2번의 내한 공연 모두 예매 시작 7분 만에 완전 매진을 기록하며J-ROCK을 대표하는 수퍼 밴드로 성장한 엘르가든 대망의 신보!!불어에서 ‘그녀’ 또는 순수하게 여성을 뜻하는 ‘ELLE’를 따서 만든 ELLEGARDEN은 1998년 12월 첫 자작곡 "CAN YOU FEEL LIKE I DO"를 시작으로 전국을 돌며 진행된 스트릿 라이브와 클럽공연을 통해 좋은 반응을 일구어 내며 이제는일본을 대표하는 펑크계의 대표 주자로 꼽히고 있다. 보컬과 기타의 HOSOMI TAKESHI, 밴드에서 전체적인 멜로디 라인을 담당하고 있는 기타리스트 UBUKATA SHINOCHI, 격렬함속에 자연스러움을 녹아내는 베이시스트 TAKADA YUICHI,그리고 드러머 TAKAHASHI HIROTAKA로 구성되어 있는 ELLEGARDEN은 BARE FOOT "2001년-첫번째 맥시 싱글", ‘MY OWN DESTRUCTION "2002년-두번째 미니 앨범"’, ‘BRING YOUR BOARD "2002년-두번째 정규앨범"’로 자가발전, 자주제작이라는 시스템 아래 시장성을 확립한 몇 안 되는 인디펜던트 밴드로 거듭나기 시작했다. 2004년에 발표한 이들의 세번째 정규앨범이자 국내 첫 발매작 ‘PEPPERONI QUATTRO’, 그리고 ‘RIOT ON THE GRILL’ 등의 앨범을 통해 ELLEGARDEN이 지니고 있는 음악성과 밴드로서의 자세, 정신을 발전시켰다는 평을 받아내며 일본의 음반 차트 중에서 가장 큰 공신력을 자랑하는 오리콘 차트에서 1위를 랭크하며 이후 일본 펑크계를 대표하는 주간 차트에서 오랜시간 동안 자리매김을 할 정도로 2004년 하반기에 발표된 톱 클라스의 앨범 중 하나로 선정되기도 하였다. 엘르가든의 앨범들은 한결같이 단 한곡도 뺄 수 없을 정도로 넘쳐 흐르는 재치와 풍자적인 요소들로 꾸며진 가사"지극히 개인적으로 자신들의 이야기를 풀어낸…"들과 결코 지루할 새 없이 끌고 가는 이들의 박진감 넘치는 사운드는 듣는 이로 하여금 무한으로 반복해 모든 곡을 섭렵하게 만드는 마력이 있으며, HOSOMI의 탁월한 작곡 실력과 감성을 휘두르는 보컬에는 벗어날 수 없는 매력을 느끼기에 전혀 부족함이 없다. 엘르가든의 지난 모든 앨범이 그러했듯, 이번 앨범 역시 2006년 11월 일본에서 발매와 동시에 오리콘 차트 1위에 랭크되며 이제는 펑크록의 아이콘이 되어버린 그들만의 브랜드 파워를 과시하고 있다. 여전한 멜로디 감각과 몰아치는 기타 리프가 인상적인 첫 싱글 'SALAMANDER'를 필두로, 엘르가든의 폭발적인 에너지가 쉼 없이 펼쳐진다. .... ....
Now I Finally understand We're all here to play an endless game And winning is just bad as losing Am I sick Not anymore How could I be tonight To find it floating in my static dream Just sing it Sing it Even though I've never said the words Don't fake it no more To find it floating in your static dream Just sing it Sing it Even though you've never said the words I feel right now
Now I've got this far anyway And I've finally turned to my last page These countless memories still holding me back Am I sick Not anymore How could I be tonight To find it floating in my static dream Just sing it Sing it Even though I've never said the words Don't fake it no more To find it floating in your static dream Just sing it Sing it Even though you've never said the words I feel right now The tired song of summer that I used to sing And you found me somehow good And it's so much fun to be with you You can't imagine how I was dying just to talk to you We can leave it as it is We can be as one as well
To find it floating in my static dream Just sing it Sing it Even though I've never said the words Don't fake it no more To find it floating in your static dream Just sing it Sing it Even though you've never said the words I feel right now
Is it something I can see Is it something I can touch Is it something I can feel Is it something I can hear Is it something I can smell Is it something I can trust Before the surface dries out Before the palace burns down Before your world is overwhelmed Before the surface dries out Before the palace burns down Before your world is overwhelmed Is it something I can do Is it something I can learn Is it something I can find Is it something I can fix Is it something I can solve Is it something I can prove Before the surface dries out Before the palace burns down Before your world is overwhelmed Before the surface dries out Before the palace burns down Before your world is overwhelmed You scream out I hear that Our time is running out so fast Wings burning I'm fallin' Our time is running out so fast
Is it something I can see Is it something I can touch Is it something I can feel Is it something I can hear Is it something I can smell Is it something I can trust Before the surface dries out Before the palace burns down Before your world is overwhelmed Before the surface dries out Before the palace burns down Before your world is overwhelmed You scream out I hear that Our time is running out so fast Wings burning I'm fallin' Our time is running out so fast
Cables, TVs, Batteries, Bridges All my favorite things Dried and chapped and cracked lips of the Winter's golden wind 타카가고레구라이 보쿠가스키닷따모노 Diodes, magnets, peanut butter All my favorite things Embedded hybrid fingers of the Winter's silver steam 키미가 쿠레타네 보쿠가스키다앗따모노 유비노사키미와 키미가노코시따 라쿠가키미따이나 코부리노토오다이 쯔키노아카리가 난도키에떼모 타토에바소코가 쯔키사사루요우니 이쿠에니모카사나리 마타타쿠요우니쯔이떼와키에이쿠 키세키오소노메데미떼고랑 보쿠라와이마다니 세라믹쿠니닷떼사 하나시카케떼루 This could be a happy ending
Cables, TVs, Batteries, Bridges All my favorite things Dried and chapped and cracked lips of the Winter's golden wind 타카가고레구라이 보쿠가스키닷따모노
I was what I thought That's what I thought I was Nothing's very new But who cares about that now Mankind Tower lift Not giving up the faith My head is so unplugged I just don't get this Just don't bring me down We have to get through We not trying to get it right We just dying to hold it tight Just can't give you up We have to get through Nothing I can give in now What a good day
Ash Dust Beautiful face Tied up both of my hands Breaker falls too soon But kind of boring now Mars falls Devastate And over cooked bacon My head is so confused i just don't can't this Just don't bring me down We have to get through We not trying to get it right We just dying to hold it tight Just can't give in now We have to get through Nothing I can give you up What a good day Now I want to be out here Stupid wise Proud ashamed Well you know How much it will cost you getting back
Unnecessarily jum ping around like a frog something's going wrong It's none of your concern The water is about to blow Unsocial smiley face There's nothing I can do i just don't get this Just don't bring me down We have to get through We not trying to get it right We just dying to hold it tight Just can't give you up We have to get through Nothing I can give in now What a good day
My name is Jack Just tell me you are ok My name is Jack I've been standing next to you In the storyboard You can craw another one of your own 아토니낫테 코우닷테 키즈쿠마데 난도닷떼우바이앗테 아사니낫떼쿠루맛떼 미아게타라 마도니 사스 가이코오
There ain't no fear There ain't no hope There ain't no right There ain't no wrong Just make it loud Just make it loud Just make it loud you feel no touched There ain't no past There ain't no fate There ain't no thoughts There ain't no rules Spoken words broken hearts Instant dreams Just let it slide Wasting time Just keep it goin' goin' Just let it slide wasting life Just keep it rollin' and rollin' Just make it loud In your room Just make it loud No one cares Just let it slide Yeah
There ain't no pain There ain't no help There ain't no doubt There ain't no name Just make it fun Just make it fun Just make it fun Carry on There ain't no hate There ain't no grace There ain't no harm There ain't no truth Empty bowls springer falls Lost and Found Just let it slide Wasting time Just keep it goin' goin' Just let it slide wasting life Just keep it rollin' and rollin' Just make it loud In your room Just make it loud No one cares Just let it slide Now I hear it snows this year is getting colder How I feel inside Losing my concentration now I need more time Somehow I make it through I just need more time Just let it slide Wasting time Just keep it goin' goin' Just let it slide wasting life Just keep it rollin' and rollin' Just make it loud in your room just make it loud no one cares Just let it slide Yeah
Stayin' up for days on end Then sleeping long enough Wasting all the cash on bets We're so disorganized Making up all our own rules And happy for a while Failling all the time No matter how it's justified Dreaming of the day We have some alternative plans Like holding hands And staring up And counting little stars Smart enough to know It's sort of just a little joke I'm sorry I never meant to be like this Charging all around the town And losing all the games Breaking up the rules we made We so unsocialized Cheating on the brain We have no answers of our own Faking all the time No matter what our hearts desire Dreaming of the day We have some alternative plans Like holding hands And staring up And counting little stars Smart enough to know It's sort of just a little joke I'm sorry I never meant to be like this It's always in the cartoons Nobody really understands me My heart is made of cardboard I never thought you'd go away Stayin' up for days on end Then sleeping long enough Wasting all the cash on bets We're so disorganized Cheating on the brain We have no answers of our own Faking all the time No matter what our heats desire Dreaming of the day We have some alternative plans Like holding hands And staring up And counting little stars Smart enough to know It's sort of just a little joke I'm sorry I never meant to be like this I'm sorry I never meant to be like this
Seventeen nights away She's leaving Cause everything she found was fake Oh tell me why I don't know why why does she have to leave No one has told me She's ended up there All I can do is to keep being here Marie my friend Marie my friend I sing for you Marie my friend Marie my friend This is your song Seventeen skies away She's falling Cause everything she had has gone Oh tell me why I don't know why why does she have to leave No one has told me She's ended up there All I can do is to keep being here Marie my friend Marie my friend I sing for you Marie my friend Marie my friend This is your song Couldn't take your hand I should've done this before I'm so stuck now You changed my world Don't go away like this Oh tell me why I don't know why why you have been so strong No one has held you' But you spread your wings All I can do is to keep being here Marie my friend Marie my friend I sing for you Marie my friend Marie my friend This is your song