A Concept : create your own conceptual ayu album

[Surreal17]

I started this thread because I'm quite excited for ayu's latest announcements and also because I've always wanted to make conceptual ayu albums.
I had this idea for the last few days (the bad weather helped a lot) and I thought I'd share it with you.
Basically, in this thread we shall post our own conceptual ayu albums. All criterias are accepted : after genres, after a certain mood or theme, in chronological order, everything you like.

Okay, so my first conceptual album is called "A March". I thought of it as a compilation album, a collection of "rainy" songs. There are two CD Only versions. The Limited Edition which includes original mixes + remixes (12 songs + 3 interludes) and the Regular Edition which includes only remixes (12 songs + 1 interlude).

A March

*Rainy Mood

CD Only Limited Edition
*Genres : trance, ambiental, dub, chillout, experimental, acoustic, ballad

Spoiler:

Tracklist:
* Taskinillusion (interlude)
01/ rainy day
02/ Far Away (Ocean View Remix)
03/ ever free (HAL's Mix 2000)
04/ Dolls
05/ Endless sorrow (Natural Green Dub Mix)
06/ Hanabi
07/ Over
* Neverending Dream (interlude)
08/ No More Words
* Everlasting Dream (interlude)
09/ Rainbow
10/ Sweet scar
11/ beloved
12/ Daybreak (HAL's Mix 2002)

CD Only Regular Edition
*Genres : trance, ambiental, dub, chillout, experimental, electronica

Spoiler:

Tracklist:
01/ NEVER EVER (tears of aquarius mix)
02/ SEASONS (Dub's Rain of duv Remix)
03/ Far Away (Ocean View Remix)
04/ ever free (HAL's Mix 2000)
05/ Endless sorrow (Natural Green Dub Mix)
06/ Hanabi Episode 2 (HAL's Mix 2003)
* Taskinillusion
07/ Dolls (Future Breeze Remix)
08/ everlasting dream (Rainbow Dew Drop Mix)
09/ UNITE! (No.1 Blueberry Wonderful)
10/ vogue (Kirari Natsu Ayu Mix)
11/ Daybreak (HAL's Mix 2002)
12/ Key (nicely nice waterfowl remix)

Both versions flow really nice and they both tell a story created through ayu's beautiful lyrics and the deep sound.

p.s. : I also came up with the idea of this thread after I saw the remixes discussions thread.

[DonkeyKongRemix]

Oh man, this is a cooooool idea! I'll totally come up with some concepts here soon. (when I'm not writing a paper, haha)

[Surreal17]

Originally Posted by nalini-dahlia

Oh man, this is a cooooool idea! I'll totally come up with some concepts here soon. (when I'm not writing a paper, haha)

Thanks
Curious about your idea

The albums has two covers but it seems that I can't make them visible here x.x

[mi|kshake]

^Cool idea for a thread and I'm loving the track lists! Think I might have to make up a playlist of the first A March "CD"!

[BlackSilence]

That's a cool idea!
i've done a few in my mind in the past but i'm gonna share this one for now. I already shared it a good while ago on the forum but this fits here well!

Spoiler:

okay so first of all I TOTLLY ****ED UP THE TITLE T_T and only noticed now when everything's done. so ignore that please. (on the other hand it might be as a play on words "all" and "ways" and "always" lol megh~)

With a nice meltdown of a forum over the [LOVE again] i'm bringing this here. I've spent two days on this...i know it's nothing special cover-wise (it actually looks a little like a hot mess) , but i designed the A (which none's gonna like xD) and also did sketches for the gifts, just pretend that they are pictures of actual things xD

The album comes with a slipcase and a clear CD cover. And since Ayu's been playing in sand till now I thought a little late winter cover would be alright lol

Everything else is on the flayer and in spoilers:


bigger version

Spoiler:

tracklist (and backcover)

Spoiler:

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Covers without slipcase and with (slipcase has a title it's a transparent case with only a title and deco at the corners)

Spoiler:

bigger sketches of gifts

Spoiler:

[Delicious n Bold]

Lemme snatch the very first playlist and put that as my playlist. The idea is too good to pass up!

[!Lawi!]

I like the idea!

I'm not sure it counts as a "conceptual" album but I've had a playlist on my iPod for months that I keep updating. I consider it a kind of "discovery" playlist for people who would want to embrace the variety of genres Ayumi's been through. The thing is, it's clearly not a best album and I imagine most of you won't agree with the song selection as it's absolutely not representative of her discography, but I like to listen to these songs in this order. Now I look at it, it actually looks more like a concert setlist!

Anyways, there it is! As for the name, I guess something like [A]tlas would be sweet ([A] being her logo), since I like to think it shows how diverse her discography is.

01-Song 4 U

*taskinst
02-1LOVE
03-Wake me up

*THE introduction
04-Marionette
05-November

*montage
06-Don't look back

*taskebab
07-Love song
08-Lady Dynamite

*Disco-munication
09-Sexy Little Things
10-Eyes, Smoke, Magic

*Everlasting dream
11-crossroad
12-Born to be...
13-Bold&Delicious

Listening to this playlist always reminds me of why I've been addicted to Ayumi for the past 10 years!

[Surreal17]

@artcika : I really like the special gifts, especially the first thing
@!Lawi! : I'm listening to your playlist and its really refreshing to hear these songs in another order

[Heavenly]

I was keeping making conceptual albums all the time lol
I need to unbury them though ^^

[Delirium-Zer0]

!Lawi! I think that's actually a really, really amazing playlist. I think it would work really well for introducing new fans too because one of the things people seem to like about her when I introduce them to Ayu is her variety of video & music styles. No, no one will probably love every track on there, but that's a SOLID playlist overall.

[!Lawi!]

Well I'm glad the two of you enjoyed it!
Even I am not actually that much into Song 4 U and Born to be, but they somehow feel right where they are in the playlist! All the rest are (a tiny part of) my all-time favourites though!
Now you just have to find someone who's willing to spend 1h+ on Ayu songs

If anybody has more of those "season-related" playlists please post them here, that Rainy Mood one saved my day!

[Surreal17]

Originally Posted by !Lawi!

Well I'm glad the two of you enjoyed it!
Even I am not actually that much into Song 4 U and Born to be, but they somehow feel right where they are in the playlist! All the rest are (a tiny part of) my all-time favourites though!
Now you just have to find someone who's willing to spend 1h+ on Ayu songs

If anybody has more of those "season-related" playlists please post them here, that Rainy Mood one saved my day!

Aww, thanks
I really enjoyed doing the "A March" album. Some songs are reborn when they are put into stories. Same with ayu's.
I'm working on another album but I don't know when I'll finish it.

edit: I've managed to finally upload the covers but man they are huge.

[Heavenly]

Well... Here are the concepts I came up with on AHS forum (I put the links of the posts) :

- The mst recent one, with an album composed of title tracks :
http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showpo...23&postcount=1

- An album with full-length interludes (like MW) :
http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showpo...88&postcount=1

- An oriental-oriented album :
http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showpo...69&postcount=1

- A freaky one, with a whole crazy concept lol :
http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showpo...05&postcount=1

Gosh! Some of them are quite old !

[!Lawi!]

^is it bad that I actually remember most of them? I even saved the last one on my computer back then, I can remember!