'again' tracklist
 

デビュー15周年記念日である2013年4月8日に向け、5ヶ月連続リリース第2弾！
第1弾のミニ・アルバム『LOVE』が大好評のなか、12月8日（土）にミニ・アルバム『again』のリ リースが決定！
小室哲哉氏、長尾大氏作曲楽曲を含む書き下ろし新曲4曲に、『LOVE』に収録され、早くも名曲との呼び声 高い「Missing」「Melody」のアコースティック・オーケストラ・ヴァージョンなどを加えた全1 2曲を収録！
小室哲哉氏作曲の2曲「snowy kiss」「Ivy」、長尾大氏作曲の「Sweet scar」、UKの作曲家による「Wake me up」の新曲4曲は、それぞれロックあり、切ないアップリフティング・トラックあり、メイン・ヴォーカル1 本で歌い上げるバラードあり、語りかけるようなミディアム・バラードあり、、、と、ayuが15年間の間に 培ってきた幅広い音楽性と表現力を網羅したものとなっている。さらにDVDには、「Wake me up」「snowy kiss」「Sweet scar」のvideo clip3本を収録。
浜崎あゆみのクリエイティヴィティが発揮された注目作、ここに完成！！



【CD+DVD】
・AVCD-38644/B　￥2,415 (tax incl.)
Content
＜CD＞
01. Wake me up (Original mix) // composer from UK
●「皇潤sports」（エバーライフ）CMソング http://www.everlifegroup.jp/
02. Sweet scar (Original mix) // D.A.I
03. snowy kiss (Original mix) // Tetsuya Komuro
04. Ivy (Original mix) // Tetsuya Komuro
05. Missing (Orchestra version)
06. Melody (Acoustic Piano version)
07. Wake me up (remix)
08. snowy kiss (remix)
09. Wake me up (Original mix -Instrumental-)
10. Sweet scar (Original mix -Instrumental-)
11. snowy kiss (Original mix -Instrumental-)
12. Ivy (Original mix -Instrumental-)
（※全12曲収録予定）

＜DVD＞
01. Wake me up (video clip)
02. snowy kiss (video clip)
03. Sweet scar (video clip)




【CD】
・AVCD-38645　￥1,575 (tax incl.)
収録内容
＜CD＞
01. Wake me up (Original mix)
●「皇潤sports」（エバーライフ）CMソング
02. Sweet scar (Original mix)
03. snowy kiss (Original mix)
04. Ivy (Original mix)
05. Missing (Orchestra version)
06. Melody (Acoustic Piano version)
07. Wake me up (remix)
08. snowy kiss (remix)
09. Wake me up (Original mix -Instrumental-)
10. Sweet scar (Original mix -Instrumental-)
11. snowy kiss (Original mix -Instrumental-)
12. Ivy (Original mix -Instrumental-)
（※全12曲収録予定）

http://www.avexnet.or.jp/ayu/jp/disc...VCD-38644.html

"Ivy" is the only title I'm digging. All the others are making me lol. "Sweet scar"?

Thanks for the info.

Thanks for sharing!

Well, let's see... These titles are quite unusual to me, but that's usually typical when new songs are released...(it might take time to get a while)

I like the titles Wake me up and Ivy, and the fact that there are four new songs instead of three :D.

"again" gives me Duty vibes for some odd reason! lol But the tracklist looks interesting...

SUPER EXCITED !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wake Me Up - dance track
Sweet scar - rock
snowy kiss - winter ballad
Ivy - piano ballad

snowy kiss is definetely a winter ballad =)

oh wow the titles sound so interesting!! thank you!

