PRESENT
 

this is the first time i listen to this song and hey it's nice.really cheerish melody and from what i see looks likes the lyrics about Max Matsuura?? idk, or maybe everybody that helps Ayu at the beginning of career :P

and the pics look like from the booklet of A Song for xx album?

i love the one that Ayu's sitting on the toilet :D with her dogs

yes.its from a song for xx...most worth album cd to buy :P
the pictures inside is priceless

Wait...you are an ayu fan for at least 5 months but until now you haven't even listened ONCE to her first album? o.0

noidea,don't like that :P
i,as ayu fans since her rainbow era also didn't listen to her a song for xx album.i mean i do listen but not as much as next level :P
i almost forgot how this song like :irked

Noidea, it seems, from the 'what Ayu songs have you never listened to' thread, many Ayu fans, even years old, have never heard her first album, along with a few others from her earlier works... I know. :shakehead I, too, was baffled that so many people here have never heard every song from all the studio albums...
(Sorry, in advance, to anybody here that this applies to. But I just can't imagine not listening to, at the least, every album track and single, at least once, of somebody I'm so interested in. :\ Five months, I can understand that... But as a fan for more than a year, not hearing all of them? That just seems odd to me.)


Anyhow...
PRESENT is really pretty. :yes It's probably my least favourite off of A Song for XX, though. If you like the sound of this song, you should check out the other album tracks from the album, if you haven't already. Like Wishing. ^_^ That's another sweet one.

I think ppl who dont listen to A Song for XX album or other songs from the early Ayu really misses out something! They are really good and the lyrics are so touching.

i personally LOVE the A Song for xx album. i think it's awesome.

^* I agree. :D Her voice may be awfully screechy, but I think it's worth it, hah. ^^' And yeah, the lyrics are touching. They fit the sweetness and simplicity, of both Ayumi and the music itself, perfectly. :yes They show a very young, slightly naive and innocent part of Ayu that is long gone; it's neat to look back on, even if you weren't a fan back then.

lol, I just listen to this album last month during my Ayu's marathon. Its actually a very good album.

^now that you mention it, it's the very first ayu album i ever heard! (well the first half of it at least. xD)

@Crystal: that's how i feel about it too! it's before the MAJOR fame, and when i listen to it, it makes me feel nostalgic in a way. it's very simple and inncocent (like you said). and it also makes me sorta sad, cause ayu's all grown up now.
in a big way, that innocence is gone.

It's an okay song and album :).

nope,i know her since at the end of 2007, i just knew about AHS last year :P and i can say that i've listened to all her songs just i miss up few of thems,like in this case PRESENT :) because for Ayu's earliest stuff i randomly listen to them and i've full album with me starting from Duty and going to complete it :yes

A Song for xx

01. Prologue
02. A Song for XX
03. Hana
04. FRIEND
05. FRIEND II
06. poker face
07. Wishing
08. YOU
09. As if ..
10. POWDER SNOW
11. Trust
12. Depend on you
13. SIGNAL
14. from your letter
15. For My Dear
16. Present

those are the songs that i'm not listen to yet,but i'm going to listen to it as for me i really love this album and i hope that Ayu will rerecord this album again :luv2

that's why i really love to hear she sing Powder Snow,For My Dear,Hana and Signal at PCDL

a song for xx is the first album i listen and bought from ayu and i love it , her voice was so cute before

@Ayu World: yeah i'm the same. =p except i've heard every single one of her albums at least 4 times but very few songs are forgotten. but once i choose to hear certain songs individually then i know about it. xD

for example the latter part of the RAINBOW album didn't really intest me when I first heard it. but i know after a while i'll either stumble upon the songs or hear them in lives and i'll love them. xD
it's happened plenty times.

lol, yeah i understand that

as me,i'm always mix up which song belong to which album specially the one from RAINBOW downwards XDD

A song for XX is one of my favorite albums actually. Present is a really nice song. It's so happy. XD

ASFXX is the best album by Ayu (emotionally). she really write and put all her emotions to the song lyrics n ASFXX, and that's why i really love it. especially Powder Snow, I almost cry everytime I listen to it.. :D

I did an marathon on 01.01.10, it was the first time I listened to the album in one piece and I suddenly enjoyed all of it, I love how the songs tell a story. It feels like a diary.