Yeah WINDING ROAD featuring DABO of BoA is amazing :D

Might be a good arrangement!

minami shunsuke is the arranger's name (I think).

Don't know why it hasn't leaked:....

This sounds so hilarious! It's a pot pourri of pure nonsense :D And knowing that TK is the one producing it, everything is indeed going to clash magnificently :yes (thinks about those videos of people trying to fly on homemade planes)

I wonder why "misono" comes to my mind when I think of this :P (and, no, I'm not referring to her possible participation on this)

Long time no see :laugh

I'm getting uber curious to hear this now. xD They're preforming it at a-nation, right? I hope it's at the end, after ayu's set, because if not her epic entrance wouldn't be as epic if she was already on stage once. :S

It only makes sense at the end, even though every artist participating has to stay until the end, haha. (But since these are the last dates at Tokyo, they all probably have a big aftershow party anyway...) Did you watch a-nation 2002? At the end all artists had some kind of party and everybody was on stage singing Survival Dance from TRF. I imagine it will be something like this! So much fun. :yes

I, uh, kinda like this. I feel weird saying that.

It's certainly better then crossroad, I don't know WHY I like it x_x

http://www.mediafire.com/?drwctjhvk3t6ko4
preview, posted by hikki-kun @JPM

I'm surprised, it actually sounds okay! I love the Ayu to Ai Otsuka part!

Is this... actually being performed at a-nation? I'm wondering if there will be a live version of the group singing it

THX A LOT sounds pretty awesome, haha.

I want an ayu solo version lol.

Seriously, haha. It's like "Get out of the song, people..." or something, ohoho.

GONNA LISTEN LATER <3

i like it!!

ayu is the last singer before it goes prechorus right?

I cut out only the ayu part in case anyone just wants that~
http://www.mediafire.com/?xgh8f8zldz2jk13

Ayu sings 2nd after YU-KI.

is this being performed or not? I'm really curious XD The original announcement said it was, but I haven't heard anything more about that since

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I'm shocked it sounds good... I expected a disaster. xD But it definitely sounds better than the crossroad chaku-uta. o.o

I became obsessed with that song for a short while! Definitely a great song!

I agree that it's a good song :luv2

it seems that YUKI and ayu sing more lines than any other artist from the preview.

It's better than I expected.

Thanks identity :D

I love this song. But it seems a bit hard to differentiate the singer :P

hmm... wouldn't mind if an Ayu-solo version was the b-side to crossroad...

I knew the song reminded me of some other song and I found it

anyone else hear the resemblance? I mainly hear it starting from ai otsuka's part.

It has quite the oriental feeling. I really like what I hear so far, and all the girls voices sound good! But I never doubted the song, anyway. I'll never understand how people scream "disaster" before ever hearing it. Now I'm looking forward to the chorus and the whole song.

I dont like this song.. eeekk

the whole song just sounds like ami's alone in my room xD Thx for sharing, I agree with you

thanks for preview
with vocal this song sounds more interesting

see, I knew it would be fine =P

~faith in TK~

It´s just ok, i wanted Ayu´s vibrato...

Wow, Ayu's voice sounds really good in THX A LOT, not strained at all :love.

The song itself also sounds really nice, IMO^^

The two voices that a great great in the first preview are YU-KI and Ayu.
I was so surprised at Ayu's voice, it's soooooo good, better than any recording lately.
OMG Kaori.... gtfo her voice was soooo bad... it clashed with the three before her.
Everyone was soft soft and then Kaori with her wailing..

Edit: Actually I was mistaken!
It's not Kaori... it's hitomi and Tomiko Van... OMG.
Wow YU-KI and Ayu have a big part in the song.

