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yessss i just saw this on twitter!! was his first ep uploaded here anyway, or did i miss it...?

yaaaaass the monthly recs are up and kicking ass again!! i look forward to hearing more new stuff from the new orz members! this is a really cool list! @qotka still loving that reirei song hahaah. not only are they fun, but they also sound pretty solid. will be keeping an eye on them~ ^^ and ahhh, i'm so behind on caligari, but that sounds like them alright haha. @tetsu_sama69 i've been missing out a lot on vk these days, but that virge track sounds pretty awesome! i agree that it has an older vk sound, which might be why i liked it instantly. @emmny i always enjoy reading your blurbs ;u; ktk never fail to impress me, how could you ever call them a flop lol j/k. mei's vocals are always fun and for some reason i keep thinking that sound he makes at the beginning is a burp lol. i've never heard of shellmy until now but that ballad is beautiful. songs about rain are always nice and i hope you keep on featuring them pls~ :> @fitear1590 i share the same feelings towards pelican fanclub's new album too....i miss their shoegazy sound and now they're kinda just alternative rock. i think the album will grow on me though. i haven't given it much listen yet but 'trash trace' is one of the tracks that stood out to me. that fin. track was surprisingly lovely too i think i'll check them out!

i finally beat persona 5. that was WAY TOO LONG of a game. i can't invest that much time in video games anymore...let alone a 100+ HOUR GAME (i finished it in about 118 hours). it was still a good game overall, but the long gameplay made me rush towards the end, causing me to not fully enjoy the last half. the story had an interesting concept but i felt that it was weak in some places and the only coolest thing that ever happened was when makoto awakened her persona. i really liked some of the other characters too tho, like yusuke and futaba but hmmm i'm still having mixed feelings about this game. i think if the game was a bit shorter i'd be able to enjoy it more. the soundtrack is A++ tho, as expected from shoji meguro.

THE NOVEMBERS will release their first best album titled "Before Today" on 2017/9/13. Some of the older songs will be rearranged with the band's current sound.

hoooooly shit i'm excite!!!! i especially can't wait to hear covers from the novembers and pelican fanclub

nooooooo :'< i wish him the best

funny how people mistakenly think i say something when i didn't, then they don't hear me when i DO say something..... maybe i have a ghost attached to me and that's the voice they're hearing

really good grunge and shoegaze band i discovered a while back. i'm having no luck finding music from these guys, but they're a neat doom metal band with traditional enka female vocals. these guys are pretty cool too. @CAT5 i think you might enjoy this?

yeah, i keep dry foods in my room too. in this case tho, i thought i'd buy something for everyone (but mostly for myself too). i just didn't think someone would eat it all so quickly within a couple days......the last time i checked there was still a lot left so i was kinda annoyed. but what if they still only take the food i want? good idea tho heh.

Watched Inside Out and I don't think I've ever seen a pixar film that tackled realistic issues about young adolescence before, and in a very clever way too. Great film. I also watched Lucky Seven (1986), an old Chinese film from my childhood, because I was randomly thinking about it at work. It's a fun martial arts comedy about 7 martial arts kids and a women getting beat up by mafia guys (and vice versa), to kinda quote someone from youtube. Quite the gem if you're into that kind of stuff. Plus, the theme song is pretty damn catchy.

probably the worst thing about living with other people is when the food you buy magically disappears....

the worst dinner table in all seriousness though, this ain't half bad.

well.....this isn't vk but i thought i'd share it here as well. when i went to see envy they performed "toki wa owaru" by the bloodthirsty butchers as a tribute to hideki yoshimura. i saw them early june so it was right around the time when hideki passed away. i didn't realize it was a tribute to him until i recognized the song, but that was really cool and heartwarming.

yaaaaasss i'm actually really looking forward to this!! i love rainy pura~

sounds pretty good! i like tracks 2 and 3 so far.

DEZERT: saz took off stage and joined the crowd from the back, pushing everybody to the front during the dive. while doing so, he grabbed me by the shoulders and we were back diving together on the front crowd. it happened so fast i couldn't believe what was going on, but it was the best moment of my life. at the same live, because it was so crowded someone got a nosebleed from smacking into someone else's head while headbanging. (this was in 2015 when they hadn't quite reached their popularity yet so they booked the smallest live venue in town) kira noticed it and pointed it out during the MC. it took a while for the girl to come forth, but she said that she was okay and that the bleeding had stopped. LM.C: there was an older lady, like around her 60s or so and i stood next to her. i think we might've looked like mother and daughter, or grandma and granddaughter, because we were the least active in the crowd and kinda stood out. at one point aiji threw his guitar pick to the crowd and i think he was clearly aiming it at us. i didn't pick it up though... Arlequin: a guy from the crowd in the back kept yelling "DAISUKI DA!!!!" to shohei during the MC when aki left the stage for a bit, and he seemed flattered by it, but was also kinda troubled about what to say back to him. in the end he said "daisuki" too. the rest of the crowd were all just kinda laughing.

@Zeus In the PV there's also a scene when the main guy stares at his phone screen before meeting his partner, to which what looks like a chat board of some sort (since there are more than two names on display). There's mention from one person (who goes by Mr. Nameless) about wanting to die and wanting someone to kill him; the biggest text here, pictured below, saying 'please kill me'. This person is offering himself for slaughter and someone else on the board (most likely the main character) must've read this and decided to grant his wish. It's still a little ambiguous who is who in the chat board, but this is another alignment with the article and seems almost like more than a coincidence to me. You could very well be right!

i never took the time to listen to chanty but i dig those guitar works! i might have to check them out now. atria was one of my favorites by nogod (when they were good) and that new song of theirs sounds pretty good too. i haven't listened to any of their stuff after 2011 or something so i'm SUPER behind, but i will check out their new single! glad to see that they're picking up in quality again.

