Kamen Rider Decade MP3

Yes, my SIC Ryuki has no arms. It was a tragic defect at birth. With birth meaning when I opened the box. Poor guy.

The first two Kamen Rider Decade music releases – Journey through the Decade and Ride the Wind.

Now, generally I don’t do music reviews – I never know where to start. However, I’m going to take a shot at it with the first opening and ending theme for Kamen Rider Decade.

Let’s start with Journey through the Decade. Personally, I feel the song is perfect for Kamen Rider. And being performed by Gackt just adds to that. It is slower than most of the other Heisei Rider themes (except perhaps Hibiki’s second opening), yet it still works really well for the series. Want proof?

The song retains Gackt’s unique voice, and it’s quite a surprise to discover he didn’t write it. The music itself is very cool, building up to a strong rock ballad feel. Extra songs contained on the CD include two remixes – a guitar and keyboard remix named the ‘Distort RIDE’ and an orchestrated, beautiful sounding remix called ‘Symphony RIDE’. The CD also contains the Instrumental version, and in my copy’s case a DVD featuring the Music ‘film’.

Now, Ride the Wind. It’s… different, I’ll give it that. It doesn’t have the same rock feel that comes with many of the previous Kamen Rider series – it lacks what Rider Chips and Tetra-FANG provided for past series. It’s also a lot softer, performed instead on an Acoustic guitar, giving it a somewhat Spanish feel, and a keyboard.

A lot of people have said how they dislike the song, however I feel it has grown on me. The chorus does sound very crowded, and that’s my one dislike. Along with Inoue’s voice, there’s a group of people shouting lyrics out in the background that kind of takes away from it. However, as I say, it does grow on you eventually. So that’s not a bad thing.

Also included on the CD were two other tracks – the traditional Instrumental version and a track called ‘KAMEN RIDE. power guitar edit’. This is essentially a remix to Decade’s henshin theme, performed on guitar (surprise!) and it sounds pretty awesome. Worth a listen to!

In regards to the title, I only put MP3 on in hopes of attracting some views, sorry for that! ^__^;
If you’re interested in buying a copy, take a look on CDJapan. Journey through the Decade is selling for 1,200-1,800 Yen depending on version, and Ride the Wind is selling for 1,200 Yen.

Hope this has been of some help, expect another CD Review sometime this week when the next two Decade CD’s arrive – OST 1 and the Sound Attack Ride 1 CD, featuring new remixes of old songs by Shuuhei Naruse and Rider Chips. Should be awesome.

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