A solo album by Yasu, frontman for the at least temporarily defunct Japanese rockers Janne Da Arc, Acid Black Cherry's Black List is an at times confusing mélange of mainstream Japanese pop/rock with bits of metal, psychedelia, and in the case of "Black Cherry" itself, vaguely jazzy easy listening pop complete with vibraphone and brushed drums, which eventually mutates into something like a Japanese take on Propaganda-era Sparks.
That's not what one normally expects from a J-pop record, but the problem with Black List is that such brilliant and bizarre moves are frustratingly hard to come by.
Too much of the rest of the album is taken up with tracks like the lightweight semi-hard rock of "Murder License" and "Spell Magic," which sound unnervingly like that unpleasant period around 1983-1984 when hard rock acts like Aldo Nova and Rush started to incorporate new wave synths into their formulas with largely misbegotten results.
The gleefully over the top power ballad "Aishitenai" moves so far into this stylistic realm that it almost inadvertently becomes awesome in its sheer unapologetic excess, but not enough of Black List lets go enough to achieve that level of quirky fun.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sins | Acid Black Cherry | Play | 06:05 | 0 MB | 47 MB |
| 2 | Spell Magic | Acid Black Cherry | Play | 04:21 | 0 MB | 33 MB |
| 3 | Scar | Acid Black Cherry | Play | 05:27 | 0 MB | 38 MB |
| 4 | Aishitenai | Acid Black Cherry | Play | 04:42 | 0 MB | 33 MB |
| 5 | Bit Stupid | Acid Black Cherry | Play | 04:03 | 0 MB | 31 MB |
| 6 | Rakuen | Acid Black Cherry | Play | 04:49 | 0 MB | 36 MB |
| 7 | Black Cherry | Acid Black Cherry | Play | 04:27 | 0 MB | 31 MB |
| 8 | Murder Licence | Acid Black Cherry | Play | 04:15 | 0 MB | 32 MB |
| 9 | Fuyu No Maboroshi | Acid Black Cherry | Play | 05:35 | 0 MB | 42 MB |
| 10 | Dragon Carnival | Acid Black Cherry | Play | 05:02 | 0 MB | 38 MB |
| 11 | Prologue End | Acid Black Cherry | Play | 06:13 | 0 MB | 42 MB |
| 12 | Spell Magic | Acid Black Cherry | Play | 04:21 | 0 MB | 33 MB |
| 13 | Black Cherry | Acid Black Cherry | Play | 04:27 | 0 MB | 31 MB |
| 14 | Fuyu No Maboroshi | Acid Black Cherry | Play | 05:35 | 0 MB | 42 MB |
| 15 | Shojo no Inori | Acid Black Cherry | Play | 04:24 | 0 MB | 33 MB |
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| 73 mins | 550 MB | |||||
| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Acid Black Cherry | Primary Artist |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |