Ayumi Hamasaki Complete Singles – Is This for You?

OMG! Ayumi box set! That certainly looks very enticing to me!!

Get ready, release of another single Green/Days scheduled for Dec 17.

Its here ! PV of AH’s latest single Green, to be released on Dec 17th can be viewed at

http://www.crunchyroll.com/media-493816/Ayumi-Hamasaki-GREEN.html?src=dailysubs_email

Enjoy !!

It feels very much like one of those old world Shanghai type of shoot. Serpia shots predominate and Ayu’s singing skills don’t seem to be taxed at all. Choreography fits the period costumes and such, with costume changes behind cabaret style fluttering fans.

Well here comes an avalanche of Ayu releases ..

Following the Green PV released last week, Days PV can be viewed at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmj5v_JLGHQ

Both A side singles will be released, covers available for viewing at

http://www.crunchyroll.com/group/The_World_of_Ayu

News also of the release for AT08 which will feature the last Taipeh concert instead of the one at Yoyoji. Release date 28 Jan 09.

Track List for DVD release

00.reBiRTH
01.The Judgement Day
02.talkin’ 2 myself
03.A Song for ××
04.Depend on you
05.Fly high
06.(don’t) Leave me alone
07.decision
08.my name’s WOMEN
09.Marionette -prelude-
10.Marionette
11.HANABI
12.End roll
13.tasking
14.SURREAL～evolution～SURREAL
15.Mirrorcle World
(encore)
16.Dearest
17.Voyage
18.Humming
19.Boys & Girls
20.MY ALL

Doesn’t seem to be any documentary disk, but hey, its jam packed and seems Ayu was in better form for this concert.

Anyway, her translated blog shows Ayu is hard at work for CDL as well as writing new songs.
I’m holding my breath for a new album later in April/May.

Regards

Hi,

Just caught the video for the last Japanese Concert for AT08. It can be viewed at here.

Its been heavily edited and only about 15 songs remain. If you’ve seen the latest concerts this year, there’s really nothing new, other than the Mirrorcle performance. A full scale ship was used with propellors as props and she gave a really good performance for that song.
The costumes were not new and other than Ayu’s kepi cap, have not been changed or refreshed.
Perhaps its the end of the tour, but audiences do appreciate the effort. Especially hardcore fans that somehow view every concert on the tour via the Internet or TVs which do show her concerts.
Maybe the missing songs did really take away from the concert, I missed A Song for XX, my name’s WOMEN, Hanabi and Dearest.
Oh yes, the marionette prelude and songs were featured, well executed but for some reason, a bit soulless, with a lot of jerky moves and blank stares.
Ayu’s gotta come up with newer ideas, what was fresh before is now taken for granted and if the formula remains the same, fans will stay away and watch DVDs first before coming back.

Hi,

My mistake, it turns out to be evolution -surreal- evolution on the website instead.

Here’s hoping the full version DVD that arrives makes up for the edited TV version.

So which is your favorite Ayumi song?

Ayumi Hamasaki injures hand; in doubt for Red and White Singing Contest

Saturday 27th December, 11:59 AM JST

TOKYO —
Singer Ayumi Hamasaki, 30, has injured her right hand, and with only four days to go until NHK’s Red and White Singing Contest, she is in a race against time to recover and take to the stage to lead off the New Year’s Eve show. NHK announced Friday the order of songs for New Year’s Eve, and it would be the first time in the show’s history if the opening artist were to be unable to perform.

According to her agency Avex Group, Hamasaki fell down the stairs at her apartment on Wednesday and injured her right hand. Staff took her to hospital where she received medical attention, and on Thursday she underwent surgery. Hamasaki later had to cancel her live performance at TV Asahi’s “Music Station Super Live 2008” on Friday night. Her doctors say the injury will take three weeks to heal, and her fall was caused by anemia exacerbated by fatigue.

Hamasaki wrote on her blog: “I can’t even hold a microphone. I’m really upset and truly sorry I couldn’t make it to ‘Music Station.’” In addition to the Red and White Singing Contest, she is scheduled to perform on the 30th and 31st at Yoyogi National Stadium. “I just have to believe in my strength, and hope my body can heal before then,” she wrote.

Shin Ishihara, chief producer of the Red and White Singing Contest, said: “We wanted to open the show in a certain style and Hamasaki was going to do that for us. But now we’ll have to wait and see.”

Rehearsals will be held on Monday, where it will become clear if Hamasaki will open the New Year’s Eve show as scheduled.

source: http://www.japantoday.com/category/e…inging-contest

Looks like she’s going to open NHK’s year end Red and White show performing Mirrocle World before rushing off to her own PCDL show.

Hope she gets thru both safely and recovers fully from injury.

