[OFFICIAL] A BEST 2 tracklists

[Sim']

^ Agree with what it's said =)

Same for the pregnant rumor :

Ayu had a short break between August and November, everybody :

NOOO AYU COME BACK!
AYU WE MISS YOU!!
SHE SHOULD RELEASE MORE STUFF

And when she came back with a new album on November:

AYU IS PREGNANT
AYU SHOULD HAVE A BREAK!!
AYU SHOULD LEAVE!
I HATE THE NEW ALBUM!

I've already posted my idea on another Ayu forum, which turned to an all-forum VS me about that idea, but well, not surprising in fact, Ayu-fans have always been acting strange like that [Specially after the BEST~second session of Kuu-chan and YES there is a link between both of them xDDDDD]

Ayufans are really strange... People always pray that their artist change some little thing, new songs style or anything else, but with us who have the chance to listen to every style [Pop, Pop-Rock, Ballads, Gospel...], everybody wants her to come back to I am... 2001's era...
[= NO Memorial address, Secret, MY STORY or (miss)understood]

The saddest thing is... Ayu's Memorial address++ era is my favourite =D xD
But well, it was always like that and will remain like that, for every Ayu's release, fans will find something about to complain, and it's not a surprise after all, because everyone wants to be the ONE who says something different, who critisize the artist since for him, everybody is like "Oh Ayu is perfect the song is perfect the album is perfect the world is perfect"
[Well, hope you understood the idea xDDD]

Gomeeeen for mistakes or other things, and don't create a war about what I said, it's just my own opinion about Ayufans In general =p
[I've already talked about that on my Deiji Deiji Diaries (Articles) for people understanding French, it's in volume 2 =D]

[Rebirthia]

explodingbird, you're right

i know how certain people-fans are around here, and sometimes it's even dangerous to say things CLEAR.

I also shut up 50% times when it comes to ayu...

Ayu is an A-rtist. I was thinking precisely about this the other night. She may not be the best dancer, nor the best singer... but she manages so well to lead people in the marketing industry and in the music entertainment. I do not agree with all things Ayu does, but she's a independent being that has her problems, as full humanity has.

But, as we live with a whole HUMANITY, there may be other artists, dancers, singers, actors... and so on. So why don't we enjoy that DIVERSITY??!!

I want to have a funny afternoon, let's pick up Cutie Honey, I feel I love humanity or I want o merge with nature, let's go for KOKIA, there's certain person... I listen Gackt..

And sometimes one group will be in the #1 because they deserve to be on that place, because they have created a BOOM, and the next week we'll have another #1... all good artists deserve to be on top chart positions..

It's surreal to think that we must buy Ayu CD's just to leave her in the #1 - as Ayu says, WE ARE FREE TO DO ANYTHING WE WANT... and certain messages in this thread are quite oppossite to that sentence. So if you consider yourself a true Ayu fan, take a second to think about what you're doing, and what's the real message of Ayu. This is the important thing, the real message of Hamasaki Ayumi seems that do not reach certain fans. And the message is quite clear in Secret album lyrics. The secret will be always True Ayu Mind, because that's a right she has, she can keep her true own feelins for herself and her idiosyncrasy.

And, what the h***, we're not rich! And people is free to buy other Artist's albums too!

And A BEST II is a compilation that is used , as Delirium-0 said here, to promote the artist to other people that do not know Ayu. We know her ALREADY; we may think it's a good one or a bad one, but we are totally free to buy it or not. Of course I would like it would contain certain new material. But as I am not obligued to buy, I will enjoy my Secret copy because it was an album that was able to got my true attention for Ayumi, for second time, in my story related with J-POP. And I wil enjoy LOVEppears, A BEST, A BALLADS and so on...

[truehappiness]

I didn't understand the first half of that post, but okay.

[Rebirthia]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

I didn't understand the first half of that post, but okay.

what didn't you undertand exactly?

the diversity part of the a-artist part?

[rusuke]

For those who are disappointed because of evolution and my name's WOMEN, i suggest why not buy the two awesome, extravagant, special and beautiful albums both!!1hehehe...please don't be mad..I know how much you will spend for the two...But i'm so, so, so jealous because I can't buy either of the two...I feel sorry for myself...No stock available in the philippines!!! Anyway, I'll still support Ayu...in prayers...

