Dahlia [IMPORT]

X Japan

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 23, 2007)
• Original Release Date: January 16, 2001
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Wp
• ASIN: B000059O1I
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #270,751 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Dahlia

2. Scars

3. Longing

4. Rusty Nail

5. White Poem I

6. Crucify My Love

7. Tears

8. Wriggle

9. Drain

10. Forever Love [Acoustic Version]

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars as Japanese, I want to hand down the legend band to world., March 9, 2004

By	taka(Japanese (Tokyo, Japan) - See all my reviews

X Japan, off course in Japan even now it is legend band. Since one of the band, that is, Hide(guitar) was death shockingly, all the Japanese have known about the wonderful band again.

The most wonderful thing of XJAPAN will be the combination of hard rock and classical music. In the world, there are a lot of bands that can play wonderful rock, but there is not the bands that can play with beautiful classical style sounds except XJAPAN. Why could XJAPAN play such beautiful combination music? The answer is YOSHIKI(drums and piano). Since boy, he have studied many music instrument professionally(classical piano, violin, trumpet etc)thefore he knew about the beauty of classical music and the composition skill.

About the beautiful sounds you must know in music[endless rain][say anything].
The album is the latter term for XJAPAN. Terefore the composition ways changed to diffrent way as compared to former style, that is, a lot of ballade songs and in composition YOSHIKI used computer when make song.

As Japanese, I recommend XJAPAN. I think that the band is NO1 now.

Thank you for reading my poor writing.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Timeless, tragic, beautiful., April 19, 2003

By	Holly "junkstory" (Los Angeles, CA, United States) - See all my reviews

As a huge X fan, I may be slightly biased, but believe me when I say that Dahlia is a classic. Few bands have the ability to be technically exact and emotionally moving to such a degree. Yoshiki and hide are both geniuses; to have them in the same band just reinforces why X Japan made the kind of impact on Japanese music that they did. The title track is my personal favourite and showcases all of what X do best - incredible guitar work, effective string arrangements, unbelieveable drumming and moving melodies.

Every song is a highlight, however. 'Scars' is fast-paced and rocking; 'White Poem' is seductive and mysterious; 'Tears' is the kind of song that goes beyond the emblem of classic into the realm of the greatest musical moments of all time. 'Forever Love' is an acoustic version of a tune recognised by many thanks to the 'X' anime, and is a fitting closer to an album that never stops pulling those strings that make you want to sob. The opening violins of 'Tears' alone are enough to send anyone into a state of unabashed sentimentality.

One of the greatest albums ever? I would argue so. Worth anyone's money. It feels like so much more than just a collection of songs.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply The Best CD Ever!!!!!, December 16, 2001

By	Paco Lepe "PaQoLp" (Japan) - See all my reviews

This CD is not only ballads, it also has the greatests Rock songs I have ever heard. I own their 4 CDs and belive me, this is one of the bests. All the songs are UNIQUE, FANTASTIC AND GREAT.

1.- DAHLIA: Fast Rock, Too Cool, One of the bests of the CD:
2.- SCARS: Music by Hide, Fast Rock, even better than Dahlia, The best one of the CD.
3.- Longing: A ballad, but a really good one, even for HARD ROCK FANS.
4.- Rusty Nail: Magnific, something between Visual Rock and Piano.
5.- White Poem I: NOt so good, maybe the only boring one.
6.- CRUCIFY MY LOVE: For me one of the Best ballads, great piano in this song.
7.- Tears: THE BEST BALLAD, THAT'S IT.
8.- WRIGGLE: This is only music, but too cool, by PATA and HEATH.
9.- DRAIN: Lyrics by HIDE and TOSHI, Music by HIDE and HEATH, this is for me, the 2nd best song.
10.- FOREVER LOVE: Too good, but prefer the Rock Version, this one is only TOSHI with some Violins, but it sounds great.

Belive me this album ROCKS!!!!!!!, such as X-JAPAN.