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Haha, I love the title. I hope the song (and the video!) will be fun, just like 欲望の歌 and 水商売をやめてくれないか.

Oi, that Omoinotake song is all kinds of amazing!

豊洲PIT.

Yes.

Noooooo! I wanted to see them again! Damn you!

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLUE_BLOOD Check the japanese wiki page. And オリコン is unreliable for old releases and stops updating the sales number after a while (maybe when it drops from the top 500 charts?). Only JASRAC or RIAJ can help you, then. And RIAJ takes fucking forever to update the sales too. It's not uncommon to see an album being certified years after achieving the Gold Disc Certification, which is the first award you can get. But hey, that info was printed in an old magazine (forgot which one). I'm pretty sure the magazine would have verified their source back then.

I remember reading over 15 years ago that the original BLUE BLOOD album had sold over 1,5m copies. And that was in 2002, before the reeditions and remasters. For that reason, I actually trust the 30 million mark. Japan is incredibly cryptic about sales numbers.

Ugh... 5 Seconds of Summer?! No, thank you. I wish them all the best and I hope they achieve whaever the hell they want to achieve abroad. But you gotta draw the line somewhere and having ALL TIME FUCKING LOW, WASHED UP AVRIL (NOT EVEN DUMB FUN LET GO-ERA, AVRIL) and 5 Seconds of Summer all together means I'm out. They won't miss me, for now atleast. but call me back when ONE OK ROCK bombs and decide to celebrate the 10th anniversary of BEAM OF LIGHT or ゼイタクビョウ. Wait... Shit, ゼイタクビョウ IS TEN YEARS OLD ALREADY. Ok, I'll wait for the 20th anniversary, then. And I really agree with this part: Integrity doesn't pay the bills but being completely broke totally beats than having FIVE SECONDS OF SUMMER on your record.

Engrish sometimes can be great, but ゴールデンボンバー, out of all bands, kind of summed up my feelings about it with this song. 英語ってかっこいいなかっこいいな ah!ah! 英語ってかっこいいな 英語で歌えばまるで最新の洋楽みたいだな Hello Ken Hello Kuni Hello Tom When I go win slow in flow Your for me mosquito She look for the my eye flow in one night close he a brother When I go win slow in flow Your for me mosquito She look for the my eye flow in one night close he a brother nine

入口? 出口? cali≠gariだ? Did they consider naming it 第1実験室? Cool to see that they wrote EVEN MORE SONGS, ignoring the latest singles. In the long run, this will hurt them, but I love a lot of their stuff, so keep 'em coming!

Yeah both bands are ok, but their style is so very different and generally IN YOUR FACE all the time. Kagrra, had a different feel and an elegance to it. I wish more bands tried going for that. PLUS, the whole japanese sound thing makes it easier to appeal to a wider audience abroad, who WANTS to listen to something EASY BREEZY, JAPANESE-Y with a rock edge.

Dudes, you were supposed to be rivals! But, this is AWESOME. If PIERROT returns, I need to see them. Edit: PIERROT復活! YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES! http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2084004/full/?ref_cd=tw_pic

Listen to this: How can people not miss this kind of subtle, sexy japanese-ness? What a great fucking band.

Up until 45 minutes should be the standard. Anything longer than that can be quite tiresome if the mood isn't right.

I'm def. going to one of these!

Do you guys consider album deep cuts as b-sides? I always separated between the two. B-sides are part of singles (or released first in a single) and album songs are album songs, and L'Arc~en~Ciel has plenty of amazing deep cuts throughout the albums. Even in their current sucky incarnation.

Awesome song. Always dug Brilliant Years too: Not a fan of P'UNK~EN~CIEL, tho. The yuki remixes are a mixed bag. Some are ok. Most of it aren't.

Eh... it's heavier than I imagined it. But that doesn't mean it's good.

This guy: https://twitter.com/JuNebd5150

I think 2006 was their peak (granted, it was a special year for them). 2 studio albums, 4 singles + a cover album and special privilege live album for those that bought a bunch of their stuff during that year. But, I think KuRt got them beat. KuRt was around for less than 2 years and released staggering ELEVEN SINGLES and one mini-album. PLUS, distributed CDs and omnibus. KuRt unique songs: ≳40 productivity rate: ≳ 20 songs/year And, gosh, remember 彩冷える when 涼平 wrote pretty much everything? I'm pretty sure that between 2005/06 they averaged a single every 40 days. I don't like 彩冷える so can't be sure just how much stuff they released, but I'm pretty sure it's in that same "over-20 songs-a-year-ballpark". Fuck SPEED DISK.

Bold move on their part. But I'm happy, 'cause I dig them.

FUCK! I wanna go! And I'm really happy to see the acoustic version of Happy life included. Def. one of my favorite moments of their concert. Extremely sweet melodies and it works great in a quieter version.

MERRY and rain usually means retro-goodness. Let's see just how much the new single changes in the studio version.

Ugh…I really hate this song. SO bloated! I Wish remains the ONLY christmas-y L'Arc~en~Ciel song worth listnening: Others worth mentioning:

If you can create something as fun and rocking as HAPPY!!, yeah you can. And here are a couple of other songs I liked back in the day: I haven't listened to some of these songs in over 10 years. Holy crap... this was a great thread. We need more of these.