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

[miskiq]

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]

^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]

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]

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.

[freedreamer]

Yea..i could have been

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

[milky_way]

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

[kotora]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

[Sinobarre]

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.

[elvis810]

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.

[love in music]

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]

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]

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

[Evolution7/4]

I love the album one of her bests. the four Music video songs are great and countdown and Last links are my favorite. They are in the same style as It was... and Liar.

[Andrenekoi]

Something me and 2 friends noticed while discussing RnRC:

1. "The Introduction" - intro
2. "Microphone" - Ayu's love/hate relationship with her career and her needing of music
3. "Count Down" - Ayu's losing her hearing
4. "Sunset: Love is All" - Ayu whispering she loves somebody/something
5. "Ballad" - Ayu beging for someone/something to not leave her
6. "Last Links" - Giving up will not end the sorrow
7. "Montage" - interlude
8. "Don't Look Back" - Forcing herself to keep going and not looking back
9. "Jump!" - interlude
10. "Lady Dynamite" - Nobody wanna hear u complaining
11. "Sexy Little Things" - Even if she looks only kawaii, she is smart and strong
12. "Sunrise: Love is All" - and she shouts her love for something
13. "Meaning of Love" - how much love makes life meanful
14. "You Were..." - how much it feels cold and lonely without love
15. "Red Line: for TA" (Album Version) - If we don't give up, and we go on together, we can make it

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Maybe we were just smoking something really strong, but it seens that this album is basically about her career post deafness... And how she can take strenght from music and her fans to keep going on, even the order the songs have...

[freedreamer]

ômg the way u put it.... O.O
the album sounds beautiful. But yea, I too felt like the first part was so angsty and raw while the second half felt like its a new start...
I mean, placing Sunset BEFORE Sunrise is the best way to symbolise that the positive energy towards the end.

[Picaflor 7/4]

Originally Posted by freedreamer

I mean, placing Sunset BEFORE Sunrise is the best way to symbolise that the positive energy towards the end.

i think don't look back is smack dab in the middle of the album to symbolize that you shouldn't go back to the first part of the album cause that's the worst part of it. >>