The official thread for your thoughts for "Rock'n'Roll Circus" (Anything!) - Page 16

jbrat2219 · #**301** 13th April 2010, 03:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Not~Yet

^I totally agree. The athmosphere captured in DLB (both song and PV) is just perfect. Oh and aside other instrumentals I really, really love the loud beat. That song is definitely very well thought and executed, from non-biased POV, I think.

Yup! Don't Look Back was executed PERFECTLY! It's subtle but it packs a lot of power behind it. Not everything has to have some fiercely dramatic composition + arrangement to make a great song. The fact that DLB doesn't need any of that makes it better than many of the songs she's done recently.

waterballoon · #**302** 13th April 2010, 03:39 PM

Yeah Don't look back is the perfect song on the album...

this album just needs to kick Sunset off and put MOON in and it'll replace RAINBOW as my 2nd favorite album lol

miskiq · #**303** 13th April 2010, 03:44 PM

i usually skipped sunset ~love is all~ cos i hated it but now after listening it in the album i love it...

im also starting to love last links and meaning of love but not for countdown yet.

freedreamer · #**304** 13th April 2010, 04:47 PM

^those three are the hardest to ever remember for me gosh...and its so strange because they have simple melodies but are so hard to remember..

Yumsushi · #**305** 13th April 2010, 05:04 PM

I have to say that I don't love the album yet; there are no surprise gems for me. It does flow very well together but I was hoping for more songs like Microphone and I feel that I already heard the best tracks on the album before the album's release. Maybe it'll grow on me.
Am I the only one who finds meaning of love I identical to You were. Its driving me crazy.

ayu-fan · #**306** 13th April 2010, 05:22 PM

i'm not really feeling this album (yet). maybe its because i was expecting something more 'rockish' like identity, talkin 2 myself etc. guess i have to give the album a proper listen lol.

kotora · #**307** 13th April 2010, 06:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Tony G

MOON sounds nothing like Last Links -__-

It could fit on the album, but it couldn't take the place of Last Links.

and don't look back is so much more than "another arabic/oriental sounding song" There's so much more to the composition that people are missing. And its the combination of the instrumentals, the lyrics and the PV that make that song epic win for me.

TO ME, MOON sounds like Last Links. You don't have to accept because that is my opinion. You have your opinion that it sounds completely differently, and I don't blame you.

However, I don't understand why MOON is not included in R'n'RC??? Sunset does not fit for the entire album at all, but MOON should fit (perhaps?)

freedreamer · #**308** 14th April 2010, 06:59 AM

Yea..i could have been

Microphone -> count down -> Last Links -> MOON -> BALLAD ..that would be beautiful

SunshineSlayer · #**309** 14th April 2010, 03:26 PM

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Originally Posted by chocopockymaster

I'm going through and listening to my copy right now....oh man, maybe I was just spoiled by going to see the concert twice, but I feel like the production on Last Links and count down (that's the farthest I've gotten in the album) is really, REALLY bad. They sound so hollow to me.

I agree actually. Very surprising for Ayu, but I find the production on both those tracks kind of amateurish. (her vocals as well)

**milky_way** · #**310** 14th April 2010, 06:12 PM

Wow, I was not expecting the limited box to be this huge.

elvis810 · #**311** 14th April 2010, 08:44 PM

Just finished listening to the album, I like the flow of the album, each songs goes very smoothly into the next.

My favourite track is meaning of Love, the melody and ayu's singing are really sweet.
The chorus of Microphone is catchy. The arrangement of Sexy Little Things is awesome. I wish the arrangement of her songs will go in this direction in her upcoming production. I'm getting bored by strings and guitar.

I have already forgot how Last Links and count down sound.... but they are quite nice as album tracks. Both reminded me of her MY STORY album tracks and It was.

I don't particular like Don't Look Back as most of you do. The arrangement did save the song from being mediocre.

BALLAD sounds exactly like GREEN. You were is very emotional, Sunrise/Sunset sound like new songs to me. It might be because I have stopped listening to them after the single was released.

I don't mind the album without the 3 interludes. Oh well, Lady Dynamite is just another upbeat track.... I wish she could use a completely new production team, just keep CMJK as the arranger in her next release.

My review is quite choppy, haha.

Overall, the album is very good. There isn't a track that I would skip. Track by track wise, it's not impressive but if you listen from the very beginning to the end, I love it. Nothing beats (miss)understood and Memorial address for me, but RnRC is close, perhaps I always like albums with a dark theme (except GUILTY).

I am buying it anyway and look forward to the MV, making-of, photobook, booklet and the whole design.

kotora · #**312** 15th April 2010, 12:47 AM

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Originally Posted by milky_way

Wow, I was not expecting the limited box to be this huge.

LOL I am not expecting you put pictures like that in your sig.

I think limited box should be bigger? I saw one before..
As someone mention before, Last links and count down should be songs for ayu about her deafness.

count down (at the beginning), is a very weird and annoying noise to bring the intro, but it could be taken off. It seems that as a beginning, that noise has some meaning.

Last Link (at the beginning), the music is only from right side, which implies that ayu can only hear the music /anything from her right side of her ear.

Picaflor 7/4 · #**313** 15th April 2010, 12:55 AM

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Originally Posted by kotora

Last Link (at the beginning), the music is only from right side, which implies that ayu can only hear the music /anything from her right side of her ear.

are you sure it's the right side? maybe my speakers are switched? I hear it come from the left side.

kotora · #**314** 15th April 2010, 03:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Picaflor 7/4

are you sure it's the right side? maybe my speakers are switched? I hear it come from the left side.

Use earphone and listen to this song, and you will know what I mean

HarukaKamiya · #**315** 15th April 2010, 03:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Picaflor 7/4

are you sure it's the right side? maybe my speakers are switched? I hear it come from the left side.

If it's only on the right side, I would not have been able to hear it, because I'm profoundly deaf in my right ear. I heard it from the left.

kotora · #**316** 15th April 2010, 04:36 AM

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Originally Posted by HarukaKamiya

If it's only on the right side, I would not have been able to hear it, because I'm profoundly deaf in my right ear. I heard it from the left.

I am confused left and right then X.X

love in music · #**317** 15th April 2010, 05:13 AM

Well, you can still hear some of it in your left ear too but it seems like they purposely made it louder in the right.

jbrat2219 · #**318** 15th April 2010, 06:20 PM

So I was driving home listening to Michael Jackson's Wanna Be Startin' Something and I noticed the thumping beat is the same kind in Ayu's DLB. Is it possible she used those kinds of beats common in MJ music as inspiration for DLB? That would be awesome if she did. She loves This Is It after all.

omably · #**319** 16th April 2010, 11:45 AM

wow, this album is really quite 'meh' to me.

Sinobarre · #**320** 16th April 2010, 07:59 PM

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Originally Posted by HarukaKamiya

If it's only on the right side, I would not have been able to hear it, because I'm profoundly deaf in my right ear. I heard it from the left.

You can hear it faintly in the left ear but the acoustic guitar in the beginning is a lot more prominent in the right ear.