44th single: Days/GREEN + GREEN/Days [08.12.17] II
 

Title: Days/GREEN & GREEN/Days
Release: December 17th 2008
First press: Available for the CD+DVD-versions (appearantly comes with a picture label)
Type: Double A-side single in 4 versions

Tracklists

Days/GREEN (both CD and CD+DVD)
CD
01. Days -original mix-
02. GREEN -original mix-
03. Love ~destiny~ -10th anniversary version-
04. Days -instrumental-
05. GREEN -Instrumental-
06. Love ~destiny~ -instrumental-
DVD
01. Days -video-
02. GREEN -video-
03. Days -making-

GREEN/Days (both CD and CD+DVD)
CD
01. GREEN -original mix-
02. Days -original mix-
03. TO BE -10th anniversary version-
04. GREEN -Instrumental-
05. Days -instrumental-
06. TO BE -instrumental-
DVD
01. GREEN -video-
02. Days -video-
03. GREEN -making-


source: Ayu's official site

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The last one is over 500 posts so I made a new one :P

I wonder if we are going to get one photoshoot with 4 different poses or two different photoshoots for each type of single with 2 different poses?

edit:Also your link doesn't work.

It would be nice if we get 2 completely different photoshoots but somehow connects with each other for the 4 covers. I don't want just different poses.

i think she'll do different shoots kinda like how AAA does for their double a-sides

also fixed the link, thanks Sundae :P

Yes I also think she'll do different photoshoots.. she didn't give it two separate titles for nothing :)

I'm so disappointed about the rumored director for GREEN! I don't like ANYTHING he does. -_-

But overall, I have a good feeling about this single. :yes

Maybe it'll be like ayaka's single(s) Clap & Love/Why and Why/Clap & Love where they had completely different cover art; even so, in her official website it's labeled as only one single and I hope that goes for Ayumi too for the sake of her #1 streak <3.

I think not like MW, but because there are two different first songs, there will be two different covers with a variation (not a huge difference), and then the CD and CD+DVD version two different shots of the same photoshoot, as usual. ^_^

Wait wait wait

Who is the rumored director of GREEN? O_O

Yes, i think GREEN/days CD/CD+DVD will be different of Days/GREEN CD/CD+DVD... I think GREEN/Days cover will be with the style of GREEN song (dark melancholic, sad?) and Days/GREEN like the style and music of Days (more rockish? happy? joyfull?? whatever! XD)

This is what i'd liek the most ^^

^yes but the thread is over 500 posts and so according to rules a new thread needs to be made

The first thread went by so fast! Probably because of all the hightened anticipation T_T;;; I'm starting to countdown...

I guess Days could be something like independent? XD

what's a picture label?

That would be amazing :O
I would love another independent or +/flower garden... I actually think those songs were good enough to be at least b-sides...

I think Days will sound like a christmas song.... XD

nice (at least it should be) print on CD disc

there will be "free" posters for this single

+ for TA members = slide mirror charm (?)
+ from mu-mo = memo pad
http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/9101/ayumemorq6.jpg
+ from every cd shop = poster. Same design for every version

i want Days to be a soft and beautiful ballad...
but i don't care if it's a independt-type song!! i love them :)

I agree, they are some of her best.

I would love Days to sounds like momentum or No way to say

Source please! :D I'm a very happy fan if that's true! Planning on ordering on CDJapan, hope they ship the poster too. They probably will.

oh your source is probably TA, so it's true ^__^ thank you!

^
http://avexnet.or.jp/ayu/jp/news/081027.html
http://shop.mu-mo.net/st/fc/HXA.html
http://shop.mu-mo.net/avx/sv/item1?j...&categ_id=2013

I think she did all the shots in Shanghai also..just like A COMPLETE in HK last time
but we never know

I hope Days won't be shot in Shanghai, and not another short movie. glitter/fated was done quite poorly to me... :P

And I think cdjapan will be giving poster as well, as long as you order it because the first presses sold out.

how did the Days/GREEN thread grow so much faster than A COMPLETE?

hope none of the songs are rock.

