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  1. Posted

    zomg this stuff is fast o_o

    I'm ficsci there too

    ahaha I remember the day when I downloaded Plastic Tree for the first time, it was from soulseek & took me all night to get just 3 songs (p_q) but it was worth it and I listened to them all day the next day

    also, thnx @biopanda for SAKRUN

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    Nice thread, I realized that while I like it when bands incorporate shoegaze/dream-pop elements, I'm not into that many bands that are "exclusively" dream pop/shoegaze, so I'll definitely check out some of these stuff.

    Also, at the present, it seems like many bands are mushing together shoegaze & post-rock as one thing. I dunno if I'm a big fan of that, but I guess some pull it off/doing it right and some don't.

    v Oh No Ono. They're like mixing Beatlesque psychedelic pop with dream pop (also they're friends with members of Mew)

    3tHZWzOcF1M

    And please don't hit me for this if you don't like Zeitgeist

    PDtMWRWWNwM

  4. Posted

    The Blood Brothers - BURN PIANO ISLAND BURN (Post-hardcore) - Arithmetica

    I dunno man, "post-hardcore" is just too large of a genre, and the Blood Brothers isn't even one of the early post-hardcore bands (the "early" ones would be like 90s emo). I mean Sunny Day Real Estate's Diary would also count as post-hardcore, and it's totally different from the Blood Brothers plus it was almost a decade earlier. Burn Piano Island Burn is also too closely related to (mathy) metal to be called "representative" (but I'm not saying it's bad, I grew up listening to that shit! :D)

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    Protest the Hero - "Heretics & Killers"

    I started missing them when I was bringing up math metal in another thread. The last time I remember listening to them was when I was really impressed with the album Kezia, but after 20-ish minutes I started feeling nauseous from all the endless guitar riffs :lol: Of course, no offense to their mad skills, it was just way over my head at the time.

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    Who knows what it will sound like in 2015 (I have my bets on metalcore drenched in electronic bleep-bloops)?

    I want to hear that now. Don't know if there any Vk bands that would be daring enough and have the production and musicianship skills to pull that off.

    I can't wait :lol:

    Actually I think they're totally getting there. They already have the bleeps and bloops every fucking where, in both rainbow-vomit oshare and the non-. There may be tons of crappy bands, but VK has always had some metal tradition of guitar shredding. As for the -core in metalcore, there are definitely vocalists that do screeching and growling here and there (especially Nagoya bands). They've got it in place, now we'll just have to wait and see when they'll put it all together XD. But to be honest with, I don't want vk vocals to be purely screaming, because they'd lose the catchiness I like so much from vk (especially the catchy chorus with descending 5th progression, please don't EVER lose that classic move <3)

    What I sorta CAN'T imagine VK going to, however, is metalcore with HEAVY math metal elements, because guitar solos that are too long over endlessly dissonant chord progression is not catchy (coughProtesttheHerocoughcough). But incorporating some elements of math rock is totally happening already with some vk bands.

    I actually thought VK is in a "lost phase" right now where it doesn't have an identity as a scene. It doesn't feel like there's a unifying idea or theme underneath all of the bands and that bands are VK because they label themselves as such.

    Actually, this is exactly what I find appealing in VK (and what made me a fan in the first place), there's enough diversity that VK bands don't all sound like the same like they did in the 90s (gahahha, sorry, not a big fan of kote-kei or whatever fuck you call it, well ok they're funny). While it might make some bands unstable, I think it caused some awesome releases to be produced, and I think in the end that's what matters most!

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    But in Japan it's a totally normal hight man. between 150 and 170 ^^"

    But I'm 152cm and when I was there almost all the guys on the street are clearly taller than me even when I wore heels, at least 165cm and over. (The girls, however, are a different story, they were SMALL o_o). 170cm is average, but 150cm still definitely count as short even on Asian terms.

  17. Posted

    Well it's pretty easy, at least for fans who are less nerdy about purely the musical aspect, they both have an entertaining visual appeal. I've heard people mentioning Lady Gaga when talking about VK. Well look at K-pop, they practically stole Lady Gaga's costumes.

    And I find that vk bands tend to have "catchier" song structure than the non-vk counterparts of the same musical genre (e.g. often I find vk metal to have a more pop structure than regular metal; or vk shoegaze incorporating other genres and also using a more pop-song structure than regular shoegaze, which I actually really like because after a while I find that drone-y shoegaze bands with boring, monotonous melodies just all sound the same in every song -_- ). I don't this point directly contribute to why people like both VK and K-pop, but I guess it might make VK slightly closer to "pop" as rock music.

    Btw I don't like K-pop. I've gone briefly through a phase when I got kinda addicted to it, but after some time it was too easy to notice K-pop's hypnotically repetitive chord progressions (first it's the same 4 measures for the entire song, then they take it to a different key but play the same 4 measure progression for another entire song), and I started to feel my IQ dropping. I don't feel that way for the VK bands I listen to even though I rarely listen to anything else, because many of the compositions, arrangements, chord choices are too bizarre, dissonant, and intricate to be called "pop", even if they clearly have a catchy chorus, and are too open-ended in style that I honestly don't know what one genre label to put them in.... (maybe prog rock? I mean not really....)

  18. Posted

    How did I miss this trolling? :lol:

    a band that if posted as is would have been overlooked because their music is "crappy/not worth listening to/doesn't have that VK charm"

    Wait, who said this? I'm confused. Was this partly to get back at people who bashed UMBERBROWN or something?

    Just listened to it, UMBERBROWN is not bad. Maybe you should have chosen a shitty non vk band instead. Also, there ARE some vk bands that sound like this (emo), I think they don't sound "far" enough from vk to make your point convincing. Plus, if this is what a NEW band sounds like, wouldn't it make them even more impressive?

  20. Posted

    errr i have a 160gb ipod *almost walked through the exit door of thread*

    Actually I got my ipod right after I started listening to visual kei. If I had had it before that, there would be so many punk/indie rock bands that I would have deleted to make space for my vk shit :lol: And yes, if I were to keep only a limited amount of music in my iPod, it would be almost all of my vk shit, plus Mew, Kate Bush, Bjork, some of the Cure, and ART-SCHOOL.

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