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wow, that was unexpected, love that! if the live-shows are even only half as crazy as the music itself this is going to be magnificent!

huh, did they now re-edit the review to a more favorable one? the hell? probably received a bit of hate there... ^^

chelsea wolfe and russian circles on the 2nd of november. chelsea wolfe was kinda meh (sound wasn't ideal, venue was still a bit too light because of the lit bars, but mainly it became blatantly obvious that she's relying on the two chord song-structure too heavily) russian circles afterwards was enormous tho. perfect sound, incredible musicianship, nice flow of the overall dramaturgy and just beautiful music in general. totally cool evening (i'll link pics later if the appear somewhere...)

goddammit that sounds uber-cool, want!

haven't listened to it yet but will later, just out of curiosity, the disliking is more towards this album in particular, or melt-banana in general?

hello there, nice to see such an enthusiastic new member, you'll find many likeminded long-time j-rock-veterans here aswell also @Zess look at the almighty powers of the review-section

ok, since this one is claimed to be worthwhile i'll try it aswell. i'm not much of a Jazz listener so take what i write with a grain of salt, but here's my on-the-fly first listen trackbytrack impression/review... TOO LONG;WONT READ 1. 東京ピエロ nice chill start into the album, very coffee-shop-ish. i like how the harmonies are pretty simple pop-esque most of the time but with a few odd ones to throw you a bit of. i like it. cool to nod along to 4/5 2. turn the world around oh, a duett? nice, a little stompier than the previous song with that continuous beat, just enough change to keep me interested. i could swear that i've heard 90% of those songparts somewhere else already tho. also much simpler harmony-wise, almost predictable. still okay track, perhaps the "pop-song" of the album. 3/5 3. モンスター ok, singer-songwriter now? adding another vocalist to the ensemble (i guess?) and providing some sorta blooming open chorus parts with strings. feels a little like the obligatory ballad on kpop-albums, which is really not a bad thing. i just think the song is quite a bit too long, or it could've used one or two truly different parts, this way it seems just like the same 16bars repeated over and over with a bit of variation here and there and they don't hold enough substance to do that. 2.5/5 4. Natural Girl ok, here's now the jazz finally again. obviously connects back to the first track but is quite a bit more upbeat and groovy than that. nothing groundbraking here, but why fix it if it ain't broken? very cool piano-solo too and xylophone intermezzo. all adds up to a nice track to listen to 4/5 5. 窓 Vox-Duett with piano? naturally makes the connection with musical/disney type of music. i take this opportunity just at how nice it is to hear actually played piano without clicktrack and all that for a change by a skilled musician. it sounds just beautiful. that said whilst providing a beautiful athmosphere the track in itself is pretty forgettable. 2.5/5 6. 日曜の夜に鳴く鶏 hmmn, continuing the same realm as the previous one, now with added band. hrmpf, it might be just be me, but this kind of song annoys the hell out of me, the only interesting thing about it is that one key-change near the middle and the general annoyingness of the slide(?)-guitar 1/5 7. She Is A Rainbow another coffee-shop-track, for the first time i notice a slight hint of singalongability with the start of the chorus which is a nice addition. apart from that it's just more of the same, still nice. 3.5/5 8. Be There a groovy one, another one with guest vocals and instrument-solos. super bonus props to the bassist also for that verse-opening such a subtle but impactfull chromatic walkthrough deserves a medal negative points for "yeahyeah" (yeahyeahyeahyeahyeah...) 4/5 9. This is the love is it just me or somebody else getting a slight jamiroquai-vibe here? although nothing much changed with the whole beat, arrangement and the e-bass this has in general a more "modern" feel to it than most of the tracks before. one might also make the comparison to tokyo-jihen perhaps. also flute-solo. but somehow it still doesn't really catch my attention, idk i'm kinda torn... 3.5/5 10. 顔 ok, this one almost lost me. basically it's just roughly 6mins of -song-. wouldn't there be the pushing buildup at halftime i'd have skipped. not a good sign. 2/5 11. JASMINE the album is becoming a bit long i have to admit. the track flows nicely and is pleasant and all, but i have to admit i have the urge to skip through the remaining tracks. it is becoming a little bit paint-by the numbers versechorusversebridgechosus-repeat. unique selling point is probably the porn-guitar here. the rest don't really do anything. 2/5 12. フラワー. hmmn, it's a track i guess. i'm probably not very fair anymore at this point, but i guess it should be along the lines of 2.5/5 13. 真夜中のメリーゴーランド next instalment of the actually jazzy parts, again with duett vocal. as it shapes out those tracks are probably the better ones on the album. still nothing surprising anymore, just a bit of soft and calming earcandy. nothing wrong with that probably skabadaba-dubidubidu vocal-solo is the earcatcher on this one. 3.5/5 14. オールドタイム. it's the finale, and they're going for sad piano-ballad. with added whisteling it's a nice anti-climatic endingpoint for an album, doesn't do that much as a song tho, just kind of a harmonic-exercise. 3/5 ------ mathmatically that will probably add up to 3/5 or sth. my personal beef with the album is, that there's not really a standout track, something that even slightly resembles a hook of sorts. i know it doesn't really want to be like that, but as a whole it couldn't really keep my attention up, it's more of an album that just flows by nicely without hurting anybody. in it's whole i don't think i'll listen to it again, because it simply is too long, but i think if i boil it down to 5-6 tracks this could be a really cool mini of sorts.

that a bad thing? that way we don't have to hear him sing i found the whole thing kinda meh except for extremely annoying "rap"-parts, but in all that's still better than most of the SUG stuff for me^^

who hasn't already should also check out the other members-interviews on that site from ongaku no hitu. it gives a very clear picture of the bands approach to music and it doesn't seem like blabla to me honestly. (kyos in particular if i remember correctly) that weird chemistry of batteling for songparts and trying to fit the unfitting together really shows in their songs and really still makes them quite unique in my books, which is pretty much the main point why i don't understand the usual claim "they're just your average deathcore/metalcore-band nowadays". it might be that "language" but it's a whole different kind of music and that's why the songs turn out the weird disfunctional behemoths that they are (that doesn't mean it works all the time, but it's still nothing i see anywhere else...)

urg, instrument thieves really are the worst. to steal from musicians, which are usually some piss-poor bastards, the one thing that is both passion, collectible and working-tool (or.. well -instrument) is pretty much the epitome of dickheadedness. man i which the culprit/s get their cocks stuck in a fan or sth...

