[ARASHI] Don't stop the Circus ★ thread #27!

[ll moments ll]

i think they have the longevity to do so. i hope they can though! it will be sad if there's no million seller this year.

OKAY Y'ALL. I GOT MY REVIEW HERE.

嵐のアルバム「僕の見ている風景」 (Arashi's album "Boku no Miteiru Fuukei")

Spoiler:

FIRST IMPRESSIONS:
* THANK THE LORD THIS ALBUM ISN'T FULL OF Troublemaker-ESQUE SONGS.
* this isn't horrible?! i like it a lot!
* definitely better than Dream"A"live...because i have forgotten how it sounded like...wow, my brain really blocked that album out. LOL.
* good ballads! i'm surprised. don't really like the funky tunes that much.

DISC 1
movin’ on: a very smooth opening number. i enjoy it a lot!
マダ上ヲ: OMG I THINK THIS IS MY FAVORITE SONG OFF THE ALBUM. its got an Indian? Middle Eastern? flair, but a dance tune. it is so catchy. this will be repeated. i can tell. hahahaha. but wow, i'm very surprised by this song. it is awesome!!
リフレイン: this is a really pleasant ballad, tbh. i really like it!
Troublemaker: ...next song please! LOL. i don't like Troublemaker, don't think i will. but i will say that it sounds better in context with the album. i think it would make a better album track than a single track.
T.A.B.O.O: Sakurai's solo tune! i generally like Sho's tracks and this is no different! he sounds kinda sexy in it, LMFAO
サーカス: interesting track! it's really cool & it got my attention.
ギフト: a ballad! it's nice, but i think "REFRAIN" is the best so far. but it's still very nice.
Everything: ehh...eh...LOL. well, i do enjoy the fact it goes nicely with "GIFT" before it.
Come back to me: LOL MATSUJUN. ahaha. you're trying to be the cool cat, as always. i don't like autotune, but MatsuJun could use it, unlike AkaJin (WHO DOESN'T NEED IT). love the random engrish. i know he's probably serious, but i just smile. ilu MJ, tho.
マイガール: i think it's strange this song goes after "Come back to me". i think "Come back to me" should have gone after "CIRCUS", then "GIFT"...etc. etc. "MY GIRL" is my 2nd favorite A-side from this era, i suppose. but yeah, ok, next...
Magical Song: AIBA AIBA. this is such an Aiba song, no? it's so cute. MAGICAL SONG MAGICAL SONG.
let me down: i don't...remember how this goes...*repeats on iPod* oh right! HAHA. this is a funky number. i love Sho's "low" rap. it's pretty awesome.

DISC 2
Monster: the lone A-side i liked in this era. HAHA. i still like it.
Don’t stop: this is another soul/funk/pop song like "let me down". it's aiight. i'll probably need multiple listens because i don't remember how this goes, lol.
静かな夜に: THIS IS OHNO'S SOLO ISN'T IT. well, boy can sang, let's get it straight. it's a really pretty ballad. i like how the ballads don't bring the album down too much. (they're usually my least favorite, aha)
むかえに行くよ: i think this is the 2nd best ballad. REALLY GOOD. nice job, guys.
1992*4##111: NEENER. i think this solo is OK. not his best.
空高く: lalala. i never cared for it when it came out, so...LOL.
kagero: OUUU, i like this song! it's a dark...mid-tempo sort of song. very interesting.
Summer Splash!: i was expecting something really...pop, so this is nice! a good ending to the album.

i was pleasantly surprised. i liked what i heard! i don't think this is my favorite album, but considering the fact i've been complaining non-stop about Arashi lately, HAHAHA, this is definitely a good thing! i do think some of the single tracks are the weakest link here, like for KAT-TUN's NO MORE PAIN album. i'm still an old school Arashi fan, but this is a nice album!

[KarenPang]

final 6th day sales for Boku no Miteiru Fukei - 41,130

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

total sales - 706,278 +

【嵐】　　　　風景　Best　Dream　Time
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
月 　　　　　---,---　---,---　---,---　---,---
火 　　　　　275,081　261,076　100,985　80,187
水 　　　　　183,521　171,046　56,859　53,381
木 　　　　　109,659　120,568　19,183　20,365
金 　　　　　54,727　74,411　15,111　11,571
土 　　　　　42,160　65,443　14,824　11,531
日 　　　　　41,130　50,223　13,760　13,835
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
1st week sales　706,278+　742,767　220,722　190,870

WOO HOO million selling album , here we come next week & counting <3

[dreamland2.0]

^Sweet!

