Total Saikou

Man, the elements were there but they were put together so sloppily. Fukusan should've straightened out the mixing that drowns him out, maybe done a few more takes because his singing sounds slurry in some parts... And is it just me or is he legitimately off-meter in the first verses?

In my case, it’s actually a huge excitement factor. Some faces in the VK scene are so prolific with their involvement that they basically become a seal of quality when their name is attached to a project (like say, Sharaku Kobayashi, Kozi, Shuuji Ishii, etc). When I see that a bandoman who has continuously delivered is going to be part of a new band/side-project, I just know that I’m gonna love it. There's also the "brand new dream team" factor of new bands with old names. I remember when Roman Kyuko formed and I as a fan of both Siblebashir and Sex-Android, was wondering what power-house vocalist Izumi and obscure-style-lover Toru would sound like together (they sound amazing, Toru's love of Rockabilly 'n punk + Izumi voice = perfection).

Of course, I get attached to some band members and follow every single one of their side projects/new bands and even their off-stage activities. Some of these guys make the kind of art I want to see in the world and I wanna do everything I can to support that (and them). Plus most of these guys are just interesting people who passionately share their love for art and their personal artistic processes, so it's fun to get to know the people behind the instrument and root for their success because you like them as a person in addition to their musical outputs!

It can also be inversely, where I go backwards and check out some old and/or obscure band one of my favs was in it. From humble high school garage bands to subterranean hidden gems to one-time team-ups, going down the band name rabbit hole is something that I think is, as it is, special to the VK scene.

2 minutes ago, Arkady said:

The new album is the friendships/contacts HE made all along.

Maybe the real new album was the wacky anime cross-overs he made along the way ❤️

Imagine going on a date with a girl and tricking her into thinking that you speak French just by saying a bunch of VK band names like it's a sentence.

Lareine Versailles? emmurée. Moi dix Mois, Baiser, L'arc en Ciel. Noir Fleurir... Noi'x.

I always thought this Vivid was a Mandela Effect/Hallucination where I thought I misremembered some old school band as having the same name as ViViD but nah, they are real.

I think I just witnessed one of the cheesiest PVs in Visual Kei history but the song's kinda a banger tho 😳

9 minutes ago, Total Saikou said:

I dunno wtf was running through Yoshiki's head when he thought that St. Vincent's Starbucks only drinking, socks with sandals wearing, nothing but mayo on white bread eating, clapping when the plane is landing, thinks that pepperoni is spicy audience would be good exposure for him and X Japan. I bet money that it ain't.

Come to think of it... Who exactly is Yoshiki trying to appeal to these days? 🤔 Even I can't really tell anymore.

1 hour ago, shane said:

Well this is random, but this is Yoshiki so it doesn't really surprise me anymore

 

 

I dunno wtf was running through Yoshiki's head when he thought that St. Vincent's Starbucks only drinking, socks with sandals wearing, nothing but mayo on white bread eating, clapping when the plane is landing, thinks that pepperoni is spicy audience would be good exposure for him and X Japan. I bet money that it ain't.

On 8/26/2020 at 4:22 AM, anakuro said:

2) You are the Prompter - 14,000 yen 😭

The camera will be at the prompter and you'll basically be having eye contact with shuuji through 80% of the live (probably). Please note when he stands too close to the prompter all you will see is his feet.

 

The funny thing about the twitcasts is this is something Ao brought up in commentary back in the 6/7 stream. 

"wouldnt it be funny if we did streams with a camera at shuuji's prompter shuuji fans would LOVE THAT 'oh MAN I'M MAKING EYE CONTACT BLUSH'" sorta thing. 

 Over 150$ just to have a half hour's worth of intense eye contact with a very pretty middle-aged Japanese man. Damn, Garists really are nothing but a buncha Shuuji simps 😞

Very stoked to see The MagazinE release their new hit song "Clean outside the Ugly" 😍

I appreciate the fact that Masato is trucking on like nothing happened. God bless him ❤️ even though Jue-san was my favorite member but whatever

We're gonna miss you man, there's nobody on this forum quite like you 😭 When you come back, we'll definitely remember you! 