I actually read it as "Sweet car" at first and I was both amused and confused by it. :P
These titles surprise me, I didn't expect Ayu to release songs with these kinds of titles (except for maybe "Wake me up"). But I like them. I'm excited to see how the songs sound, "snowy kiss" seems like the winter ballad everyone's been predicting, and "Sweet scar" seems ballad-y too, but "Wake me up" and "Ivy" seem more rock-y/upbeat to me. But it wouldn't be the first time Ayu has deceptive titles...
I'm glad that we have 4 new songs instead of 3 this time. :)

HOLY CRAP!!!
YES!!!
THIS LOOKS AMAZING!

oh wow the titles are really unexpected! but wow 3 new PVs and 4 new songs!!!! can't wiat for more info

um. wait a minute...
wake me up?? its a remix but no original?

EDIT:
nevermind... lol... I dont know how i missed that.

4 new songs 3 new PVs omg amazing!!!!! I would love to know more about the described composers!!! IM SO PUMPEDDDDD OMG

@teamayu2004: I missed it too hahaha!!! Twice even.

The remixes look promising with missing(orchesta) and melody(piano)! i love them!

missing(orchestra)!!!! OMG GOSH! and when you thought that song couldnt get any better they give it an orchestra version!!

Hopefully this album is a solid one because

snowy kiss, Ivy are from Tetsuya Komuro!

Sweet scar is from DAI

and Wake me up is from a UK composer (HOPEFULLY NOT TIMMY)

However,

"Wake me up" reminds me
http://manresaamigos.files.wordpress...e-me-up-22.jpg

"Ivy" reminds me
http://gapsa.upenn.edu/wp-content/up...dmissions1.png

That's it. kthxbye.

well its not that far off...
it is the season!

I hope this is the christmas track I have been wanting from ayumi for like EVER

OMG totally missed that! LOL
Missing orchestra is gonna be so amazing I'm sure. And wow piano for Melody is very appropriate (but was hoping for acoustic guitar haha)

●「皇潤sports」（エバーライフ）CMソング
....................:tired
http://www.everlifegroup.jp/

「snowy kiss」and「Ivy」composed by Tetsuya Komuro
「Sweet scar」composed by Dai Nagao
「Wake me up」UK?..

omg the tie-in is for weird producs that grannies use *faints* can't they find something more trendy as a tie-in?!

Im hoping that it will be this huge tie in! lol...
wish i could read the japanese

From what I can see in the text, Snow kiss and IVY are TK compositions? and Sweet Scar is by DAI, Wake me up by some guy from UK?

wait for translation....

has she worked with them before??
Tetsuya sounds familiar...
Dai Nagao?

EDIT:
oh.. are these people TK and DAI?

looks totally random LMAO

HOPEFULLY NOT TIMMY.

It says that Wake me up is composed by someone from the UK, which automatically made me think it has to be Timmy, lol.

Also, Ayu's tie up is with Koujun Sports, the one you use before working out/exercise. Not the one for elderly that's just called Koujun.

Still, though, not a very...exciting tie up.

Tetsuya is the one composes crossroad, love songs, last angel.. etc

Dai Nagao is DAI.

OOMMGG And I though it will be a dance track...... A granny product means the song will be Ayu's first ever ENKA song......

I'm hoping Wake me up is an upbeat track!
And if it says UK, it most likely is timmy...
It could be very very good.

Looks like a fake tracklist, weird titles D:

I'm really liking liking all these titles. And four new songs!! I feel spoiled haha

Somehow I feel like this mini is going to be better than the last one...
just the remix of missing will be forth it.
The other titles make the album sound amazing and we dont have any previews yet...
Ah man... this could be the start of a very wonderful thing, lol.

also, it contains a rock song, a sad but uplifting track, a ballad sang with a "big voice", and a medium ballad that'll speak to the listener.

and that this release will truly show Hamasaki Ayumi's creativity.

^sounds to me like 3 ballads haha. But yay for rock song!!!!!

I'm so intrigued by Ivy, it's giving me same vies as Serenade in A minor. I think Timmy composed Wake Me Up hahaha! And great to see Tetsuya Komuro and Dai Nagao (OMGGGGGG!!!!!!)

hm, no dance track... :*(
I want something upbeat.. i wonder if that could be "sad but uplifting track..."..

