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2015.09.15, 07:21 PM | #51 |
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To me, the beauty of Shun is in its subtlety. It's not groundbreaking. There's nothing big or showy about it. It's just a simple, beautiful melody, which Ringo executes with a sort of delicate power. It really showcases her range (in terms of performance), especially coming as it does after Tsugou no Ii Karada on the album.
I'm still hoping someone somewhere has a recording of her performance of Shun from Taiwan...the 15 seconds I heard of it sounded excellent.
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2015.09.16, 03:19 AM | #52 |
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KZK might be hands down the most clusterhecked (at least according to J-pop/mainstream standards), AND yet at the same time the most cohesive J-music album o_o
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This is my brief assessment of the guitarists live performances: Technical Skill Ukigumo > Nishikawa > Hirama > Nagoshi >>>>>>> Yayoshi Guitar Solos Ukigumo > Hirama > Nagoshi > Nishikawa > Shiina >>>>>> Yayoshi Tone Hirama > Nishikawa > Nagoshi > Shiina > Yayoshi Jazzmaster >> Ukigumo > Yayoshi Les Paul Overall Nishikawa > Hirama > Nagoshi > Ukigumo > Yayoshi I think those are the things easiest for everyone to understand. It's not worth the time getting into stuff like phrasing.
Yeah, I'm not feeling the hate on this one. Sure the arrangement is a bit over-the-top, but the song still has good bones. Like you mentioned with Kuki/Stem, a different arrangement would do some wonders for the song. Now this I feel. It's a bit overrated, but not by a whole lot. That piano solo is beastly. All it really needs is another subtle layer. An acoustic guitar or a very clean electric with some delay playing an arpeggio throughout the verses would do wonders for the song.
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2015.09.18, 12:14 PM | #54 |
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^ I would honestly like to ask your opinion of Izawa's guitar-playing (really off-topic, but...)
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I'll try to rectify that now and I hope you're not mad at me (again) if this makes you have to listen to more GX! I'm gonna give you a fair response because at my time of making that post, I had only listened to Aozora and a handful of GX songs recently to be making those comments.
Tsuki ni Makeinu sucks. Both versions. But GX does suck a little bit harder. Yayoshi's tone is slightly more horrible than Nagoshi's. Honnou hardly has any guitar on the album anyway. (Seriously, I can barely hear it. Through headphones maybe?) To me it's basically been all bass, drums, and keys. Yayoshi's presence here doesn't bother me.
Although to be fair to other posters here, the rest of the band is in top form. Ringo is killing it, Kameda is owning the stage, and the drummer's doing a damn fine job too. Ringo shows how good of an artist she is by rising above her husband's bad guitar tone and lack of oomph from his distortion. From a guitar player's perspective it's a disappointing endeavor but from a Ringo fan's perspective who is watching the artist perform, she's probably never been better. And I mean that. It's the perfect fusion of onstage antics with great singing and energy. And I will fight you hard on that one.
On a larger note, I think Maou was getting a little bit of undeserved hate in this thread for focusing on guitar instead of Ringo but I find that approach refreshing. I'm not as qualified to talk about guitar as you are because I honestly haven't played in years and even when I did it was mostly just jamming in high school with friends. I find his knowledge of the guitar players associated with Ringo just as interesting as frecklegirl's posts about what people who actually live in Japan think about Ringo or Entry No. 1's knowledge of music theory in general as applied to Shiina Ringo. Lots of insightful posts here so don't bash people who look at it from a different critical angle.
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