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quite a few people seem to really like Gift by THE NOVEMBERS, but i think it's their most boring release ever. every time i try to sit down and really listen to it i forget the whole damn thing the minute it ends. the release is practically nonexistent to me. i can't seem to see what people see in it all...

more like song of the month ^^

going through some unfinished games and right now it's Dark Cloud. i stopped playing it for almost a year lol. it kinda pisses me off when my weapons break and i have to restart, ugh. it's always too risky to go through more than two dungeon floors without saving. also, the idea of synthesizing weapons is pretty cool but it starts to get annoying when you rarely receive any gems and attachments to level them up. then you have to go through each dungeon floor over again hoping that they'd pop up in treasure chests. OR you can also buy them, except they're a bit costly and it doesn't help that the enemies only drop like 50g or less. i'm obviously just trying to finish this game now lol. i'm already clocking in at almost 50 hours and nearing the final boss so i'm gonna make myself finish it.

no prob! i'd like to get through rhapsody in beauty sometime soon~ ^^ yess, i'll try! was thinking about translating dnim soon so might as well go through the whole ep~

the only release i listened to from this list is weg, but this is still a great list!! you should check out more of weg's stuff btw! i haven't listened to all his stuff, but The Lie Lay Land and Hurtbreak Wonderland are pretty good albums imo, although maybe not as good as Last Waltz where just about every track is a masterpiece. you can find more of that darker vibe from Last Waltz in The Lie Lay Land tho. i just got into chouchou and it's pretty cool to see that you're into them too! that album sounds like my cup of tea~ i've never heard of THIS IS JAPAN before but they totally sound like my kind of j-indie band! cool to see that their influences come from NUMBER GIRL and bloodthirsty butchers, both of which i love. Hitorie sound pretty great from what i've heard, but i just never really found the time to sit and listen to one of their albums. i will reference these two albums when i do! again, great list! i still need to catch up on Radiohead and downy!

HYPEEEEE i'm still so happy to see them back!!

this should be a thing every year. we need more appreciation for the visualzzz (QUIT HIDING IT Y'ALL) anyway, lots of great picks! minpha and elysion (specifically the one on the left) would probably be in my tops too, despite not listening to elysion myself either. btw i also love me some black-suit kei looks *high-fives*

me remembering the good old oshare days, i can dig this lol

I've been following this thread for quite a while and many things came up in my head while reading through it. Many people already mentioned things I wanted to say or made valid points, but I'd still like to share a few things from my own point of view and experiences. (and sorry if i repeat some things already stated because i read kinda fast and have a short memory...) To me, LJ played a huge role in the VK international fanbase and was what really made it feel alive (especially for people who lived too far to attend lives and such and could only rely on the net for the experience). It was very interactive and people shared the shit out of things. Jrock scans was one of the best LJ communities ever and I must've spent hours browsing through their directory just trying to save scans of all my favorite bands. I still have them in my hard drive today and my only regret is that I didn't spend more time on it because all the links from there are dead now (lol). I was one of those people who made a shit ton of graphics and icons so scans were pretty important for me yeah...For a movement that's all about the visuals though the idea of making pretty graphics felt interconnected and made the fandom more fun as a whole. Now that it's practically not a thing anymore the whole appeal of the visuals feels more boring? Another thing I liked about LJ was that you could read your friends' journal entries and learn about their favorite bands, other than the ones you already share. People wrote about their favorite bands all their time, posted PVs and pics, and shared live reports, which I found very fun to read because they were very casual. Around the time LJ died out was around the time everybody's favorite bands started disbanding and a lot of people just left. With the transition to tumblr, like most people mentioned already, it's only reblogs and it feels a lot less interactive, making it hard to find/talk to new friends. (thankfully there's still MH though :>) Seeing that all my vk friends were leaving even I was feeling the pull of leaving vk forever. I even left my fav band Plastic Tree for a while (probably sometime after their ammonite album released). How dare I, I know. But in between those times I was out of vk I still found myself checking back in the scene once in a while out of curiosity, and found interest in a few newer bands. I just wasn't as crazy active as I was during LJ times. It wasn't until I went to Japan when I attended my very first vk live, which was AvelCain, that I regained all that vk-ness back in me. After seeing such an amazing and fun performance I realized how much I still loved vk, and that was pretty much how I woke up (and here I am now). It's probably different for everyone, but I feel like those who say that it was a fad might just a need a little something to make it all come back again, as it did for me. Also, I feel like the attitudes of fans might also play a role in the decline. You see a lot of people complaining about the low quality of music these days and that vk is not the same anymore, which I KNOW is very true in many cases and I do this too, but at the same time it puts too much negativity into the fandom and makes everything seem less attractive, and so people leave. The sharing aspect also feels increasingly dead--music sharing wise the reasons are pretty obvious, but even just the talk and spread of vk feels increasingly dead. Again, this can probably lead back to how tumblr is all about the reblogs, not much interaction or discussion. That's why I'm very glad that MH still does what it does today (the monthly recommended tracks, reviews, and great threads like these and the awesome recent oshare and nu-metal kei threads, etc. where we can really discuss and share about vk), because maaaan the vk fandom feels so dead everywhere else. With the changes in mainstream culture, and Kpop still a thing, I don't see how the newer generation will grow into vk. The only way they'll ever get into it is probably by the influence of a friend. So with that said, keep spreading the vk love people, as cheesy as it sounds lol.

seeds of blood pang of madness first piece of the year! the one above was something i started last month and dropped for a while so it doesn't really count.

té - 具眼の士に検閲されることは、最も正しい『価値』の決定である。

remember the name sounds like a lovely ballad <3

you took the words right out of me. he could become an amazing screamer too if he worked on it more. will keep tabs on this band.

just putting this out there but i think it'd be nice to do a "favorite PVs" theme sometime. feeling like they don't get appreciated as much these days. i get that not all full pvs get uploaded online, and that some videos were taken down or are blocked in some countries, while some old ones just have downright bad quality, but it might still be a fun theme to do~ was anyone else planning to do a themed session soon? just wondering.

I transcribed and translated THE TEENAGE KISSERS' PERFECTLY DIRTY EP a while back, but never posted them here until now~ [2013.10.16] PERFECTLY DIRTY All lyrics written by Nana Kitade. All music written by Hideo Nekota. 1. BLACK SKINNY BIRD 2. GHOST BITCH 3. FLOWER BED 4. VIOLENT LIPS 5. DAYDREAMER 6. WENDY -------------------------- Corrections and suggestions are much welcomed! Thanks for looking and enjoy! ^^

i hope they keep this up, this is some good stuff.

té sounds like the band version of hideki taniuchi's osts (death note and kaiji)

why didn't they follow the footsteps of early lycaon instead they don't sound too bad tho lol

^i don't think nukegara by plastic tree starts with the chorus.. ClearVeil has another one:

get my driver's license and save up money to get my own car cuz that's the most important thing for me right now in order to become a 'proper adult' and gain some independence. other than that, hopefully draw more and start artbook projects that i've been wanting to do for years. and maybe learn new recipes and start cooking more often~

been a while since i listened to these guys......they were so good </3

so they never found their name and decided to call it quits, huh?

^omfg i randomly saw a gameplay of gal gun on youtube once and it looks weird and ecchi af lol. i started The Last Guardian yesterday and it looks amazing as expected!! so happy to be able to finally play it. i can't even begin to explain how amazing it is because it's really all about the experience. if you've played ICO and Shadow of the Colossus before though you can expect something similar. it's so hard to put the game down once i start.

nana kitade killing me every time with her new ohp photos Dx can't wait for a new release from her that's not live-distributed....