I received my album today!!!! I'll report back later with my thoughts!!
I looooovvveee the packaging though!! *.*

[Beauty4123]

irene, your review was a pleasure to read! i'm just happy that you enjoyed it, lol. i'm not forcing people to be like THIS IS THE BEST ALBUM EVERRRR, i just want people to enjoy it. since i'm the only obsessed fan who could go gaga over this album so i'm happy you liked it! mada ue wo is the most played song for me too

anyway, they got over 700k!! now i'll wait for the magical million, lol. no matter how long it might take

[Bigtop]

At least over 700,000, but let's see if this can go a million before the year ends... And remember that they have another new single coming up in a month...

[dreamland2.0]

Okay just listened!!

I absolutely LOVE this album to bits and pieces
Seriously these boys can never disappoint me and honestly I'm just talking about their music because I haven't even watched any of their variety shows or anything yet.
Anyways I love the great mix of upbeat and slow songs! It's great!

But I seriously think this album is genius and I love it!!

[Beauty4123]

to read that people are enjoying this album makes me so happy!!

but sadly, i don't think the album will stay the #1 year of 2010 if utada's BEST gets released anytime before december. but i won't stress over it cause it doesn't matter sooo much to me, since it's utada hikaru and all, haha. i can't hate her for it as long as it gets to the million, my crazed arashi heart will be satisfied.

[Beauty4123]

and the numbers are in! 731k for the first week!
http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/rankmusic/78894/full/

[SunshineSlayer]

^Only 10k less than their Best Of album is nothing short of amazing.

[KarenPang]

Originally Posted by Beauty4123

and the numbers are in! 731k for the first week!
http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/rankmusic/78894/full/

yup very sure it's able to cross the magical million mark next week if not 2 weeks later

hard to believe they barely can sell squat with their previous albums , I see figures for their past if not excellent albums like One , ARASHIC & let alone Time

that was really depressing D:

I think what's something's that Boku no Miteiru Fukei was only released in 1 edition somemore

they don't need to release x amount of editions to bring in the sales

===

interesting fact with regards to Nino's 1992*4##111 solo

he said on his JWeb that he wrote/composed it this year on his 27th birthday

http://community.livejournal.com/ran...gs/220943.html

It's the first song I wrote when I turned 27

[Beauty4123]

aww, nino is so cute! he even works on his birthday

[KarenPang]

lol yeah I didn't know about this until earlier on when I was lurking around Nat's LiveJournal community (yeah random_jblogs belongs to her ;p)

She also posted Ohno's latest JWeb translation too -> http://community.livejournal.com/ran...gs/220627.html

[Bigtop]

They're still too hot - but just wait until next month comes...

[Beauty4123]

Originally Posted by Bigtop

They're still too hot - but just wait until next month comes...

...when they still continue to get decent sales? the album will definately chart in september. obviously not always at #1, but i do think it'll have a decent chart life.

[KarenPang]

Originally Posted by Beauty4123

...when they still continue to get decent sales? the album will definately chart in september. obviously not always at #1, but i do think it'll have a decent chart life.

yeah I agree

like what I said before , their charting performance have strengthen in recent years

you definitely will not see their material nose diving like crazy in weeks to come now , unlike what happened in the past

Took quite a while for ALL THE BEST ! to leave the top 20 in the chart somemore so

[RyRyMini]

Listening to the album now. The main standouts to me are Sho's solo and surprisingly Jun's. =D

[ストロボ・EdGE]

Originally Posted by Beauty4123

and the numbers are in! 731k for the first week!
http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/rankmusic/78894/full/

They sold more in one week than everyone else has all year!!

[dreamland2.0]

That's the power of the STORM!!!!!!!!!

[Bigtop]

They're absolute #1 - undisputed! Anyone close to that? Nobody else! For right now... I think Arashi has been making large storms for the past three years...

[KarenPang]

Lisa , let both of us rejoice in that 5music Taiwan has updated the Taiwan press catalogue no. & release date info for Boku no Miteiru Fukei to 20th Aug instead of 27th now *________________*

http://www.5music.com.tw/CDList-C.asp?cdno=431445679192

I really like the Chinese title of Boku no Miteiru Fukei -> 我眼中的風景

<3

omg all the more I can't wait to get the album much faster than what I initally thought YAY YAY YAY

I want my copy now T-T . So jealous that teddbear55/Caroline posted a pic of her copy in the Asian Media Chat man >_> *in mock horror mode

xD

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