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Okay, this one's even worse... kC6oOZZ6eFY To top it off, she isn't really that dumb actually. She is a journalist that writes columns for the largest (senstion) news paper and for some other bigger magazines... So I guess there should be more to it than just this song... BUT WTF, this just hurts my ears...

Moi Dix Mois?

You can still be awesome as a band d9NF2edxy-M

First thought been there done that (saw a similar one with a lizzard) but the ending on this one is hilarious

DLS might be right though... Have you put the files in the public folder? If you haven't, you can only listen to them when logged in =)

Aion's Top 5 of 2011 As like every other crewmember on this board, I compiled a shortlist of my favourite albums of 2011. Overall, 2011 was a good year for music for both western as Japanese music. My list Little Dragon - Ritual Union Genre: trip-hop, electronic Sample song: Shuffle A Dream A band I discovered while browsing through the Lowlands festival artists-guide. i immediatly fell in love with their sound they had on their 2011-release Ritual Union. The strong jazzy vocals in combination with the electronic beats is just pure win. Too bad live their sound is more to the dance-side of the spectrum. Short said, I love them hearing on CD, but they dissapointed me seeing them live. Maria Hato – THE LATTER HALF OF ALOHA EP Genre: Folk, indie-pop, singer-songwriter Sample Song: Torty If you haven't heard of singer-songwriter mmm yet, you surely have missed out on something. Maria Hato is her new project, in which she works together with some other artists from my beloved CGCG-label. For example, she worked together with Oono Yuuki on this album. Really sweet indie folk where she re-did her song Winter Woman in a way which is so good, and yet it isn't the best song on this release. KETTLES - ビー・マイ・ケトル (KETTLES - Be my kettle) Genre: Folk, indie-pop Sample Song: つまんないから (tsumannaikara) However this originally was a limited digital only release in 2010, it also got a actual CD-release in 2011. KETTLES got under my attention thanks to a very unique PV and a catchy tune which they maintain throughout their whole album. the vaccines – what did you expect from the vaccines Genre: Britpop, Alternative rock Sample Song: Post Break Up Sex Fastpaced, short, breath-taking. The vaccines is a band that can't take it easy on stage. They're full of energy and they know it well how to bring this energy over to the listener. Even their slower songs have a beat that picks up and up untill you can't sit or stand still anymore. オトハネコモレビ – カタチないセカイ (otohanekomorebi - Katachi nai Sekai) Genre: Piano-pop Sample Song: 冒険心 (boukenshin) I guess I discovered a love for female vocalist that are called kiku. I really adore the sweet yet matured voice. Especially hearing the first tunes of their songs and seeing the band on photos and videos, you would expect the vocalist to have a young, high-pitched voice, but throughout the album she maintains here strong voice, which are backed up with some sweet piano-tunes, making this one of my favourite pop-albums of this year. Dazzled Kid - Fire needs Air Genre: Singer-Songwriter, pop-rock Sample Song: Embrace About 3 years ago I fell in love with a Dutch band called Voicst. They had some nice songs during the year, but then I kinda forgot about them. Early this year their frontman Tjeerd Bomhof released his solo-debut as Dazzled Kid (after one of the Voicst-songs). Together with some guest musicians he released Fire Needs Air, and I immediatly fell in love again with the typical voice of Tjeerd. 潮田雄一 - 8 songs Genre: Singer-Songwriter, Folk Sample Song: 眠りの国 (nemuri no kuni) Luckily I got my latest package delivered just after new years, otherwise I would've completely missed this gem. 8 songs is the second solo release of Ushioda Yuichi, who is also the guitarist of QUATTRO. This band however is completely different than his soloworks. 8 songs let us listen to some really sweet guitar tones, and this in combination with his soft voice are a real pleasure to the ears.

I'm planning to use the Toyoko Inn-franchise which varies between 5500 and 7500 yen a night... Going to get a membership then which offers a discount and every 10th night free stay... in my time in Tokyo I will try to spend most of it in Shimokitazawa and Ikebukuro, they seem the most enjoying for me... niw, haven't mentioned it here... Bought my ticket a few weeks back Will be in Japan from March 6-20, current planning 6-8 - Tokyo 8-12 - Osaka (with one day Kyoto) 12-14 - Nagoya 14-20 - Tokyo Could change though, first week is sightseeing, 2nd week primarily leisuring (live-houses etc)...

A new year, and it's looking awesome already. Just a short list of games I'm looking forward to... Don't feel like going to get in too deep yet, but still Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning 6lhzDkaKi1w Platform: PC, Xbox 360, PS3 Genre: Action RPG Releasedate: February 2012 Journey sJFn_dhnp18 Platform: PSN Genre: Adventure, puzzle Releasedate: Spring 2012 Mass Effect 3 Of8bi3lU-Os Platform: PC, Xbox 360, PS3 Genre: Action RPG Releasedate: March 2012 Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch Pd0q8w1yj_s Platform: PS3, NDS Genre: turn based RPG Releasedate: First half 2012 Dragon's Dogma HYbH25f36Qg Platform: Xbox 360, PS3 Genre: action/adventure Releasedate: April 2012 Quantum Conundrum o9oZGs7UycE Platform: PC, XBLA, PSN Genre: action/adventure Releasedate: April 2012

Going to a friends home to celebrate the new year, and then going to a local bar to get wasted xD Getting home at about 7AM on new year's day, stay in bed to 10th, and then to the grandparents with a big hangover, getting back home at 2PM and straight intoo bed to fix my hangover I guess, that'll be it, as it has been my ritual for the past 3 years xD

but... but... but... the only way to pronounce it is bay-gull right? (bad in phonetic typing, so I hope you understand what I mean...)