If I wanna listen to rock, i'll listen to my rock bands.

It's a shame that her rock songs these days are so bland, especially because her earlier ones like is this LOVE? and 1 LOVE (and the rockish elements in Duty and I am...) were so well produced.

I think almost all her rock songs are amazing. That is one of the reasons i love her, because she manages to make amazing rocks songs and being feminine at the same time.

Anyhow, i'm wayyy excited about this new single, can't wait to see it along with the new videos!!!! :luv2

Kazuyoshi Shimomura.

Actually I think that t2m and decision are well produced rock songs as well.
Specially where earlier songs had barely more rockier tune as they were more poppy.

I won't mind if Days will be rock and maybe I even have some hope it will (or up beat song).

^ I love your signature xD;;;;

Is that director good?

Hmm I translated Ayu's website news and have some questions:

I noticed it said that the posters will be given in some shops, I wonder if this will be in first press kind of way. Or in a lottery kind of way? or a buy 4 get one lol

And the mirror is TA only right? :/

A Complete sales were also relatively good last week. I think the announcement of the new single helped. It's like get the 10 year chronicle of her singles before starting anew lol... I'm also wondering whether to start a single collection now that i have MW and A Complete.

lol thanks :D

Shimomura is behind the MW PV, which was his first job as director ever, and it showed. Basically he's a photographer gone director. He's also behind a lot of the not so popular photoshoots were ayu is all diva, like the A COMPLETE pictures, plus a lot of the fish mouth shots.

Hopefully he does better on GREEN...

I feel compelled to buy her singles this year, but I probably won't after her 10th anni is over... I'm a broke college student, I can barely afford all the stuff I'm buying from her now... (Yay US economy... now I have to spend almost $32 on GREEEN/Days)

You are most welcome :D

And shoot I was afraid it was him! I think I heard this rumor a while back...

...WHAT!! it's that photographer/director @_@...well~ ayu does play a diva/star in GREEN...

is this LOVE? is definitely her best rock song, IMO.

^ IMO too~ i love is this LOVE? it's just :luv2 to me

I highly hope that Days is not a ballad. We already have GREEN for it. come on, ayu, we mostly have been waiting for a rockish/summerish song, don't release two ballads at the same time just because it's the season for slower songs.

yea, I'm kinda hoping Days is not a ballad either. just the sound of "Days" does not sound like a ballad, more like a poppy song or something like the HEAVEN single, with HEAVEN being a ballad and Will with a unique style...

me too. Whatever she does, as long as I like it I'll be more than ok with it :D

omg i cant wait to have it!

whatever she releasing, as long as still original from ayu..i'll definitely love it!!

hummm I want also those presentss T____T

at least I hope the poster will be available for YA and CDjapan...

I want days to be an uptempo song! But i would've mind if it's rock, but please make it more unique like t2m, is this LOVE?..

From the title itself, it doesn't seem like a rock song. Maybe Days will be a ballad like SEASONS.

Days is the song Ayu said before on the TA blog that it was as if "God came down" when she wrote it. (Don't know if this was mentioned already but...) PV will begin filming right after she goes back from Taiwan. Apparently, there's a script for it so she will have lines (and supposed to make you cry?). From this, I am assuming a ballad.

^i really hope that Days will be a ballad too, but isnt it a little bit weird? GREEN doesnt sounds like upbeat song, so maybe there'll be 2 ballads? sounds cool actually

Thank you for the info!

As if god is coming down?

Must be one of ayu's most beautiful ballads then *_*.

is it Takahide Ishii? i hate HIM. he makes BLUE BIRD, Startin', (don't) Leave me alone, momentum, Born To Be..., and Together When... look CHEAP!!!

please no more Takahide Eat-*****, ayu!!!
put more Wataru Takeishi or Kouki Tange in the front line!!! or Tetsuo Inoue! he's the BEST!

