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  1. Posted

    Nice summary. I didn't think of Fashion Song being Oshare in disguise.
    I always thought NIOI PUNPUN might be nioi but who knows. After The Shadow 2 turned out to be its own song, it wouldn't surprise me if these two songs were new.

    Btw, is anyone here interested in the DVD "Я#4 "Aのススメ" or "The Doguu album"?
    I have both of them brand new / unopened that I'm looking to sell -  preferably both at the same time.

  2. Posted · Edited by carddass

    On 12/20/2019 at 5:46 AM, nekkichi said:

    I find most of this album really pleasant to listen, it's relaxed, spaced out and coherent, but I don't get what the outside producer was really hired for.

     

    still very disappointed in lack of truly standing out album tracks, anagram basically drives this entire release;

    I missed their previous album though so idk if they're stagnating or getting worse with their revival material.

    I asked myself the same thing after I listened to it for the first time.
    Sugizo did a Q&A on twitter and a few fans asked that very question. I can't seem to find all of the posts but here's a few things he mentioned about Steve's contributions.

    -Suggested the album track order.
    -anagram's arrangement had the most influence by Steve
    -Seijaku's narration
    -Helped cut the composition for Philia (?) not to sure how this one translates. Does it imply Philia was another 8-9-10 minute song  a la Genesis of Mind/Forever and Ever/Virgin Mary?


    It's a bit of a mess to go through but if you scan his teets from Dec 18th, you'll read alot of behind the scenes aspects of the songs via his answers. Sugizo also was asked how Lillywhite understood the message of the songs and SGZ mentioned that he explained / translated them. I guess it would make sense that he would know the most English since his daughter lived in California up until a few years ago.

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  3. Posted

    This album might be a grower for me too. While listening to it for the first time I completely forgot that Steve Lillywhite produced this.
    anagram is good but then in Sugizo's Q&A on twitter, a fan pointed out the similarity to their b-side Ray and then I listened to that again and realized how great that track and their other early B-Sides are.

  5. Posted · Edited by carddass

    It probably deserves it's own topic one day but looking at bassist Tomo's twitter page, he has a photo posted of a munimuni flyer mentioning a 'bi neo Full album" next year. As expected, there's nothing on the official website but based on setlists they've had 10-15 new songs kicking around since 2017 or so. There were a bunch of titles starting with 200**  that might have been temp titles:


    20018

    20019
    20020
    20021
    20022 (last played in May 2019)
    20023 (first played in May 2019)
    20024
    20025

    20018 to 20022 haven't appeared in recent setlists so they might have officially been named as one of these:
    幻のキノコ
    GHOST OF ROMANCE
    FUTURE　PERFECT
    MAGICAL MOONIES,YEAH!!!
    FASHION SONG
    Hayabiki
    THE ANIME SONG

    https://twitter.com/manicure_ojisan/status/1201518485085405185/photo/1

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  7. Posted · Edited by carddass

    If they were going to kaisan it would've probably happened a while back. At this point doing their annual or bi-annual shows is like a big fat ATM machine. They just have to show up and walk away with enough money to do whatever else they do. Sure there's a few rehearsals beforehand but as professionals who've done these songs a million times over, I doubt it takes them much effort anymore.

    Or maybe they're announcing Sakura is back after having performed with Tetsu for the first time in 22 years.
     


    Also the setlist was pretty awesome for this session:

    黒夢「Beams」
    L'arc 「Dune」
    TETSU69「蜃気楼」
    黒夢「十字架との戯れ」
    https://www.barks.jp/news/?id=1000175072
     

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  8. Posted

    COCK ROACH started doing online sales of their new album Mother. For now, this is the only way to obtain the album.
    I've attempted to order directly with them but they told me they are still figuring out overseas and would get back to me.

    They opened their official youtube page and started posting older videos and this past week uploaded a short music video from their new album for the track 新進化論エレクトロニカルパレーダー:


    And they posted a music video for 'koushi no uta' from their 2001 debut album which was never released on VHS or DVD before:

     

  9. Posted · Edited by carddass

    Isn't Boris more popular than X Japan in the west? I mean, they've had many records be released by western labels. I'm about to see them in Germany soon. They're not playing the biggest place but they're definitely playing more shows in different cities than X ever did on any one of their tours.

