TetsuAkira

interview about the tour.... gotta love their engrish haha
https://www.facebook.com/forumAMP/photos/a.325973804092321.75827.174227925933577/1047064111983283/?type=3

Awesome interview! Thanks.
 
Haha at mikaru: I wanna be deep inside you!

cryin cuz i rlly wanna see dio ((

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

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).
 

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

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.
 

1. MUCC - Zekku
2. Dir en grey - Vulgar
3. WBTBWB - Goldkinder
4. D'espairsRay - [Coll:set]
5. Rentrer en soi - Rentrer en soi
6. Orgy - Candyass
7. Tech N9ne - Something Else
8. Dir en grey - Withering To Death
9. Videodrone - Videodrone
 
 
Way more difficult than I thought.  

Hey! Enjoy your stay

Of course many bands do; no one is going to disband and say "We've decided to break up because no one likes us."
 
There was a band, I think it was Kagrra, that disbanded a few years ago, and a lot of people were mad because apparently someone in their management suggested they call it a day. Some people were arguing that it was absurd to tell a band that they should break up, and that the group should do it as long as they are inspired.
 
The reality is that their career had plateaued; past three albums had hit the same spot on the charts. Management knew they weren't going to get any bigger, but they hadn't hit the level where they were making a lot of money, so it was time to cut their losses and go find jobs while they're still relatively young. That is simply the reality bands have always faced, but it is especially true in the modern age, where 500 units can be the difference between a band getting dropped or making another album.

Dreamt some girl wouldn't give me a lick of her ice cream. Followed her for ages, just asking for a lick.
 
But she never let me...then I woke up.
 
devastating tbh

Yuuki
 
also

Agitated Screams of the Maggots-Soprano Sax Unplugged T.a.k.e.-

All the porns!!

Love your reviewing method. I too enjoyed the album. 

Awesome in depth review!
 
Loved the album myself a solid effort form the guys and will be staying in my current playlist for a while!

That sounds like my kind of Thursday, I'm in.
 
Strap in kids, you about to see some shit.

Finally got round to watching John Wick, last night.
 
Holy Keanu Reeves shit. What a film. Story line is nothing new but dat action. Non stop. Awesome film.

Just had this before work this morning

 
It's very crisp and clean. If drunk properly, then there's little to no aftertaste. Just what I expect from a Colorado brewing company.

Any weather really...

Any weather really...

Any weather really...

Just another late addition from /mu/ peeps (who are far more choosier and elitist than we are tbqh f a m)
 
http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/4chanmusic/images/6/6e/Mucorejapanese.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20130106131042
 
(Huge-ass image, just click & see)

Oh wow, have to check this out. Loved them back in the day. Thanks for reminding me!