I couldn't really find her old entry on this but I remember reading how there was a song that was so awesome that all the lyrics just came to her right away. It's this song.

Lol, "God came down". I couldn't stop laughing at this, very cute! I hope Days would be a super omgwtfbbq-ish ballad then. And I think it's cool that she's releasing a 2A side single that are all ballads. Very rarely does she do this.

I want Days to be a ballad as well! *-*
And Ayu should try being a director once XD

I suppose she could count as a co-director in all her PVs, since she throws in her opinions and all... But given the rumored director of GREEN, aka Mirrorcle World's director AND the photographer whom she oh-so trusts so much for giving her fish mouth facial expressions that she loves so much!, I think she's gonna totally trust that guy... I hope not.

Even though I don't want a ballad, if it's like SEASONS, I'll jump for joy xD;

A song like "God came down"? Must be good stuff then.

BBQ-ish? What does that even mean? A song good for grilling out to? Ha ha, jk. But really, what did you mean by that?

Well now I'm excited after hearing that Ayu said it was as if "God came down"... I really want it to be a WINTER BALLAD. Please. Ha ha. I would just die.

I too would like a little variety but since GREEN is already previewed, and clearly not the WINTER BALLAD I was hoping for, then I am happy to hear that their is a possibility that Days may be what I am hoping for.

talkin' 2 myself and decision were both rock. Although that single was kind of weak, IMO. Not the songs, just the single in general. We haven't had good single ballads from Ayu in a while, maybe she is catching up...?

Here's to Days being a WINTER BALLAD (Sorry, I just want one so badly).

Yeah, if someone happens to purchase it, you should definitely record it. =D

She already did Life though. That song's like... SEASONS long lost twin sister.

SEASONS is very cool but I hope that Days seems like STEP you *O*

Yeaah please 2 ballads ^^!! is the best to do in winter season!! I think japanese love ballads and her bests sellers and most loved songs are ballads: M, Dearest, HEAVEN... I think is a good option and since HEAVEN we don't have a fisical ballad single... (though Fated was in one but it was a happy and ballad song... I mean only ballad XD)

I hope this single to be a hit!!

well I just can't wait for new material but I still think all those versions is about to killed Ayu sales later...

Because of you for me. Amazing one!

Generally, multiple versions help sales, not hurt them. It worked for MW.

Yeah, people who intend to buy the single will buy AT LEAST one. I can't wait for at least one song to leak already, so I am hoping GREEN will leak soon as they made all the verses available as ringtones.

Not to mention H.


I really don't want a rock song OR a ballad.
I rather an up-tempo electro pop number.

until that Day... ~part II ~ please!! :D

^

I don't think Ayu likes that style anymore lately. X_X

I want an upbeat song too.. happy upbeat ^_^ Yea, I want a happy song that isn't glitter/fairyland/BLUE BIRDish! =D

I just hope that there wont be a jackass-in-box like we had with MW sales monkey in the bush surprise. :headache

Probly an upbeat song like Boys & Girls or evolution-ish? Yeah I really wanna hear another upbeat tempo song, but she doesn't do that anymore..

yeah.. she needs to return to happy type songs.
I think too much rock and sad or powerful songs.
There's no really happy songs lately.. since about a year ago.
I want Days to be that way~ ahaha

Actually, a song like Boys and Girls! but she won't do that I think..

I would like another STEP you more than anything but it's just not the right time for one right now. Ballads are for Winter.

so the memo pad will only be from mu-mo???

i remembare something about her saying that the lyrics just came to her but i'm not sure when it was xP

yeah a up-beat/rock-ish song like Step you would be awesome, but not now, in Feb maybe?

