I'd pick HELLO WORLD.

It's showing some evolution of their maturity as composers and musicians while still retaining their rock roots.

Yellow because I really like the sound of the album. It also includes many of my favorites (Sunday Drive, Chiisana Honoo, ...)

I love them all but I'd have to go with STANDARD. As much as I love Queens Are Trumps (first SCANDAL album I ever bought) as well as all the others, STANDARD is my current favourite.

For me it would probably be their first album. Maybe just because of Nostalgia. But if I'm going to be 100% honest, I think the last 3 albums are probably some of the best work they've done yet.

Today it would definitely be Honey—but made another choice two years ago already. Can't choose twice. So Honey has no votes at all. No fair!!

etwee wrote:Today it would definitely be Honey—but made another choice two years ago already. Can't choose twice. So Honey has no votes at all. No fair!!

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zounds, it worked! thanks guiltyeyes

I would have chosen Best Scandal or Hello World 2 months ago, but Honey became my favorite album so I'm going with Honey.

This is so difficult, realistically speaking, if you only hear the same album, you eventually get tired and end up not liking it   [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.] . 
Even when I think Honey is the best one, I'd chose Encore Show because of lenght, diversity and more amount of masterpieces.

I read through this topic and was surprised I never weighed in (because I know I have read it before). 

As much as I enjoy the new album, I think HELLO WORLD is still my choice.  It is diverse; it is interesting; and it contains a couple of my favorite songs.  Until HONEY came along, I felt HELLO WORLD had the best "side 1" of any of Scandal's albums.  It has three extra songs than HONEY, which helps give it an edge.  Even though I prefer shorter albums, if I only have one to listen to for eternity I want a few more tracks, even if one is a bit weird like "Oyasumi."  Plus this album has the added bonus of featuring joint vocals on songs (the last album to do so), and it contains at least one song where each member sings the lead.

As far as longevity is concerned (for me), just looking at the first 10 songs on this album, I can imagine every single one of them being played live for a very long time (although "Honn Wo Yomu" is the least likely to re-emerge since Mami doesn't sing lead in their lives too much and she has a couple of other killer songs to sing like "Koe" and "On! No!").  Basically what I'm saying is this album still holds up very well against the flashier new model that is HONEY.  But if I could listen to two...

peachclub wrote:I would have chosen Best Scandal or Hello World 2 months ago, but Honey became my favorite album so I'm going with Honey.

My thoughts changed, I like Hello World better now. It just has a lot of great songs and the fact that the album has a solo song for each member makes it even better. I'm switching to Hello World.

Voting on Best Album felt like cheating, so I voted on Standard. It's hands down my favorite overall, but realistically I'd pick Best Album, because it has some of the songs I love in Standard, plus my favorite song overall (Koe) and many other awesome songs. Plus it was the first "full album" I listened when I started listening to them, since I felt it made sense to start with what I understood as a "greatest hits" collection.

I vote for Best Album SCANDAL because there is all popular songs that we can heard in concert. 
But a new Best Album is needed, containing songs from Honey, Kiss from the Darkness and Mirror.

I'd choose Hello World, but only if we're talking version with bonus tracks (Rainy in particular). Otherwise I'd pick Honey.