btw they will hold their one-man live tour "4時20分の解体実験-前編-" since Sapporo SPIRITUAL LOUNGE at 2015/08/15-08/16 and up to tour final at Akasaka BLITZ at 2015/09/27, and their live-distributed single (title not yet finalized) will be released at that one-man live at 2015/09/27
Yes, I have a kotatsu. And yes, I have tatami mats in... California.
I usually take the blankets out from the kotatsu between June and September.
The shelves on my wall are the only things on my wall, and they weren't too expensive. Got them from Amazon!
Got everything for my closet from Easy Track. Still gotta rip off the carpeting, though.
I feel the same way about MIMIC. It has a lot of potential, and with Tenten and most of the members of SKULL in the band there is the ability to put out more engaging, interesting music; so, I am not sure why the compositions feel so re-hashed.
I think MBHI fandom is centered a lot on Tenten. He has had a lot of emotional ups and downs with his bands and ultimately a love/hate relationship with music. He is really human-like (?), I guess. I think he and the fans see him as a Kurt Cobain or a John Lennon (two musicians which he seems to really admire).
At the end of Chemical Pictures career there seemed to be a lot of concern about Tenten. After reading his blog at the time and an interview about album the album like this, I got the impression that he was really stressed. He was too OCD about the whole music-making process and wanted to have more freedom (according to the interview, track 10 on "goodbye to my old avarice", 「悪天候異常気象な時代」 is an expression of the state of the band) . A parody band like kiss my way was probably his first outlet to experience less stress and more freedom. MBHI's "average" quality could also be related to this need for freedom. I don't know. I might just be speculating a little too much.
There was experimentation with MIMIC, a ballad and a track with a rap-rock tone (if I remember correctly). I think if the band hones the djent-style and turns it into something unique, more people can get into the music and not just the band. If they want to keep things simple, maybe making the compositions more DADAROMA-esque would help. Regardless, I am looking forward to see what they will do with a full-length album.
I think this is kind of good. GANGSTA is their only album that I don't like, and I think they could use to time off to sort of recharge their batteries so to speak, to create better music when they come back. At least they're not breaking up! So, let's hope that this hiatus is for the best.
ex-RevleZ Dr.涙(rui) will participate in their last one-man live "2012-2015 THE LAST GIG" at OSAKA MUSE at 2015/05/28, at which their live-distributed single "Answer" will be released
Seriously regret coming into this thread, but anyway, gotta completely disagree with Jon Jonz:
Pretty bad way to start a post that just may end up outdoing any ignorance or bullsh!t that came before it in the thread.
Is that a statistic? Maybe I should listen to something else so I can open my mind, see the real world, be one with the universe....
Pretty darn narrow-minded and downright hateful way to feel about someone with a different opinion than you.
I seriously hope that this is about VK influenced bands outside of Japan only, and that you aren`t implying Yohio and co. help support actual Japanese bands in any way... Or maybe I am wrong and X Japan or Vamps would never play NYC without Yohio...
Pretty sure people will still want to see Visual bands they like even without forcing themselves to try and enjoy foreign imitations that don`t bring anything to the table.
Visual Kei is far from simply Glam. Glam, Hair Metal and so forth are some of the ancestors of the music, for sure, but they in no way define it, and any attempt to accuse modern VK of being a Glam or Hair Metal rip-off would be buried under the countless iterations of Visual bands which have put their own perspective and ideas into the a mix of ideas that come from all over the world.
Also no idea why tranny is said so much around here, and any sexuality at all is not a factor for me personally in terms of my enjoyment of VK.
Pretty sure you have more scrobbles of VK than most people here combined. But you`re exempt from any kind of infatuation with Japanese culture / products?
I don`t see `culture` being spread, I hold culture to a somewhat higher esteem than thinking a little boy who paid to have make-up put on and producers make his band sound like somewhat old Gazette is spreading `culture`. Japanese culture has been spread for a very long time, bringing the world a wealth of new ideas, perspectives, and technologies. This has nothing to do with that, in my opinion.