    I love X Japan but that doesn't mean I have to buy into that Instagram reality he portrays to the new generation of fans.

    And the simple answer as to why he gets all these deals has nothing to do with his perceived popular - it's all about networking. I keep flogging this link like a dead horse but these search results show him doing the Hollywood party thing more than actually performing in concerts.
    https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/yoshiki?groupbyevent=true&family=editorial&phrase=yoshiki&sort=best#license
    Much like in all aspects of life, if you can convince (sell) the right people, you can get results quicker than just doing hard work. Hence we have a Youtube documentary for a guy who has barely released any new music in the last 20 years.



     

  10. Posted · Edited by carddass

    This was the setlist from the show on his birthday the other day:

    2019.10.30 清春『THE BIRTHDAY』マイナビBLITZ赤坂

    SE.receive a revelation
    01.海岸線
    02.confusion
    03.星座の夜
    04.last song
    05.悲歌
    06.TWILIGHT
    07.瑠璃色
    08.YOU
    09.ベロニカ
    10.wednesday
    11.妖艶
    12.LAW'S

    EN1
    13.EMILY
    14.Masquerade
    15.VOICE with SUGIZO
    16.20th Century Boy with SUGIZO

    EN2
    17.マークはバタフライ
    18.SANDY
    19.HAPPY

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  11. Posted · Edited by carddass

    I think his voice works best when he's not trying to be a caricature of his former rock self which he plays up at these gigs.
    His livestream of this song 'Time Machine' @4:00 is definitely better sounding than when he tries to name check his backing band before every solo:
     

     

  13. Posted

    I totally skipped the Evangelion craze when it first came out and only know this song from the overabundant usage in AMVs but I somehow don't mind Toshi's version. I only wish he would cover more proper rock songs that influenced him in his formative years. Bohemian Rhapsody is a start but where are songs from Iron Maiden, Loudness, Kiss and the likes!?

    And considering Yo$hiki squandered the good-will, momentum and whatever respect the brand name 'X-Japan' had after coming back triumphantly, I think Toshi deserves to cash-in on his fanbase considering he was relatively broke after his time with Masaya and who knows how much of a cut he gets from X Japan tours.

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  16. Posted · Edited by carddass

    ZZZoo just released their 3rd album 'Monster ZZZoo' featuring brand new songs recorded in studio.
    https://thezzzoo.bandcamp.com/

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    ZZZooOO3

    credits

    released June 29, 2019

    ZZZoo "Monster ZZZoo"

    1. SYLVIE
    　music : Yamaji, Kazi&Den

    2. SUSAN
    　lyrics : Yamaji
    　music : Tabata, Morikawa

    3. JACQUELINE
    　 music : John Stafford Smith
    　 collage&edit : Yamaji, Morikawa, Tabata

    4. KATE-MING
    　 music&lyrics : Tabata

    All Arranged by ZZZoo

    Kazuhide Yamaji : Gtr
    Seiichirou Morikawa : Ba&Vo
    Mitsuru Tabata : Gtr&Vo
    Kazuya Wakabayashi : Sax&Cho
    DEN : Per
    KAZI : Dr

    Recorded by ZZZoo. at Noah, Takadanobaba, Tokyo,
    4th February&12th June 2019

    Mixed by Kiyohiro "Doronco" Takada, Mitsuru Tabata
    at Mr.T-ST, Kodaira, Tokyo, 17th-22th June 2019

    Mastered by Kiyohiro "Doronco" Takada
    at Mr.D-ST, Kodaira, Tokyo, 24th June 2019

  18. Posted

    1 hour ago, Masato said:

    So that's where the money goes! Self-promotion over album production 🙄

    Yeah, it really makes you feel for guys like Pata and Heath who literally make nothing off X, since they don't have songwriting credits, and only ever  earn a few bucks when they perform live which is seldom these days. Poor guys are slumming it while Yo$hiki is doing what he does best.

