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View Poll Results: What is your favourite version of Koufukuron? | |||
Album version | 13 | 44.83% | |
Single version | 16 | 55.17% | |
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2011.11.24, 07:08 PM | #21 |
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Album version. Because it is totally badass and the only song closest to Ringo doing a screamo.
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2011.11.30, 10:46 AM | #22 |
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I prefer the single version for a lot of reasons. I love the opening guitar line, the softer verses, the song is slowed down more so you can really relish the melody, and I especially prefer her singing to be more clear and not so distorted. I used to hate the album version but it really grew on me after a while and it fits perfectly into the context of the album if you listen to it from start to finish, definitely more so than the single version would.
But yeah, the single version is just a very well-crafted pop song. It's one of my favorite early tracks of hers.
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2011.11.30, 11:13 AM | #23 |
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2011.12.09, 07:10 AM | #24 |
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100% single. I know it was all pop-ified and not the style Ringo wanted, but I just vastly prefer it. It was one of the first Ringo songs I ever heard and I'm just attached. In fact, I HATE the etsuraku-hen (album version) with a burning passion. I choose to never listen to it.
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2012.10.19, 09:04 PM | #25 |
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Question? Are there 3 versions of this song?
1st version: the one on the mini CD single, very sugary pop arrangement and clean vocals. 2nd version: the reissue that contains an extra track. Noisier, more rock-oriented arrangement and clean vocals. 3rd version: album version, the one with distorted vocals. |
2012.10.19, 11:17 PM | #26 | ||
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There's the PV version (found throughout the singles), and there's the -Etsuraku Hen- version (found in the album and briefly in the Electric Mole DVD). The fact that the single and the album have been re-packaged in various ways, doesn't change the fact that there's really only 2 distinct studio versions. There's probably 3+ masterings of the Single version, and 2 masterings of the Album version.
This was also the version of the song used in the PV. *nods*
There's 3 tracks on that single, and only 1 of them is a version of Koufukuron. The one version of Koufukuron that you get on the reissue, is the same recording as the mini-CD, but with different mixing/mastering decisions. It's not different enough from the mini-CD or the PV, to be called a remix or a different arrangement. The reissue A-side is different in arrangement, only from the album. Muzai Moratorium (1999.02.24) actually came before the Koufukuron reissue, but you're correct about this being another version of the song.
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2014.05.05, 11:41 PM | #27 |
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The album version grew on me after watching it performed live enough times. But if I don't have that visual aid to go along with the constant franticness, I prefer to listen to the single version.
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2014.05.15, 12:41 PM | #28 |
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I skip the album version when I can, heard it before I knew of the single ver., which I consider vastly superior and not such an earsore
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2014.05.20, 04:52 PM | #29 |
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I thought the album version was far too noisy when I first heard it. Then I heard the single version. And I thought it was far too poppy when I first heard it. Then I realized that it's just a good song with a catchy melody. And you can hear that melody with less stress in the original single. The transition from the album to the single version made me appreciate the melody, I think. I was humming the chorus for weeks. Although, I wonder if it would have been better if she released Suberidai instead as a debut single like she wanted.
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