I am about to claim my Tee LE and pay customs taxes through the Central Post Office an hour from now.
Right now, I am enjoying Heven Na Kibun, Love, and Suki-Suki. These songs just really stand out!
7th Album - 『YELLOW』 [Page 20 of 23]
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The seventh album 『YELLOW』 for SCANDAL, who will be celebrating their tenth anniversary in August, debuted at #2 with 29,315 copies in first week sales. They have updated their highest ranking since setting their #3 positions with their previous album 『HELLO WORLD』, released in 2014, and their other 5 albums.
Perhaps, though Scandal is definitely more popular than Shishamoneotono wrote:Maybe the reason why they have lower sales is because of two other girl bands releasing their albums on the same day. Still great that they got a #2 on the weekly ranking.
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Maybe the reason why they have lower sales is because of two other girl bands releasing their albums on the same day. Still great that they got a #2 on the weekly ranking.
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MamiNoodles wrote:My thoughts about the T-shirt LE packaging and album sleeve is VERY NEAT. It gives me a impression based on the packaging alone. I acquired a large shirt that fits right, not too tight except for the sleeves which is a bit loose. I'm 5'7", 140 lbs, by the way.
The album content has the familiar SCANDAL poppy sound more sounded like their debut album than its progressive rock-flavored predecessor HELLO WORLD. It also has a mixture of genre such as punk rock (not their usual pop punk), hard rock, and reggae. So far, I am loving Heaven Na Kibun which reminiscent to mid 90s grunge recordings of Veruca Salt and Manic Street Preachers. SCANDAL pulled off reggae rock very well through tracks Suki-Suki and Love. I have noticed that Haruna's vocal range becomes one scale higher and sharper which is a major, major improvement. While, defacto chief songwriter Mami-chan started incorporating short yet sweet blues rock solos particularly in Happy Birthday and Chisana Honoo.
My impression is right that Yellow is consider as a concept album because of such connection of themes from one song to another. In my opinion, Yellow is their best album released by SCANDAL so far.
Please forgive me with the spoilers! XD
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mio_akiyama wrote:Interesting to note the T-Shirt sizing - I am the same height and size as you, and I get the "flappy arms" on T-shirts cos I don't have very big arms. So, you'll be wearing it, or storing it?
neotono wrote:Maybe the reason why they have lower sales is because of two other girl bands releasing their albums on the same day. Still great that they got a #2 on the weekly ranking.
iamcrazymike wrote:neotono wrote:Maybe the reason why they have lower sales is because of two other girl bands releasing their albums on the same day. Still great that they got a #2 on the weekly ranking.
Well I ended up getting Silent Siren's album, so that's where my sale went. .plank.
victor_survive wrote:iamcrazymike wrote:neotono wrote:Maybe the reason why they have lower sales is because of two other girl bands releasing their albums on the same day. Still great that they got a #2 on the weekly ranking.
Well I ended up getting Silent Siren's album, so that's where my sale went. .plank.
Why?
Sjögren wrote:@MamiNoodles they released a Size L shirt? I thought they'll only release medium sized shirt? I asked CD Japan and they said it's a medium sized shirt, that's why I opted to choose the CD version.
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Liokt wrote:So, I'm still obsessed with "LOVE ME DO", but I finally changed my mind about "SUKI-SUKI"; it's perfect. I do have some issues with the album, but they're disappearing little by little while I'm getting into it. I wasn't particularly excited about "Heaven na Kibun" at first - and I'm still - but it's kinda growing on me. I saw other members here using this same sentence ("growing on me") when they were describing their feelings about "YELLOW" . I think this album isn't "you love or you hate, nothing in between" imo; you have to listen more than only one time. MAMI is a great musician, her creativity is unbelievable, I feel incredibly proud of her: she can do it!
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Correction.... on #15victor_survive wrote:For 3/10 Yellow is at #14
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