Tetsuya Komuro~~~~~~!!!!!!!!!!!! He did the music for my favourite song :love

Very nice titles!

Wake me up could potentially be a very dance-y track... but then again, those tracks are usually Swedish compositions or something. I wonder if the "Wake me up" being a "UK composition" means that this situation is similar to Tell me why and Sose Me?

wake me up -> rock
sweet scar -> sad but uplifting
snowy kiss -> ballad with big voice
ivy -> the other ballad

I think the titles already suggest that.

Excited by that tracklist & the descriptions of the songs. & yay for the 3 pvs.

Loving the titles! And DAI?! YES!

Also 2 TK songs??

I'm already loving this way more than "LOVE".

4 songs, 3 pvs! very excited. also, lmao at snowy kiss. The winter ballad we were all expecting perhaps?

Holy crap @ DAI as well. I thought DAI's return with Return Road was going to be a once-off. Holy crap.

AND two TK tracks.

Dai Nagao is DAI, right?

:lech Do u think a dance track will have this TIE UP
●「皇潤sports」（エバーライフ）CMソング
http://www.everlifegroup.jp/

I really can't wait for this...
Oh, man... less than a month... that means, what 3 weeks till we get the leaks??
OH man!!

Yes! another DAI's song! i hope he'll deliver another great track!

Well, when I think of European made tracks in general, I think of 'dance' normally, but that's not really the vibe I get from something made in the UK... so it'll probably be rock for sue.

Seems like a vitamin/health foods brand. How is this a bad tie-in (unless I am missing something?)

^ its not a bad tie in.
Someone said it was for old people, but its a health tie in

oh my Godness!! this looks awesome!! I love the tracklist, feels much more solid this time!! excited about Ochestra and Piano versions and also 4 new songs!!! great great great!!!

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS

I think it's not a bad tie up, but it's very... out there.

http://www.everlifegroup.jp/media/ko84/index.html

One of the CMs they have on their site. I wonder how Ayu's songs are going to fit in with this...

Tetsuya Komuro songs
You & Me; Seven Days War; do it again; Novembe; Virgin Road; Thank U; Like A Doll; Last Angel; Sending Mail; Crossroad; Love Song; a song is born;

D.A.I songs
Fly High; Trauma; Boys & Girls; To Be; End Roll; Too Late; Audience; Seasons; Teddy Bear; We Wish; Real Me; Blue Bird; Next Level; Ballad; Return Road

No doubt everlife is very large, but it's very popular amongst older people...
I myself have never bought anything from there, and I dont know anyone who has.
But yeah, I dont know why you guys get a dance vibe from Wake me up...
I feel a cold, huge, angry rock number talking about how she wants to wake up from a bad dream that is her life without someone. Like come on, thats totally ayu. LOL

Tetsuya Komuro & Timmy
**** *^*
but sooner or later Timmy and Komuro will appear - -

Well, we know she's not going to have a dance track based on this:

And the order just makes me think for sure... Wake me up = rock, Sweet scar = painful uplifting, Snowy kiss = ballad, Ivy = medium ballad. I'm most curious about Sweet scar and how it could possibly sound. Right now, this release seems like it's a mini version of Memorial address.

I just thought that compositions from Europe usually tend to be for dance tracks (but those are also usually Swedish) and since this one comes from the UK, it's probably more MUSE-y than anything.

Are You Wake Up? plays in my mind

^^ and for those of us who dont read japanese?

and Tetsuya Komuro has an amazing Disco with Ayumi... his tracks as soo going to be hits.

