Missed this one!
I love playing devil's advocate and making ridiculous statements like "I love Shiina's demo tapes more than MM," but there's like...zero way I can say anything but Sanmon Gossip here. Ditto everything DG said.
I mean, Reimports isn't awful but I'd rather listen to either Ukina or a hypothetical playlist of all the Reimports originals (I think I'm still missing a few of the originals in my library...? Has anyone done this yet?) -- I turn on Reimports and if I can hear myself below the tinnitus-inducing brass of Shuen no Onna and I think "wow, I don't think there's a single way she could've done this worse than PUFFY."
I'm not a Sunny hater by any stretch but with its poor production and the fact that it's very obviously not a beginning-to-end cohesive album, I have trouble endorsing it.
Sanmon Gossip is just...amazing. Also, I still think that was the pinnacle of her voice as a "pure," trained vocalist. Some of the notes she hits in her head register there are just beautiful.
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