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What is Yoshiki doing with Hillary Clinton?

I can't believe they actually got Mick Jagger to recite the entire Sakuracon 2009 commercial on the bonus track

Love this list! I will personally pick Jack Caper and Kizu (And 0.1gの誤算, they're fun) . As you said it's funny that Jack Caper and Gosan are pretty "big" in Japan but nobody care about them here. Shellmy are great too I'm looking forward for their new album!
But where's DIMLIM tho ??! 
 

A little old now, but just now getting back into playing songs off of this album. Working through 流転の塔 now. If anyone else is trying to find tabs for Dum Spiro Spero, it ain't easy. Ended up buying the band score from amazon.jp around $30: https://www.amazon.com/x300C-SPIRO-SPERO-x300D-score/dp/4401356705
 
 

@TakadanobabaalienBABYLON were awesome, though. Excuse me while I go cry in my vk nostalgia corner now.

How is there a topic like this without a mention of Takuma (srsly come back soon)!
 
タクマ (Takuma)
→ LUV'ra-Doll → RusH → バビロン (BABYLON)
 
 
 

excuse u for not respecting his #weight #loss #journey

your FAV school teacher bandoman is truely dead inside

dead inside - the feeling I get when I see this guy's droopy face
 
and the fact that he once plagiarized rammstein :/

bih not this angsty gothic shizzle again, try an oshare approach for the sake of variety idk 

.....Do we say this as "daryl" or "darelle" ? hmmm
 
OH well it's exciting

Wow, 10 years =O Haven't been here in ages but on this boring saturday night decided to take a look here again xD
 
it feels like only a few years ago i joined TW after a spamrage on I believe Tonberry back in the days xD, and than all those countless of hours I spend here on the TW/MH forums, the chat, the last.fm boards, everywhere. I have so much fond memories here, and met such awesome people on this forum. Also loved the years I was a member of the team on here. 
And I still remember some events like if they happened last week, some bad to some awesome =)
 
But then again, I came in contact with Japanese music back in 2002 or something, so as that is already 15 years ago, i really don't know what I done the first 5 years... I mentioned Tonberry, I guess Jpopsuki, but it's so long ago by now xD must've been some other boards. But none were like these =). 

It really doesn't matter because the problem isn't the quality of the files, it's the way the album was mastered. The drums in particular sound horrendous. Since we now know the band didn't have a sound engineer on board and they pretty much winged it themselves, let's hope they learned their lesson. 

This horse has been thoroughly beaten. lmao.
 

 
I gave "Together We Stand Alone" a quick spin. It's a very Western release. I can see the appeal, just not my thing. Wouldn't be an album I would talk about in a VK forum. Has a lot of 00's teeny-bopper feel to it.
 
I can't point to a music niche that this album does well. Justin Bieber can write love songs that are more dignified than "You're the One". A7X's "The Stage" is a good example of catchy rock music that goes hard, not this album.
 
It's not a bad album. There's just better picks out there. I didn't actually listen to the album front-to-back. I just skimmed through parts to get a general gist. It was hard for me to stomach a full listen.
 
His work on DISREIGN is far better; but DISREIGN, in comparison to the standard VK fare like DADAROMA and RAZOR, leaves a lot to be desired in terms of originality. Being Gazette-lite is common for VK Indie bands, but bands like those don't get respect in the international VK community.
 

This horse has been thoroughly beaten. lmao.
 

 
I gave "Together We Stand Alone" a quick spin. It's a very Western release. I can see the appeal, just not my thing. Wouldn't be an album I would talk about in a VK forum. Has a lot of 00's teeny-bopper feel to it.
 
I can't point to a music niche that this album does well. Justin Bieber can write love songs that are more dignified than "You're the One". A7X's "The Stage" is a good example of catchy rock music that goes hard, not this album.
 
It's not a bad album. There's just better picks out there. I didn't actually listen to the album front-to-back. I just skimmed through parts to get a general gist. It was hard for me to stomach a full listen.
 
His work on DISREIGN is far better; but DISREIGN, in comparison to the standard VK fare like DADAROMA and RAZOR, leaves a lot to be desired in terms of originality. Being Gazette-lite is common for VK Indie bands, but bands like those don't get respect in the international VK community.
 

This horse has been thoroughly beaten. lmao.
 

 
I gave "Together We Stand Alone" a quick spin. It's a very Western release. I can see the appeal, just not my thing. Wouldn't be an album I would talk about in a VK forum. Has a lot of 00's teeny-bopper feel to it.
 
I can't point to a music niche that this album does well. Justin Bieber can write love songs that are more dignified than "You're the One". A7X's "The Stage" is a good example of catchy rock music that goes hard, not this album.
 
It's not a bad album. There's just better picks out there. I didn't actually listen to the album front-to-back. I just skimmed through parts to get a general gist. It was hard for me to stomach a full listen.
 
His work on DISREIGN is far better; but DISREIGN, in comparison to the standard VK fare like DADAROMA and RAZOR, leaves a lot to be desired in terms of originality. Being Gazette-lite is common for VK Indie bands, but bands like those don't get respect in the international VK community.
 

This af.

I'm not denying the OP's observations about a certain bias some fans may have, but at the same time, I think a lot of people downplay the uniqueness of different languages themselves. When it comes down to it, it's extremely difficult to find bands singing in different languages that actually manage to "sound" like each other. Even if a German-language band existed that sounded, musically, exactly like THE NOVEMBERS or something, I highly doubt I'd ever enjoy listening to them as much as Japanese NOVEMBERS, just from a phonetic standpoint. And this is coming from someone who studies/teaches/otherwise loves German.

But there's all kinds of biases. There's fans that never go beyond English-language or Anglo/European music. There's Japanese music fans that don't dare touch VK, because it would ruin their cred. There's VK fans who put the blinders on to any other scene or country's music.

Chris Corner will sue her :>

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Bitches don't know about my crab core

Bitches don't know about my crab core

Bitches don't know about my crab core

Bitches don't know about my crab core