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[teamtragictalks]

Edu vs. Ami Selection

I never really paid attention to Ami Suzuki until around the time CONNETTA came out, and only because I listened/knew of several of her collaborators (Tsuji Ayano, Buffalo Daughter, Kirinji). I briefly got into her music for that album, the mostly fantastic DOLCE and the surprisingly listenable Supreme Show, then let her drop off the face of the earth and my library around the time she teamed up with Taku Takahashi for "Reincarnation." Ami Selection is the first time I listen to some of her old stuff, rerecorded and sadly lacking in terrible idol vocals realness. But it's probably for the best, as it makes the album somewhat more coherent.

The good – Who among us hasn't restarted "FREE FREE" at least five times before finally letting it get past the fabulous arpeggiator intro? And when you make it through, you meet a thoroughly tarted-up, heavily vocoded Ami powered by Yasutaka Nakata's brand of dance techno. And you know what? It really works. Nakata can be pretty throwaway at times but it helps that "FREE FREE" has a modicum of interesting bits of sound to It, rather than just a relentless beat and techno sound.

Your enjoyment of the first half of the compilation will depend on whether you love or hate Tetsuya Komuro, as the songs are VERY TK. "all night long" is basically Ami squatting in a TRF track while Yu-ki went to grab a smoke. It seriously is just missing the [sad] trademark "wow wow yeah yeah" that surfaces in most TRF tracks worth their salt. That said, I find it very enjoyable, but maybe that says more about my fondness for TRF's cheesy Eurotrance.  

The bad – Then you have something like "white key" which just sounds like a boring hitomi track. At least you have to give Ami credit for working with songs that might as well be Namie's/TRF's/hitomi's scrapped album cuts.  

"Future" is disappointing and for the same reasons. Another hitomi-like rehash that’s a ridiculously bad way to close a retrospective. Something about Ami just lacks the attitude that would bring this kind of peppy, sunny, somewhat rock-edged song closer to working.  

The tragic – You wanna know about tragic, hunties? Let's talk "Love the island." Let's talk about the delicious ambiguity of the title. Is it an ungrammatical substitute of "I love the island?" Is it a command? Is it missing the punctuation that would facilitate a reading akin to "love is the island?" Who knows! Whatever it is, the vagueness is like a tropical fog enveloping what could very well be a companion piece to Seiko's "青い珊瑚礁," which makes it even more tragic since SQUALL came 13 years before Ami's debut. Those marimbas! That help-I'm-being-strangled vibrato! And yet the song somehow lingers.

I feel like I have to mention "Don't leave me behind" simply for the "Can you celebrate?"-style gospel chorus. Seriously, just because you put that in doesn't make these ditties remotely soulful.  

Because this is a best-of selection, I have to gripe about the song selection not including more from the Ami era I like. CONNETTA, DOLCE and Supreme Show are all terribly underrepresented! Maybe we could've trimmed some re-recordings from the TK era to include "THe WeeKeND" or "Stereo Love" or "A token of love." That aside, it's a pleasant enough selection that I'll probably keep in my library in case something I like comes up in random play.