YES!! i second that!

yay finally a new single
Ayu needs to release more singles in my opinion she's touring alot

Since WHEN is [fated] a happy song? It's one of the saddest songs I've ever heard...are you serious?

i'm so excited for this single!!!! i really want to hear some sort of preview for Days. and i am also hoping for a winter ballad <3 i would love that mucchhh more than a rock song for now

I think people in this bbs say that it has to be ballad for Kouhaku..
But then, Kouhaku is not just ballad songs~
Remember, fairyland is performed before, and all johnnies songs are high energy.
Don't worry about Kouhaku~

And look at AAA, they made the song Winter Lander, and it was for winter, and not a ballad.
It was sooo good.
I hope one day she will try upbeat songs again~ ahaha.

I hope it's not him, because with MW, I saw a decent concept that was poorly executed. Maybe he'll be better the second time? *shrug*

That and alterna for me. I've also always felt that End of the World, really her first all out rock song, is underrated and one of her best.

I don't think the touring necessarily has anything to do it. She has toured more than this before and still put out a lot of singles.

I would really love to see a song like evolution!!! Of course though, ayu really hasn't been into that for a long time...

I am still hoping that the panasonic version of GREEN is included within the song... I really think that it is possible... I think that ayu should return to her roots, and make an upbeat/happy song again!!!

Alterna is my fav rock song from ayu. :love IMO touring is not an excuse for less singles. She was much busier before and still put out lots of quality singles back then.

Woah!! I think I'll be choosing Days/Green Jacket A.. I want the LOVE~Destiny~ 10th Anniversary version!! yahoo!!

I already pre-ordered both with my Team Ayu membership. So excited to get the extra goodies!

Isn't OMGWTFBBQ some online gaming (?) phrase that means uber? Lol, I can't remember it myself either...

And I agree with you, I really want Days to be a winter ballad! I mean it's been three whole years since a ballad has been a lead song in a single, and her last upbeat lead song single was glitter, which was a year ago, so yeah. And I love her ballads!

oh wow i didn't know that! well it's weird..because just from the title it sounds like it would be an upbeat song. :shrug well, we will see. i am excited either way

^I really get the feeling Days is like SEASONS. Except as the seasons go by, it's as the days go by feeling. I think it's a sad song.

i never thought of it like that. ahh that sounds good :love
i can't wait to see lyrics for it

I had a feeling that Days was going to be an upbeat song like MY ALL, Beautiful Day...etc.
I didn't know that HA said that about the song :)
Can't wait to listen it.

I hope that days isnt like life

I hope matches GREEN... like that kinda mystic-asian style

^^

The official website has the placemarkers for the covers for the CD/DVD versions of the single twice as long as the CD versions.

If Days is anything like SEASONS I'll cry (in a good way, of course).

I hope it will be like Startin' instead of songs like MY ALL, Beautiful days..etc.

omg I agree. 2) alterna 3) talkin 2 myself

Singles along with international shipping costs so much money but I'm compelled to purchase this single. This is like the most anticipated single for me in a long time.

Now I'm looking forward to Days pv more. Please let wataru direct!!

oh you're right! Its gonna be like MW's packaging.

Erm,no.fated is really sad.

Maybe Days will be really upbeat?I hope so,if Days turn out to be a mix of STEP you and Fly high,then I will roll on the floor with happiness.

^

fated is indeed a very sad but awesome ballad
and a STEP you and Fly high mix would be AWESOME =O as long as it's not as noisy as STEP you..it's way too high pitched X_x

speaking of noise.. ew is this LOVE? XD That song is just so much noise.. alterna is pretty cool though. but it's way too long for it's own good. GAME is awesome. XD and Mirrorcle World, and Because of You

Official site has updated, and the CD+DVD's first press will be the same as Mirrorcle World ones, they will be in a 14-15cm format, like this:

http://img32.picoodle.com/img/img32/...gm_e6c66e8.gif

Source: http://avexnet.or.jp/ayu/jp/news/081022b.html

Cool!

^^Already posted that. I hope this is something that's going to happen from now on with the CD/DVD versions. MW had it and I liked it.

You two need to read the entire post. She was joking around.