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Sorry that it's taken me a while to go through the 6 Days DVD but I've finally written up some bits for disc 1 now.
 
Hair
 
Police
 
Gendai Stoic Day
 
Modern Garde Day
 
nuChemical Rhetoric Day
 

I got the common non-fanclub 2 disc version, which to my surprise, meant 4 hours of all members of Merry sitting through and commenting on it. If anyone have the full 6 disc version, do you know if they literally comment on for over 6 hours? Lol
Here’s some general/ random musings on Disc 2. I haven’t gone through Disc 1’s commentary yet.
General
 
The band made a lot of general comments on which bits of performance they think went well but the comments on the following stood out for me:
 
Gekisei
 
Komorebi ga boku wo sagashiteiru
 

There you go, YouTube playlists of yesterday's concert:
White Sheep + Black Sheep
@sads123and anyone else interested, enjoy!

I wonder if say Happy Life will even be on the next album? I always perceived it more as a part of the NO SMART era, but they do have a history of jamming singles into albums regardless of whether they fit or not  Recording a more straightforward album like NOnsenSe MARkeT feels right for the time, and they got to stretch their songwriting muscles a bit too with it and Beautiful Freaks, but I also miss retro guro Merry. And it's not like they have given up on that, take a song like [collector] for example! That hits all the right spots, but ended up only as a single b-side,  as have all their most out there songs really [Oriental BL Circus, Charlie, stupid x cupid...] I wonder how much of it is label pressure and how much - self-censorship. Good thing we have the concerts at least. If you're asking about current favorites, I'm so stuck on the '09 Shinjuku Loft Concert (Identity/BURST EPDVD).

Don't know if this has been discussed in another thread, but I watched yesterday's nico live and suddenly remembered the talks of Kyo spicing things up with some synths or even a theremin from a few pages back and lo and behold (after the 30 minute mark, theremin after 33).
 

Prophetic much? Predict somethin nice for me too.

Yuu's the best! He broadcasted Merry's live today on his IG (u_merry) live. Too bad it cut off after an hour, so most of the new songs were left out, but they played Atama ga zakuro and Kohakuiro no Ballad! I think it's still there for 18 hours if anyone wants to watch. Sounds amazing as always.

I love what they did with Ieji! It really shows off what they can do and the acoustic bits are simply dreamy. I also love that song and think it's a great choice.
 
My favourite cover has to be オデッセイ・1985・SEX. Gara just slays that one, you can tell he was living his dream.

Have you guys listened to MERRY's version of 家路 yet? And if you did, did you like it?
 
Personally, I really liked it. It's one of the highlights of the MUCC tribute album for me. That got me thinking that with all the stuff MERRY released in 2017, we finally have enough material for an entire MERRY album of covers from other artists. 
 
(chronologically)
2002 - Strength Beyond Strength
2007 - PRECIOUS...
2009 - 伊勢佐木町ブルース
2009 - 学生街の喫茶店
2010 - 皆殺しのメロディ
2010 - 新宿ナナ
2010 - オデッセイ・1985・SEX
2011 - Schweinの椅子
2012 - 悪の華
2017 - SO...
2017 - 家路
 
That's quite a lot! I think only MUCC got them beat for "official" studio version covers. At least as far as V系 bands go. There's also the debatable inclusion of シャ乱Q's 上・京・物・語, but that one doesn't count, right?
 
Anyway, which one is your favorite cover version? Which ones do you dislike?
 
Personally, I think it's reallyyyy hard to beat 伊勢佐木町ブルース, but I love 新宿ナナ and オデッセイ・1985・SEX.
 
The ones I'm not really hot about are Strength Beyond Strength and Schweinの椅子, and I think that's about it. MERRY usually does really well performing other people's songs. I kinda wish they did even more covers, MERRY almost always leave their personal mark and that's pretty cool. The next single could use a brand new b-side and another old-school cover.

More to come
yesterday was amazing, yet again. Setlist was really cool. Seriously, go see MERRY at least once in your life. [human farm], T.O.P, バイオハレ、ジャパモダ、窓 (yea‼️）、躊躇いシャッフル (！！！)。And we got 2 extra songs because the crowd didn’t stop singing. We got Happy life and F.J.P twice. Which was cool because ガラ had technical problems with his mic during the first Happy life. He also forgot the lyrics to MASS CONTROL ( at 奈良, he forgot エムオロギー). Adorable. 
 
