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Old 2nd January 2011, 07:57 AM
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As for me, I really like this album. There are tracks, I don't want to listen to that much (blossom, Sweet Season and Thank U) but all in all this album has not been a disappointment to me!

I was already upset when I heard from "MOON/blossom" back then. I thought "Oh, not epic sounding titles, kinda cheesy" then I listened to the single and noticed that MOON was a wonderful, dark song.

Then crossroad. I saw the covers and was like "Ewww..." which has not changed till today. When I heard crossroad for the first time I thought "Hm, OK...". Nowadays I think it's just like MOON one of her really good songs since quite a while.

With L I was mostly OK, just Sweet Season was not to my liking.

Now that I heard Love songs as a whole album for several times, I am absolutely fine with almost everything on the CD.
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Old 2nd January 2011, 08:03 AM
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It's funny that I ignored most of the singles this era, but they became my favorite tracks from the album. Sweet Season and Virgin Road are just so amazin'. And I already liked MOON beforehand.

I've noticed that I like very little specific parts in each songs, rather than the whole song :/ (minus November and overture, those songs are great). Thank U has beautiful instrumentation, there's this one part in sending mail that sounds beautiful, Like a doll has awesome lyrics (and the melody is growing on me) and Last angel has a cool beat (but the way Ayu sings it is terrible). The only tracks I just cannot stand are do it again, SEVEN DAYS WAR live, insomnia, and Love song.
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Old 2nd January 2011, 09:12 AM
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When I heard LS at first time, I only love the one that had pvs cuz I had watched it before I got the CD, but after I heard again and again, I found myself really into this one, and I think every song in LS are really touching and the melody is easy to remember, although before LS I love RNRC more, but now I changed my mind to LS~
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Old 2nd January 2011, 11:45 AM
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Lol, these reviews on AHS is way more positive than the other Post-Secret albums. So I think LS is doing really well. The only thing I wish is that the sales were just a little higher.
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Old 2nd January 2011, 11:58 AM
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I don't really love it yet, but I do like it! I like it a lot more than Rock'n'Roll Circus which was just not memorable enough for me.
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Old 2nd January 2011, 09:22 PM
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I don't love it, I don't hate it, I just prefer R'nRC and all her previous work so much more than LS, the whole album is so damn weak to me that it's just meh. The singles were great (except Last angel that I don't like much) and that's all, Love song stand out, november is really nice as well but the rest is on repetition mode and nothing more and it really hits my nerves, not enough work for this album imo, too average and I would remove half of the album to actually make it worth to me and it's the first time in many years that it happens to me with an Ayumi album. That's why I pray for her not to use TK anymore !

To be honest when I listened it in full my first thought was : next single please.
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Old 2nd January 2011, 09:24 PM
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I absolutely love it.
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Old 2nd January 2011, 09:29 PM
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Hee hee...LS kicked RnRC out of my brain...literally...and now Love song, Last angel, sending mail, overture and Like a doll and do it again are stuck in my head...permanently! Ayu did a great job with this album....
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Old 3rd January 2011, 01:25 AM
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It's really, really cohesive. It flows together nicely. However, from my own personal taste I don't love it. For me the songs were all a bit too mellow, even for "Last Angel" it was just not up to the tempo that I normally find in Ayu singles, I loved, loved Next Level but LS is something I have to be in a contemplative, mellow mood, nothing on it makes me want to get up and dance---it makes me want to sit and think or look at pictures. Still, it's a good album. I mean, Do it Again is amazing.
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Old 3rd January 2011, 01:54 AM
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This album is perfect to me. It even rivals my former favorite, (miss)understood.
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Old 5th January 2011, 06:25 AM
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I think the only way a new album and a previous album could be compared would be in terms of sales. They are just so stylistically different that comparisons are unfair in my opinion. I don't entirely agree with taking into consideration how memorable a song is very subjective, since to me calling something memorable borders on catchy. I'm sorry if I offend but I also thought how quickly older songs were forgotten was due more to a short attention span than anything else. I'm a little surprised at how easily dismissed R'n'RC appears to be. I quite enjoyed that album, I thought the album was suppose to reflect on Ayu's stay in England and possibly how its history/culture influenced her. For example I thought the music of Don't Look Back was a nod to England's large Indian community/ties with India.

But I digress...

I came into Love Songs with very little exposure to the singles leading up to it. So it really was a first listen for me on those tracks. I quite enjoyed the album as a whole. I agree with peoples statements on how well all the tracks flowed together. Sometimes the interludes seemed like it was part of the following or previous track. I usually like my Ayu songs to have a little more umpf but I like that she managed to be be a wee-bit mellow but not boring.

Oh and since most people mentioned what album they disliked most I'll tell you mine: Guilty. I don't know what it is about it but I just don't care for it. I even deleted it off the computer which means if I actually want to listen to it I have to get out the actual CD.
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Old 5th January 2011, 06:43 AM
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It's not a hit for me. Having listened to it for a while now, I think R'n'RC was much better than this. But that is mostly due to the fact that I AM a huge rock fan.

It's not the "worst" (I don't hate any of her albums), but it's so far from being the best. I'd say maybe my 3rd least favorite. Album tracks are not good at all, with 1-2 exceptions. Some of the single tracks are just outstanding, so it saves the album for me. My favorites are Last Angel, Virgin Road and sending mail. My least favorites are November, Love Song and do it again.
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