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1. Mirror
2. Leave Me Alone
3. Talkin' 2 Myself
4. Decision
5. Guilty
6. Fated
7. Together When...
8. Marionette -prelude-
9. Marionette
10. The Judgement Day
11. Glitter
12. My All
13. Rebirth
14. untitled -for Her-
Release Date: 01/01/2008 | |
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Once upon a time a girl, that one day, when she woke up, out of the nothing, she thought: "I'm going to make a R0cK album." After getting a shower and while she was putting her socks on, she added to the previous thought: "It has to sound like Evanescence." She didn't waste more time and immediately called her friend and she said: "Yes! It will have some Nightwish, too."
After composing the first five or six songs, she grew out bored of the whole r0cK thing and went on doing what she really knows how to do: j-pop songs. Too bad she is not really good at either of them.
In fact, GUILTY, the last offer from the Empress of J-Pop: Hamasaki Ayumi, is a cartoonish version of Evanescence and a mellow version of old-school Nightwish. Whoever made the music for this album is clueless on how to approach these genres, actually, sometimes the power chords are so overdone that the result ironically is just too good; guitar riffs that could remind of the golden age of the Deftones, but don't fit the song.
The songs that are rock oriented are a mixture of good hooks, lame cliches, catchy rhythms and poor songwriting. Every minute of these six songs is so uneven that it is irritating, even more because some parts are kind of good. And when the records moves on to the pop songs... all of them feel like mediocre ending themes of you favorite anime series.
Seems the record lacks of that person that says "that sounds good, but what if you add this, or change it to this or tweak it this way." Lacks of that mind that has the vision and serves as a kind of filter to dismiss the poor ideas and embrace the good ones and even improves them. Proof of that is the awful programmed drums. This must be the record with the worst programming I've ever heard in a professional recorded album. And the sample with the delay effect that says "Guilty or not Guilty" in the song titled GUILTY, is just horrible.
Same record, with more talented people, different story. Still the quality of the songs will be enough for mainstream success and that may be is the underlying condition.
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Aren't contributors supposed to know about how putting up so many reviews at once is just not cricket?
Digging: Ambulette - The Lottery EP
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Don't know how does someone become a contributor or who made me a contributor or what exactly being a contributor involves.
I've been working on these reviews (listening to the music) for quite some time. I found time to publish them, so I did. The next batch will come in two or three months.
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You usually become a contributor around 15 or 16 reviews. It just means your "status" here is higher than most users. ("We get stars next to our name and 'contributor' in big red letters! Yay!")
I don't know that it's in the "official" rules, but usually you're supposed to wait for your review to go off the main page before submitting another one. At the very least, not three in a row.
Digging: Nine Inch Nails - The Slip
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