The reason why so many often fail (and fail hard) at creating many `Japanese things`, is they lack the cultural background, understanding of how things came about, and why, as well as the actual nuances of PERSPECTIVE that Japan can add.
No, you don`t have to be of pure Yamato blood and raised in Honshu to get it, but simply looking and or listening to something Japanese and then copying it (usually poorly) WITHOUT ADDING ANY OF YOUR OWN PERSPECTIVE WHAT-SO-EVER usually ends up creating something that is not a cultural import, not a new take on foreign ideas, and not anything interesting to most `educated` people at all. It ends up being DERIVATIVE (junk).
All ideas come from somewhere, The Waltz to The Schmaltz, Ragtime, Jazz, Blues, Rock, Metal, Hair Metal, Visual Kei.
Yet somehow, as usual, the Japanese thing is especially a rip-off, and Japanese people are up to their thieving ways again, right?
Let`s just ignore the fact that same Blues riffs are used in countless songs, guys like Jimmy Page and Ritchie Blackmore copied those riffs as well as other forms of music extensively, then that cycle repeated over and over again, until today where we can google current lawsuits or Youtube compilations of rip-offs from all around the world.
But VK is to be shamed specifically!
Something about Japan has always led foreigners to proclaim some sort of ill conceived notion that they are some special unique counterfeiters who make nothing of their own... Until the reality that Japan is one of the biggest cultural exporters and innovators of all time sets in (if it ever does, as in, if people ever actually learn more about the book than just its cover).
So you`re saying:
Hey, not much people support the Japanese bands in the first place, but let`s change any focus we had onto supporting these Western bands for some reason... Surely it is more important to support them than, you know, actually creative bands, or actual current or past ambassadors for Visual Kei and Japanese Rock, like Dir en grey, Larc, VAMPS, Girugamesh, X Japan, etc...
????
1:Okay, so why don`t we talk about those in other threads, and support them if we actually like them, for example, bands like Lilith, as opposed to you telling us we should care about this Yohio band that many seem to dislike and only follow out of morbid curiosity?
2: Disagree, and disagree.
Overall I would have expected a much different, richer opinion from someone who listens to so much Visual Kei music.
In regards to things expressed not solely inside of the post I quoted:
At this point, it seems like some terms are just becoming irrelevant due to over-use, like: Rip-off, or trying to insult a VK band by calling them Indie...
Also just lol at `better than indie-fag` bands, not even sure why the select use of derogatory terms is allowed, but whatever, moving on:
Since when are the Indie VK bands seen as lower quality or, more importantly, the term Major seen as any indication of quality?
I can name tons of Indie bands that play circles around the Major bands, and if popularity is your rating point, I`m guessing you think Pop Idols are the cream of the crop. Hey, in reality that`s what this Disreign thing kind of is, I see it as less Rock and more Pop considering someone did their looks for them based on a pre-existing style, someone made the video based on pre-existing videos, someone made the album art for them based on pre-existing album art, someone produced the track to sound just like at least one pre-existing track... Where is the creative input and process from the band here?
Also to the question of why would we listen to Japanese singing in English: Because again, they put their own perspective on it, and we get a fresh product (not all the time, but you know). No matter what people say VK and other forms of Japanese music are very unique and can`t be substituted. Contrast an Indie band playing a common style with some English lyrics to a recent Miyavi song co-written by other people. You see the difference perspective makes in creating a somewhat unique product compared to what many are finding disappointment with in Miyavi`s latest.
Anyway, just my thoughts, it goes off topic, it goes back on topic, then it goes somewhere else, but whatever, think what you will, peace.
EDIT: If you like this band or whatever else, cool. I personally don`t but am not judging anyone, just disagreeing with the blanket statements, prejudices, and weird spin that seems to be put on some things. No I don`t think this band is original or important for VK at all, but that`s just me and those things don`t even need to matter to everyone anyway.
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