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@Crystal_Ageha: Yes Duty and LOVEppears are actually quite the opposite in term of music arrangement. But I love the flow of LOVEppears, and the "freedom" from it (I'm not saying the album is about freedom). Duty is more dynamic, and has more character inside. They both are equally great in my eyes .
PS: kanariya is such a great song. Yeah her voice is squeaky, but I just love it
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... ... ... . Last edited by bluegie; 31st March 2010 at 11:38 PM. |
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MY STORY and Guilty are my least liked albums; they don't feel cohesive to me...There are songs that I love from them, but I don't like to listen through the albums as a whole.
RAINBOW > I Am... I've never understood the dislike for Rainbow. My only complaint is that the title song is on another album. o.O LOVE Next Level. I was so excited to have such an electronic album from Ayumi. The thing about RnRC is I don't see how it's going to flow. I feel like while I love the songs, I'm getting the "not cohesive" vibe like with MY STORY and Guilty. x_x But...we'll see... |
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IMO her worst albums to date are ASFXX (just cuz it sounds like a generic jpop album arrangment/music-wise) and Secret (a rushed mess, even if all the songs were great, it doesn't work as a whole).
I think people just tends to expect a 2nd "this album" or "this pv" too much and get disapointed when they notice she went on the oposite direction, some time after that, they listen to the song/watch the video/etc and realize that it was good, turning the new work the new enemy My top 3 would be (miss)understood, RAINBOW and NEXT LEVEL IMO RnRC is turning out to be her most generic album since My Story... but a good, fun, interesting generic^^ |
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As for GUILTY, I would say I have to be a certain mood to listen to that album as a whole since (don't) Leave me alone and GUILTY are tracks that I normally don't listen to all that much. Everything else on that album is gold though, haha. About cohesion, I feel as though with the way Japanese albums are usually crafted with single single single single album single single single album and so on... it's really hard to maintain a cohesive album if you're the type of artist that Ayu is who dabbles in genres all the damn time. A lot of her albums imo are as cohesive [yet not cohesive at all] and everything just seems to WORK. It's not the case for everyone, but for me it is, haha. Quote:
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This album's genre count so far is kind of scary, haha.
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Last edited by truehappiness; 31st March 2010 at 11:50 PM. |
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The only albums that don't sound cohesive to me are NEXT LEVEL and (miss)understood. Rock'n'Roll Circus is heading in that direction too, but it will be forgivable like with (miss)understood. NEXT LEVEL was like... half cohesive and half totally random.
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Not picking on anybody here, but I don't understand how for some, an album drops so far on the list just because it doesn't have perfect flow (or maybe any, lol). For me, that's the least I care about. It's kinda neat if all the songs just go into each other beautifully, but I couldn't care less if they didn't. Actually, now that I think about it, I'd rather have an album that didn't flow well, hah. Because that usually means there's a lot of different types of songs, and that's something that means a lot to me. (This isn't always the case, though. Like with Duty. That has so many different types and experimental aspects, but it still flows fairly well.) It's one of the reasons (miss)understood is one of my favourite albums, actually. Same with NEXT LEVEL; it's also why I'm starting to love this album so much. ^_^
But yeah, relating to that: Blue, I agree about LOVEppears. It does has amazing flow. The only Ayu album that can compare is A Song for xx..... Honestly, though, it's probably just because those are her two least varied albums. :X Even GUILTY - the album that people claim to be non-stop rock - has more variety. |
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Oh back to your point. Actually I like NL because she tried to go for another direction instead. Of course it's not her first time doing techno side, but it sounded so fresh from her previous ones. And personally I prefer techno over (heavy) rock, so it's obvious that I would enjoy NL. .
