Champ213

Yeah, that's him. He became third, but has been most active and most popular of the final three (and all contestants from 2003 to this day) The landscpae is beautiful. I wonder where it has been shot.

Yay, Babylon! Also, if you follow some artist links from my 2005 audioscrobbler profile you can see how the site has grown. BUCK-TICK for example had a whole 3000 listeners back then, today it's over 50,000...

We didn't delete any posts. If you posted something and it didn't show up, post it again, the board sometimes eats posts, we're looking into that already.

Ohay, I actually found it: May 2005, shortly after registering: http://replay.waybackmachine.org/200505 ... /Champ213/ Pretty oldschool. XD

And lol.... I think we were talking about the subscriber icon....? I hope. XD

I've done this a couple of times before, this is the oldest I can find now (May 2007), though I once managed to get some archived pages from the old Audioscrobbler.com page. Lol! http://replay.waybackmachine.org/200705 ... r/Champ213 Also, I found an older version for you, Cat, by adding a / to the end of the url: http://replay.waybackmachine.org/200705 ... ser/one80/ Other people might want to try it too, I may give you different results.

Chronologically: Paul Simon: for being the first artist I ever listened to, I guess XD (I was 6) The Cranberries: the first "rock"-sort of band after years of pop and charts stuff in my early teens Suede: The most important band for me. Irreplacable love of my life, since I was 15. Marilyn Manson: for getting me into somewhat harder/darker stuff in my late teens Luna Sea: for getting me into J-Rock Amon Amarth: for making me loose my apprehension of growls/harsh vocals, lol

Amon Amarth - Surtur Rising (Limited Ed. Digibook with Bonus DVD) Nice packaging as usual.... I grieve that I couldn't afford the boxset with uber-cheesy Surtur action figure though. XD

Because I'm old. But yeah, I got into Placebo when I was around 16 or 17.

I thought everyone educated their parents with Brian Molko approx. 10 years before TH even popped out? I remember my father once asking me a few years back whether I liked TH, because after all I was "into that andogynous stuff".... by which he probably meant Placebo/Suede/Marilyn Manson though, which I was listeneing to as a teenager.

THEN STOP UPLOADING ALL THAT MAINSTREAM STUFF! Seriously, I can never understand why labels are such bitches about PVs. I can understand misgiving about uploads of whole DVDs or albums, but you would think the idea of a PV ( = PROMOTIONAL video) is to be seen by as many people as possible.

Syaranosui were pretty great. Too bad they disappeared off the surface of the earth. And well, they did have a profile at Visunavi, and I'm pretty sure Visunavi only adds bands at their request, so if they sumitted their info there they must at least partially have identified with vk.

Isn't it nice when simple things can make you happy?

I think the fact that a band is disbanded seems to be more significant in vk anyway, because in vk you are used to get a constant flow of releases - small releases usually (singles, mini-album), but they pop up every few months. If a vk band hasn't released anything for over half a year, people start to wonder. A year without release and the band is practically declared dead (there are exceptions of course, especially for more well-established bands). In western rock/metal waiting two, three or more years for a new release isn't that uncommon. Of course it still hurts when you officially hear that there will be no more new stuff, but I think it's still different because you never had the expectation of being showered with new stuff every few months anyway. If you already accepted that there won't be any new stuff for the next 2-3 years it's maybe easier to accept that there won't be any new stuff at all. The absence of new stuff isn't felt that quickly as in vk.

Except for BUCK-TICK (and now Luna Sea) more or less all my favourite japanese bands are disbanded, lol. Anyway, I can't say it matters to me, neither for bands that I already liked when active, nor bands that I discovered after disbandmant. I never really gave it a second thought. Good music is good music, even if the band is no longer active, and if I just got into a (disbanded) band, their music is as new to me as if they just freshly released it anyway.

I do ask. What the fuck? I'm shocked. (Actually I bought that one too, but for my mother. )

Well, he was kinda famous for a few years when I was a kid. Not so much anymore though, I don't think he had any chart hit in the last 15 years.

Oh my god.

Actually I win: I was 12, ok?

Oh yeah, those are good ones too!

I don't have that many long japanese songs either.... but maybe I'm just listening to the wrong genres when it comes to japanese music.

Ugh, I hate that Song+silence+song routine.... seems rather pointless to me. =/ Anyway, some of my favourite long songs: Thy Catafalque - Neath Waters (18:43) Kauan - Sokea Sisar (12:35) Summoning - Land of the Dead (12:59) Týr - Land (16:19) Wolves in the Throne Room - A Looming Resonance (12:01) Helengard - Snowstorm Call (7:20) Moonsorrow - Huuto (15:58) And more, but this is what I could think of from the top of my head. J-Rock: X japan - Art of Life 夢中夢 - 祈り (10:27) L,DEAR - 愛の媚薬 (10:22) Versailles - The Love From A Dead Orchestra (8:28) The longest song I listened to was Eluvium - Static Nocturne (around 50 min) I think... though it was kinda too... static for my taste. XD

(Note: I'm putting this into the J-Rock section, because most music-discussion goes on here, but this is in no means limited to japanese music) So... as the title says, it's about long songs. Since "long" is rather relative I define it as songs 7 minutes and above . Obviously some people would say that a song is only long if it's above 10 or 15, or 20 minutes or whatever, but I rather use the lowest common denominator, and it seems to me that standard songs are usually between 4 and 6 minutes. So... what do you think of long songs? Like them? Hate them? What are your favourite long songs, and what is the longest song you ever listened to (as a whole without skipping)?

Yes, because Spanish is Brazil's native language.

Strange, I too thought they were fairly popular overseas, having done a lot of US touring and such. Anyway, I never really listened to them, I wasn't even aware that they suddenly turned all veekay. Seems to be en vougue for bands that already existed for several years to suddenly jump on the bandwagon to gather some fans? (see OROCHI).