AHS Fan-Selected Best Album?
 

After reading this thread, please go to the following link to cast your vote on whether or not to split the genres in this project!
http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=85236

I've been thinking for a while... that it'd be really cool to compile an album of Ayu's songs that we, the fans, think are the best! What's a better place to do that than here at AHS? :D

Would you guys be interested in doing something like this? Because, if enough people were going to participate, I'd definitely organize it. :yes

I was thinking it could go something like this:
STEP 1-- Each member would nominate at least one song over a period of one week and at the end of the week a list would be compiled with all the nominated songs.

STEP 2-- Members would vote on their favorite songs from this list and the top [however many songs we decide to include] would be picked for the best album.

STEP 3-- Discussion threads would be made in order to discuss the tracklist, cover art, title, and use of interludes on the album.

STEP 4-- We put it all together and voila~ we have the Ayumi Hamasaki Sekai Fan-Selected Best Album!

What do you guys think? Yes, no? :)

I would love to participate in this!!

It's a great idea. You should post this in the suggestion section.

Not many people check the suggestions area, and I wanted to get the idea out there. ;)

This is Ayu-related, right? So it's fine to talk about it here, I think! :D

oo this would be an amazing project!!! i would love to participate!

AHS Best Songs Selection
 

Yes. Its a good idea.

Seeing how the Fav album poll panned out, its going to be tough to leave out songs that you enjoy but happen to be among a minority.

Thanks for offering to organize such a project, let us know when nomination starts, or how we can help out.

let's do it :)

Yes ^.^

NAIS AIDEYA!!!
We should do this!

Let us dance! Of course! I want participate!

Sounds like heaps of fun!
I'm in!!

B'z Net Party did something similar (twice, IIRC)... everyone posted their top 5 B'z songs and talked a little bit about why they picked those five. Then they tallied them up & put the top 20 on a special page. It was alot of fun and really interesting to see everyone's choices and why they chose them.

I'm all for this, I think it'd be interesting :)

Nice idea!
So.. YES! I want participate too :yes

Nice to see a lot of you interested! ^_^

Now I'm hoping to get a little bit of feedback on some of these questions:
What songs should be eligible?
Should songs from her pre-avex career be eligible? How about remixes, acoustic orchestra, and classical versions? B-sides?

How long should it be?
Should we pick a set number of tracks? If so, how do we establish this number? Should it be on a time-limit?

It sounds great!!!

Hmm I think that we could choose any song from her career in avex (being sincere, although the others songs were available, they will never win xD), including acoustics versions, remixes, etc.

And, why we don't do what avex did with the ABEST2 Black/White? I mean, 1 cd for darker songs, and another for happier songs.

..Or just made a long trackist, maybe about 30 tracks? as you want xD
Is just an idea ^^U

**sorry for my bad english

Nice idea, sounds interesting!
count me in!!

That'd be a cool idea, to do it like A BEST 2, but it'd be a little difficult to define what a "dark" song and a "happy" song are (apart from the ones included in A BEST 2.)

I was thinking of maybe excluding all non-original mix versions (remixes, orchestra versions, ect...) and then if all goes well with this project we could do another for Remixes, and then one for Acoustic/Orchestra/Piano versions! ^_^

I think excluding remixes and orchestra versions would be fine, but I would like to include B-sides. ^^

Yep, let B-sides be included.
This is a very interesting idea. I'm all for it!

Okay~ Looks like we'll be including all original mix tracks-- including b-sides-- but not remixes, acoustic orchestra versions or anything of the sort.

I'll start organizing the nominations and try and get a thread up before the end of the weekend! ^_^ Any ideas or suggestions can be posted in this thread, or PMed to me!

yeah. this is a good idea! ^_^

You could have a 10-15 track album of

A BALLADS
A ROCK
A POP
A DANCE

or anything like that... let the creative juices overflow!

this is a great idea!