Posted 4 seconds ago Edit Quote
Thank you.
No. 383 29 December 2008 1:37 AM

Everyone’s power is definitely reaching me.

I’m feeling soooo much incredible, strong, kind, precious, dazzling power.

I think perhaps that after everything God has handed me at the last moment this year, our bond may have grown deeper.

Tomorrow is dress rehearsal.

Even though I’m this version of myself, who can’t hold onto a microphone well enough, tomorrow I want to turn myself into someone putting on a magnificent show at Yoyogi, with my usual smile, with my usual staff.

We began to shine, I think no one can stop us from doing anything!!!

If it’s us who begins to shine, then we can find a shining tomorrow!!!!!!! *

Have faith that it’ll work out.
*These two parts were meant to mimic the “Boys & Girls” lyrics.

Translated by Delirium-Zero at AHS Website.

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Ayu’s one tough lady, and a classy one to boot.

Pray she doesn’t have any more tests to undergo, finish out this year and come back fully recovered and rested for 2009.

Amen.

Yes, Yo-chan is quite an irrelevant fellow. He pokes fun at Ayu, calls her Hamasaki-san and produces all kinds of trivia she doesn’t want exposed during the MC part of the concerts.

Did you go to the website link I gave earlier ?There’s quite a lot of stuff about Yo-chan’s other work and even pics of his guitars. Some of his solos tend to be repetitive and sound similar but I always enjoy how he fills the whole stadium with this wall of sound created with his guitar,

Part of me cheers Ayu for deciding to go ahead with all her shows, the cynical part wonders how much external factors were brought to bear to make that decision.

An injury requiring surgery is no small thing and yet she’s pushing herself so hard to please her die-hard fans.

One can only hope that she does not regret that decision.

Review of Ayumi’s last night’s first of two PCDL concerts. Second concert scheduled for tonight after she kicks off the NHK show earlier in the evening.

Originally Posted by mikecavs11 on AHS
My REVIEW:

It was her best concert ever in my opinion, GREEN was an amazing way to open up, especially the dragon dances, and Maro taking centre stage.

When it Will started to play, it did not disappoint and i recalled someone on AHS saying that they hoped Will would be sung

Then came the rock songs and they were soooooooooo……whats the word…stunning and i was just speechless, half the time though i was trying the remember the title of the songs

Then came the slow songs, i thought that she was gonna sing Days here, cuz Shuya and her costume were almost like in the video….or something that fits winter. My favourite songs here were Hope and Pain, and Over. I was waiting for Days here, cuz she was taking forever to get accross the stage, haha Then when SCAR was over the quickly walked off the stage and Kaeru was doing her sheet hanging dance thing

After that the songs the gets the crowd going were sung, Unite! really got the crowd going, everyone was doing the fist the the air.

Then came the 10th anniversary video followed by Who…

When Who… was sung next, I wasnt expecting her to sing this, and for a second, I thought to myself. What? the concerts already over??!! I thought this was one of the best performances of Who…, I was singing along to it the entire time, it was really amazing…made me speechless

Trauma was really fun, its my first live ayu concert so i wanted this song to be performed and see the crowd dance to it. and everyone did, and it she forgot her lyrics haha. actually twice. First time she just went like la la la la la and laughed it off and walked across the stage and the part came again and i think she just didnt bother singing it and just went like la la la la la la again and said sorry hahaha it was cool though

Independent was a classic performance, with the dancing and ball throwing. I was so close the catching one that Ryoji threw, it landed two seats beside me. ayu was throwing with her left hand, i guess due to her injury

Everywhere nowhere was sung, but i cant really remember it lol sorry

Mirrorcle world was a great performance, the was the end of the first half, before the encore, so the violin players, dragon dancers, and choir all came out onto the stage and danced. the performance was like the one in a-nation 08

Then came the encore, Days was performed and i was really looking forward to this, it was just a nice performance and For my dear… was great too, i really liked her vocals and when she did the vibrato thing

Then Zin came and taught the MY ALL dance and that was the only talking part of the encore, none of the band members talked except for the keyboarder cuz him and Zin couldnt get the timing right to the song when Zin was teaching

+ was the same as last years, really fun

flower garden – im not a big fan of this song, but it was still fun to see ayu….i think she was rhyming in the middle of it…

Boys and Girls was a great performance, a classic one, ayu sings/yells at the fans, the fans sings/yells back

then MY ALL started playing, and i was like aww its over….? this was an awesome performance. Everyone was dancing to it

Ayu didnt cry once, except a bit during Days, she seemed really happy

She gave a wonderful show, and i really want to go to her concert again.

I was sitting on the side, in the 5th row, so i was pretty close and could see pretty clearly
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One down and two to go !!