:)I can't lend u their CDs...they're waaaaaaayyyyyyy too precious to me...but I can burn the songs for you!!! Any particular songs/type of songs you want me to burn? Or would u rather let me pick?
haha...2 down, a LOT more to go....(hmm, December, u were influenced by me too...u're still staying true to ur Ayu though...)
Gwen, I'd recommend these Arashi songs:
The early songs:
A-RA-SHI: Their first song--their very, very first!!! That was in 1999, it's very lively and u can hear Sho rapping *grin*
Horizon: It's cool...that's all I can describe it
Kanshakangeki Amearashi: U've got to hear it, got to got to got to!!! It's really sweet, just hearing the "Smile again, I will smile again" in the intro makes ur heart melt. "Smile again/Arigatou"...sigh...
Typhoon Generation: This is the first of their singles I bought--my 1st Arashi CD!!! It's really sweet ballad like and mid tempo at first, but in the middle the beat gets faster until it's like reggae
Asu ni Mukatte Hoero: Lively, interesting song!
Kimi no Tame ni Boku ga Iru: It's really cheery, the title means "I'm here because of you"
Jidai: It's from here that their sound starts to mature a little. You should see the music video, their dance moves are like, "Wow!" It's the theme for Kindaichi
Ai to Yuuki to Cherry Pie--a sweet ballad I still can't get out of my head
Deep na Bouken: another ballad-like song, though they still sound quite young there
The later songs--the mature sound:
They changed their record company from here onwards, and their sound matured from more bubblegum than hip hop to more hip-hop than bubblegum
A Day In Our Life--cool...you get rapping at first(Sho), then things get complicated when Jun and Ohno start singing while Sho, Nino and Aiba rap along. Their live performances of this song also has cool hiphop moves!!! It sounds kinda sexy too...
Nice na Kokoroiki: It really brightens up your day, and I swear, makes u want to be nice even to ur enemies!!!! It's for this song that they dressed up in suits, with the geeky glasses and overgelled, neat hairdos...the video's also....interesting...
Pika*nchi...well, if you don't mind hard metal/rock...:)
All Or Nothing Version 1.02: It's a real awesome cross between blues and hiphop...
Tomadoinagara: I think this is the song u heard on mtv, it's really sweet and touching. It's also from here onwards that u really get to hear the boys each singing their own 'solos' , at least in their live performances--in the CD versions they sing 2 by 2 except for Ohno whom of course gets his solos
Fuyu no Nioi: It's really heartbreaking...another ballad...I love this song too, the lyrics are so sad
Kimi ga iinda: Sho wrote the rap lyrics!!!!!! It's another sweet ballad...or so you thik until the rap which turns it all sexay
Koigokoro: A song u'd want to dance to. It really peps you up! If I could share a song with the class and I only had the Tomadoinagara maxi-single with me I'd share this one!
And from their new album....
Blue: That sweet ballad where you can hear nearly all the guys singing solo...except for Aiba, which is a pity cause he has the most unique voice...
Paretto: Another ballad. veryone in Arashi likes this one (and just about every Arashi fan, I think! :)
Lucky Man: I like this one, the intro rap is really interesting...oh, Sho...*sighs* "When I say lucky you say man!Lucky--""Man!" "Lucky!" "Man!" The class might laugh at this but I really love it
Walking in the Rain: Again, each of them has at least a solo line in this song, and it's got this hip beat.
Te Agero....can u take the heat?
Donna Kotoba De: Another of my absolute favourites!! It's really lively, the guys all have about 3 solo lines each. It really, really, really cheers one up.
Not on the album but on the Pika*nchi movie soundtrack--Michi, this 50-something minute track...it sounds very 'choir' but don't worry, they don't sound sissy in there. It's really nice, and in one part u can hear Aiba's voice really clearly. Shall I teach u how to recognise their voices? *broad, crazy grin* It's practically become my hobby, trying to pick out their individual voices in their songs.
I just realised I recommended almost every single they put out...
I have just about all their CDs except the "Kimi no Tame ni Boku ga iru" single, their 2nd album, "Here We Are", because I can't find the Japanese versions (I'm such a 'puritan', I don't want anything else except the Japanese version because Chinese titles are such an eyesore and the Jap version seems more...original), and the 'Arashi' and 'Sunrise Nippon/Horizon" singles because they are older (released 1999 and 2000 respectively) and so they're really 'rare'. I've already told my mother, when we go Japan i definitely want to get them if I can find them!!!It's cheaper than if I get it through HMV cuz Jap versions are naturally more expensive, besides, those 2 can wait--the latest single can't!!!
Hadashi no Mirai/Kotoba Yori Daisetsu na Mono--release date 3 September!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Then I want to get the 2 Arashi pictorial books, and this Arashi poster and and and...there's still the 3-4 must have monthly mags--Wink Up, Duet, Myojo and Potato. You're right, Gwen, I really should be saving more for those!
I do listen to anime music but my range is severely limited--the Final Fantasy 8,9 and 10 songs, the Rurouni Kenshin TV opening and closing themes and some character image songs, the Doraemon, Akazukin Chacha and Digimon Tamer themes and nothing much apart from that:P I don't really watch much anime nowadays...Speaking of Akazukin Cha Cha I didn't know until VERY recently that Akazukin Chacha's 1st opening theme, "Kimi Iro Omoi" was sung by SMAP!!! I really like that song :) This isn't counted because I didn't know it was an anime theme song, but I like Inuyasha's theme song "Change The world" by V6 too...I like the few V6 songs I heard. I like the frist opening and closing themes of Digimon Tamers too but so far I haven't searched for the mp3 files yet...
Jaa, gtg to sleep :) Let me know which songs you want, or shall I burn every single song I have? ...hmm...including the original karaoke versions of the songs released as singles and coupling tracks...hmm...maybe not but please let me know!!!Or do u have ICQ or MSN? I can send u the mp3 files if u want....
*Yay!!! Created another Arashi fan!!!! Mwahaha, today, 2 ppl, tomorrow the entire class!!! I swear if I had my way the whole of Sec 3 Loyalty will be Arashi fans!!!*