You guys are seriously highlighting their worst piece of work...even I don't like listening to Barbie Girl, and at marginally best, due to my music tastes, it's passable as background music to me. Barely.
But seriously, the Aqua - Aquarium CD was and still is one of the only CDs I can listen to entirely, from front to back, without ever hitting that skip button once. The worst song on that CD would be Barbie Girl...the rest were just awesome to me. Rarely do I ever listen to a CD without hitting that skip button because one song or another 5 tend to get too boring. I've listened to the Aquarium CD literally non-stop for the past 9 months...I've come to respect them quite a bit as a result. Everytime I got new headphones, Aqua had the honor of going through the drivers first.
Sooo...I went out today, and finally nabbed their 2nd and probably last CD, Aquarius, even though from MP3 sampling I knew it was hardly as good as their first album. I was pleasantly surprised though when I cracked open the case and saw the HDCD symbol on the CD.
Yes they're a real nut case, as I've discovered even more after just seeing some of their music videos today...the lyrics to their music is extremely funky as well...
So WHY oh WHY Aqua?
Just different strokes for different folks I guess.
I've balanced out the wierdness though with some "mature" music...I just received my shipment of Keiko Matsui's CDs starting from her debut 1989 album all the way to her current 2001 album. Sooo...time for some smooooooooth instrumental jazz.