Lol, I don't like FEEL and _genic much, just kept two songs of both. Prefer Uncontrolled and Past<Future.

^you are the firat person ive seen say they like uncontrolled. To me that album :shakehead

_genic was disappointing mostly, to me, because I really liked the previews and thought it'd be like Feel 2 with really fun, really strong dance tracks. But then the album came out and the songs just repeat themselves from beginning to end (I forgot to say I do love her version of what I did for love) and though I really like the idea they had with the chrome app for Anything, still couldn't make me like the song. And of course the adorable mv for Golden Touch. It was like they put more effort into finding cool ideas to promote than the album than the album itself.

^I love Uncontrolled ... just replaced Break It/Go round/YEAH OH with its originals...since they are among my fav. singles of her

^ I just find the whole album to be a mess. Though I do agree with you that those songs should be replaced with their originals. Maybe if they did I wouldn't dislike it so much. Hot Girls, In the Spotlight (Tokyo), Sit! Stay! Wait! Down!, Singing "Yeah Oh", Go Round 'N Round 'N Round, Hot Girls (I'm putting it twice because of how much I hate that song.) I pretty much dislike the entire album minus Love Story, Get Myself Back and Let's Go.

Just throwing it out there that Love Story is probably one of her best ballads IMO. It's that song that saves me from throwing Uncontrolled out of my mind completely.

But, like I said in an earlier post, she has so many different sounds of pop/hip hop/whatever that if you're into this genre and don't like one album, you're bound to like another.

I love Uncontrolled. It's a really strong album with strong singles and some of my favourite album tracks of her, but even the album versions of the single songs don't bother me, they're nice. The only bad song on it is Hot Girls. Totally can't stand that song.

Out of Namie's recent studio albums , Uncontrolled is actually my least favourite as I feel that the single songs overshadow the album tracks to a certain extent

I find myself listening to _genic a lot less than FEEL even though I generally like both releases

PAST < FUTURE was a very slick release while PLAY is still tops . I still have great special memories towards PLAY as it was the 1st Namie album I bought/listened where I kept on overplaying Hide & Seek non stop

Ah good times good times

I also love Uncontrolled lol

I didn't know that so many people didn't like Uncontrolled, for me is up there with FEEL and PLAY

Uncontrolled > FEEL >>>>>> _genic

P<F is great and PLAY sounds quite dated

Hahahaha I can't believe how many people actually like Uncontrolled. I guess Im in the minority on site xD

Uncontrolled is one of my least favorite albums from her and it's weird because individually there are some awesome tracks on there. But I didn't like the new versions of the singles and Hot Girls, Sit stay etc., let's go, were just so-so.

PLAY I also feel in general is just so-so and overall a bit overrated. For Post 2007 albums, I rank them Feel>P/F>>>>_genic>>PLAY>>>>>>>>Uncontrolled.

^ Pretty much how I feel except trade PLAY with _genic and that list would be perfect :laugh

I'd have to say that the one Namie album I saw the most copies of in all resale stores in Japan was Uncontrolled. I was tempted to say the least but other than Naked and Yeah-oh I really hate that album lol

I adore PAST/FUTURE it's a shame COPY THAT wasn't a single.

I don't listen to Uncontrolled anymore, and I do think it was a bad choice rearranging the singles. Break It for instance lost a lot of its punch from the single version.

But well, Break It and Go Round are still on my playlist.

that's because PLAY is quite dated :laugh it was released nearly 10 years ago. But, to me, it still holds up as one of her best albums. I still listen to every track minus Should I Love Him and Hello (I used to love that song but I listened to it too much and now can't stand the sound of WAIT FOR THE BEEP AND DO YOUR THING. Ugh.) I mean, the fact she still performs half these songs at concerts says a lot. Funky Town. Hide & Seek. Top Secret. Violet Sauce. I remember Full Moon at a more recent one though I can't remember which. I personally really wish she'd perform Baby Don't Cry more. When was the last time she performed that? O.o

Live style 2014

Actually Past<Future and Uncontrolled are my favourite albums by her. A golden era for me. Before and after I just like certain songs from albums and singles.

PLAYs only weak point to me is Step with it tbqh
Its still an timeless album...I rather call it old school than dated, but she does a good thing keeping them updated in her lives.

So will there be a new song for this Christmas thing?

aaah! That was the word(s) I was trying to think of when replying to that earlier quote. It's been driving me insane all day. Yes, PLAY is definitely old school...

...though I can still remember it clearly being released. Oh God, I'm only 23 and already part of the old school era.

PLAY is my favorite album of her and also my favorite cover

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...Play-cddvd.jpg

I love both back cover of this album too.

http://im4-a.mbokimg.dena.ne.jp/1/7/033/476732033.1.jpg

http://image.blog.livedoor.jp/ktnknt...c/dcf09f51.jpg