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Interesting tunes, but I don't speak Japanese :(

Kevin Finn | Chicagoland, USA | 01/27/2005

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Interesting story - about 10 months after buying a used car, I was feeling around under the seat for some change I dropped, and found this hidden gem of an album. The album is generally uptempo pop tunes, sung by a vocal quartet plus a typical rock/pop backing band. All lyrics are Japanese.



The first couple of tunes really made me think of anime theme music - they had the same feel of minor/major chord changes, same driving rhythm, same vague electronica feel, and of course same questions of what exactly they are singing about. There are a couple tunes of more moderate tempo on the album as well. After the first couple of tunes, probably "secret base" was my favorite song on the album. I didn't like the 8th track, a piano-only reprise of "secret base", quite as much.



The Amazon track listing is accurate to a fault - other than a couple tunes, the best I can do for the titles is "Japanese title". Too bad Sony couldn't provide more info.



According to the liner notes, the band's web pages are:

http://www.runtime.co.jp/

http://www.sonymusic.co.jp/ZONE/"

GREAT ALBUM

T. Zhang | 01/08/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Secret Base is one of the greatest song of the music history, if you haven't notice that you should buy this CD.

ZONE total have 6 albums and many great songs, such as Shiroi Hana, Egao Biyori, True Blue, Glory Colors ~Kaze no Tobira......"