^ yea i realized bout that..
as the first 3 go smooth all the sudden, hitomi sounded kinda loud (sorry for the fans), somehow i think this kind of song not suit to their vocals haha... oh well..it's an avex artists' song as a whole..so i guess it's ok :)

my mind is blown with this now. ayu + ai + hitomi =DDDD

To me it sounds like this (I have no idea about Iconiqs and Ami Suzukis voices)

Version 2
Naoya (AAA) - Kumi Koda - Nissy (AAA) - Naoya (together with someone, either the AAA girls or Kumi again?) - Chisa - Ami? - Iconiq? (Though it sounds to me like Naoyas voice is in there with those females, too) The second version isn't as easy to make out as the first version is.

So the AAA guys are the only male vocals in the song.

Ditto XD

Although I also do think it sounds like "alone in my room" too...

Is it just me or does it sound like crossroad at some parts....?

aww, this is nice. nothing too fancy or outlandish -- very simple and beautiful. i like such compositions :)

I actually hear a little bit of that too lol.

Am I only one who finds nothing special in this? Lol. Maybe I need longer version. That's pretty awesome in how bad quality it plays for me even it's in 320kbps.

I listened to the preview and.. I like it D: it doesn't sound like 'omg the best song in the world' but I was expected something terrible instead lol.

Awww Ayu's voice was so melodious and sweet!
so this is just the verse?

I really like the preview, it's just a nice, lovely song. ^^ I really liked the idea of all of them getting together to collaborate in saying 'Thank you'. So sweet and awesome. :)

I'm suprised Namie isn't in there, actually. Does she perform at most A-nations?

It doesn't sound as bad as I expected it too.

YU-KI, Ayu, and Van-chan in the same song!! It's so cool. I can't wait to hear the full version!

I think she's actually only performed at one a-nation ever

i want crossroaddddd

I hope this is somewhere near "ALL FOR ONE & ONE FOR ALL" by the whole Hello! Project in 2004. That actually wasn't too bad, but there weren't many solos.

I wonder how long they're making this...

hrm...based on the preview, i might like this more than crossroad! guess we will see. :yes

Hm I don't know, it doesn't sound so bad. Pleasantly surprised, but I want more before I can make a good judgement.

... I'm surprised this doesn't sound like the train wreck I imagined (then again, it could be the LQ tricking my ears lol). In all honesty, Ayu sounded the best... which really surprised me especially since I love Tomiko Van's voice WTF happened at the end, gurl!? :dead2

I don't like it but it's not as bad as I thought it would be.

I think it's normal. That kind of song with a lot of artist is never original as all singer have to be able to sing it. It has to be that kind of song that you can sing with the audience with any problem too.

But I can't say it's nice or it's bad because the preview is too short & the quality is so bad.

It's good so far but I didn't appreciated it because when I played the file on WMP, it has noises. Gonna wait for a better quality.:) Thanks for sharing the file, identity.

Sorry, I don't feel like searching the thread right now and it isn't in the first post. Do we know when the full song will be released and in what format? I hope it's soon and not only through chaku-uta. :dead

Hmm... from the preview.. nothing special.. maybee I need to listen to the full song.

yeah...i want to know the same thing.

and like Ranma Matsuri said...i was expecting a total train wreck, so i am pleasantly surprised!

^Same here... I thought "NO WAY IN HELL WILL THIS BE GOOD. D: At the best it will be funny... xD" But... I like it. O_O;

^i feel EXACTLY the same way. :)

Why do people just expect the worst lol.

I'm not surprised. And if it were bad I still wouldn't be :)
I was excited. And now I'm more neutral

Its average/good to me. Ah well~ most of the artists in it are to me :P

I didn't like the preview, but it's not a bad song. I think I should listen to it more times in HQ, sure I'll like it :yes

i think usually songs like this where they throw a bunch of artist onto one track usually turn out to be hoooorrible.

but thats just my opinion. maybe this will change it. :yes

^I dunno I just thought u guys had some traumatizing experience with these large japanese collabos. :P
I'm not familiar with any (yay fpr being a jpop fan only 3 yrs)

I almost knew people would end up liking it in the end. That's like the cycle of AHS LOL.

