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I agree but maybe our reasons are different. These are mine. The argument for more diversity in media is that it reflects real life. But once again, people confuse diversity for flipping the status quo. There's nothing wrong with a show featuring a majority white cast if that's what the story calls for. There's nothing wrong with a show featuring a majority black cast if that's what the story calls for. There's nothing wrong with a show featuring a majority asian cast if that's what the story calls for. Game of Thrones was written in 1996, inspired heavily by English history and especially The War of The Roses. Of course it's going to feature mostly white people! It should not matter as long as the show is good, and it is a very good adaptation. It's refreshing to see things like Black Panther but representation in media is not some zero-sum game where some group has to suffer. That's such an archaic and outmoded way of looking at the world.

no one hates u delk

I remember distinctly saying all of this when DOGMA dropped in my review. The album has legit zero staying power, so while it's cool to listen to at the beginning the draw back is just not there. I'm quite glad these guys went hermit on us because that means they are giving themselves some time. Time doesn't mean that they will produce something good, but I'd rather that then churning out obvious crap to punch in sales. I'm looking forward to the new album because then we will get a bunch of B-sides that they have no faith in which could potentially be some of their greatest work yet. They always put the good stuff on the singles and they know it, but for some reason they refuse to put them on albums where they belong. FADELESS is the only single exception in recent memory where the B-sides were total garbage.

Call me a hopeless optimist, but I don't think Dir en grey will ever break up. They've joined the likes of bands like BUCK-TICK where they will always be together to record an album, but maybe the bulk of their efforts will be into their personal projects. We're already at the point where it takes them four years to come out with a new album, so what's an extra year or two so they can focus on DECAYS/sukekiyo/Seraph? I don't think Dir en grey will end until one of the core members dies tbqh.

For that, I would have to know all the songs they never put to tape or disc. I remember listening to Ai Murasakiiro, an early version of CAGE and ZAN, and something else, but nothing quite like what you've described. I wonder why they decided to scrap the song (or maybe they reworked it into something else).

I'm so curious to know what this song sounds like you have no idea. It's not every day that I find out a band I've been following for ages has a song I've never heard. You said they were different lengths, so can you describe what the track sounds like and the differences between the versions?

I had heard a different explanation for the meaning of [KR]cube, but I cannot find the page now. Basically, Kyo wanted to originally name the track "crazy crazy crazy" and the other band members (I think Kaoru) was like "no", so then he changed it to [KR]cube. If I can find it again, I will post it here, but it's been a few years so no promises. It didn't seem to make much sense to me, and the "kururi" explanation is also a good one too. Also, is Re:birth an old song or a new song? Title looks too visual kei to me monkaS

Oh I know. A side effect of being part of the "woke generation" is that I can see the ugly patterns mirrored across all these social justice campaigns. That's why I can't jive with most of them. From #BlackLivesMatter to #MeToo, there will always be a loud minority that seek not equality, but to flip the status quo and become the oppressor on their own terms. Disclaimers stop the egomaniacs from missing the point and twisting my words to make it all about them.

Those kinds of people want the world to revolve around them, want throngs of people doting on their every word, and want to be important and influential. They see a rising movement associated with them, latch themselves to it, maybe even define themselves by it...but when a couple of verbs are changed and suddenly there's something else that they aren't a part of, they can't handle it because it takes away from their self-perceived shine and importance. They need to be on top. They must be on top and if you don't agree there is something wrong with you. It's a paradoxical mix of ego and lack of self-esteem, exacerbated by social media, blog posts, and algorithms that lock these people together in insular, online bubbles. For the record this isn't just about LGBT. It can be associated with any movement where the minority wants to make their voices heard and then the crazy minority within them attempts to hijack discourse to butter their croutons.

Because being a dick head has less to do with sexuality and more to do with being a dick head. You can be an awful human being no matter what you like. I really wish that people didn't use LGBT status as a shield to deflect criticism when their actions are worthy of being criticized. It just promotes double standards and confusions. If you can't deflect arguments on logical merits, take the L and keep it moving, you know?

https://www.amazon.com/Sony-NW-ZX2-High-Resolution-Walkman-Japanese/dp/B00S94QZF8 This is the only product I can think of that fits your description, but it's hella expensive. I have the Sony NW-ZX1 which is the earlier model. Runs Android 4.0, takes almost every file type under the sun, and has respectable battery life even a year later! Came with 128GB of internal storage but no capability to expand it ;( Also, if you do decide to buy this do yourself a favor and buy a back-up data cable this uses a special cable and not the typical USB connection.

So we've reached full circle in VK...

If you still care for the answer, it's because iTunes maintains its own set of ID3 tags separate from the ones that should be embedded in the tracks. If it's a certain style, the information carries over. Otherwise, you get the stuff wiped. It's why I just stuck with iTunes after multiple attempts of cataloging 10k tracks that had their data wiped out.

If anyone could produce scans of the liner notes that'd be dope.

Technically Ash was re-recorded for the Myaku single since a different version of it was on Kaede~if trans~, but yes they pretend like that song doesn't exist anymore and it's one of their most badass visual kei tunes.

If I were to go back in time and have my way with the album, I would have convinced someone to split it into two discs. Slip "ain't afraid to die" and "children" in there, and "Jealous -Reverse" if they love it so much, and kept the album around 85 minutes. Move some tracks around to spread the ballads around and focus the themes. It was their most prolific visual period by far. An interesting thing I noticed is that the band left a lot of material on the table with their first two albums, but there were fewer tracks for the 鬼葬 era. Tracks that weren't remixes appeared on the album. When you take out the 3 filler instrumentals, the album drops to about an hour run-time. In comparison, this is the first time band has purposefully featured "I'll" on an album. "Jealous" was reworked in 2000, and that and "ain't afraid to die" were on the DECADE compilations, but the original version of "Jealous" has never been touched.

Yeah they booted their keyboardist not too long ago.

That's not good.

"ain't afraid to die" would not have fit on MACABRE because it would be three minutes too long to press to CD. Should have taken Taiyou no Ao's place since it is a single and it would end the album on a more appropriate note, and 18 years later I still think the song is bunk. I can talk about all the insane decisions made for each post-GAUZE Dir en grey album and how five minutes of critical thinking would bump each of those albums up by two points, but this isn't the topic for it.

I differentiate between hating a song and realizing it has no place on a 'best-of' compilation. I don't care for 'audrey', but including that song over '[KR]cube', 'MACABRE', 'children', '24個シリンダー', or 'Zakuro' is a baffling move. The repetitive, country-styled riff sticks out MACABRE like a sore thumb and out of context it doesn't work any better. I also don't understand the logic behind including a B-side remix of your first single over the original single, unless that is their subtle way of admitting the new version is "better". I can go on and on about all the little decisions that made the first set of best-of albums not worth it for me, but the main point is that I don't hate 'audrey' - it's just B-side material at best.

He was talking about abortion? I thought he was discussing performing an unlicensed hysterectomy.

That whole song is about how Kyo saw a girl he liked so much he punched her to death, raped her dead body, put her in the fridge, and then killed himself out of guilt. Does this have something to do with the war and babies born of radiation poisoning or is it something else?