evilcoconut

Wow that's a great list of songs lol. I was going to agree with your selection, but then I saw my favorite D'ray song and I have to go with that.

They changed their name to AIM?  Well that's fucking annoying

finally!

↑ Would probably pick the Penicillin track as I'm not really a fan of any of the other artists.

01.OLDCODEX – Elephant over

02.Slot Machine – หัวใช่เท้า

03.Calmando Qual – Shadow

04.io樂團 – 戀愛我不行

05.JETSET'ER – Her Name Is Music

06.Mariska – Kahellaa

07.WEAVER – ネバーランド

08.12012 – Over...

09.Mix Speaker's,Inc. – S.O.Sロマンティック

10.GOING UNDER GROUND – カウボーイによろしく

This shuffle was decent, yet boring, until 12012's song, so it's obvious which one I'm picking lol.

argh duplicate

That's why it's in the rumor section lol.  But if there's any truth to it, the bullet points pretty much all fit Hyde.

About that I'd also like to add the tons of gory videos, and what was discussed on my PV thread. So sick of seeing popping eyeballs and ripped beating hearts o_O 

Lol, this. It comes off so try-hard in most cases.

The only beer I drink is Angry Orchard. Other alcohol I like is fruit cocktails and some soda mixed in with rum or some other hard liquor.

I think they just make hard ciders don't they?  Good ones though, I might add

Oh there's quite a few, but honestly, I have to say Zodia.  Just because I want to see what they could become if they hadn't broken up so quickly.  They sounded so fresh and awesome when they hit the scene and then BAM! gone.

"A band's first album isn't automatically their best, in fact, it probably sucks compared to the rest of their disco."

Unpopular because about 75% of the time I meet fans of bands I like, they always say their first albums were the best, like it's just an automatic, understood thing.

Now, this is not exclusive to the J-fandom, I've observed it loads in Western music before I ever got into Japanese stuff.  But I've never gotten it.  Why does everyone parrot that the first album is omg the best ever and then they totally sold out desu desu one one.  I can name so many examples: D'espairsRay, MUCC, 12012, Gazette, Meth (for them it was actually their first single or something really stupid), L'arc (lmao) and on and on.  Me personally, I very rarely find any band's debut to be their best.  In fact, far from it.  Kinda like a writer's first novel is usually shit personified.  I don't mean first published, I mean actual FIRST.  Bands grow, bands get better at what they do and the same generally goes for every art form.  Some of them DO have uncommonly good debuts, but that is the EXCEPTION, not the norm.

You are not extra edgy or indie for liking their first album THE BEST, thereby providing some kind of unsaid proof that you've liked them since ~forever~

That 70's Show.  I can't seem to stop watching it.  Even though I have lots of unfnished dramas. 8D

Hang on you guys, my last post was a lie. THESE are my top ten VK bands. 

1.Mejibray

2.Matenrou Opera

3.Alice Nine

4.Lycaon

5.Born

6.Screw

7.SUG

8.D

9.Megaromania

10.Nightmare

*le cough*

it's all my fault guys. i made a list of vk bands i like and slowly but surely everyone on it is breaking up. two down, eight more to go.

"Old-school/90's VK wasn't really much better" With so many people parading around old-school superiority, I'd say I'm in the minority with this opinion. As someone who has been in VK for ~10 years and collects tons of old-school stuff, I can certainly say without a bit of doubt that there were a TON of really shitty bands back then. Anyone who would say otherwise is looking through some pretty rose-tinted glasses. That being said, I certainly do miss some of sub-scenes in VK that no longer exist(soft visual/white-kei/proto-oshare) and don't exactly like all of the "sounds" that bands tend to get grouped into nowadays, but I definitely can't say that one era was better or worse than the other as they all have their ups and downs.

Lmao, yes, I totally agree with this one too.  There aren't any more crap bands now than there were then.  People just tend to always be nostalgic for the ~old days~

Idgaf, happy about this

I can't really definitively answer this because it all really depends on my mood and what exactly it is I'm reading or writing or studying or whatever

I agree with evilcoconut; I wanted to find heavy music and most of the Western stuff I found was so samey. I was attracted to VK because for the most part it's a unique form of rock/metal. I've honestly never really cared about the look of the bands I like

Yeah, my story is kinda similar. I was a nu-metal head back when it was ~cool~ and then the scene kinda died and I basically found the sound again in VK.  I've branched out since then, but the majority of VK I liked when I first got into it was all the nu-metal-aping shit.

I don't care about the visuals in VK:  I say this is an unpopular opinion because I've been told countless times that it's impossible not to care about the visuals and anyone that says that is lying and on and on.  But I don't and I never have. I have some kind of sick attraction to the music itself, but I don't give a flying fuck about the band's appearance and would prefer they didn't look so ridiculous if I had a choice, just so it'd be less embarrassing to point them out to people.

I totally agree with your "Dir en grey is still VK" opinion lol.  I kinda can't help rolling my eyes when I run into fans who try to act like Diru is completely disconnected from VK and shouldn't even be mentioned in the same sentence.  Like you said, their sound is so rooted in VK that I can't separate the two. Bands in the same "sound profile" who were never VK sound different.

Hah, this is much harder than the visual one.  To the charts!

1. SPYAIR
2. UVERworld
3. FoZZtone
4. Flumpool
5. B'z
6. The Sketchbook
7. Straightener
8. DOES
9. Base Ball Bear
10. NICO Touches the Walls

Honorable mentions for bands that have a vaguely VK history but don't seem to be now? Idk lol

• GLAY
• L'arc
• SID
• The god and death stars

it freakin' sux

Isn't it just quintessentially VK? I put Eat You Alive in my list and hey whaddya know, they're disbanding!  Next band up! lol

I feel like Japanese regular edition CDs are not outlandishly priced, it's the freaking shipping that puts them up into outlandish territory when all is said and done. I remember when American CDs cost about 20 bucks on average.  Idk when they came down, but I paid that price and didn't like it, but I don't really think it's ridiculous.

Do we count bands that aren't VK anymore? Lol.  Well, I'm not going to anyway (so no MUCC, Merry, Lynch, Giru, etc.).  Also, no hiatus or disbanded bands.  This is in order based on my Last FM plays. 

1.12012

2.Vistlip

3.Sadie

4.Vivid

5.xTRiPx

6.cocklobin

7.DaizyStripper

8.Awoi

9.EAT YOU ALIVE

10.LOST ASH

*LIPHLICH

*Thomas

*Blu-Billion

*Yazzmad

*Baelscope

*Honorable mentions in case any of those bands are on hiatus whatever and I didn't realize lol