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  19. Posted · Edited by carddass

    On 6/24/2019 at 9:07 PM, Komorebi said:

    There's lots of rumors of Hyde and Tetsu hating each other's guts + Ken some joke at a TV show with a Kpop group (T-ara or Kara, idk which) about how they got along at the beginning and now they can't stand each other (sometime around 2011/2012). It is been sort of confirmed the bandmembers have no contact with each other and management even has to set separate recording schedules so they won't cross each other's paths.
    Also, apparently Kaz and Hyde had some sort of beef that lead to Vamps suddenly going on hiatus with the latter resuming a solo career, without Kaz this time.

    In translations of Tetsu's biography he speaks in detail about how during the whole Sakura incident, he pushed the band forward and some other band members didn't agree with his decisions (pushing forward, pushing out Sakura etc).

    Being that there was only two other members he was referring to, it seems Hyde and/or Ken didn't like the way Tetsu handled the whole thing. As much as I like those early albums, I think most fans would agree that Tetsu's decisions leading to that grueling recording / touring period between 1997 and 2000 yielded some of the band's best work so he made the right moves in hindsight.

    Ken also started a band with Sakura, so you know their still on good terms. And Hyde's has had Sakura or Ken at his events. So the only person really not partaking in the other's activities is Tetsu.

    Also, in that same biography, Tetsu explained how Hyde wanted to quit the band during that post-Real hiatus.

    So yeah, they're just in it for the money via the one or two Tokyo Dome shows they do every year or two.

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  23. Posted · Edited by carddass

    On 5/22/2019 at 6:17 PM, secret_no_03 said:

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure this will be the first time Kiyoharu has performed overseas, or even been outside of Japan? I won't be surprised if he ever left for a trip/vacation or something, but I can't find anything to indicate that he's left Japan since his career began in 1986. I have no idea about before that and I doubt anyone does. There might be some evidence in his first biography, and maybe in this new one once it comes out. Just a thought.

    I'm pretty sure Kiyoharu traveled to the US (west coast / California) for a few video shoots. The last one I remember was Nazari which has clearly google-able locations.
    Besides that some of those Mellow era PVs were shot in southeast Asia with just him and his go-to PV director / photographer Toshihiko Imai. Being that most of those videos (much like Nazari) are essentially just him without any band doing random stuff, it's safe to say he probably shot those videos with Imai as a excuse to do a tax write-off on his traveling. That said, Imai's has an amazing eye and he makes even walking around with Kiyoharu look great on camera:
     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYItE-ciRAQ

     

  24. Posted

    An outside producer eh? And a big name producer too?
    I haven't really listened to Lillywhite's work outside of an occasional U2 song in passing but isn't he one of those producer's whose touch is virtually invisible? Someone who helps the band get the best version of themselves out there like Rick Rubin? If so, will he really  be able to add much to LS during the band's album making process? Does the band even have a process anymore or has it just members sending each other demos back and forth?
    Would Lillywhite even be sitting in during sessions or just giving pointers remotely?

    No matter the results, I guess you could at least say Luna Sea is trying to spice up the marriage. It's more than could be said about other bands of their vintage.

     

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  25. Posted

    On 5/29/2019 at 8:22 PM, nitta said:

    i'm glad they still have enough fans to vote for 12 songs

    They definitely do. At all of their recent lives, Tetsu announces to the audience that there's one song in which they can record and youtube gets flooded a little bit with all of the different angles.

    That said...the voting on those top 12 tracks all received about 15,000 - 17,000 votes and then the numbers drop drastically for song 13,14,15. Unless all of the fans are in alignment, it seems a little bot-ish but who knows.

     

     

    On 5/29/2019 at 8:33 PM, violetchain said:

    Yeah, those are pretty solid picks. I'm really happy that "my problems" is on it. I love that song.

    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=zigzo&sp=CAI%3D
    They just let fans record their performance of 'my problems at the most recent gig. It features Tooru Yoshida, their quasi 5th member, who did all of their organ / keyboard work on the first album, and occasionally appears at lives now.

     

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