“Los Angeles” The Brilliant Green

This is their second album released in 2001. From the very begining I’m already liking it better than their first two. “The Lucky star” definitely has a harder edge and it rocks!  “Yeah! I want you Baby” continues this new harder rock song and it’s just as good as the first one. “Angel Song – Eve no Kane ” It’s a ballad that..rocks? I didn’t know they’d be able to figure out how to do this but they do with this, another good song. Dear lord! Three hits in a row? are they going to strike out?  “Sayonara Summer Is Over “…eh. Oh well..they were doing so well..it’s an okay song but she sounds so bored singing it…it’s just another track I won’t be adding to my mp3 player. “Hidoi Ame” has a cool sound, i like this one too, more of a rock song with a thudding drumbeat. nice. “Falling Star in Your Eyes ” this song is boring, it goes nowhere. I guess i could go through the rest of the songs but there’s no real reason. This album has already proved itself as worth a listen and my money, it’s got the right edge to it and a better balance of ballads and rock numbers. Definitely their best album.

“Terra 2001″ The Brilliant Green

Originally released September 8 ,1999, this is their second album. The first album was a bit of a snooze fest, so fortunately Terra takes it’s up a notch with the opener “Bye! My Boy!” which finally qualifies as a rock song!!  “Aino Aino Hoshi” takes us back to pretty standard pop rock territory, it’s not very memorable.

Next is “Brownie the Cat -Miwaku no Neko Room” an unabashed love song to a kitty. Sung entirely in English, it’s pretty mid-tempo also, but the lyrics are so cute and it’s so sweet, that you keep listening.

“Call my name” The english version is next and it has one of those 60’s organs rocking out which gets it some points, it actually has a very 60’s feel, it even feature’s the bongos! definitely  a keeper.

“Maybe We Could Go Back to Then” kind of made me think of a sort of “Good Ridance” mostly because it’s an acoustic number with lyrics that are nostalgic, and about parting. But the song has a see saw rythm going on that it just repeats over and over,  it’s okay at best.

“September Rain” is a ballad with a redeeming chorus (read a memorable chorus). “Funny Girlfriend!!” is a kind of dirty rock song, as in gritty in production about a girl who is a friend who is funny!! Imagine that?  “Round and Round” is an accusatory ballad about a bad person who repeats the cycle of hurting it gets better as it goes on but never really grabs my attention. “Sono speed de” is another ballad that also isn’t that great. ” Can’t stop Cryin’” is awesome, the beat, the guitars, it’s pretty awesome. Then Finally we have “Nagai Tameiki no Youni”  which is another ballad. Enough said.

All in all, while i’ve always liked The lead singers solo career, i’ve always wondered why this band was at one time one of the biggest bands in Japan, and this album still doesn’t really explain it.

It’s just okay at best, but i has diffculty getting and keeping my attention, it’s a little to mellow and unincredible.