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(kŏm'ən-plās') pronunciation
adj.
Having no remarkable features, characteristics, or traits; ordinary.

n.
    1. A trite or obvious remark; a platitude: "the solidified commonplaces of established wisdom" (John Simon). See synonyms at cliché.
    2. Something that is ordinary or common.
  1. Archaic. A passage marked for reference or entered in a commonplace book.

[Translation of Latin locus commūnis, generally applicable literary passage, translation of Greek koinos topos.]

commonplaceness com'mon·place'ness n.

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adj

Definition: usual, everyday
Antonyms: exceptional, infrequent, peculiar, rare, uncommon, unusual

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Every Little Thing's sixth studio release continues their streak of experimentation, with the duo's first full-English track ("Country Road"), a bouncing alt-pop idea, and straightforward bubblegum material all making appearances. Carried on the strength of the music and the band's playing, the album quickly went to the number one spot on the Oricon charts and remained on the charts for a full four months. ~ Adam Greenberg, Rovi

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"Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature." - Jean Cocteau

"The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will." - Jose Ortega Y Gasset

"Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them." - Abraham Lincoln

"If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people." - Mark Twain

"We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity." - Raoul Vaneigem

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Commonplace (album)

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Commonplace
Studio album by Every Little Thing
Released March 10, 2004
Genre J-pop
Length ?
Label AVEX Trax
Every Little Thing chronology
Many Pieces
(2003)
Commonplace
(2004)
CD + DVD
The cover of the commonplace DVD version.

Commonplace (stylised as commonplace) is the sixth album of the Japanese band Every Little Thing, released on March 10, 2004. Two versions have been released, one with the music CD only, and the other with a DVD.

The album contains mainly soft rock and acoustic-like tunes, and a few rockish tunes as well. Ichirō Itō played guitar in all the songs, and also participated in the arrangements and compositions of some of them. All the lyrics were written by Kaori Mochida, but received help on track 5 "country road", which was ELT's first song that was completely in English.

The DVD contains behind the scenes shots at the album photoshoot, and also a special performance of ELT's classic single "Time Goes By".

Track listing

All lyrics written by Kaori Mochida, except #5 (translated into English by Gary Newby), #12 (written by Ichiro Ito). 

Disc one: CD
No. Title Music Arranger(s) Length
1. ""Soraai" (ソラアイ?, Weather)"   HIKARI HIKARI & Ichiro Ito  
2. ""Fundamental Love" (ファンダメンタル・ラブ Fandamentaru Rabu?)"   Kunio Tago tasuku & Ichiro Ito  
3. "water(s)"   Daichi Hayakawa (Tokyo ethmusica) Akira Murata & Ichiro Ito  
4. ""Shiawase no Fuukei" (しあわせの風景 Scenes of Happiness?)"   Kazuhito Kikuchi Masafumi Nakao & Ichiro Ito  
5. "country road"   Ichiro Ito Akira Murata & Ichiro Ito  
6. ""Ichinichi no Hajimari ni..." (一日の始まりに... At the Beginning of the Day...?)"   HIKARI HIKARI & Every Little Thing  
7. "life cycle"   HIKARI HIKARI & Ichiro Ito  
8. ""Ura urara" (うらうらら?)"   Kaori Mochida Akira Murata & Every Little Thing  
9. ""Mata Ashita" (また あした See You Tomorrow?)"   Hideyuki Obata Tomoji Sogawa & Every Little Thing  
10. "Interluido~Meridiana" (Instrumental) Ichiro Ito Yasunari Nakamura & Ichiro Ito  
11. ""Samidare" (五月雨 Early Summer Rain?)"   Kunio Tago Masafumi Nakamura & Ichiro Ito  
12. "Sleepy time dog" (Secret track) Ichiro Ito    
Disc two: DVD(only in limited edition)
No. Title Length
1. "commonplace" (Photo Session Scene)  
2. "Time goes by" (20031224 version)  

Chart positions

Chart (2004) Peak
position
Time in
chart
Japan Oricon 1 16 weeks

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Translations:

Commonplace

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - banal, almindelig
n. - banalitet, almindelighed, citat

Nederlands (Dutch)
gemeenplaats, treffende passage, afgezaagd

Français (French)
adj. - banal, commun
n. - lieu commun

Deutsch (German)
n. - Gemeinplatz, Alltägliches
adj. - banal

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - κοινοτοπία, αυταπόδεικτη αλήθεια
adj. - κοινότοπος, τετριμμένος

Italiano (Italian)
luogo comune, banalità, banale

Português (Portuguese)
n. - lugar-comum (m)
adj. - desinteressante

Русский (Russian)
банальность, банальный

Español (Spanish)
adj. - cosa común, cosa corriente, vulgar, común
n. - lugar común, trivialidad, vulgaridad, apunte, nota

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - banalitet, vardaglig företeelse
adj. - alldaglig, banal

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
平凡的, 陈腐的, 常事, 普通的东西, 老生常谈

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 平凡的, 陳腐的
n. - 常事, 普通的東西, 老生常談

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 평범한, 진부한
n. - 상투어, 인용구

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - ありふれた, 平凡な, 陳腐な
n. - ありふれた事, 平凡な文句

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) أمر تافه أو معتاد (صفه) مبتذل, عادي, تافه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮רגיל, נדוש, שיטחי‬
n. - ‮דבר רגיל, שגרה‬


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