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Quote translation from an Amazon Japan review by anonymous
A wonderful fool rock of a mandarin orange
2005/01/27
I felt that finally incredibly strange musicians have came out after a long absence in the world of Japanese rock which overflowed of the pretentious seeker pretenders/ never realizing that they are imitations or misunderstanding the rock scene.
Orange Range makes me want to ask why they ONLY choose to arrange from those B-level pop music (does that sound rude?), but I felt that this is a quite interesting band that they wonderfully re-created those B-class pop music into trashy A-class pop. (This is a compliment.) I am thinking maybe Japanese music scene is not so bad if this album becomes a million-seller hit after all.
The lyrics are so stupid, the rhythm too pleasant, the riffs are too well done, and the baseline is unexpectedly cool. They are doing true” low-class" music very well.
To a young child, this may be pleasant high quality pop, and to older people may think this is a funny band that makes a fool out of Rock.
It can't be helped that the criticism toward Orange Range are only 2 extremely different types (either so good or so bad), because they are consciously doing vulgar POP band. (Again, this is a complement).
I just feel depressed to know that there are many people desperately bashing Orange Range by simply believing in propaganda that reminds me of the insular spirit of Japan.
Well....I love Orange Range so so so SO much that I just don't care what people say.. Yeah OK maybe they kind of copy some music sounds from other songs but nowadays WHO DOESN'T? And in the end they have their own original style n_n which is a mix of everything XD.
A wonderful fool rock of a mandarin orange
2005/01/27
I felt that finally incredibly strange musicians have came out after a long absence in the world of Japanese rock which overflowed of the pretentious seeker pretenders/ never realizing that they are imitations or misunderstanding the rock scene.
Orange Range makes me want to ask why they ONLY choose to arrange from those B-level pop music (does that sound rude?), but I felt that this is a quite interesting band that they wonderfully re-created those B-class pop music into trashy A-class pop. (This is a compliment.) I am thinking maybe Japanese music scene is not so bad if this album becomes a million-seller hit after all.
The lyrics are so stupid, the rhythm too pleasant, the riffs are too well done, and the baseline is unexpectedly cool. They are doing true” low-class" music very well.
To a young child, this may be pleasant high quality pop, and to older people may think this is a funny band that makes a fool out of Rock.
It can't be helped that the criticism toward Orange Range are only 2 extremely different types (either so good or so bad), because they are consciously doing vulgar POP band. (Again, this is a complement).
I just feel depressed to know that there are many people desperately bashing Orange Range by simply believing in propaganda that reminds me of the insular spirit of Japan.
Well....I love Orange Range so so so SO much that I just don't care what people say.. Yeah OK maybe they kind of copy some music sounds from other songs but nowadays WHO DOESN'T? And in the end they have their own original style n_n which is a mix of everything XD.