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[TurtleFu]

It's not jazzier, it's waltzier.

Poltergeist is a waltz, but Poltergeist (HF ver.) is the only version you can actually waltz to.

In KZK, a mellotron keeps the melody. In HF, it's strings.

But I think Poltergeist is one of the most similar ones. But Meisai, Ishiki, Yokushitsu, Stem, and even Yume no Ato (to a certain degree) are more different.

I just really love Poltergeist as a song. But, unless I'm listening to KZK straight through, I prefer the HF versions because it's waltzier and doesn't have the intro.

[The Most Curious Thing]

Originally Posted by W3iHong

Btw, isn't smooth jazz supposed to sound pretty lazy and relaxed?

I'm pretty sure that's not what he meant

Regardless of how obviously "lazy" the re-arrangements are, it's still a fun album...I suppose I draw a thick line between true studio albums and everything else -- cover albums, image albums, whatever. Something that mixes old and new pieces probably wasn't intended to be a musically cohesive product anyway, so why judge it as one?

[deadgrandma]

Some arrangements are better than original, some worse, but I feel the album flows quite nicely and feels warm. At least to me. It's a nice listen and would go good with chestnuts and fire.

[W3iHong]

I don't know about laziness. But what I do know is that whatever that interested me even though it is the smallest thing ever,
I would announce it to the world.

This spring was my first time noticing the springing of life. The mass of insects in my home...

[Tokyo Jihad]

Originally Posted by TurtleFu

It's not jazzier, it's waltzier.

Poltergeist is a waltz, but Poltergeist (HF ver.) is the only version you can actually waltz to.

In KZK, a mellotron keeps the melody. In HF, it's strings.

But I think Poltergeist is one of the most similar ones. But Meisai, Ishiki, Yokushitsu, Stem, and even Yume no Ato (to a certain degree) are more different.

I just really love Poltergeist as a song. But, unless I'm listening to KZK straight through, I prefer the HF versions because it's waltzier and doesn't have the intro.

The intro is great for Poltergeist! I don't know man. I can not believe that its "watlzier" of HF when its the same. Maybe its placebo.

Originally Posted by The Most Curious Thing

Regardless of how obviously "lazy" the re-arrangements are, it's still a fun album...I suppose I draw a thick line between true studio albums and everything else -- cover albums, image albums, whatever. Something that mixes old and new pieces probably wasn't intended to be a musically cohesive product anyway, so why judge it as one?

This is a fair/good point. For one thing, the people that like HF a whole lot seem to insist, and it's all a carry over from the Pre-SG days when everybody was up in arms about whether or not its "the fourth Shiina Ringo album."

[TurtleFu]

Well, the intro kind of makes it hard to waltz to, because the actual waltz doesn't start until the intro ends. Of course, that doesn't matter to most people because I'm pretty sure I'm the only person to have actually waltzed to Poltergeist.

It's "waltzier" in the sense that it's arranged more like a traditional waltz with a full orchestra, as opposed to the mellotron and strings that makes up KZK ver.

[deadgrandma]

Meh, poltergeist is fucking good song, in either form