From my understanding this one is a licensed sample but when I found out about I thought it was pretty cool, that synth line certainly didn't sound like their usual production.

The main synth line in 念力 borrows from

you can hear it at the 1:27 mark

Also, I don't think anyone's mentioned this particular one here yet but the main riff in ３月５日。sounds like the chorus in Nirvana's "Heart Shaped Box"

^0:29

^2:07

Since I'm a fairly new user we've yet to officially know each other but welcome back! It's great to see older fans getting sucked back into the bandomen whirpool, hehe. Added you on Last.fm btw!

Ben's spitting some fire barz tho 👀

I just realized that philosophers are just socially accepted emos. 

That says a lot about society though; you're only taken seriously after you die...

Sometimes I wonder what VK would be like if instead of having band names like →△○～悲しいRoNrIiΚιð§～〠 they had generic rap names like Lil, Big, etc...

Lil Diru, Lil X, Lil Larku... Yeah, that puts things into perspective for me, sometimes you gotta take the good with the bad.

3 hours ago, Keiyuh said:

Who is kisaki and why am I his errand boy

Smh I can't believe that kids these days don't know about Kisaki and his legacy and his various crimes against humanity and especially under-aged kids 😤😤😤

3 hours ago, Keiyuh said:

What a saikou 

And you know it 💕

2 hours ago, Keiyuh said:

Nothing 

Fucking love that song OMG 😩💞🙌

Literally just started listening to them last month I--

I really liked them but I'm just glad that poor Mio is putting his health first. The men should always come before the bando 😞

Yeah Last.fm doesn't really record any official information other than the song length to determine when it can be counted as scrobbled. That's about it. You can literally tag whichever artist and song title on any video you want via web scrobbler and Last.fm will have no choice but to treat it like it's legit. 

I just scrobbled "Yoshiki Farts Into the Microphone For Four Minutes" by X Japan off of the "Super Secret New Album Demotape" just to prove my point. 

update: I added some artwork to make it even more official *chef's kiss*  

Might be an ironic parody but I've been unironically loving this song for years

I always thought shipping real people is gross, even when I was younger. I do like to see band members with strong, healthy interpersonal relationships though. You know, being able to make edgy jokes, sharing food and going out to eat, working through roadblocks like sickness or multiple side projects. It's fun to watch behind-the-scenes stuff where they're clearly comfortable with each other and are great friends. A good inter-band relationship adds a lot to the band because even if you have an absolutely legendary but soulless, only-here-for-the-money group they're still gonna be less of a fun show than some noobs jammin' out together. Nothing sucks more than having a member who looks like he'd rather deep-throat his own guitar stock than be in the same room with the other guys (and I have seen guys with that look/body language, multiple times).

17 hours ago, suji said:

ああああ

 

(Pronounced "Ashi")

 

The fuck kind of bullshit is this.

I mean, it's a dumb pun sure ("shi" is "4" in Japanese, so it's "Four As") but I don't see it any different from a Western band with a name like AAA (pronounced "triple A")

There's just something about the fact that when given the technology to fabricate people saying anything (which can be used for unfathomable malicious purposes) the internet decided it wants to just use it to make memes sing a song from a Japanese video game. A small shard of my hope in humanity has been restored.

As of today, I have a total of 62 VK CDs in my possession. I chronicle what's in it on my collection share post entry and on my vk.gy account. The main bulk of my collection are Malice Mizer and Plastic Tree (trying to complete my collection, I'm getting close with MM but trying to complete Pura's discography will be the be the death of me I swear) but because I like a lot of artists, I have 1-2 CDs from a bunch of different bands that I really like. My collection basically tripled due to quarantine spending, which is kinda nice because it was even smaller before (something like 20 or less CDs if you don't include the western ones I had) and is now big enough where I feel comfortable with its size. I have stopped spending on it to save some cash for university. Good lord knows my textbooks will probably cost more than all of my collection combined.

If you include my (extremely tiny) western collection then it comes to 71 in total. I also have some VK photo/interview books as well but I don't really include them in my collection count (except for on vk.gy), they're their own thing. If it matters, I have 3 on me (all Malice Mizer related) and I plan to add some more.