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What do you think of all her albums?
I decided to start this thread because I'm REALLY curious as to what people think of all Namie's albums because recently I've just gotten to completely love all of them. I especially wanted to know what people think about her older albums, because I love them to death and I've heard that most people don't like her albums like GENIUS 2000, break the rules, Concentration 20 and SWEET 19 BLUES. Or am I completely wrong?
Anyway, I'm sorry if similar threads exist, it's just that search doesn't work at all and I can't find what people think of Namie's albums on AHS at all :/ So, do you like her older albums or not? Which is your favorite? Least favorite? Any kind of comment on any of her albums is welcome! I'll start. Spoiler:
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As for Namie albums, I always only like a few songs from each album.. but I will try my best ^^
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LOVE Namie.
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for me this is simple.
I have tried to like her albums but the only one I can love is PLAY I think is because this one has less ballads than all her others. |
i absolutely love Concentration 20! that's my favorite album of hers.
SWEET 19 BLUES is another favorite. GENIUS 2000 and break the rules are great but i think their her weakest. i really like PLAY but i think Queen of Hip-Pop blows it out of the water. STYLE is awesome too. PAST< FUTURE was an amazing comeback. another one of my favorites from her. |
I like Style, Queen of Hip pop, and PLAY. All of her others are huge misses for me.
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I'm not a diehard fan of Namie . I frankly only have heard PLAY & PAST < FUTURE & both are really good albums in my opinion
PLAY was 1 of the 1st few jpop albums I heard when I began listening to Japanese music 4 years ago & I still really like it til now |
Yaaaaaay for Namie
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basically, the only album i don't like is "past < future"
it's hugely overrated, if you ask me. but hey, we all have our opinions, haha. everything up until that album is great. though, concentration 20, sweet 19 blues and style are probably my favorite albums. however, YOU ARE THE ONE, on GENIUS 2000, is in my top favorite Amuro songs ;) much better than the original version :P |
This is simple I really like all the albums before LOVE ENHANCED and Past<Future because they have some good lyrics. Then with Style-Play I usually only listen to them when I want something upbeat/dancy to listen to since that's mainly what they are.
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Namie has had top quality material since her debut until now. I feel like all of her albums deliver something unique. There's variety yet a certain message given with each album and it's always kept me interested.
I like all of her older, pre-STYLE albums but my favourite of the bunch would have to be GENIUS 2000 mostly because of "SOMETHING 'BOUT THE KISS", "KISS-AND-RIDE" and "THINGS I COLLECTED". But I find Concentration 20 album such a solid album from beginning to end that it would have to be among my most favourited. But my all-time favourite and most played album is Queen of Hip-Pop, which I bought in 2005 and still listen to this day. I find her approach to western R&B and pop music so refreshing that she's all I could ever want in a pop artist and more. |
My fave Namie albums are PLAY, Queen of Hip-Pop and, PAST < FUTURE.
Namie always brings something new to the table and it's always good. My overall fave is probably PAST < FUTURE because the first Namie song I lisnted to came from the album but BEST FICTION is what converted me to a Namie fan. |
I think most of her albums are great. The only one that I think was overrated at the time was Sweet 19 Blues - had the singles not been messed with on that album though, that one would be great too. My favorite old Namie album is Concentration 20 and that is still one of my overall favorite albums from any artist.
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GENIUS 2000 is her worst album by far. Yet somehow, it has some of her best songs. a VERY polarizing album.
However, all of her albums are much more cohesive than this one. Each song is better on average |
^i completely agree. :yes
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i've only begun from STYLE, so i can't tell about before
my favorite album is PLAY, because i love this fresh sound so much, just like Pink Key. instant summertime ^^ the one i like less is Queen Of Hip-Pop... i like WoWa, Alarm an Free but the rest is not my thing STYLE & PAST < FUTURE are cool as well... STYLE is entirely great, killers after killers, it sounds like a best-of album. and PAST < FUTURE has very cool ones like WILD |
The only Namie album I don't like is Concentration 20, it's weak
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y'know, i consider myself to be a very big Tetsuya Komuro fan (i'm such a globe stan), but i haven't heard much of Amuro's "TK era"...other than the obvious CAN YOU CELEBRATE?, Body Feels EXIT, etc. :laugh i probably should explore that era when i get the time. :P
but anyway, i started off with "STYLE" & onwards. i think my favorites are "PLAY" and "STYLE". but otherwise, i like them all (that i've listened to). i kinda wish i gotten into her earlier. i think she's one of the most solid and consistent artists out there. and she's been in this industry a looooong time! |
OMG, how can you dislike Come!? I was waiting for you to praise it and then I read you do not like it! Lol. I absolutely love it. It's just soooooooo perfect! My favorite song by her. Ever.