Well, all we had to go by was the video of "You are the One" that was posted... LOL. Then I was also thinking of that recent "We Are the World" disaster. *shudders* :P With songs with a lot of famous singers, it's like movies with a bunch of famous actors/actresses, it can either be amazingly awesome or incredibly bad. XD

I have a feeling THX A LOT will be on the a-nation 2010 album? Don't they usually have a a-nation -insert year- album that has some of the summer hits from avex artistes in that year?

Nah, the last a-nation to have any bonus tracks on it was the 2007 CD (where it was the trance songs from the opening which were brilliant)

Since then, every years CD's have just been compilation albums including a track from most artists performing at a-nation that they released as a single from the last 12-24 months.

today we might get rip of full song ^__^

^ yeyyyy can't waittttttttttt!!
thanks for the info :)

YAYYY~~~ I was screaming when I read LostHeaven post :D Thanks ~

I can't wait >.<

CM from avex! the song sounds really nice together! I LOVE IT

^ wow thanks for sharing!!
loading it now :)

i didn't really have any expectations, but i think the song sounds very summer-anthem and i think completes the job it's supposed to. it's a decent song; nothing innovative or surprising, but also far from being horrible.

After hearing the CM it sounds even more like Ami Suzuki's "alone in my room" lol.
I still like it, though^^

Oh thanks prussian blue :D

It's sounds good imo :yes

Wow, they sound good together! :D

it sounds great !
can't wait to hear it <3

You know, it's really not bad from what I've heard of it so far. I mean, I was seriously expecting a massive train wreck... :laugh

I want to know if they all perform it together today or at least tomorrow? I mean, there HAS to be a performance, right?

^ They performed it already. And I'm not sure but it seems that artists which didn't sang in that song performed it as well? Because I read JYJ took part in performance too... :shrug

^When did they all perform it together? Last week?

I think it doesn't matter if you're not featured in the song, all the artists that performed can sing in the chorus. But not everybody that had solo lines was at all the a-nations.

my friend recorded this for me..
THX A LOT performed by a-nation's party today at Tokyo a-nation



credits: chibishun82 + AyUmIXx

Woah, thanks so much AyUmIXx and thanks to your friend, too. Though it's really hard to distinguish the voices in this quality! The screams towards the end (around the 4th minute) imply that JYJ are also singing, right? :)

^
true JYJ also singing according to my friend's report..
and the fangirls went screaming when JYJ started to sing their parts.. like JJ w/ Kuu, YC w/ AAA and JS w/ mihimaru GT..

anyway, i can distinguish Ayu's vocal... the TRF members..also otsuka ai haha XD

thanks for ahring ayumixx, this are all artist right? I though i recognized kuu and ayu

^ yep it's all artists singing it :)
and the parts they singing it, exactly like the cut version of the ringtones..

OMG!!!! It's JYJ~~ :heart

Thanks Ayumixx~♥
I want HQ~~~

I really like the song! I can definitely hear Ayu, hitomi, Van Tomiko, and Ai Otsuka clearly. I can't distinguish anyone else. :laugh I can't even hear a single male voice.

^ I can't hear any male voices either, lol

need. studio. recording.

I don't know why I like this song so much, but DAAAAAYUM <3

For male voices, I think I hear Naoya (AAA) and the JYJ guys, but that could be my imagination.

From what i hear it sounds good, i am curious to the studio version.

Full HQ:


Ayu sounds soo good omg. This really needs to be an ayu only song!

for once I agree with you. (cue apocalypse) This really does need an Ayu Solo Version <3

It'd be really nice if "L" featured a solo ver. of this song as a bonus, wouldn't it?^^*wishful thinking*

wowww the HQ ver is out..
thanks identity for sharing!!

Yes, as long as it's a bonus and doesn't take the place of a newly written song by her :yes

finished listening to THX A LOT..
it's really very nice song.. but just so repetitive hahaha XD

I LOVE IT. *_* I really can't believe it. haha I thought I'd hate it so much... I never thought these voices could mesh together so well and I really don't like TK... xD But it's great! And Ayu really does sound so good!

Someone needs to write up the romaji and tell who's singing what part cause there are a lot of artists in this song I don't know and I really like their voices.