Oh "Kaze no Melody." You should be so great. You have a good, hard rock sound; you have a skillful singer; you have strong guitar. You'd never be a masterpeice, but you have the potential to be a good song nonetheless. But you make that one crucial, unforgivable mistake, what I like to call the "GLAY progression." It's most perfectly illustrated in "ASHES -1969-": the opening of the song is raw and hard - it's some guy that's such a BAMF that he'll screw your sister and your mom, and then you'll shake his hand for the experience. Then, around 48 seconds in, he reveals that he had your mom paint his toenails pink because he thought it would compliment his eyes. Then around a minute-thirteen he beats your ass for questioning his decision and goes back off to screw your mom again. The incongruity! No! NO NO NO! Don't give me a badass song with a lame transition partway through. Even if you bring it back up to the original level of badassery, you're ruining the song.
Now "Koko ni Naku" is more what I'm looking for. It sounds a bit like a rock ballad (maybe one by STANCE PUNKS), but it's got a pretty consistent sound that's fast-paced, major keyed, and and romantic. Although it also moves around a little like "Kaze no Melody," the drops in tempo, key, or intensity are carefully placed to give it a more intimate sound. They also happen more than once, so that they seem like they're on purpose.
"Mukai Kaze" has no drops at all - it's just a fast, rocking, "hopeful sounding" song. You know what I mean by "hopeful sounding," right? In a nutshell it sounds like it could be an anime opening: it has a ton of energy and moves you right through the song. I could see it opening "FMA" or "Bleach" or some other slightly-more-mature-but-essentially-shonen anime. Although it's not some remarkable piece of artistry, it is fun to listen to, which is the most important quality of any song.
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