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Namie's music in general isn't that bad, but you really have to be a fan of '90s techno-pop (for her first works) or Western hip-hop and R&B (for some of her later albums) to like it. Otherwise, it's pretty boring. :shrug
However, I think STYLE is a great album, probably because it's a perfect mix of J-Pop and Western hip-hop/R&B. I think it's her best album, by far. (Though, for those that don't know, a few of the songs on there are covers, including Come.) Her second best album would be PAST>FUTURE. It's another very J-Pop album, though, with not much Western hip-hop, so maybe that's why I find it better..... Queen Of Hip-Pop is a pretty good album, too, if that's your style.. It's not really mine, but I think WANT ME WANT ME is a great song. |
idk. i think with namie is that i was originally fascinated with her. i was quite used to hip hop and i heard her and thought she was fantastic at it. amazing. but im actually not a super huge fans of some of her poppier songs. but see i love NEW LOOK but not the others on the single. it works like that. i prefer Put em Up, Hide & Seek, Alarm, What a Feeling, Funky Town, Cant Sleep Cant Eat Im Sick, New Look, and just random songs. but theres several i just cant listen too in her disco. still because i love the songs i do like sooo much i believe she still currently ranks #4 for my jpop fav artists. :)
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Anyway, I do like Come and the spacey feeling it gives me when I listen to it, but I just don't find it interesting enough to listen to it more than once a month or ever. Maybe I should just give it more chance? As for other non album songs I forgot to mention, I absolutely LOVE lovin' it, I WILL (I used to find it boring like Come, but I've completely changed my opinion, it's STUNNING), Do Me More, STROBE, butterfly, DARLING (probably one of my fav b-sides ever), Ningyo, Luvotomy, exist for you, Drive, Did U (my second fav b-side ever xD), Do or Die, HANDLE ME and probably many more. However I think that the most underrated Namie songs are 1) lovin' it 2) DARLING 3) STROBE 4) Did U. yeah, most of the b-sides. And btw. thank you for your replies everyone! I've enjoyed reading them. |
come is a very nice song. it can get boring at times. and the reason i was drawn into it was the mystic, spacey, magical feeling it had. that, and the first time i heard it was the ending for inuyasha and the ending also had all the smoke and mirors and magic in it and that drew me in even more. but besides all that, I personally can't sit through half of the song.
most boring namie song ever: ningyo. God to this day I have never heard the entire song. it is just so damn boring. |
^yeah I completely agree about everything except the Ningyo part. I know it sounds rather boring, but the lovely music in the background makes up for everything. I think you should just try to sit through the song at least once if you still didn't manage to xD.
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Ningyo is an excellent song, though I prefer the original version by Nokko.
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I just can not get into her early works...anything before STYLE I guess...the 90's super pop is just super boring for me...none of the songs ever stood out. And even with her newer works...I only like them because I started to like the hip-hop and R&B sound and the dancy songs...but even then...a lot of the songs still bore me lol |
Break the Rules is her best album. Dark and mysterious. I really prefer the transitional work of artists.
In general, I prefer her singles and B-sides before Style, and I think her albums from Style onwards are more cohesive, although her singles tend to be forgettable post-Style. |
^I'm glad you like break the rules! Most people say it's really bad, but it's one of my faves and I definitely agree it's dark and mysterious in a way.
I also forgot to mention toi et moi as one of my fav songs by her. So beautiful. |
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Ah well, I usually like things that other people don't, and vice versa ;) And that's a good thing in my book. |
^Yeah, me too! What are your favorites on it though?
I'm also like that. Usually the songs/albums people love the most, I love the least. And also the most loathed album/song always somehow ends up as being my favorite. I guess we're just kind of special in a way :P |
I love her newest album and PLAY. I did take a listen at some of the songs from her pre-R&B era and I love songs like I WILL and Can You Celebrate. I did play the heck out of PAST < FUTURE though.