So everything I said was true. I am a medium. I said the tracklist will be on monday. aaand:

So we have a winter ballad - snowy kiss
medium ballad - Sweet scar (wth is this title btw?) I even predicted 'Sweet' word in it, lol. How a scar can be sweet.... xDDD
and a rock/sth other - Ivy/Wake me up. I think Ivy is a rock song, but Wake me up could be too~~ are they any info?


btw I LOVE Ivy title. I wouldn't ever give her that title. Very refreshing. And I like snowy kiss/Wake me up titles. Sweet scar just sound awkward but very Ayu.

snowy kiss reminds me of No way to say *_*

wow..i love the titles Sweet scar and snowy kiss
snowy kiss must be very winter-ish ballad =))

I'm hoping snowy kiss is a christmasy track!

Sweet scar is probably not the medium ballad track (that will probably be Ivy). If anything the description of "a painful uplifting track" fits it perfectly and we'll probably figure out the meaning behind a 'sweet scar' lyrically later on. They could also go together since Ivy may refer to poison ivy.

i was thinking of the sweet scar also being the uplifted track...
something that hurt at the time, but is fondly remembered of better days.

true, true.
But I'm sure snowy kiss is a winter power ballad.
I'm so curious about Wake me up though, tie in doesn't sound promising.

btw I don't get the discription:

'also, it contains a rock song, a sad but uplifting track, a ballad sang with a "big voice", and a medium ballad that'll speak to the listener.'

it contain a ROCK SONG and A SAD BUT UPLIFTING TRACK or
a ROCK SONG - a sad but uplifting track?

The way they were described was like this:

"There's a rock track (actually, all that was said was "there is rock"), a sad/painful uplifting track, a ballad with a strong main vocal, and a medium ballad that will speak to the listener"

Each description was for a single track.

So we have in order (likely to be the tracklist order too):
Rock
Uplifting + sadness/pain
Strong vocal ballad
Medium ballad

I get SUPER strong Memorial address vibes from the breakdown since most of these types of tracks also appeared on Memorial address. I recall for that release though, it was mainly BOUNCEBACK compared to how it's mostly Komuro this time around.

Interesting titles, very poetic! I like it a lot!
Oh, and by the way: I get A Song For Xx vibes from those titles and trackinfo.

from Komuro I liked November, do it again, Like a doll, Last angel, sending mail - but those are not my faves. Only my fave is Love song.

from D.A.I songs I like all the LOVEppears songs (especially too late, end roll and B&G) and from the other TB, Real me, BALLAD, Return Road.

But still besides Love song (which I STILL cry during this song omg) there are not "boom hit" material (but Return Road was close to that)

ah, ayumi, it looks like you did it, again.

this looks like it will be amazing!

Trauma, Scar and then Sweet scar.....................
But I'm really excited and looking forward to the mini!

And I don't expect much from Missing Orchestra ver because I guess it'll be done by Yuta, I do love most of his original mixes but his orchestra vers are just bummers compared to ayu's earlier orchestra vers.

If this mini album were to start with another song by Timmy, i will cringe seriously.. But so far, i like the titles.. and yeah... more ballads except maybe Wake me up being a rock song.. oh well.. :(

aw, looks awsome!!!! snowy kiss sounds so cute

how I wish she'd do some promotion on TV!!

I like the titles so much ♥

So excited now (..again) :') Can't wait for previews and the covers <3

The tracklist reminds me so of SPEED xD

Really excited for this track list! Now let's see some covers!

I think LOVE was just the lead up to this possibly epic release.

Oh nice, 4 new songs & 3 PVs ! Surprised avex didn't change the price (even though it's already high enough) :laugh
I like the titles "Wake me up", "Ivy" and "Sweet scar"... The latter sounds weird but it directly made me think of NEXT LEVEL's lyrics !

What's more NEXT LEVEL was also a DAI composition so I'm expecting something nice.
It's weird they didn't give any name for Wake me up's composer, Timmy is from the UK but if he composed the song why wouldn't it be written ?

Anyway I want the covers !

Its not timmy (thank god), he would have been listed. It might have been someone involved with Tell me why.

