Deep River [IMPORT]

Utada

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 21, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: EMI
• ASIN: B00006HCRL
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #52,587 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
Third album for Japanese singer/songwriter who's possibly the most recognized Asian music artist in the world. 12 tracks. 2002.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Utada Hikaru: In Range, November 18, 2003

By	Deanna Fogg (Texas, USA) - See all my reviews

Tempted by the reviews and of the song or two I'd heard of Ms. Utada's, I bought her second album, along with this one ("Deep River"). While "Distance" was a bunch of simple songs with a few notes a little too high for this singer, "Deep River" is more spruced up and smooth to listen to. Here's my thoughts on this CD:

1.'Sakura Drops' - A good song with an absolutely beautiful closing with Ms. Utada's voice being shown off a little more.
2.'Traveling' - A simple song with a repetitive, yet catchy chorus.
3.'Shiawaseni Narou' - A nice tune, but not very memorable, especially being right before:
4.'Deep River' - This one is a really exceptional slow song and one of the best on the album in my opinion.
5.'Letters' - Another good song, with a fun beat and sound.
6.'Play Ball' - A little similar to 'Letters' but not enough to make it a song to pass over.
7.'Tokyo Nights' - I sort of have to be in a poppy mood to listen to this. It's reminds me of the US mainstream teenybopper songs. But it's still a good song.
8.'A.S.A.P.' - Probably my least favorite song on the CD. The chorus is just a little to repetitive, and because it mainly consists of "A.S.A.P" it gets old about halfway through.
9.'I Love You' - A song with a little bit of a punkish flavor to it and a lower instrumental sound. Nice little change in the CD's rhythm.
10.'Final Distance' - this is a remake of Ms. Utada's song 'Distance' and it's MUCH better than the original. The main instrument, aside from vocals, is the piano, unlike its first version, which pretty much had computer-made noises strung throughout it to give it a (oh no!) teenybopper sound.
11.'Bridge (Interlude)' - this starts out with a heartbeat and then leads into a small violin solo that wraps up with that good ol' heartbeat again. It's really very pretty.
12.'Hikari' - another faster version of this song was in the opening of the game Kingdom Hearts. This one, like 'Sakura Drops' shows off Ms. Utada's voice a little bit. It's also a good beat to end on.

Try going to YesAsia.com for better info on Uatada Hikaru.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You don't need to know a bit of Japanese to love this, November 26, 2002

By	~´¯`·Ixodic·´¯`~ (OH United States) - See all my reviews

This CD is amazing! I don't know one bit of the Japanese language but just from listening to Utada Hikaru its easy to tell that she puts alot more into her music than any American pop singer I've heard. Every song on here is great as strange as that is for me to say, Theres not one song I don't enjoy hearing and I'm naturally a hard rock/gothic/industrial listener so that makes it all the more amazing. To top it all off Amazon isn't even charging a god awful price for this import.

go now, buy it. quick, like a bunny!
=P

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Incredible Cd!, May 12, 2003

By	Raine (United States) - See all my reviews

First of all I don't know any Japanesse, but it doesn't matter. I first heard of Hikki when reading about the video game 'kingdom hearts', after playing the game and hearing her song 'simple and clean' I became very interested in her. I recently looked online and found a list of her album's and decided to pick up this one. Each song is beautifully sung, and each track has a great melody. My favorite songs are, "Deep River", "A. S. A. P.", "I Love You" and the Japanesse version of 'Simple and Clean'. With almost an hour of music, Hikki is sure to keep you interested. I look forward to buying more of her work. If you don't want to spend a lot of money here, buy this and other asian cd's on sensasian.com, because there items come start from asia, they have a lot of this cd's for half price(this one only costed me 13 bucks). Also, some of the lryics in some of the songs are in english, so even if you get lost in the Japanesse words, there will be some words you can understand.