[B'z] IT'S SHOWTIME!! 1st B'z thread

[KarenPang]

MAGIC will be out in exactly 2 weeks's time

I can handle the wait LOL

[*Petit*]

People talking about scrolling thorugh their old material, personally my favourite is the loose album and I strongly recommend it, especially tracks like negai, the loose and love phantom.

[YuriChan]

Personally, since listening to B'z, I'd say I love their stuff from 1999 and so forth!

[Ayumi27]

Originally Posted by *Petit*

People talking about scrolling thorugh their old material, personally my favourite is the loose album and I strongly recommend it, especially tracks like negai, the loose and love phantom.

Yeah, Loose is their best (and best-selling) studio album

[YuriChan]

If you like their harder stuff, I'd recommend BIG MACHINE!

[KarenPang]

I found these pieces of info surrounding MAGIC from wikipedia

not sure if it's reliable but anyway

The opening track Introduction was a guitar instrumental requested by lead singer Koshi once the rest of the album had been completed .

This track was designed to merge into the opening of the second track DIVE which had previously been on the album's first single .

The slow tempo opening of the single version was removed to provide a more seamless crossover from the end of the introduction track . The album contains two power ballads , one of which is the previously-heard PRAY along with TINY DROPS which was first debuted on the bayfm radio show .

oh so this probably means the album version of DIVE is gonna be different to have a more smoother album transition

[KarenPang]

B'z on the cover of the Japanese edition of this month's Rolling Stones & BREAKERZ's guitarist SHINPEI is holding a copy of it which you can see in his latest blog entry - http://community.livejournal.com/breakerz/77005.html

[YuriChan]

HA! Koshi looks like he's gonna eat Tak! XDDD

[KarenPang]

NINKI index for MAGIC



I hope the album will sell well . I'm sure it will since it's B'z !

how much did ACTION ! sold though ? I wonder if MAGIC can overtake ACTION !'s sales or not

[YuriChan]

Not surprised! 8D B'z is just that awesome! <3

[KarenPang]

ah I hope MAGIC will leak out soon *______*

I heard that the album version of DIVE is a bit different from the single version

because the introduction's kinda like a transition to the song so yup

[KarenPang]

the MAGIC album is finally up for download

http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showthread.php?p=2155960

the album tracks that left me a really good impression as stated in the link

[YuriChan]

Thanks for the link! <3 B'z never fails to surprise me!

[KarenPang]

are you getting your copy of MAGIC , Heather ?

[YuriChan]

I can't afford it! ; ; Otherwise, I would! D: It sucks to be poor!!! (TT_TT) I love this album in general! <33 It's MONSTER times 3!!

[KarenPang]

aw T_T T_T T_T

I listened to it on 1st listen last night , awesome stuff . The album tracks are great & I love the introduction piece

it's more or less a less than a min instrumental piece of MAGIC

[YuriChan]

I say this is what Ayu needs! But I noticed that they cut out the "la la la la" part in DIVE. Just went straight to the heavy instrumental opening in DIVE! I also noticed that Ichibu to Zenbu is a bit heavier than the single version.

[KarenPang]

yeah the album version of DIVE's different , not that much anyway

they cut off 18 secs of the intro to make things more consistent in the sound

& eh the album version of Ichibu to Zenbu is more harder sounding ? I have to check on that

[KarenPang]

MAGIC debuted at #1 with 126,398 copies sold on the 1st day

http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/ja/d/

goodness they outsold the 2nd place album almost 11-12 : 1 D:

[YuriChan]

Congrats to the guys! OMG! They outsold Kou's "Love Paranoia" album! <33