TetsuAkira

Was always a Fan of - 'THE END' by Gazette

&& Lycaon - 'into the dark'

Sup fish, welcome aboard!

Stay dope.

Welcome aboard!

Holy hell yes, I loved crosses album. 

Chinos voice is just kind of magical.

I wish hiro would pick a band and just stay in it.

&& all the disbanded bands I listen to ever got back together...

Pay Rise! *Makes it rain for a couple seconds longer*

Doesn't thank me each time I feed him.

Interesting read! Never knew it went that deep, it's crazy.

So I ran into my High school crush who gave me her #, my ex-gf wants me back, and some horny college girl asked if I could help her with her "Homework" yesterday.

 

I just wanted to go to fucking sleep.

Smash all 3 at once.

Holy jesus that was good.

What is this voodoo. Your tentacles are everywhere!

Outlast was brilliant! Play the expansion if you can as well! Super brutal and disturbing

Yeah its totally not coming out. I hope their ZEPP concert become a DVD anyway

Yeah, any live footage to be honest would be great. Especially with all their new material.

Awesome interview! Thanks.

Haha at mikaru: I wanna be deep inside you!

I wish my whole life was one big weekend

Hi thanks!

And this is my band, i hope you like it!

 

https://youtu.be/ufuu4_qX9xU

 

Awesome stuff! Thanks for sharing

This is some good shit, Dan. Love vector stuff.

Good work!

Huge Duran Duran fan as well, hi! 

 

I think the consensus is that Japan's "Quiet Life" album is the album that had a huge impact on Duran Duran (you can Google this debate and seeing it played out on countless message boards if you like). Songwriting-wise, Japan and Duran Duran have little in common because Japan's songwriting style was experimental/outlandish to say the least, while DD went on to strive for the perfect pop song. But sonically, in terms of their playing style and sound, they were heavily influenced. The look too, of course! 

 

Check out the Quiet Life single and album, as well as incredible stuff like Ghosts (UK #5), Life in Tokyo, Still Life in Mobile Homes, and Art of Parties (4:33 was probably the moment a normal Japanese kid died and Sugzio was born, haha).

Thank you so much for all the detail you put in! Much appreciated! I'll get my hands on all that stuff straight away, love the sound of Ghosts & Art of Parties! 

Feel like I've been missing out completely! Thanks again

Cool thread. YMO is excellent (as is almost anything Sakamoto's done).

 

In the same vein, here's Japan. Duran Duran directly admitting to stealing their outlandish sound and repackaging it as something more commercial, and then in the midlate-eighties, a whole generation of Japanese youths who were adolescents when Japan broke up made up the classic visual kei era. Notable "offenders": Sugizo (Owns Masami's Japan-era guitar, had Mick on his solo records, etc), Morrie and Kiyoharu were obv influenced by Sylvian's vocals, Die in Cries was a shameless Japan copy band in look and sound.

 

Japan started as a shit glam band out of place in the punk scene, but at some point they discovered Roxy Music, Brian Eno, synthesizers and world music. Just as they were finally hitting the charts they broke up due to the vocalist stealing the bassist's Japanese girlfriend, but their influence on the 80s music scene and later the VK movement was already cemented.

SHUT THE ENTIRETY OF MY FRONT DOOR

Sorry. That is just amazing information to me as a huge Duran Duran fan. I love what I hear and must admit I've never heard them before. Could you recommend a good album to start from of theirs? The more Duran the better

Sounds sick, cant wait.

Video is different? Haha

Sounds good though.

At least they'll continue.

Majored in Web Design. 

Now I'm an analyst in a bank. I goofed up somewhere.

Gossip - conservative race

Chibi - The Birthday Massacre

(Easy winner for me)