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  1. Posted

    I've gotten a reply from Ahito Inazawa on Twitter and he ended up following me - he was actually one of my first Twitter followers, lol. Cinema Staff, Molice, and the keyboardist from Blindman also followed me/retweeted a couple of things I posted. 

     

    Taigen Kawabe (Bo Ningen) replies to me all the time if I mention him on FB and Twitter and he also retweeted one of my posts. He's really sweet. Naoto Shibata (Anthem) also replies if I comment on his Facebook statuses. He's also a pretty cool guy. 

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    I love many songs by Billy Joel. I know some of it can be sappy and romantic, but I some of the songs hold some meaning for me.

     

    HOWEVER I fucking can't STAND the song "Piano Man." 

     

    I think when I first heard it, I thought it was pretty interesting but now I'm sick of it and it just pisses me off. I say this is "unpopular" because almost  everyone I know starts making dramatic orgasm noises every time it comes on the radio and then start going on a rant about how music was so great back then. It's. Not. The. Only. Popular. Song. With. A. Fucking. Piano. In. It. 

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  8. Posted

    Great songs by X Japan and Dir en grey! :D

     

    1. Sugizo - Synchronicity

    2. 八十八ヶ所巡礼 - ano世love

    3. Masami Akita - 8

    4. Boris - 無残の涙 -merciless-

    5. Cinema Staff - さよなら、メルツ

    6. Melt-Banana - His Name is Mickey (At Last She Got Him)

    7. Bluebeard - Can't Rely On

    8. Andymori - ボディーランゲージ

    9. Andymori - 夢見るバンドワゴン

    10. D'espairsRay - 凍える夜に咲いた花

     

    Giving some love to 88Kasyo because they are deliciously sexy and perfect in every way. <3 

  9. Posted

    Agreeing with this, though Bohemian Rhapsody is not a bad song. Queen is an artist I can't talk ill about because I've never really listened to them, but I have heard Bohemian Rhapsody. As I stated, it's not bad and a lot better than most radio material, but just because it's less radio friendly it's being treated as the best thing ever and makes number 1 of every "best of all times" every single year. There are a lot of songs that are more complicated, better structured and are composed of more interesting parts than Bohemian Rhapsody, they're just made by artists no one in radio land has ever even heard of.

     

    Yeah, I think it's a good song, but my main dislike of it stems from it being so overplayed nowadays rather than the quality of the song itself but that pretty much goes for every popular "classic" rock song that's out there. 

  10. Posted

    I actually enjoy Dynamite Tommy's voice.

     

    It's so bad, it's almost refreshing.

     

    Other visual kei vocalists are bad too, but they're a conventional bad. His voice on the other hand is . . . a fascinating bad. 

     

    I also kinda like him as a person, which I guess is unpopular as a lot of X/Extasy/old Diru stans think he's Satan or something. 

  12. Posted

    It sounds A LOT better than I thought it would, but I agree that the melody and chorus is a little forgettable. Everyone but Ryuichi brought their A game though, I just think they could have written a better song. 

     

    This song was basically ripped RIGHT OFF of the Shine album, there's no doubt about it.

  14. Posted

    Oh, thank goodness I'm not the only one who's getting sick of the "let's all bash on the Gazette" trend. I'm not very fond of the Gazette either, but it's not like they are the epitome of everything that's awful and wrong with visual kei as many people make them out to be. -__- At least, I think if people do pick on them, they should have better reasons for doing so besides "the fandom is annoying," etc. 

     

    And I think the whole "indie cred" shit is the most IDIOTIC concept ever. That's doesn't just go for visual kei bands either, but all music everywhere. Indie bands can be shitty too. Indie bands can be repetitive and unoriginal. I can't stand it when people just automatically flock to something because they only have a certain number of listens on Last.FM or whatever and deem it good when it actually isn't or is mediocre (this is especially true for certain non-visual J-indies fans, good god have some discretion people). I feel like worrying about how underground or unpopular the music is just defeats the purpose of listening to music in the first place - to enjoy it, to be inspired by it, etc. 

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  15. Posted

    Boris - Flare and ディスチャージ -grave new world- (no video for this one) - the first one could be for like Bleach or some shit and the second one could be for a darker shounen anime like Death Note et. al., I don't know . . . it's been forever since I've watched anime.