I DEMAND SILLY GIFS THO!

this album is a masterpiece *nods vigorously*

aaaah, i neeed to impress somebody like rite nao! so here's my my suggestion: soutaiseriron - hifi anatomia ----- some of the most beautiful music that my hardrive ever had the honor to waste its 0's and 1's on. everything on it, the instruments, the vocals the sound are like played and performed in the softest way possible, only touched or whispered, it's really not something you hear everyday, its gorgeous! (and they're named after the theory of relativity, i mean how cool is that?) PM incoming

so this exists, let's just think about that... Edit: and it is -PART THREE- o.O

jup, the cd-drive to harddrive switch is possible for all macbook-pros that have a cd-drive (hence not the retina-models, which sucks for me ) here is the kit (or one of them, i guess there exist multiple ones) http://www.mcetech.com/optibay/ depending on the year/generation of your macbook you will have to let a specialist do the swap, because the macbooks became increasingly user-unfriendly and now use screws that need specialised tools to use with it etcetc #applefuckshitcunts edit: here's a video of that...

accurate depiction of my feels to this album to be fair, only to the first half or so of it. i had to stop there because of severe boredom, i doubt i missed the "interesting" bits...

so far i liked season 4. but all the seasons before also started promising and became a complete non-sensical shitfest later, so i'm keeping my hopes low

if the last spot is still open, i'll slip in "knellt" with their debut "st." they've been known under the name "kill my bleeding smile" before, i guess after a while they found that to be way too emo for a psychedelic doom band album is pretty short but the amount of musicality and creative instrument use is enough for what other bands put into several albums alltogether... PM incoming...

it took a while, but their electro-djent-numetal-pop sound seems to come together little by little and start to make sense (it's hard to judge based on that Mono-lowquality-sound tho...)

totally missed this thread, but here is for my first contribution an anime that is a few years old (2006) and perhaps went a little under the radar for some people. i added the OP to the post, which can give a quick impression of the general "feel" of the anime if that's ok. otherwise i'll just remove it again EDIT: btw it is completely streamable (Japanese with english subs) on the funimation-channel on youtube as i see it...

i don't really get all the hype for master's sun tbh. ok the character of the male lead is fun and the setting with ghosts etc. in the beginning is unusual and exciting, but pretty soon it goes downhill with tons of unnessesary and/or unbelievable side-characters, a storyline without any sense of progression or suspense. others i watch / i've watched more or less recently: Japanese ------------------ - Pin to Kona extremely cheesy, but fun to watch. the kabuki setting is not often seen in the dramas, also amusing how hard the male lead is friendzoned, and how bad an actor his main-rival is at always trying to look super-tormented with all that inner pain etcetc. - Yamada kun no idunno was cool at starts, but after a while i got annoyed by the "over-the-top"ieness and trashieness of it all, so i ditched it - Summer Nude managed to bore the shit of me within the first episode. ditched Korean ------------------ - the heirs can't say much about it now, so far characters are nice etc. but by the setting of it i guess i'll hate it sooner or later (like tons of other k-dramas, financially poor and vulnerable "girl next door" get rescued from her poorness by a rich guy who cures her with his richness. k-dramas pretty often seem to have very medival morality and role-models...) - two weeks this one was pretty great actually, a bit through the roof with the overacting, but still very nice and captivating plot and suspense, also high production value and relatable characters - Good Doctor hmmn, watchable i guess, but very, very predictable. only interesting high point is the disability of the main character itself and how he and his surroundings deal with that, but that's pretty much done with after half of it... - Who are you quite nice, again like the lot of it a nice and interesting setting to start with. characters are fun to watch and the relationships also make up for a bunch of nice episodes. towards the end the main plot gets a bit out of hand and seems very forced. - i hear your voice one of the most watched dramas as of late and rightfully so. nice characters, good acting, production value, interesting main plot, suspense, it's all there and beautifully put together. about the only slightly comedic issue i have with this is, that the main feature of the student-boy with his mind-reading is treated like "i guess that's cool" and after a few minutes the most normal thing to have around lots of wasted potential here about the morality of scientific research, human evolution, distinguishing reality vs. fiction, drifting towards madness etcetc... - She is Wow this was very surprisingly good, about a very VERY dysfunctional family sort of in the puplic eye (he is a popular news anchor, she is a sort of fading actress-star, getting a bit old, marriage was only for show) having to deal with a series of hiob-esque blows (illegit son returning trying to get involved in the family, father having a seperate same-sex affair, all that related to a very distant past crime etcetcetc). as i said didn't have this on the map at all and it's perhaps the best of these all - Nail shop paris urgs, this was crap, had to skip through most of it. that's all as of recent that i can remember of the top of my head... need to check a few others out since heirs is the only one running right now that i'm watching.

soooo new SHINee track out, any thoughts? although i don't really dig this song in particular (the "everyybooody, eeeeeverybooody" singalong chorus doesn't really do it for me) i think the complextro genre could be extremely well fitting for them! also these looks and the new choreography are pretty dope too, stoked for the upcoming album...