[elvis810]

I am getting the one with the live concert, for the other, it really depends on the cover and the content of DVD

[Chandrachan]

I'm buying both BLACK/WHITE CD+2DVDS - I couldn't resist!!

[elepop]

Both tracklists are pretty good. Quite varied and quite balanced. I can't believe that "alterna" isn't in any of the tracklists! But anyway... I'm not dissapointed. I guess the new song is a ballad!

[AyuCharm615]

Im so mad....how does he get to be a bold & delicious initiate.....ill trade u..LOL

But..the tracklisting is ok....theres no Pride....or Ladiesnight, or BLUE BIRD...man....*Frown*

[Terri]

The 'Black' has too many new songs for my taste.

The 'White' tracklist is pretty good.

I still feel like they are missing very good, and very important songs.

Seriously, all these songs:

8. Because of You
9. About You
10. GAME
11. is this LOVE?

...could be put into one. If you hear one of them, it's like hearing them all. I feel like they wasted a lot of tracks with these songs.

[Delirium-Zer0]

Yeah, especially having both "Because of You" and "GAME". Honestly, in so many ways they're almost the same song (from the christmasy HAL-intro to the overall feel of the chorus). GAME alone should be on there, not Because of You.

[ayu_ready?]

I disagree...my fav ourselves is BLACK-BLACK-BLACK only BLACK
na-a-a-hhh...

[immel]

Originally Posted by Delirium-Zer0

Yeah, especially having both "Because of You" and "GAME". Honestly, in so many ways they're almost the same song (from the christmasy HAL-intro to the overall feel of the chorus). GAME alone should be on there, not Because of You.

Personally I could see GAME and is this LOVE? kicked out of there, GAME isn't as good as About You (to me), and is this LOVE? is quite similar in style to BoY, but I think BoY fits the "BLACK" theme better.

[explodingbird]

Really? I'd love for Because of You to be booted in favor of About You (particularly since GAME is, as DZ said, a better Because of You... then again, I don't like BoY anyway). The other two could stay.

[~X2RADialbomber~]

Sim', you are always going to find people that complain. In the 'old' days people complained as well >.>

[Nu-NRG]

I'd rather they keep BoY and is this LOVE? ...GAME/About You shouldn't be in there

[Delirium-Zer0]

I don't really think About You should be there either... it's a really good song, yes, but it doesn't really qualify as something suitable for a "best" collection.

[truehappiness]

I just think they chose the MY STORY songs because they had PVs.

I mean what else is there between evolution and B&D? Real me, RAINBOW, ANGEL'S SONG, and Because of You.

That's about it. They have PVs. That's why they were chosen. Which is why you probably won't ever see random album tracks in best compilations. And it's not like, as people have said earlier, her best songs. They'll save those for the end of her career, whenever that may be then they'll release a crazy frenzy of random previously unavailable lives [Limited TeamAyu Live + secret lives] and fan-selected-tracklist CDs. It'll be DAI all over again, but with tons more stuff. That also makes me believe that they're gonna do an "A BOX" with all her stuff when she decides to call it quits..

I also think that they switched Daybreak out because of this fact, and they wanted to put the original mix, but the PV was created with the -H/\L's Mix-. And Daybreak is a no.2 [grrr, it broke the streak!] album recut so whatever to that.

[Ayumiko]

I glad those 4 songs are on the album I like them all. truehappiness u made a good point about daybreak. I forgot the pv version was not the original version of the song. I wish it was

I also dont think ayu fans are the only ones that complain about every little thing the artist releases. Others do it too...and I agree if you dont like the tracklist or what not, then dont buy it. Its not like you have to buy everything the artist releases to be a fan or whatever. Anyways, Im buying both simply coz I want the new song and pv, the concert and the documentary. Also I dont have some of the pvs from memorial address.

[bluegie]

sometimes i wonder why they dun put the single version onto the BEST album. For example, the Fly high in A BEST is the original version, not HAL's MIX 2000. I was hoping for the remix version when A BEST came out, but it turned out to be the album one (so I was a bit disappointed). But oh well if she's saving best songs for her last BEST album, I'm sure lots of good songs will be on there