About our volunteer reviewer
	Nickname: Edward Location: CA Favourite BACK-ON song(s): Rain, Hate Naki Michi E, Chain, Flower, Blaze line Other favourite artists: Uver-world How did you find out about BACK-ON? I first heard their song in Air gear Mini Introduction: I am fourteen years old and I live in Maple Ridge Canada. i am a major BACK-ON fan and I am from Taiwan

The Review:

BACK-ON’s new album, “Yes!!!” is a great collection of their best selling hits like Flower, Sands of time, Blaze line and Chain. I personally like how BACK-ON’s music contains a huge variety of music with a lot of different backgrounds.

From the holy church of “Hate Naki Michi E” to the foot-ball field in “Blaze line” and the tempo ranging from soft rock to hard rocks and rap. The new L.A. mixes have more background sounds and have more echoes.

My favorite re-mix is the one for “Flower” because the background noises, reverbs and echoes work a lot better than the original and the only bad thing abut it is that the violin’s sound has been changed.

I really like how BACK-ON uses a lot of different instruments and how a lot of their songs have deep meanings behind them. Overall this album is majorly awesome and is a must have, I feel lucky to have been chosen to write this review.

Hope you enjoyed reading Edward‘s review! A big thank you to him for taking the time to evaluate their album and send us his thoughts. Our aim is to encourage as many people as possible to listen to BACK-ON‘s music, and hopefully featuring different styles of reviews is one of the right steps to promote their work to others! Please let us know what you think in the comments or on our Forums. :)

p/s: You can now listen to the new songs from YES!!! in full by visiting our Music page and scrolling to the bottom for the player. Unfortunately the latest Flash update has meant that the player currently does not work in Firefox (as far as I know) but does work in Internet Explorer.

It might seem a surprise to everyone for us to release the lyrics for RAIN out of the blue, but with thanks to nosoul4u and ookami (Forum Moderator!), who have both said on the Forums how much they would like to have the lyrics, I finally got round to sitting still for 2 hours to type them up. ;)

RAIN is from the New World mini-album, which Back-on released at the end of 2006, and is quite a feel good song. Surprisingly (for me anyway) it was actually the longest song on the CD (4:03) probably because of the long musical interlude in the third half of the song. It’s definitely a grower, although I have to admit I like Teeda‘s rap part the best, even though he’s uber fast, particularly in the second verse, I had to slow down the tempo by almost 40%.

Interestingly though, Kenji03 sings a word in the first line of the chorus slightly differently to the usual pronunciation:

あの時僕らは何かに怯えて
where 時 is usually pronounced as “toki” (or “doki” if time of ‘something’ but this is not used in this song) but “toku” is sung instead.

You can find the original kanji below, romaji on page 2 and the romanised version on page 3, with page 4 featuring the hybrid/karaoke mix of kanji and romanji.

As always, if you spot any mistakes, please let me know either by commenting below or via the contact form. If you would like to post these lyrics elsewhere, please link back to this page. :)

JAPANESE (Kanji)

[Verse 1]
Standing alone wet. Upside down the 砂時計
当然のように隣にいた君そう忘れない Memory
I can only hear the rain’s melody & 金木犀の香り
I couldn’t ask you to wait 『ちょっと待ってくれ！』 なんて意地を張ってあの時言えなくて…
水溜リの波も広がってただ… 1人立ち尽くす雨の中で

[Interlude 1]
キミがいないつまらない日々を
気付かないフリをしてもせ隠ない

[Chorus 1]
あの時僕らは何かに怯えて
繋いだ手と手を離したんだ
wow wow
今も君の笑顏想い出して切なくなる胸焦がす RAIN

[Verse 2]
So dark & hard to breathe 全て Freeze
君と離れて初めてわかるこの気持ち you know what I mean
一緒にいた日々あのストーリー今じゃとても愛しく思う轍 I don’t know how to say it! 映し出す二人の形
Looking up all you see are the drops. この思いで震わす ear drums
手を伸ばして掴んでみたって君の雫この指先をすり抜けて唇かみ締め…
自分勝手だったなんて今になってため息なんかついて… oh baby rain

[Interlude 2]
サヨナラをした また会えると思って
キミとの想い出が溢れ出す

[Chorus 2]
留守番電話に残った声を
繰リ返し聞いて うつむいた
wow wow
今も後悔は無いよ
だけどそうやって言い聞かせて
どしゃぶりの RAIN

[Musical interlude]
Flashback!

* Repeat [Chorus 1]

This time, a day dreaming… and Kodou were the top favourites of our voters, and as usual, we have also put up two extra downloads for just one week only, including the much-requested Hikari Sasuhou (Survive ver.) as well as the runner up from the previous polls, forward.

Thanks to everyone who voted in the latest polls, and if possible, it would be great if you could vote again in the next one, where:

• Butterfly (Butterfly single)
• DRIVE (New World album)
• Believer (Chain single)
• Grab (Survive compliation album)
• Gaku-Ten (Baby Rock album)
• RAIN (New World album)

are all up for selection. It might be a bit more difficult to choose this time! :)

More updates will be forthcoming throughout the site, as well as more content from various contributors! And before I forget, we have updated the affiliate link with Sound EX from their Myspace to their official new website! The people behind the website are Nao and Sesshy, and I would encourage everyone to pay a visit, particularly as the graphics used for the site design really are fantastic! I’ve included a screenshot of the new site design below as a taster, but look out for the flash movie on the splash page – it’s worth the wait – and this is coming from someone who doesn’t usually take a second glance at splash pages.

However, this time, to celebrate the forthcoming release of Back-on‘s latest single: BLAZE LINE/a day dreaming…, instead of just featuring 2 songs for download, for the next 5 days – until June 6th 2007 (the official release date for BL/ADD) – all 4 songs that were featured in the previous vote (where 169 people participated for their most-wanted download) will be available!

These are:

1. Believer (Chain)
   
2. Rain (New World)
3. Gaku-Ten (Baby Rock)
4. Nuts Tribe (Baby Rock)

After that, just the top two winners will remain as usual (as bolded)
You can reach the Music page by visiting: http://www.backon-online.com/multimedia/music/

Again, the aim of the downloads section is to provide a ‘one-stop’ place for fans and potential fans to listen to Back-on’s work – ‘try before you buy‘. You can support Back-on even more by buying their albums and attend their concerts. There is more information about where you can purchase the cds avilable on the Music page.

Finally… there hasn’t been any change to the Radio section of Music for the moment… but check back in two weeks! :) Don’t forget to vote in the new Poll in the meantime!

This means all 6 tracks from the album are available on the radio for you to enjoy and, to make up for the downtime earlier this week, we’re featuring two tracks for download (high quality 320kbps, CD-rip by Back-on Online using EAC)  instead of the usual one: Chain and Hikari Sasuhou ヒカリサスホウ.

Don’t forget to vote in our newest poll for your next most-wanted download track!  Chain and Hikari Sasuhou both won the highest votes in our previous poll, but Flydom came in at a very close third.