wait, like begg-el? wut... and besides, Melk is the way to pronounce it (if you're Dutch at least )

Steam sales are indie games galore for me So far I've purchased Recettear, Bastion, Magicka, Orcs must Die and Sequence... Only got time to play the first two by now xD

If it has to be VK, I really enjoy 人格ラヂオ - 暗い春 (Jinkaku Radio - Kurai Haru). One of the best VK-ballads ever imo Rm5AsVOCE1w

Recettear for the PC just bought the game in the 2nd day of the steam sales for only 3.74 euro, and I already spend more than 3 hours in it. Had to quit because I'm heading to bed. Recettear is a kind of hybrid game, a dungeon crawler with random generated maps mixed with a item selling sim in a sort of dating-sim like environment Hard to explain, just watch some gameplay videos on youtube to see what it is exactly... i can certainly recommend it =)

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Well, he started about 1.5/2 years ago, got huge about 9 months ago, and now he's even gaining more 'popularity'

For those that aren't Dutch, about a year ago Zanger Rinus became a Dutch internet sensation with songs as "Hey Marloes, kwil met je onder douche" (Hey Marloes, I want to take a shower with you), "Verliefd op het meisje van de oliebollenkraam" (Fell in love with the girl of the oliebollen kraam -> Wiki for oliebol) and "Met Romana op de scooter" (with Romana on the scooter). He's not so well known for his singing-career, but mostly of his special dancing move ( ), and for the fact he and his girlfriend take their carreer WAY to serious (I get more results on google than Obama), and for his rhyming (toeter toeter toeter, met romana op de scooter, ije ije ije, samen lekker rije etc)Well, a month ago he released his Christmas song "Heb jij m'n piek gezien" (Have you seen my Tree-topper), and now he tries it internationally with the English version of that song... 9KzOZPRv5rs

Somehow, I don't like it when bands I like do a best of release... ART-SCHOOL for example did nothing good after their best of album, and is on the verge of disbanding... As for ACIDMAN, they just released a second line-compilation 2/3 months ago... now a best of, an instrumental best of, a live cd of the second line compilation, and a bundle of the three... Looking forward to it though

Well since you mentioned Japanese female fronted bands I guess I can help you... But first, since you stated you like RTS, maybe THE UNIQUE STAR would be a band something for you. This band is on vocals quite on par with RTS (in which I mean the squeaky vocals xD). Music-wise the band tends a bit more to the poprock side (like RTS did in Telecastic Fake Show... c7m97hGU_5w As for female fronted bands. My all-time favourite would be me-al art. Really an awesome band with a more than awesome vocalist, Satoko. Her voice is so strong yet sweet at the same time. Too bad they aren't really that active in releasing stuff (last album is a year old already, and nothing released afterwards, and seeing that the last and the one had a timespan of 2 years, I guess we're at least a year away on a new album) Their stuff is pretty easy to find, and as for their last album, it's definitely here as I posted it here over a year ago. TnUvKKsEBwM Along that same line you could try out うるふ (urufu). They haven't released anything in the last 18 months, and even though their stuff is pretty hard to get, I would still recommend them to you. Their vocalist has a more feudal style to her voice so to speak. Her voice isn't that well-developed as me-al art's satoko, but she has something that really attracts me to their music. NU3XRZydQo4 Then we could go more ways on with this one. If you'd like the voice of urufu's vocalist, you could also try テルコハイメン (terucohaimen). Of the above vocalists, I would reckon she's the least talented, but as a whole this might be the band I enjoy the most. Too bad they lost 2 of their members over the summer and haven't released all that much in the past year besides one demo. I did share their album and DVD over here somewhere N9XgmjgIODs If you'd like to go more pianopop (since you mentioned fukurouzu), I guess ]b\オトハネコモレビ (otohanekomorebi)[/b]. They're a band which I find very addictive. Their album is definitely one of my favourites of this year (I shared it over here some months ago). QN5TNnhGvMA More on the rockside I can recommend you Heavenstamp. A band that made it quite big in just over a year with 3 more than successfull and good to listen to mini-albums. 0ucpPWgaR30 Could go on and on if wanted

hitting the 80 hour mark soon Storywise But then again, the game is so much more than the story... Maybe I did around 10 hours storywise? 30 hours exploring/cavehunting and 30 hours sidequesting... Almost completed the thief guild , joined the imperials and conquered Whiterun, and just started the mages guild... So, I guess I'm only halfway seeing there are lot more guilds to join

71MCA59Krls really now? what's next? A hunt down on the Nyancat creators because it makes people believe cats can fly and so they throw them in the air?

That's what I kind of thought I do hope so, 12012 is one of the reasons why I lost hope in the VK scene. The were awesome in the beginning with songs as shudder, boku no kara, KARA and Ms Vampire for example but then came the shit after icy ~cold city~... might check it out as I am still fond of those older songs... first checking out some reviews of it though...

Guess I'll be buying it since I'm in Japan by then =)

So, anyone going to watch it? It's going to start in about 2 hours (iirc) So far announced games that are going to be shown: PS3 Exclusive You Won't Believe Promo HD Syphon Filter? The Last of Us website csubsCk86sw 1st party PS3 exclusive Alan Wake Returns XBLA-return of Alan Wake? New Epic Games title Samaritan DX11 showcase turned full-game? The Next Game From BioWare new C&C? Metal Gear Solid Rising Trailer has already leaked: http://www.megavideo.com/?v=CU9Y6BUE developed by Platinum Games Transformers: Fall of Cybertron New Tony Hawk Further games that are probably going to be shown: THQ – new IP BioShock Infinite The Amazing Spider-Man Half Life 3 GTA 5 Diablo III Halo 4