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☆ alice nine. VANDALIZE comments

Saturday, January 17, 2009, 8:14 PM.

hey guys,
HAVE YOU LISTENED TO [VANDALIZE]?





[VANDALIZE] CD edition

Track listing:
01 The Beautiful Name
02 Hyakka Ryōran
03 Rainbows
04 Kiss twice, Kiss me deadly
05 Cross Game
06 Subaru (Pleiades)
07 www.
08 Drella
09 Mirror Ball (Vandalize Edition)
10 Innocence
11 Waterfall

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DVD edition


(Additional)Track listing:

01 The Beautiful Name
02 Making of "the beautiful name"
03 Tsubasa (2008.8.31 Live at NAKANO SUNPLAZA HALL)

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when you look at the transition, it's really kinda rough, but overall, it's really a good album!

The Beautiful Name
it is a smoothing song with the delicate guitar picking and grand orchestral sound at the background, but i think it focus too much on the background music, and there is not much climax. the bridge got too much of the orchestral part.

Kiss twice, kiss me deadly
the introduction had already shown the mood and style of the song -- classic rock and roll! listening to it just make me wanna dance and shake my whole body with it. it reminds me of shou's random shaking of his head from left to right continuosly, following the beat, something that he did in HELLO DEAR NUMBERS' live. the beat was heavy and matches the guitar and bass. together with shou's vocal and the female backup, the song shows off the sexy side of alice nine.(laugh). and the backup vocal sounded like the ones in kochouran ;p. gosh, imagine shou singing this song as a live and dancing to the music, while hiroto and saga shakes their body sexily...
*HEAVY NOSEBLEED*

Subaru
this is the softest track on the album. i like the introduction of the rippling acoustic guitar with Shou's gentle voice, and it also protrayed a longing and loney feeling. the acoustic sounded like Eraser... and somehow kouchouran too, maybe just my imagination. but as a 6 min song, i think kousai still sounded better. but doesnt the 'be as one' in the end sounded... weird?

www.
another rock song! yeah one of them mentioned that this album willl shou the rock side of alice nine., and true enough i love all the rocks songs. the hard, bass-heavy opening sharp, flickering guitar picking left a deep impression for the song. i love the way the vocals was backup with another echo. hiroto added his new talent of 'scratching' his guitar strings, imitating the sound of the DJ scratching disk, but it made the song slightly chaotic. the guitar playing that followed up siuted the song more compared to the scratching. but the english lyrics sounded wrong, as it doesnt make much sense(im not sure about it either...)...

Drella
yes, dark rock! reminds people of Velvet. shou's singing style changed slightly to fit in the mood of the song, and the combination of tora and hiroto's guitar are great! as well as the guitar solo after the chorus. such songs are what i want and expect from alice nine =v=. they're so flexible that sentimental and classic/dark rock fits them so much.

Mirror Ball (VANDALIZE VER.)
i was right! it's the one DISCOTHEQUE, although it doesnt fit into VANDALIZE. the intro with piano was perfectly beautiful, but when shou's vocal entered, it somehow over-powered the piano, and a little too much, so it doesnt sound right. but with the backup vocals enhancing shou's vocal, it was really, really beautiful... besides the backup vocal part, i preferred the one that he sang in DISCOTHEQUE live :).

Innocence
Innocence, activate! just joking, LOL. it is a fast, cheerful song that showed nao's talent! it's full of 16 beats that he's so fond of(laugh). i think the main focus' on the drums. the entire song was kept light.

Waterfall
and Waterfall marks the ending. the vocals are soft and deep and lingers around you. the soft music changed key and brought the feeling out smoothly and strongly. there was so much sweetness within when shou sang "I'll be with you". compared to Subaru, i prefered this 6 min song, as there is a higher flow and change of melody. it makes one want to play the album again.

and extras!

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making of The Beautiful Name




Tsubasa (2008.8.31 Live at NAKANO SUNPLAZA HALL)



1. it's the one from DISCOTHEQUE!
2. they changed the playing slightly and it had a rock feeling in the first verse.
3. i love the part when he sang "I'll be there"~~
4. *shou and pon sticks together* AHHHH *___*~~
5. shou's smile is sooooo sweeeeeet ♥♥~~~
6. ahhh, tora's so cute at 4:43!!! they're seriously enjoying it so, so much ^^. followed up by a SUPER close up of shou's smile.................... *stares speechlessly~

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a successs ♥. and i truely, and BADLY look forward to the day when the lyrics are out.









and look at this!!!!!
gosh, the pics are SO SO SO damn beautiful, es, es, ESPECIALLY HIROPONNNNN ♥_____♥~~~~ nao's picture reminded me that this was one of the photoshoot that they did at a somehow-abandoned little house that he bloged >_<. i wonder if it was featured in any magazines~~

and i changed the banners under the links~~! nice >__

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