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>>17324476
Actually I need to get into Long Vacations, back when I was more into tracking down everything Kera-related I could, Long Vacations was kind of rare, I couldn't find anything by them, although I knew about the band, so I kind of missed them, but yeah they did some nice synthpop, loved the songs on the Kera solo hour, he also did some covers of Long Vacations on No Lie-Sense.
Still I think 原色 is like a more eclectic album, as I said, the variety it has, you go from a big band/broadway-like song, to a bossa nova, to a folk song, a ballad, and so on, all within a very pop production, Kera's quirks are quite tame on this disc, but that's not necessarily bad for the kind of thing he was going for.
As for Uchoten albums, yeah it's hard to pick a favorite, my favorite is GAN because Kimi wa GAN na no da has always been my favorite song by them, it wasn't the first song I listened by them, but one of the first, and what's more, it was the live version from the Uchoten wo korose video, which is more upbeat and crazier, with some extra synth arrangements. I don't know what it is about that song that captivated me so much. The rest of the GAN album has the same kind of sound too, with that "water drop" synth present in pretty much every song of the album, and the punk-rock approach in the compositions. Thinking it that way, it may not be a good introductory album for the band, since it's not really that variated, but it's definitely still a bonafide Uchoten album.
Aissle is a great album as well. Peace and Aissle were the first 2 Uchoten albums I heard in their entirety, and not as loose songs/videos, so they have a special place for me as well. But I like the entire discography, really. I loved "lost and found" to bits too, great EP. I still haven't been able to listen to Kafka's Rock / Nietzsche's Pop though, but I'm planning to buy it sometime when I'm not so tight on the budget.