Glad I'm not the only one who thought NEXT LEVEL should be changed quite a bit. And I agree with a lot of the changes people have done to GUILTY. I actually really liked how dark/depressing the album was, since she hadn't really done that before all the way through, though I think glitter (even though I like it) and MY ALL being included kind of messed up the whole vibe a bit. Then again, it was much better for them to be included at the end, as a sort of hopeful sign for the future, rather than between all these depressing tracks.
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Originally Posted by Northerner
This is what RAINBOW looks like in my iTunes:
1. everlasting dream
2. WE WISH
3. Real me
4. Free & Easy
5. Heartplace
6. HANABI
7. taskinillusion
8. everywhere nowhere
9. July 1st
10. Dolls
11. neverending dream
12. Voyage
It just flows a lot better without "Over" and "Close to you," plus I've always hated the last song. "Voyage" just seems like a natural conclusion, very elegant. RAINBOW was always one of my least favorites, but I've been liking it a lot more since I made these edits. I might eventually stick "independent" back in there between "everywhere nowhere" and "July 1st" if I can find a version without "+," but then again I don't necessarily miss it. Putting it there might just make the middle part of the album too loud. Also, if I were really designing the album as it should have been released, then the song RAINBOW would be on there as a hidden track.
I'm tempted to do some trimming on (miss)understood as well, which I think is her least coherent album. I'd take out all the Sweetbox tracks except "rainy day" and "Ladies Night," but sometimes I like listening to some of the others every now and then.  |
Totally agree with all of this. RAINBOW is probably my least favorite Ayu album, and songs like Over and Close to you were just too slow and dull. I also completely agree with you on independent. That song is pretty annoying,
especially with the awful + attached. Voyage as the last song (or Dolls, switched with Voyage) with RAINBOW as a hidden track would have been a great way to end it. I think I might make this version of RAINBOW in my iTunes now that you mention it.
And I definitely think (m)u would be a pretty much perfect album without songs like B&D, In The Corner, and Beautiful Day. tasking is probably my least favorite Ayu~lude too, so maybe it could do without that as well.