTED I DON'T EVEN. EPICNESS AT ITS FINEST. HAVING ORGASMS EVERYTIME I LISTEN TO THIS. MY DRUG I immediately thought about SHINee and Key+Minho's lead songs already during first listen. I'm dying to hear it performed live! 10/10

SHE - here we go with my biggest disappointment :/... Why, I ask, why there is always that kind of song, which sounds the same everywhere in every k-pop artist's release nowadays?... americanized. There, I said it. Boys did a good job with this though, they made me listen to this to the end. Maybe I'll change my mind when time passes. 6/10

아테나 (Athena) - I thought that with other tracks it will sound bland and not that exciting like previously... I was wrong, still epic as it was on the day of release. <3 9/10


Generally: such a solid album omg. I'm so pleasantly surprised! I would not imagine this being any better than it is now. Just look, how high notes I gave to my least favorite songs! That means something! To be honest, I expected that songs would be mooore up-beat but nevermind I adore how much it sounds! Already the best release of 2011 for me and it would be veeeery hard for any artist to top this!

HIGHLIGHT since I'm biased: YUNHO'S VOICE IMPROVEMENT, THANK YOU BABY FOR MAKING ME AND OTHER YOUR STANS PROUD LIKE I DON'T EVEN.

Best tracks: Our Game, MAXIMUM, Honey Funny Bunny, RUMOR, 왜 (Keep Your Head Down)
The weakest ones: SHE, 告白 (Confession), Crazy (feat. 제이 from TRAX)

Overall, I give this album 8.85 (since that's how the result of my calculations) but those are only numbers so you know. I love this album so much
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