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I want to put 5 stars, but.....

taka(Japanese | Tokyo, Japan | 03/24/2004

(4 out of 5 stars)

"ZARD---now the popularity is a little down, but that is big even now. Esupecially, 1992-95her pupularity was the giggest. Her charming point is her beautiful and sentimental voice and mysterious looking(she have not appeared on TV or other media) and the wonderful music by major composer Tetsurou Oda etc.I want to put 5 stars to this CD, but the selected musics in this CD is not early works, some of them is late works in her carrer. I think that there are wonderful musics and especially sentimental musics with miner chords in early works. For instance [Makenaide][Mou sukoshi ato sukoshi][Yureru omoi][Dangerouse Tonight][Im my arms tonight]etc. But in amazon site, their early best is not. If you love sentimental sounds like me and want to know truth ZARD's charm, I think that you had better to listen to the early best CD in addtion to this CD.There are a lot of songs that have beautiful melodies in Japan. The artist that you can feel the deepest is ZARD.
All the her songs have wonderful melodies, in addition to them, vocal Izumi Sakai's words also is woderful. For instance when translete [Ikimo Dekinai] to English directly, the meanig is [I can not breath], when I think about you I can not breath, that is, I love you very much. One of Japanese beauty is the metaphor. In English, for instance[I can not look at you=I love you] is metaphor, isn't it? The wondeful explanation hidden Japanese beauty exist in her songs. They is also wonderful things of ZARD.Please feel such Japanese beautiful melodies in this CD.
Thank you for reading poor English."

One of the greatest Albums ever!!!

taka(Japanese | 03/05/2002

(5 out of 5 stars)

"If you dont know Zard let me say you first: Its time for it!!!
Anyone who loves good music with so beautiful and sometimes poetic lyrics should know this group. If you dont speak japanese just listen, its like heaven and i'm sure you'll find a translation of the lyrics on the web. Izumi Sakai, the mainwriter of the group is one of the best songwriters on earth.
I'm not sure if you like this music, but if you know one song and you like it, the other songs are even better. And if you know no song but just want to try something new, try this.
On this CD are the best Singles collected from all of their albums ( 15 or 16 Albums !!!). Only "In my arms tonight" is missing. But if you like this one you maybe you buy "Cruising & Live", there you can hear "In my arms tonight".
This album is really one of the greatest albums!!!"

Great Album

taka(Japanese | 09/04/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is a great album, I love every song on it. If you do not have it in your collection, you must buy NOW!!!!"