And MERRY’s fan base is friendly as fuck! Holy shit, those girls are amazing.
 
now, I’m off to Tokyo to catch them again with BAROQUE (yeahhh!!)

update: i gave m-ology another listen and i really like it *____________* especially 犬型真性MASOCHIST. i think i established this already, but it's probably my fave out of the whole album. other than that, it's not as bad as i thought it was at first, (altho it still doesn't slay as much as their previous albums) and i feel bad for dragging my babies...................🙇🙇🙇

MASS CONTROL
作詞: ガラ 作曲: ネロ
 
犬型真性MASOCHIST (Inugata shinsei MASOCHIST)
作詞: ガラ 作曲: 結生
 
gaudy
作詞: ガラ 作曲: 結生
 
平日の女 -A面- (Heijitsu no onna -A-men-)
作詞: ガラ 作曲: 結生
 
Black flag symptom
作詞: ガラ 作曲: 健一
 
傘と雨 (Kasa to ame)
作詞: ガラ 作曲: 結生
 
F.J.P
作詞: ガラ 作曲: ネロ
 
Happy life -reprise-
作詞: ガラ 作曲: 健一
 
SIGHT GLASS
作詞: ガラ 作曲: 結生
 
エムオロギー (M-ology)
作詞: ガラ 作曲: 結生
 

オリエンタルBLサーカス 
窓
montage
 
shoutouts to メランコリー, too.

Fav B-sides:
 
 - Omohide Sunset
 - Charlie
 - montage
 
Also, shoutout to Midnight Shangrila, one of my all-time fav punky MERRY songs (even though it's technically not a B-side, but it was on like a rly limited single).

btw, if you haven't heard it yet, MERRY's version of SO... is incredible. So far, the best song from the D'ERLANGER tribute album.

I'm so mad at myself for getting into them a year after I've been to Tokyo....just saw modern garde for 1000 yen on the website of a shop I've been to...sigh. But I also found it in a anime/vk shop not far away from my hometown. It's 23 euros though. Whyyy.
But, on a brighter note (not for my bank account though), I finally bought M.E.R.R.Y, Nonsense Market, Peep Show, Under-world and nu chemical rhetoric! Except for nonesense market, they were all on sale for 8,95 :)))
I'm definitely planning on getting modern garde as well. 
I'll let you know what I think

As part of their 30th debut anniversary project, BUCK-TICK are releasing a new single titled "BABEL" on 2017/11/15, with the following tracklist and versions:
 
01. BABEL
(lyrics: Atsushi Sakurai / music: Hisashi Imai)
02. Moon さよならを教えて (Takkyu Ishino Remix) (Moon sayonara wo oshiete)
(lyrics: Atsushi Sakurai / music: Hisashi Imai)
 
■Limited edition Type A (SHM-CD+Blu-ray)：VIZL-1261 / ￥2,380(tax out)
■Limited edition Type B (SHM-CD+DVD)：VIZL-1262 / ￥1,880(tax out)
■Regular edition (SHM-CD)：VICL-79002 / ￥1,000(tax out)
 
The bonus discs will contain the music video for the title track. Also, seeing as there is a remix of an as-of-yet-unreleased song, I think it's safe to say that a new full-length album won't be far behind either.  As they promised at the beginning of the year, iirc.
 

my copy finally came in the other day, & I finally gave the album a better listen. might take me a while to get used to it tho, but I thought Nonsense Market was better tbh
 
i liked every song, but I was really into 犬型真性MASOCHIST, FJP, Black flag symptom, & SIGHT GLASS (that's a given). i can't believe they rerecorded 傘と雨. the happy life rerecording fucking slays~

Tracklist :
1.CLUB「F」
2.FLEURET
3.Fの地雷
4.コンドルとクインテット
5.アンドゥトロワ・ユーダイ
6.キーストーン
7.書
8.ダイヤの4P
9.不埒
10.RIDE ON ME
11.ホロウ
12.saying

pretty gara being manhandled by two guards and being pulled on a leash and that noose giving off that kote vibe yaaass gawdT yaaaaaaaaassssssss 💦💦💦
 
this definitely makes up for all their crappy recent pvs 👌💕

Finally! I don't know, it seems pretty MERRY to me actually, lines up well with their M.E.R.R.Y.-era videos for example, it's just that they haven't gone for more v-kei looks in a while. I knew it, I knew he'd open his eyes! The end, pretty Gara is pretty. And sheepprincessgara said in the other thread how no one comments about Tetsu's brace being finally gone, but honestly I just felt the excitement about it now that I was watching the video, wow, it's really happening <3

