Your Favorites/The BEST OF of 2004!

[TeamAyu]

Originally Posted by ~K+

I'm not listing any albums, nothing in particular that blew me away completely and had me listening to it repeatedly. Most of the Japanese CDs I've brought this year were either Best-of's or old ones anyway. o_o'

Yeah that happened with me too, not TOO many BLOW AWAY albums but I bought and fell in LOVE with a lot of OLDER albums by artist:

ex.
tackey & tsubasa - Hatachi
onitsuka.chihiro - This Armor
onitsuka.chihiro - Sugar High
w-inds. - Prime Of Life
kou.shibasaki - Mitsu
tsukiko.amano - Tenryu

[TeamAyu]

Sorry for the double post ^^;; but overall I think, now that I look at it, wasn't THAT much better than 2003 but since I discovered tackey & tsubasa it just made the year of music SO MUCH BETTER for me anyways. Their songs are just special to me ^_^ even though most are just poppy songs, but that's what I love! Pop music.

and I'm INCREDIBLY surprised how many people enjoyed ASTROMANTIC and thought it was brilliant! In MY OPINION I thought it was pretty bad ^^;; besides the singles anyways... everything else was like blah... I kind of lost faith in m-flo after that album but after year m-flo Loves YOSHIKA, I think they have a lot of more hits on the way. I'm still waiting for m-flo Loves Emi Hinouchi and m-flo Loves SUITE CHIC. I loved SUITE CHIC to come back for a single or two BUT NOT AN ALBUM, cause I LOVE Namie to much haha.

[m-a-z-e]

J-Pop:
Mika Nakashima - FAKE
Onitsuka Chihiro - Sodatsu Zasso
Ai Otsuka - Daisuki da yo
Mika Nakashima - Oborodukiyo Inori
Namie Amuro - the SPEED STAR
Koda Kumi - Selfish
m-flo loves Yoshika - Let Go
Heartsdales - LOVE & JOY
BoA - QUINCY
Do As Infinity - Rakuen

K-Pop:
Whee Sung - Incurable Disease
Taebin - Reason I Close My Eyes
Eugene - Stormy Hill

English/American:
Gwen Stefani - What You Waiting For?
Destiny's Child - Lose My Breath
Ashlee Simpson - Pieces of Me
McFly - That Girl
Keane - Bedshaped
Joss Stone - You Had Me

[rainbowseason]

Top singles

Kagrra, - Urei
Kagrra, - Rin
Kagrra, - Omou
Miyavi - Ashita genki ni narre
Ayu - CAROLS
Dir en grey - saku
gazette - ザクロ型の憂鬱
gazette - 舐～zetsu～
36481 - ♪の手紙"ONPU-NO-TEGAMI
nightmare - varuna
nightmare - sian

Top album
Ayu - My story
Kagrra - Miyako

[kiseki666]

Singles:
Ayumi Hamasaki - Moments

Albums:
BoA - My Name

[ll moments ll]

singles :
- Ayumi Hamasaki - Moments
- Ayumi Hamasaki - CAROLS
- Mika Nakashima - LEGEND
- Ai Otsuka - Kingyo Hanabi
- Namie Amuro - GIRL TALK/the SPEED STAR
- Koda Kumi - girls~Selfish~

albums:
- Ai Otsuka - LOVE JAM!
- Ayumi Hamasaki - MY STORY [ tho. it isn't for this year ]
- Mika Nakashima - Oborozukiyo~Inori

miscellaneous:
- Gwen Stefani - L.A.M.B.
- The Killers - Hot Fuss

[DoCoMo]

1. Kawaguchi Kyougo - Sakura
2. Hirai Ken - Omoigakasanarusonomaeni
3. Kobukuro - Eiennitomoni
4. Hirai Ken - Hitomiwotojite
5. Sasuke - Aoibenchi
6. Orange Range - Hana
7. Otsuka Ai - KingyoHanabi
8. Otsuka Ai - Daisukidayo
9. ELT - Koibumi
10. Ayaka Hirahara - Jupiter

I really think Ayumi has gone downhill ever since her 'Rainbow' album, and I don't think any of her music this year deserves a place in the top 10 of my favourite singles

[~K+]

I really enjoyed ASTROMANTIC too, especially the one leaf-kun corrected light_hikari on earlier (can't remember the song title), as well as 'life is beautiful' feat. DOUBLE, those two were as good as 'miss you' feat. melody. & Yamamoto Ryohei IMO.

Anyway, having read other people's list, I think these:
- Bonnie Pink - Even so
- LOVE PSYCHEDELICO - LOVE PSYCHEDELICO III
- Every Little Thing - commonplace

Belong in my empty Best of 04 album list.

[PSYCHEDELICOdust]

Originally Posted by ~K+

I really enjoyed ASTROMANTIC too, especially the one leaf-kun corrected light_hikari on earlier (can't remember the song title), as well as 'life is beautiful' feat. DOUBLE, those two were as good as 'miss you' feat. melody. & Yamamoto Ryohei IMO.

Anyway, haven't read other people's list, I think these:
- Bonnie Pink - Even so
- LOVE PSYCHEDELICO - LOVE PSYCHEDELICO III
- Every Little Thing - commonplace

Belong in my empty Best of 04 album list.

Completely forgot about LOVE PSYCHEDELICO III, that had to have my fave song of the year on it, neverland.

x_x I always forget my fave people, and its always annoying when I remember and feel bad for them.

[BanFan]

Singles:

1.Kingyo Hanabi-Ai Otsuka
2.Mika Nakashima-LEGEND
3.Ayumi Hamasaki-Moments
4.Ayumi Hamasaki-CAROLS
5.Shimatani Hitomi-ANGELUS
6.Every Little Thing-koibumi/good night
7.Chihiro Onitsuka-Sodatsu Zasso
8.Mika Nakashima-Hi no Tori
9.Ai Otsuka-Daisukidayo
10.Yaida Hitomi-Monochrome Letter

Albums:
1.Ai Otsuka-LOVE JAM
2.Ai Otsuka-LOVE PUNCH
3.Chihiro Onitsuka-the Ultimate Collection
(Chihiro's Best Album might rank higher, but I've only heard infection)

No other 2004 albums have caught my attention...
Edit:Added #3, thanks for the reminder DoCoMo!

[DoCoMo]

----- Albums -----

1. SENTIMENTALovers - Hirai Ken
2. MusiQ - Orange Range
3. the ultimate collection - Onitsuka Chihiro
4. LOVE JAM - Otsuka Ai

That's all i can think of that was good for now

[ImpactBreaker]

I personally thought LOVE PSYCHEDELICO III was a rather annoying album heheheheheh -_-;;;; I only liked 2 songs. Her voice is pretty good but I don't like how she talks instead of singing. And the tone of her voice sounds like "bah I could care less for you who are listening to me" hahaha I was able to convice someone from not downloading it from me on Soulseek but then regret it and asked the person to DL the 2 tracks I enjoyed track 03 and 10, so that they could decide into getting interested on listening to the rest of the stuff or not

[gakkun]

I thought the singles rocked this year but the album were like meh so I'm only going to ranked the singles:

10. Nami Tamaki - Reason
9. ORANGE RANGE - Hana
8. Ayumi Hamasaki - INSPIRE
7. Kobukuro - Towa ni tomoni
6. GLAY - Toki no Shizuku
5. Ken Hirai - Hitomi wo tojite
4. Ketsumeishi - Namida
3. Ken Hirai - Omoi ga kasa naru sono mae ni
2. Ayumi Hamasaki - CAROLS
1. Hitoto You - Hanamizuki