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I love break the rules (even if she says break the lures)
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I've only heard Queen of Hip-Pop, PLAY and PAST<FUTURE
Queen of Hip-Pop - I hate this album, with the exception of WANT ME, WANT ME, which is just too much fun to resist. The rest is either fairly average (the title track, WoWa, No (part 1), or just plain terrible (the rest of the album) PLAY - So-so. Hide & Seek and Full Moon are brilliant. Top Secret, Violet Sauce and Baby Don't Cry are pretty good and I quite like the craziness of It's all about you. The rest is forgettable. P<F - My favourite :luv2! That being said, I can only bare to listen to 1/2 of the album, but what a ridiculously cool 6 tracks it is! FAST CAR, COPY THAT, LOVE GAME, WILD, Dr. and Defend Love are all awesome. The rest ranges from uninspiring to a complete mess (FIRST TIMER must be one of the worst songs in the history of music.) Damn, I feel like a bad Namie fan now... |
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^I'm still surprised by how good her english sounds in LOOKING FOR YOU :P
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Alot of her late 90s songs are more electro/rock influenced |
I know I'm gonna get jumped for this but I have tried over and over again on multiple occasions to love her music and...I can't. I have listened to I think...3 full albums and her best album and I honestly just can't get into her music. She is probably my least favorite Asian artist.
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^ I'm assuming you are talking about her material post 2003. Maybe you should try one of her previous Best albums that has her hits from the 90s to early 00s. Its a very different style from what she does now, so you might like it.
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I donīt think that about the japanese music, i think Namie has improved a lot
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Style through Play was her best set of albums for me. I don't like P<F that much other than a few songs, and I've always had trouble getting into her older music.
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Nowadays, I can't imagine something like the shibuya-kei movement or unique artists like Chitose Hajime or Ua flourishing in this kind of environment. Why does an interesting and potentially great artist such as ICONIQ barely make an impression on the Japanese public? Back in the day, they had room for everybody. But now, only so much space can be spared. Unfortunately, Japanese popular music seems to be losing its best and most distinct characteristic: novelty. That's why I prefer Namie during her transitional phase, up to Style and a bit of Queen of Hip-pop. Now she's going the way of Ayu before Rock n' Roll Circus. She's found a winning formula, and she's sticking by it. |
Altogether, her albums are half hit and miss for me.
From Sweet 19 Blues to Break the Rules, it's a complete miss. I cannot bear to listen to them. Style has a few good songs, Come especially. Queen of Hip Pop is even better. I can listen to it fully Play is quite boring for me. Past < Future is my fav namie album. Uncontrolled has only like 4 songs i like. |
Hit or miss for me !
I like some songs on each album but none completely ! Maybe because her songs are too westernized I don't know ? |
Her top albums for me are Past<Future, Genius 2000, PLAY, and of course, BF :D
The others are meh~ |
I feel like STYLE, Queen of Hip-Pop, PLAY, and BEST FICTION is like Namie's renaissance. I still love Namie's newest album, but I think 03 to 08 will be her best era.
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I like STYLE and I just love all her albuns since Queen of Hip Pop until now, with the exception of Checkmate! that I like, but I do not love. PLAY and Past<Future are my top favorites :heart But I can barely stand her older albuns, specially because of her vocals back then (but I do enjoy some of her older songs when she sings them live now)...
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I like some songs on each album but none of her albums, quite honestly, are "great". At one point I owned her whole discography but then I sold it since I never listened to the albums but had certain songs on repeat.
That's the downside when you don't write your own music; the results can be quite unpredictable, which is definitely her case I feel like. I'd say there a handful of songs I love from her. I'd say I like her personality more than I like her music (she's very lovely I think!) |
I love most of her albums except these:
- Genius 2000 - Play I think they're plain boring. I'm not really into R&B, for me it's a very boring genre, it doesn't matter how much I try to like it, it makes me fall asleep. Play has some catchy songs (are they hip-hop?) but after a while I got tired of them. I like more her new music style... it's a mix between pop/hip/hop/electronic , I can't stand when she sings only hip-hop or only R&B, which most of her past works were mostly one genre. |
I :heart :heart :heart :heart :heart ALL HER ALBUMS & SINGLES!! I Have Every Last One Of Them As First Press & Listen To Her Stuff EVERY SINGLE DAY!!! :D :D :blove :blove
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