Tohoshinki – T

東方神起 – T

Released: 23 January 2008

Buy the album at cdjapan

CD 1

1. TRICK
2. No?
3. Purple Line
4. Forever Love
5. Summer Dream
6. Ride on
7. DARKNESS EYES
8. Lovin’ you
9. Rainbow
10. SHINE
11. LAST ANGEL (Tohoshinki Version)
12. CLAP!
13. Love in the Ice
14. Together

CD 2

1. Song for you
2. Day Moon ～ハルダル～
3. Beautiful Life (Japanese Version)
4. You’re my miracle (Japanese Version)
5. Kissしたまま、さよなら

This is Tohoshinki’s 3rd Japanese album to date and it’s also the album with the most songs, consisting of 2CDs. Yup, that should totally scream “TAKAI!” but I still bought it anyway. People have said that this is their best Japanese album to date and it’s not like I disagree with it but I liked their second album, Five in the Black, too (which I would put up one of these days). Songs that deserve special mention are, No?, DARKNESS EYES, Purple Line, CLAP!, …. wait, all that deserve special mention are already uploaded. >.> Just download them.

TRICK is actually a pretty interesting song as it combines 5 different songs into one which spawned the TRICK single project. The TRICK single project featured one member as the main vocalist of a song which was used in the TRICK track in the T album. I’ll get to uploading that too so you have a better idea of what the TRICK single project is about.

No? is a smooth R&B-ish song which I thought had a pretty sexy feeling to it. I feel they should dabble more into songs like these. It has a fun boppy feeling yet sexy and teasing. A song that you’ll easily start to like.

Purple Line. I actually have a list of Tohoshinki Sex Songs and so far, there’s three: Try My Love, Ride On and Purple Line. It doesn’t help that Yoochun says, “I really wanna touch myself” which got all the fangirls hyperventilating and wanting to see him REALLY touch himself in the PV (which sadly did NOT feature that but still had him looking hot driving a car). It’s composed by famous Korean composer, Yoo Youngjin. That said, it’s an SMP song; SMP being SM Music Performance, a genre SM Entertainment coined. SMP includes a mixture of rock and R&B. The genre also incorpoates heavy hip hop beats and rap, very suitable for dance performances. Definitely different from their Jpop-ish songs. I loved this a lot the moment I heard it.

DARKNESS EYES. I still have no idea why Japanese are so fond of having their English titled songs in capital letters. Sounds angry, no? Anyhow, this song was also another song I loved the moment I heard it. The dark intro and the gloomy feeling throughout the whole song gave it a different feel than the others. This song is just fantastic to me, then again, fangirl talking so not much credibility there but DO give it a try!

Last Angel was a song they collaborated with Koda Kumi. This track on their album is without her so they take over her parts and I have to laugh at some of it because Junsu and Jaejoong ended up sounding like a strangled cat because they tried to reach the same high notes. Apparently, the song was not altered to suit their pitch. Other than that, it’s a pretty cool song with some nice bass notes and it was the song for Resident Evil:Extinction in Japan.

CLAP! is a fun and upbeat song which ironically makes you really want to clap your hands. Changmin’s “OH-oh” in the beginnings are cute and just sets the groove. Short song but one that makes you sway a little.

Song For You is an underrated song in their Summer Dream single. It’s a typical Jpop song but it’s for the summer so it’s okay. Light and breezy, it’s an easy song to listen to. This is stupid but it makes me smile and makes me sing along all the time.

Day Moon ~Harudaru~ is the Japanese version of their Korean song, Harudal. Harudaru (Japanese romanization for Harudal) was the theme song for popular Korean drama, Air City. It gives off a feeling of despair and helplessness. Beautiful harmony. Definitely one song you don’t wanna miss out on.

Kiss shita mama, sayonara. Heartbreaking ballad. Piano and vocals = WIN! This song was composed by Yoochun and Jaejoong. Fantastic. Fave ballad in this album. A definite must try. I’m at a loss for words when it comes to this simply because I love it so much, you don’t really need anymore reasons to try it out. In fact, I command you to!