I should have noted that the last live I've seen of L'arc en Ciel was in 2012 (Nissan stadium I think). If I remember correctly, I wasn't the only one that had a "holy shit" moment when I heard Hyde's singing compared to just a year prior.
Kiss? I mean... it was aight. Listening to anything with Yukihiro kind of hurts my feelings though.
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The "hobo yelling era of '90-'91" was my personal favorite. What Saishu said was spot on. His vocal style had that raw youthful energy that fit their earlier work perfectly.
His "failed, vocal coached vocalcraft" was actually pretty great for the type of music they were making around the '98-'00 era. (i.e. Storm, Tonight). There's really nothing to complain if you're looking at it objectively.
See 5:13 of the link.
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Division is their best live and album to date. Not going to even touch on the "Ruki lost a lot off his range after DIM actually". The songs are just different. The only proof that I need is 2:06 of the Undying video that I posted earlier in the thread.
Overall I didn't care for Dogma, but Ominous was fun and Incubus had a catchy little chorus. Did anyone else notice the little annoying cuts in certain tracks? (see 1:40 of Incubus)
I figured that when I compliment a singer on this forum, it will be within the bubble of vk/jrock standards (thought that was obvious enough). If I want to fap over "great vocalists", I'll go listen to R Kelly or Luther Vandross.
Hyde is probably the best example of this. Pretty awful singer up until 2011. Now his singing is pretty much perfect. Amazing actually.
idk why but Ryuichi was always a great singer.
Ruki has definitely improved. His singing became pretty great around Toxic. Now it's awesome. See 2:06 of the video below. Fucking nails it. 100% perfection.
Then go to 4:17. *cringes* Oh well. He'll keep improving.
Kyo was at his worst during the Withering tour where he was basically just shouting at the top of his lungs every night and losing his breath during every song. The live performance of Garbage on the Clever Sleazoid single is a perfect example: he couldn't get all the lyrics out, and the growling parts ("ladies and gentleman" and "please die") were actually backing tracks.
But it sit down and watch the Arche Budokan lives. Kyo ain't perfect, but he's come a long way.
EDIT: just noticed the example of "bad singing" was from the Arche live, which is the best Kyo has ever sounded. He isn't "off", he's singing only one of the three vocal overdubs.
Xetem got a reaction from nullmoon in the GazettE
Xetem got a reaction from Furik in the GazettE