I agree ^__^

PD: and why we don't do a contest? for the covers of each one! *__*

I think it would be best if we could nominate more than one song... like 3-5? Since she has so many songs, and there might not be a LOT of people voting, it's possible you'd end up with like 30 songs all with two or three votes... If people can vote for more songs, it might be easier to get higher total votes for songs?

I hope that made sense. @_@

WOW! I think this is a great idea! I really can't wait :D

I do have one suggestion...

Perhaps- if it's not too much trouble - you could have different polls for different genres, just so there's definetely some variety? Or would that be too limiting?

nice!!! all for it

It seems that this "genre splitting" is a pretty popular idea... I'm ready to set up the nominations, but before I do, I think we should get this cleared out of the way. XD

It's fine by me to actually execute it like that-- by having people nominate so many of each genre and then do different polls for each genre, but how and who is going to distinguish which song is which genre?

I might say that Memorial address is a rock song, and someone else might say it's a ballad.

???

Mmm that's the hardest part really.

Well, in this case..

1 - we can do only 1 CD, without genre (although it's more boring ó_ò)
2 - we can agree on the songs doubtful, like memorial addres, before do the CD's (but it's waste more time, 'cause there's a lot of songs in that situation! @_@)

so I really don't know o_ô

To vote on each song doubtful, maybe?

seriously i like this idea!
i want to vote NAO LOL

Interesting :) I'm in ;)

Great idea! Let's do it =D

I'm against genre splitting since it'll make the selection less... realistic? Like if we have to have 3 rock songs, 3 ballads, etc., if more people like 4 rock songs and 2 ballads than 3 rock songs and 3 ballads, it won't be a "true" fan favorite selection because that one rock song that more people liked than a ballad would have to be replaced by a less favored ballad. For example:

You decide there are 3 rock songs and 3 ballads. Let's say that everyone votes and it comes up as:

Rock songs
talkin' 2 myself - 11 votes
alterna - 10 votes
decision - 9 votes
is this LOVE? - 8 votes

Ballads
Moments - 10 votes
CAROLS - 9 votes
HEAVEN - 7 votes
rainy day - 6 votes

Then, going with the proper genre splitting, you'd have to put talkin' 2 myself, alterna, decision, Moments, CAROLS, and HEAVEN on. BUT, more people actually favor is this LOVE? more than HEAVEN, but is this LOVE? would be put off just to have that 3rd ballad. That way, it really wouldn't be a real fan favorite selection, because a rock song might have more votes than a ballad, but not be included as a fan favorite.

Did that make sense? I'm not good at explaining things. :'(

Well, but the genre splitting could be done so that there is an album with each genre, so no songs would be put off for the sake of genre.

And with different albums, there will this like super Ayu collection or something!

^ But then like... most of her songs would end up getting picked. :P If you did like 14 for each genre, and say you did three genres (rock, pop, ballads) then you'd have like 42 songs ending up being selected... That's almost 1/3 songs I think. I guess that just seems too broad to really show which songs are fan favorites, but maybe that's just me..?

Edit: Or maybe you could do different CDs for each genre, and then like a general CD to mix them up?

Well, Ayu has probably a few hundred songs... so 40+ wouldn't hurt so much. :P Hahaa I get what you mean, because that's a very hardcore way of picking the favorites of the favorites!

She has fewer than 200, closer to like 120-150 I think. :P

Okay... I see everyone's points here, but I think we are still "undecided" about this genre splitting, so I'm gonna go ahead an make a new thread, with a poll, where people can vote on whether or not to do the genre splitting.

Also, having a separate thread, more people will notice the dilemma we have. Not everyone who comes to this thread is reading the whole thing. Most are just reading the first post and they agreeing/disagreeing with the idea presented!

I'll go put the poll up now and after edit the first post with the link! :D

POLL (& further place of discussion for the 'genre splitting'):
http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=85236

Ahahaha my estimation skills suck! :thud

she has 143 songs (based on my definition of a 'song') others may have aorund 140, while some others may take it to about 148

I think it'd be cool to make the best ballads album, which will contain Ayu's ballads we voted for :) But since the most of us voted for just one album... :(