Rock rock songs:
End of the World
girlish
I am..
NEVER EVER
Heartplace
alterna
criminal
Because of You
Memorial Address
GAME (electro rock??)
About You
ENdlss sorrow (original version)
(miss)understood
A Song for XX <--- A BALLADS that version
Ladies Night ~another night~ (if you're to add remixes then fly high saturation mix would be a better pick IMO)
flower garden
Humming 7/4
still alone
is this LOVE?
Daybreak
surreal
First of all I'd just like to write that now a days, and especially in japanese music, there are hardly any boundraries in music, and thus it's hard to make a line for what's rock and not...
In japan it isen't rock just because it has lot of el guitars and the like, then Kacchoize! JAPAN would be very much rock, but it clearly isen't. Like f.ex in the case of M, there are so many dance elements that I woulden't consider it rock. The beat and overall feel is not what I associate with "real" rock, same goes for UNITE, evolution, STEP you, free&asy and also evolution IMO (the beat always makes me think of drumnbase og jungle like stuff lol) etc...Think about the music that real rock bands make, take f.ex l'arc en ciel, which of ayu's songs could they've done unaltered?
I feel that on albums like I am... and MY STORY which people tend to describe as "rock" or at least rock inspired, I think it's because there's a darker feel to the album or because there are more elements from rock overall without it's making many of the songs in particular within the genre.
I'd love to hear HANABI chicks opinion on this though!
