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"5 o'clock" by Pata. Is relativity absolute?

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MUCC Dir en grey 12012 Moran deadman DEAD END Kuroyume Luna Sea Awoi L'arc-en-Ciel

Totally lame news. I still can't really fathom it. I used to listen it Soundgarden a lot in my early teens and pre-teens days and I have a lot of pleasant memories of their songs. I remember making a 90's playlist on Spotify maybe a few months ago, and I put "Outshined" on it without hesitation. RIP hard, gonna be a tough one to grasp for a while, I reckon </3.

I never got any visual kei things signed in person (mostly because the bands I like haven't seen a livehouse outside of their place of their prefecture and were dead since at the latest 2004), but I have some things signed by old nobody bands like Rebirth, Requiem and 16,Piano. I might have some others, but those are the ones that come off the top of my head.

Wow, I'm surprised he was around after Lastier o__O. But regardless, that sucks he's retiring. Always tough to see a VK guy around for so long leaving.

Yuuga is the most HXC VK frontman of all time, bar-none.

Hmm... well, truth be told, I wasn't that fond of Dir en Grey when I first heard them. I was a snooty 13 year old, and I thought that "Obscure" was a Korn ripoff. Fast forward three years, and I was sporting a shirt with a cartoon Macabre-era Kyo on the front.

Hmm.... interesting. Here's my take. Underrated: Shuuji #1 from Cali Gari Mizuki from e.mu Hirofumi from Eins:Vier Yuji from Child Overrated: Dada from Velvet Eden Hina from Azalea/hurts (sorry old school heads) Riku from Phantasmagoria/chariots And maybe the most controversial of all... Kon from La'Mule Sorry about that.

My 14 year old inner self agrees wholeheartedly XD

It was more of a generic thing for people who haven't XD

Everything came in awesome condition, once again! Great communication and good shipping like always! If you haven't bought anything from Hyura's collection, then you must be on bags of crack!

In all seriousness though, orange Faygo is delicious! XD

I was a Juggalo years back indeed lol. But those albums have left a huge impression on me, so I'll always love em lol.

Wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.... this is a tough one, but I'm gonna try. Alright, let's see... my 9 favorite albums, in no order... Mr. Bungle - Mr. Bungle (1991): This is without a doubt in my top 3 favorite albums. Weird and bizarre to say the very least, Mr. Bungle's first album served as a tremendous eyeopener to me during my freshman year in high school, when I was trying to find some experimental stuff. Well goddamn, did I stumble in the right direction. Okay, this next one is gonna seem kinda weird to all of you out there, but here me out. Insane Clown Posse (ICP) - Riddlebox (1995): Yes, yes, yes, I know. ICP. I can hear it now: "HOW THE HELL CAN YOU PUT THEM UP?!?!" ... Well, let me tell ya. If you take them at face value as two guys rapping in facepaint about horror-esqued vengeance, sort of like rap antiheroes, then you'll probably be able to see the value in their first few records, especially their 1995 magnum opus "Riddlebox". The beats are baggy, the flows are surprisingly tight and the overall environment is pitch dark. Basically, if you can separate yourself from the rest of the anti-ICP lynch mob, you'll probably find yourself digging their early stuff. Crazy, I know. Long story short: believe it or not, "Riddlebox" by ICP slays. Twiztid - Mostasteless (1998): Okay, this album, this album right here, changed my life FOREVER. Before I stepped into the world of artsy avant-garde, I was heavily into underground hip hop. You know, the stuff that's barred from mainstream masses for different reasons. Sometimes it's because the rappers are too "real", too "comedic", too "violent" and just too "anti-mainstream". Well, those four reasons right there are why Twiztid probably had a hard time crossing over. With their first album, 1998's "Mostasteless", they combine a unique atmosphere centered on surrealistic violence, morbidly dark humor and mesmerizing flows and wordplay. This album was a huge stepping stone in me finding out who I was (the music eccentric) during my troubled times from 11 through 14. I actually met Twiztid a few years ago, and it was an utmost emotional high and something that I'll remember for the rest of my life. Prince - Purple Rain (1984): When I was starting to really explore my roots as a musician, I didn't really have a single all-around idol to look up to. Kami from Malice Mizer was the closest to becoming that guy to me, but the one artist who truly inspired me to give it my all while simultaneously pumping out some of the best albums of all time is this lil' guy: Prince. I can't even begin to describe how much this guy meant to me as an artist. Since he was 19 years old, he wrote EVERYTHING, he arranged EVERYTHING, he played EVERYTHING... he was that guy. His stage shows were just the icing on the cake with how exciting they were. The "Purple Rain" album/soundtrack in particular remains his brightest moment, which pretty much everyone unanimously agrees on. This was also the album in many ways that brought me into the Purple One's world, and started my heavy Prince fanboy era. When the day came that he died, I can't even accurately explain how much it devastated me, it was like I lost a family member. Just the greatest of all time, right up there. Eminem - The Slim Shady LP (1999): Another one that may come to a shock to a few of you, but believe it or not, I was a HUGE Eminem fanatic as a kid. HUUUUUUGE. South Park and Eminem is what my years from 1999 through 2006 consisted of, and yes, it was as dysfunctional and fan-fuckin-tastic as it sounds. But anywho, I remember spinning "The Slim Shady LP" tons and tons of times as a kid, and even at that young age that I got it, it always wowed me with Em's now worldly-renowned style of saying the most fucked up thing you can think of, and adding a pitch black, comedic flair to it, which is how I suppose he crossed over to the mainstream. It is still absolutely one of my all time favorite albums, rap or otherwise, to this day. Boredoms - Soul Discharge (1989): Only one word can truly describe the early days of Boredoms: insanity. Pure, unadulterated insanity. Needless to say, when my 13 year old mind first found Boredoms, it was through their later Ritalin-taking days, so it didn't really make an impression on me. But when I returned a year later, I decided to poke around a bit, and that's when I found their early stuff, more specifically, "Soul Discharge". Needless to say, I was just blown away by how truly warped the album is. It's basically what a deranged, schizophrenic manic depressive cousin to punk rock would sound like, and it was fuckin' AWESOME. I still love listening to it to this day, and it definitely ranks in my top 10, let alone top 9 records of all time. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (1991): This one was actually a later discovery in my life, probably when I was around 11th grade, so that's probably around 2011/2012. A bit late, but what the hell. Anyways, I suppose I always like shoegaze, since stuff I like, like Smashing Pumpkins's "Siamese Dream" album, was heavily influenced by the scene. But it wasn't until that age that I dug into it, and sooner or later, I came across the gem that is "Loveless". You can be totally sober, never taken a sip of alcohol or a puff of a blunt, but the second that "Loveless" starts, you're put in this morphine-like euphoria that is almost indescribable. I remember the first time I listened to it in its entirety was when I was on the phone talking to my friend. We're both quite opinionated, loud fucks when we talk, but when it started off with "Only Shallow", we were suddenly rocketed into this awesome galaxy where psychedelic-tinged lo-fi alternative rock ran supreme, and guitar and drowned, indecipherable vocals were king. We were silent for pretty much the rest of the record, which runs near an hour long. Look, don't take my word for it, look everywhere: it's a masterpiece. And believe me, your life is totally complete after you listen to "Loveless" in its entirety. Nas - Illmatic (1994): Have you ever heard someone discredit rap and try to say it's not music? That it's not poetry? Are you, yourself, guilty of saying the same thing? Well then, if you are guilty of that, do yourself a favor and listen to "Illmatic" this very second. I remember when I picked this up from Media Play back in 2002/2003, I was actually amused because one of the tracks was titled "Life's a Bitch". At 7/8 years old, the gravity of that phrase doesn't sink in till a few years later, and you're just giggling because a swear word is on the tracklist uncensored. Little did I know the lingering impression it would have on me. The rhymes and instrumentals used on "Illmatic" portray a sort of sepia-toned (no pun intended) outlook on urban life, and it is just art. Seriously. This album proves that not only can rap be a respected music form like any other genres, but it goes one step beyond that and puts rap music in a category of art. That is how remarkable "Illmatic" is. Bis - Social Dancing (1999): While perhaps not as critically acclaimed as some of the albums on here, the Scottish band Bis's second album, 1999's "Social Dancing", definitely remains one of my all time favorites. What is perhaps the most fascinating part of Bis's catalog is the evolution in their sound. While at first they started out as bratty pop punks with a new wave influence, they later became much more serious in sound and became practically an all-out electronic act, with no pop punk influence at all. "Social Dancing" sort of represents a bridge in that evolution in that while it has some serious tracks, it also has that same playful attitude that Bis was founded on. Since I'm a huge fan of them, I love both eras just about the same, so "Social Dancing" would obviously be the supreme release to me. And since Bis also happen to be one of my all time favorite bands, then "Social Dancing" naturally make my top 9 as well.

Well, here are some spooky ones for you all that I know of: King Diamond - Welcome Home Can't believe no one posted any Diamond. Cheesy yet technically sound classic metal. The Candy Spooky Theater - Exocist One of the spookiest and creepiest VK PV's. This one definitely takes me back a few years. Twiztid - We Don't Die Ahhh I'll always love these guys. Unless you were there, it'll be gimmicky rap metal to ya. Still, a floating ouija board. Spooooooky~~. Mr. Bungle - Quote Unquote Serial killers hanging off of meathooks, a creepy baby masked guy dragging a doll on some train tracks, a gimp rubbing a cross all over his leathered face... yeah, this was pretty controversial back when it was released in 1991. It's still pretty much banned in the remaining music channels out there. The Residents - Hello Skinny Unlike the Mr. Bungle video, this video, like most videos of avant-garde superheroes The Residents, wasn't played much because... well, it's just damn weird. Gotta love em! That's about all I can think of at the moment lol.