Looks good! I wish I had the skill of being able to tell what genre of music a song is just by the title~

Once again! This is not a mini album Ayumi Hamasaki ¬¬ thank you for trying to get our money with singles with mini album prizes!

To be honest, the prices are not all that much different from her last single 'L' so it's not really price gouging imo.

CD only LOVE / again - 1575yen (12 tracks) | CD+DVD 2415yen (12 tracks + 3 clips)
CD only FIVE - 1890yen (5 tracks) | CD+DVD 2940yen (5 tracks + 10 clips)
CD only L - 1200yen (8 tracks) | CD+DVD 1890yen (8 tracks + 3 clips... but there were four versions)
Memorial address - 2100yen (8 tracks) | CD+DVD 3465yen (8 tracks + 8 clips)

They're basically charging between what her larger singles cost and the other 'mini albums' cost.

wonderful tracklist. Even if so many of them do seem like ballads. Excited to hear Ivy.

And thank you god for Orchestra and the acoustic piano. Ugh. I need MOAR PIANO.

I'm hoping Wake me up is fun and not so...sweetly sentimental in the ballady sort of way.
I'm sure you'd excel at it.

Super excited! Finally some interesting titles!

:rolleyes

Okay, whatever.
I the track listing is good for this mini, I just hope we dont get another wasted spot like melody... blah.

Wa so many new songs.
Really think that all 5 releases add up to give an album with remixes

Omg, DAI and TK! \o/

I hope Wake me up and snowy kiss PVs arnt linked...the fact that they are seperate in the CD tracklist but joined in the DVD

^ I dont think they would or wouldnt they be together on the music portion too?

OMG DAI THIS ALONE MAKES IT WORTH BUYING :luv2

Amazing composers! :D

I'm not gonna try to guess the genre out of the titles cuz it's not only a Jpop release, it's also ayu after all :laugh But well snowy kiss has 1000% chances of being a winter ballad, and I cant wait for it

I like that we got orchestra and piano versions for Missing and Melody, but I was hoping for at least one acoustic guitar version ): Probably I'll get much more into the piano version of Melody than the original one, so yeah can't wait for it

And I hope Sweet scar is a second part for SCAR, I'd die for this

Oh, and I'm finding it unusual that both LOVE and again have the same tracklists for the CDs on the CD only and +DVD versions, even FIVE had a bonus track on the CD Only... In her singles she usually put different remixes in each version, so I was hoping for some more remixes...

^ it would make sense if it were a single, but alas its not.
I do thing she has some ultimate plan for all this at the end.

I dont remember where I said it, but it would make sense that if these releases were for the fans she would release something with all of the minis in one go so people dont have to go out and buy every single one of them.

I'm really hoping for a box set of some kind with some special content.

YAY for 4 new tracks! The titles sound so random though lol, sweet scar.. snowy kiss? :P
Ivy & Wake Me Up sounds really interesting though, so happy with this <3

Snowy kiss and Ivy sound so winterish! Omg can't wait!

Very interesting titles and composers. Now I'm really looking forward to this release. And like someone already said, I also get A song for XX vibe. Waiting for the covers to be released... ;)

Yeah, I understand you, but the problem is that all songs except one are getting a PV :( If she made a "studio live" PV for decision, they could also make something simple for the last track. It looks like something is missing, you know? It's not a big deal, but it bothers me a bit

Lol at first I read Sweet car instead of Sweet scar :laugh and I thought: ok Ayu you gone too far with weird titles this time.

The tracklist looks promising though :heart and YAY for Melody (acoustic piano version). Omg can't wait to see the covers now!

Would be nice if TeamAyu members were sent a special box to store all five releases in as the yearly gift or whatever ^_^

I might have a theory about it... but if she does combine all the mini's into the box set that I'm thinking she is going to do, the last track of every mini that didn't get a PV will be the extra content for the box set, which would be pretty cool.

It would kinda make sense because Melody was supposed to get the PV, but they changed it at the last minute...