I'm more broke than I expected and haven't ordered yet, so still going by the nico broadcast. I think I'll have a more visceral response to the album once I have it in decent quality, but anyway, let's do a track by track:

「M」World Order · Don't care about it one bit, but MERRY intros have always been hit or miss for me anyway.
MASS CONTROL · Love the melody in the verses. The thing is, I would enjoy the chorus so much more if I could be shouting along "tengoku harakiri" without turning the whole apartment building against me... I'm trying to say, I still think this is a better live song and majorly envy everyone who can go to MERRY concerts. But it's good anyway, sends me back to their old tracks.
犬型真性MASOCHIST · Gara's lyrics and Yuu's guitar make this one for me, not their best composition, but it's catchy and has been growing on me.
gaudy · Another one for the lives. I imagine I will listen to it when it comes up in the album, but won't ever specifically want to play it. Instrumental is on-point and everything, but that's the minimum I expect of MERRY anyway.
平日の女 -A面- · Still love it like the day it was released and think it's one of the best MERRY songs ever (certainly in recent years). Although I wonder if type B wouldn't fit the tone of the album better. But then again type A's instrumentation is so, so beautiful...
Black flag symptom · One of the most immediate songs on the album, reminds me of Identity a bit and I like it just as much.
傘と雨 · This one is rerecorded, right? Or am I just being delusional? Somehow it sounds more defiant now. Another gem in any case.
F.J.P · Nero!! This one is as if someone picked my brain and extracted the formula for the perfect song to get me hype. Guaranteed eternal replay.
Happy life –reprise- · Like the song, not impressed with the new recording.
SIGHT GLASS · This one's for the history books, the day ero-guro MERRY and female-point-of-view MERRY converged. And it's glorious as expected. Are you going to collab with cali-gari one day?
エムオロギー · Ah, what do I do with this one. It's trying so hard to be grand and anthemic, but it is so damn beautiful too. I think I'll love and cherish it.

So all in all, I am one happy fangirl - but I would be even happier if someone deposited a few hundred into my bank account. Anyone?

I'm more broke than I expected and haven't ordered yet, so still going by the nico broadcast. I think I'll have a more visceral response to the album once I have it in decent quality, but anyway, let's do a track by track:

「M」World Order · Don't care about it one bit, but MERRY intros have always been hit or miss for me anyway.
MASS CONTROL · Love the melody in the verses. The thing is, I would enjoy the chorus so much more if I could be shouting along "tengoku harakiri" without turning the whole apartment building against me... I'm trying to say, I still think this is a better live song and majorly envy everyone who can go to MERRY concerts. But it's good anyway, sends me back to their old tracks.
犬型真性MASOCHIST · Gara's lyrics and Yuu's guitar make this one for me, not their best composition, but it's catchy and has been growing on me.
gaudy · Another one for the lives. I imagine I will listen to it when it comes up in the album, but won't ever specifically want to play it. Instrumental is on-point and everything, but that's the minimum I expect of MERRY anyway.
平日の女 -A面- · Still love it like the day it was released and think it's one of the best MERRY songs ever (certainly in recent years). Although I wonder if type B wouldn't fit the tone of the album better. But then again type A's instrumentation is so, so beautiful...
Black flag symptom · One of the most immediate songs on the album, reminds me of Identity a bit and I like it just as much.
傘と雨 · This one is rerecorded, right? Or am I just being delusional? Somehow it sounds more defiant now. Another gem in any case.
F.J.P · Nero!! This one is as if someone picked my brain and extracted the formula for the perfect song to get me hype. Guaranteed eternal replay.
Happy life –reprise- · Like the song, not impressed with the new recording.
SIGHT GLASS · This one's for the history books, the day ero-guro MERRY and female-point-of-view MERRY converged. And it's glorious as expected. Are you going to collab with cali-gari one day?
エムオロギー · Ah, what do I do with this one. It's trying so hard to be grand and anthemic, but it is so damn beautiful too. I think I'll love and cherish it.

So all in all, I am one happy fangirl - but I would be even happier if someone deposited a few hundred into my bank account. Anyone?