     

     

    Eizo Sakamoto - 桃色ハレソラ (also no video for this one) - I've always imagined this to be for a cheesy 90's magical romance/shoujo anime and/or a boy's love  :3

  17. Posted

    Visual kei gets a bad reputation because visual kei fans can't talk music

    Elaboration is the cornerstone of great conversation and great writing. Talking about music and bands is an exercise in persuasive writing. You're giving your audience - anyone that took the time to read what you have to write - very good reasons to consider why your position is correct. Now let's say I just left this topic with that one sentence in bold. I may have a good point. If I explain, I very well may change your view. But since I don't, you won't take me seriously. If I do this over and over again very soon I'm going to build up a reputation as someone not worth listening to because I don't explain the "why's" behind my beliefs.

    Expand this out to the entire visual kei scene.

    One of our largest problems isn't that we don't have a lot to say about our favorite artists. We do. We just never get around to ever saying it. This extends out beyond Monochrome Heaven. I find I can't take people's opinions or reviews seriously because they'll just say something is great or something is shit and leave it at that. Most of the time I'm convinced that subsequent people just parrot the first person to say something different, and it continues in that direction from there. There is hardly ever details and when there is it is at the most basic level possible. As fans, we should continue to promote our favorite bands and our favorite releases, but then couple that with reasons. Why do I like this album? Why don't I like this band?

    And let's keep it strictly about the music, because believe it or not saying "the vocals are good and the guitars are awesome!" tells a potential interested reader nothing. What exactly does awesome sound like? Right...

    Now if you are not confident in your writing and explanation abilities, don't let it stop you. Read up on professional reviews on other websites. Take tips from them. Continue to work on it. You can't become better at reviewing if you never try. But if we all begin to discuss the actual music behind visual kei when we make our claims, I believe that people in other scenes will stop dismissing us outright as wankers who only listen for the pretty boys.

     

    Yeah, I completely agree . . . and this has been something I've been working to practice on in my own blog and reviews (well except for this one), though there are times I find it hard to describe the music in absolutely technical terms and I still have a lot of work to do . .  . . . reading other people's reviews in magazines or on official websites helps immensely. It's also a really good exercise for writing in general. It helps you get in touch with your emotions, expand your vocabulary, etc. 

     

    I get annoyed when a person's review is just "the guitars are shitty" or "the vocals were interesting" - well, they didn't sound shitty to me, haha. What do you mean by that? Haha. :)

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  18. Posted

    Color - I just have a feeling the world would be a much better place filled with their wonderful sounds if they came back together. If Marry (R.I.P.) could come back to life that would be awesome too. 

  19. Posted

    "I care about how the band members look" -  I guess this is more unpopular coming from the non-visual side of things . . . I'll be honest and admit that I do have a soft spot for guys I consider hot/cute/beautiful. I download all their pictures and follow their Facebook/Twitter accounts. I make up cutesy nicknames for them and perform all the other usual fangirl protocols (except probably fanfiction, unless I'm just being ironic), etc. 

     

    Anyway, I'll probably come up with more later ~ . . . 

  20. Posted

    When I'm studying I like to listen to Merzbow (Merzbient is a favorite of mine) and Boris' dronier/instrumental stuff like Flood and The Thing Which Solomon Overlooked. For some reason that kind of music really helps get me into my "zone" which helps me to focus on my work without being too involved in the music itself. 

     

    For reading novels, it depends on the mood or genre of the novel. Most of the times I listen to really mellow ambient and post-rockish stuff that isn't too distracting because my brain is absolutely terrible at multitasking. (If I listen to something too exciting, I start paying more attention to the music instead of what's going on in the book). 

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  22. Posted

    We're really doing this? okaaaayyyy :3

     

    According to nothing except my feelings right now . . . 

     

    1. Number Girl

    2. Bo Ningen

    3. cinema staff

    4. Boris

    5. 88kasyo

    6. andymori

    7. Anthem

    8. Melt-Banana

    9. Suiseinoboaz

    10. Grand Slam 

     

    Honorable mentions:

     

    1. B'z

    2. The Stalin

    3. The Yellow Monkey 

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  25. Posted

    Sigh is awesome! Haven't listened to them in a while though.

     

    1. Dir en grey - Merciless Cult

    2. Versailles - The Revenant Choir 

    3. Def Leppard - Excitable

    4. Boris - You Were Holding an Umbrella

    5. Anthem - Night After Night

    6. Luna Sea - Mechanical Dance

    7. The Clash - Tommy Gun

    8. Blindman - The Way to the Hill

    9. Grand Slam - Heartache

    10. D'espairsRay - Cocoon 

     

    Love "Night After Night!" Really kickass track. 

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