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View Poll Results: Do You Like ADULT? | |||
Oh yeah, definitely | 45 | 72.58% | |
Not really / Not at all | 2 | 3.23% | |
I like it, but it's not the greatest | 15 | 24.19% | |
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2007.06.05, 03:35 PM | #51 |
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Please.
HZM drowned out all of the guitar in Kyoiku.
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2007.06.05, 03:59 PM | #52 |
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^ Not to mention Kameda drowned out the guitar during Electric Mole and at times on Kyouiku.
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2007.06.05, 04:30 PM | #53 |
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I think the illusion that "a lot" of people in this forum dislike Adult comes from the fact that the few who dislike Adult are the most active members here
I don't see how anyone can judge Adult by comparing it to Kyoiku, its apples and orange I tell ye (or Papaya...). The sound and the mood while not complete opposites, are quite different. Sounan != BlankOut, Kenka don't sound like Dynamite just coz its Engrish I loved Adult the first time I heard it, it just sounds so much more... listener friendly (not pop)... on the other hand I disliked Kyoiku when it first came out, but loved it after watching the Dynamite! tour. On the negative side though, apart from the few songs I don't like, the only thing I dislike about Adult is that it doesn't have a general direction, it really is a bunch of songs jammed together, listening to them back to back don't make it any better. But I still voted option 1
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1. I wasn't being fully serious.
2. It's not because they're both in English. It's because Kenka is a short "SR Jazz" type song like Dynamite and Tramp.
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2007.06.05, 07:51 PM | #55 |
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i like it..
i like her.. |
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2007.06.06, 12:53 AM | #57 |
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Kyouiku, as Maou said, was not produced all that well. The sound is a little shallow and a little astringent. But the songs are strong and the arrangements aren't lacking -- as the Dynamite Out DVD proves. The reason I say it's more serious is because the album doesn't flippantly change things up the way Adult does. Songs are delivered wholly, moods are preserved. Adult bounces around like a ping-pong ball. A very clever, classy ping-pong ball, but a ping-pong ball nevertheless.
The self-referential sarcasm of Adult seemed obvious to me. I'm not prepared to defend the viewpoint yet -- let me find some examples and I'll post again. |
2007.06.06, 01:27 AM | #58 |
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Before having seen Dynamite Out ! I thought Adult was way better than Kyouiku, in which no songs really popped out. I watched Dynamite Out a few time ago and my opinion totally changed. I think Kyouiku songs are absolutely made for live. Both are good albums anyways.
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2007.06.06, 03:21 AM | #59 |
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I love Adult. The ping-pong-ness of it is what endears me to its sound. I love bands that keep surprising me with each song, and I don't know what's going to happen next. I don't like it when an album's sound is too predictable (which is not the case with any of Shiina/Jihen releases).
Kyoiku is good, but not my favourite. I also agree it was tailor-made for the live experience, in which case I certainly enjoy the songs more.
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2007.06.06, 04:24 AM | #60 |
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i like perfume/cologne..
the album has many 'art' aspects to it the word 'adult'.. i think of 'maturity' but then you have the bottle.. ? and now we've got all that 'open-interpretation' stuff to go along with it.. |
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