3mania wrote:One song I've been listening to a lot lately is Switch. I love the vocals, especially when Haruna and Mami are singing together. It's getting to be one of my favorite slow songs, but nothing beats One Piece in that category.

Amazing song, but how is that underrated? It is on three different lives (2010, budokan and 2016) and fans voted it to appear on the Best album last year

joameba wrote:

3mania wrote:One song I've been listening to a lot lately is Switch. I love the vocals, especially when Haruna and Mami are singing together. It's getting to be one of my favorite slow songs, but nothing beats One Piece in that category.

Amazing song, but how is that underrated? It is on three different lives (2010, budokan and 2016) and fans voted it to appear on the Best album last year

That's what I love about the internet. People can't wait to tell you how wrong you are. Ok how about Very Special?

3mania wrote:That's what I love about the internet. People can't wait to tell you how wrong you are. Ok how about Very Special?

It's very special.

Spoiler:

3mania wrote:

That's what I love about the internet. People can't wait to tell you how wrong you are. Ok how about Very Special?

It's the human nature   
You have my approval for Very special hehe

for me it will be LOVE.. its such an amazing song! But unfortunately scandal hasn't sung it live.

otaku_san wrote:for me it will be LOVE.. its such an amazing song! But unfortunately scandal hasn't sung it live.

I agree.  It's beautiful, and one of my favorites from "Yellow."   I wish there was a concert performance available on YouTube because this one would be interesting to hear in a live setting.  Honestly, I thought this would have been one they would finally showcase at their "Storytellers" performance because it was so different a style for them to write.

Agree, "Love" is another underrated gem.. but with nearly 150 songs in their repertoire now there are so many.. (gasp)
fortunately Scandal Heaven Cover Band did a version—I think it's one of their best!
https://youtu.be/ozg0jnmFCec

Namida yo hikare!! It's such a great song!
To be honest I have been underestimating it too, but now I just love it, I'm hating me in the past for not listening to this wonderful song.

Metronome and Flashback no. 5

OMG. I just heard Bright for the first time today!!! So underrated! How did I not know about this sooner? Sounds like Def Leppard crossed with the Spice Girls.  I love it!!!!

I like Sparkling. It, well, sparkles like sun reflecting on a cool lake on a hot summer afternoon spent with good friends.

For me it is "Onegai Navigation" totally love the song first time i heard it  .clap. 

etwee wrote:fortunately Scandal Heaven Cover Band did a version—I think it's one of their best!

That's mighty kind of you! Many thanks on behalf of my bandmates.



Back to topic - kind of a cop out answer, but a lot of the non-hit songs from BABY ACTION are pretty underrated. This is the least listened to album in my collection and I've recently taken a liking to stuff like Sono toki whatever rain and Appletachi no Dengon.

I personally consider Hello as an underrated yet single-worthy song by SCANDAL, because of its luscious guitar riffs, romantic yet matured lyrics, and it is one of the most difficult songs to sing.

kudo_maharizu wrote:
Back to topic - kind of a cop out answer, but a lot of the non-hit songs from BABY ACTION are pretty underrated. This is the least listened to album in my collection and I've recently taken a liking to stuff like Sono toki whatever rain and Appletachi no Dengon.

I guess I'm not the only one.  For some reason BABY ACTION was the album I most neglected whenever I listened to the albums in full.  It is odd because I also very much like the same songs you mention, plus "Burn" and "Tokyo Skyscraper" are real good album tracks.  These tunes always standout when I put all the albums on random.

Not sure if I had included these in my original list, but "Hello! Hello!" and "Right Here" are two songs that need to be taken out of cobwebs and played live.

Another one is RAINY, it's one of their best rock songs and now it seems kind of forgotten.

libresse wrote:Another one is RAINY, it's one of their best rock songs and now it seems kind of forgotten.

It's seems like they only play it live when it rains.  Too bad because this is one of their more rocking songs, and in my opinion maybe their best non-album track.  It's definitely in my Top 10 favorite Scandal tunes list.

Don Dio wrote:Not sure if I had included these in my original list, but "Hello! Hello!" and "Right Here" are two songs that need to be taken out of cobwebs and played live.

I've seen them perform Hello! Hello! live. Twice. And Rainy just the once, because it DRIZZLED in Vienna.



Back on topic - Rainy and Runners High, two songs that first came out about the same time. Underrated rockers, these are!

kudo_maharizu wrote:Back on topic - Rainy and Runners High, two songs that first came out about the same time. Underrated rockers, these are!

I agree!! I really love those songs, especially Runners High. I don't really know about music but it seems like Runners High has one of the most difficult guitar solos during the bridge out of all Scandal songs, I'd really love to see Mami doing it more on live.

peachclub wrote:I agree!! I really love those songs, especially Runners High. I don't really know about music but it seems like Runners High has one of the most difficult guitar solos during the bridge out of all Scandal songs, I'd really love to see Mami doing it more on live.

Exactly. I love those two songs because of their rock tune. If they play Rainy, Runners High & Onegai Navigation in succession I might have tears of joy lol

They'll be coming here to perform on June which is the start of the rainy season so hopefully they include Rainy on their set though i doubt it. Fingers crossed  

3mania wrote:OMG. I just heard Bright for the first time today!!! So underrated! How did I not know about this sooner? Sounds like Def Leppard crossed with the Spice Girls.  I love it!!!!

Bright is definitely one of my favorites! It reminds me of stuff I heard on the radio a lot as a kid in the late 80s. Really cool vibe, love all the guitar effects used.

I feel like a lot of songs that have a strong rock tune are underrated. Such as Anata Ga Mawaru, Hoshi No Furu Yoruni, Rising Star, 24 Jikan Plus No Yoake Mae, Metronome, Namida Yo Hikare, Rainy, Graduation, Runner's High, and Onegai Navigation. 

All of them have a great rock sound and they are just such great songs, but none of them seem like they gets the attention, and love that they deserve. 

Of course there are a lot of great songs that is not as "rock" as these songs but I just focused on the "rock" ones.

Not sure if it counts as underrated since a lot of people mentioned it, but I now love "Onegai Navigation" At first, it wasn't really clicking with me, but the more I listened to it, it just grew on me. Now it's definitely one of my favorites. Another one I really like is "Heaven na Kibun". It, imo, sounds really different from their other songs and just sticks.

Glamorous You, what a great opening song for an album. Mami's lyrics are always so positive and uplifting.

Bitter Chocolate and Kill the Virgin were both good ones for me. Or maybe Yumemiru Tsubasa, their cover of Roppongi Shinjuu, or Orange Juice? I don't know, I just don't see a lot of Standard songs anywhere.