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Last edited by truehappiness; 31st March 2010 at 11:59 PM. |
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It's not a big deal to me, but I'll notice. I rarely listen to whole albums anyway. |
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^ Aa. Yeah, see, most people VERY rarely listen to full albums, so that's one of the main reasons it annoys me when people complain about it, hah. Not how you complained, though... Like, with some of the NEXT LEVEL reviews I've seen, for example. A lot of people said the main reason that album "sucks" is because it's so random and has terrible flow... Then, I have to be like, 'wut??? ' I just don't understand how the flow can completely ruin an album. And that's how a lot of people feel, I guess. >_<'
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And I liked NL cuz imo it's a very positive album, something that was needed when it was first released, and I really like when her lyrics are focused on the world instead of on herself cuz I think she does have some amazing points about it^^ rollin' imo have some very clever lyrics And I like how it flows... people complains a lot about GREEN, but lyric-wise it was on the better place, and I found it amazing how she played with a break on the flow in the middle of the album... making things flowing well sometimes mean playing with the flow of a work, and she did it there... rollin' => green it's like "we need to change now!" => totally different song Last edited by Andrenekoi; 1st April 2010 at 12:06 AM. |
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I feel that NEXT LEVEL will find enlightenment some time during Rock'n'Roll Circus' lifetime just as the albums before it have. People who once despised the album will appreciate it and all will be fine in Ayu Land until the next album releases and people decide to hate that.
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If an album doesn't flow very well it doesn't make me like it any less, I think people should just judge it on each individual song The order of the songs on NEXT LEVEL annoyed me, so I just moved some songs around and enjoyed it so much more. It's not really a big deal.
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@ Crystal_Ageha: (your msg is too long to be quoted ). I dun find myself particular need a perfect flow from an album. The content is more important as if the materials really suit my taste. Duty doesn't have the "perfect flow", but the songs are united together as a whole. Not to mention all the songs inside are spectacular... well maybe I dun like SCAR that much but it's still listenable. And I just prefer Dave Ford mix of AUDIENCE (the album version is like 90% similar to the mix except it's a bit rough).
Yeah LOVEppears is has the perfect flow, and the variety of the album is the least (techno --> techno --> techno). Even the slow songs like TO BE and End roll can flow inside the album as well. The thing is I feel like the album is just something easily come out from ayu's mind. I haven't heard A Song for xx yet (yeah shame on me but people say the album sucks), but I guess LOVEppears is quite different from the first album. I believe that the materials from ASfxx easily came out from her mind as well, but at that moment it's hard for her to properly construct or convey her feelings and words into the song. In LOVEppears she had more experience for the construction.
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lol I think a lot of people are like this... If it's new, they hate it. Then a few months or a couple years down the road, they wonder how they lived without it. LOL
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Homework: Go listen to ASFXX, aieeee. Or at the very least, listen to sleeperspaceborn's [a user here] remix of from your letter. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RZUJI480 If you likey, pick it up here. I am still obsessed with this version. Quote:
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Still no airdate for don't look back =( Need a HQ rip, its killing me not watching the cam version, but I want to save watching it until its out in HQ.
and no next level hate plz. Its my favourite album from her because of the experimentation with her sound.. but I think this album is going to beat it. |
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@Andrenekoi: Oh my god while reading your msg I found out I had many grammars lol. I guess I shouldn't press the reply button before proof-reading my stuff.
I think I would prefer ayu using a song as a transition instead of interludes. After MY STORY I kinda feel that lots of her interludes are fillers. She doesn't need them for a transition between songs. See Duty doesn't have any and it doesn't have any problem at all. I would rather see an album with 12 tracks (1 intro or interlude) than 14 - 15 tracks with 3 - 4 intro + interludes. @TH: Actually I was watching pvs at ayu yt channel a few days ago, and I finally got a chance to listen For My Dear (I alway avoid to listen old songs cuz her voice was freakin' squeaky in ASfxx). Yeah her voice was bad in For My Dear, but the song was surprisingly good. Probly I should download the album before deciding whether I should buy it or not (and yeah I still haven't purchased I am... yet, which I should).
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http://www.m-on.jp/artist/6/music_detail50927.html
Don't look back has been added to M-ON's database too, so look out there for an airdate as well. |
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