HOLY CRAP thank you for the responses! You guys are awesome!! I did not take any philosophy classes so thank you @chemicalpictures and @hiroki for your thorough explanations about Rousseau. Thanks for linking the interview too, hiroki, I shall read the whole thing later. This turned out to be a lot more complex than I thought, but also very interesting! I like the idea of the raw state of human beings, the savage, the love of the self, and self-love. I think it ties well into the 'mirror', or the true state of things. Whatever shows up on the mirror, or whatever is inside the mirror world, is Boy B/self-love, the hidden and raw self. Which is why the lyrics say at the end that the 'near future' is basically the boy already disappearing 'into the mirror'. You can't escape the true/natural state of things despite masking yourself with another side. And yes, I think this is what Chiaki means when disputing Rousseau's philosophy of the good nature of humans, and thus calls it 'Rousseau's Illusion'. @jaymee I can very much agree with the idea of capgras delusion and how his dark side is replaced with an imposter/his love interest. Maybe that's why the 'seemingly' potential love interest is a male and not a female (in conventional terms anyway). That takes away the homosexuality undertones then. The other males in the PV is basically his other self in the form of another man. And if we take it further, that one imposter (the second man) ends up killing the real one instead, rather than the real one killing the imposter, as he did with the previous one. This means that his evil side, the raw self, wins and leads back to the idea of disappearing 'into the mirror' where the true state of things lie. I think we've all touched up on some similar concepts here and there. This is a good discussion so far~

Hello all MH users! With the suggestion of @chemicalpictures, I bring you an analytical discussion of a song lyric I've chosen, along with its PV. Seems like this is the first time anyone has done this here so to get things pumping, and hopefully make this a success, I chose to pick a song from the increasingly popular band DEZERT. Being quite well-known for their food-related themes, as you can tell from their song titles and album titles, DEZERT do not only bring a dark and grimy atmosphere, but also present an unpleasant and repulsive feeling to your gut and mouth. If you ever took the time to read their lyrics you may never look at food the same way again. But hey, I love them for this. @Zeus Let me know if there's a better section for this. Since I'm discussing about both lyric and PV I thought I'd put it in the general section instead. Let's get right down to it and take a look at the original Japanese lyrics for the song, 胃潰瘍とルソーの錯覚 from their album タイトルなし(Title Nashi), which was written by Chiaki, and then the translation, which was done by me. Kanji: 胃潰瘍とルソーの錯覚 -taken from rocklyric English: Gastric Ulcer and Rousseau's Illusion 胃潰瘍とルソーの錯覚 is a song about love and the fear of the truth and the future, written in a grotesque manner. Looking at the song title, 'gastric ulcer' ties into the food and cannibalistic theme, and after reviewing the lyrics and PV several times I've concluded that the gastric ulcer represents a kind of punishment for one's sins. A punishment for killing the ones you love and eating them to the bone, obviously. It is there as a reminder of your sins. Another piece of information we get from the title is the name 'Rousseau'. Who could this Rousseau refer to and why did Chiaki choose to use this reference? (Unless the word ルソー means something else?) The first name that comes up on google is a philosopher named Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Apparently, he advocated freedom politically and made an influence during the French Revolution. I can see how 'freedom' may play a role in this, but am still puzzled as to why Chiaki would reference him specifically. If anyone is willing to dig further into this, please do. Something else worth speculating is the way Chiaki divides the lyric into (A), (B), and (A.B), like a story with chapters. But then why (A.B) at the end? Maybe it's a middle section between A and B? It's possible, but I think A and B might refer to Boy A and Boy B (since he mentions 少年A under the (B) section), where as A.B refers to them both of them together at the end. If you have thoughts otherwise, please comment below~ I know there's still a lot to speculate about the lyrics, but let's get to the fun part and explore the peculiar PV. As if the lyrics were crazy enough, here we have additional themes like gender, homosexuality, and the butterfly motif. A young boy puts on lipstick, kills butterflies, and gets together with other males as he grows older......to kill them for their flesh and bones. The PV follows well with the lyrics, but what intrigued me the most was the butterfly motif. We see the butterfly appear when the young boy plucks its wings and smiles, and in a few flickering screens of an injured butterfly throughout the PV. Then, at the very end we see it once more in the form of a tattoo on the left arm of the man who kills the boy (see pic below). What an ironic turn of events, seeing a butterfly, which you have mistreated in the past, the moment you die. However, since the butterfly has been depicted as being weak, being robbed of its ability to fly, I think it also serves as a representation of his weakness for not being able to face the truth and the future. In Japan, people also believe that butterflies carry souls to the dead, or represent souls of the dead, therefore adding to the irony of his fateful death. I don't want to write too much so I'll leave the rest open for discussion! I'm sure there are deep-thinkers here who have something more interesting to share. Or if not, point out something you find interesting and analyze it, even if it's something little. It could mean something more than you think. For example, you think those wire mannequins in the PV might represent anything? Or maybe it's just a piece of decoration. For those who have knowledge in Japanese, please share thoughts about the original Japanese lyrics and other possible translations too. Have fun! ^^ Feel free to leave any critiques as well~

two releases in one day, cool!

damn, hope he recovers soon...... :'(

Awesome music tastes! Especially Kannivalism and baroque, you are totally cool with me! As long as you showed up and made an intro post here it's all good~ Welcome to the forum and have fun! ^^