WhirlingBlack

Are there a setlist avaliable?

The reason why people call it shoegaze is because a lot of their songs are shoegaze influenced. Track 3, 4, 6 and 7 definitely gives off very strong shoegaze vibes in a live setting, but the way its mixed on CD makes it seem like the person doing the job really wanted to place those elements in the background in an attempt to make it more "pop", at the shows those hazy reverbed guitars you can barely hear now were crushingly loud. That being said, DECAYS is not a pure shoegaze band by any means, but saying that shoegaze is not a part of their core sound is not justified based on my impressions at their concert, at least.

generally LUNA MATTINO "world tours" are just a live at ikebukuro chop, or "NEO TOKYO IKEBUKURO CHOP DOME" as they jokingly refer to it as. Perhaps another live in Tokyo. If I remember correctly the god and death stars "world tour" was Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka so by comparsion it was much more of a world tour.

Sad, it was a pretty cozy place despite the fact that people smoked inside the hall, something I haven't seen in any other venue.

This has been a long process for me, I've been working on it for years, but I managed to find an obscure old magazine clipping in an auction which I bought some years back but never got onto reading properly ("Groove Line vol-29" from December 1998) where a setlist is posted which gives the name as Ranshishoku. I actually took the liberty of scanning it just so we can get rid of all doubt on the subject. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/62973737/ranshishoku.jpg If you look at the setlist in the lower left corner, you can notice that track nr.6, is actually given half in katakana as "ランシ色" either because the band wasn't sure on how they wanted to spell it at the time, or because they wanted to make clear the pronunciation. Notice how Mazohyst also is spelled in katakana since this was before the release of the track. Now, the interesting thing is of course, that the kanji is exactly the same. A lot of kanji have two or more readings, and in this particular case, 藍紫色 can be read in kun'yomi, the "traditional Japanese" pronunciation, as Ai Murasaki Iro. However, when read as on'yomi, which is essentially pronunciation originally borrowed from China, the same three kanji reads out "Ranshishoku". And while I cannot provide a source for this, I know for a fact that Kyo also presented the song as Ranshishoku during the 1998 tour. These two evidence put together really left no doubt in my mind what the proper pronunciation of the title is, and thus I decided to make my research public. And as a side note, hopefully this can also help anyone who still believes that "Karma" should be pronounced as "Waza"...

Who wants to join in me fixing the setlist.fm page for Dir en grey? I now have 100% confirmation that the song generally known as "Ai Murasaki Iro" is in fact named "Ranshishoku", and thus a couple of setlists need to be fixed.

Isn't that sort of what people have known about the whole BL (yaoi, whatever you want to call it) industry for decades now? It's a fantasy for women. It's not really surprising that most fans are indeed women since its the target audience. Same reason as to why fanservice in visual kei exist(ed?), it wasn't to make the 2 gay male fans in the audience happy. I have no problem with it as a genre though, as long as people see it for what it is, and what it isn't. Then again, as a straight person perhaps I'm not the target audience for feeling offended over this.

last US tour they randomly played HADES (from the Japan leg of the same tours setlist) on one occasion so, I think one can expect at least one or two surprises.

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It's been a while since a new person with a decent Dir track record turned up. Welcome!

He's done different lyrics for most of their songs, he often improvises randomly at shows. It would take forever to list them all so they shouldn't be counted in terms of different versions in my opinion.

The important question remain, do type A, B or C come with the PV? I expect a making of DVD and a privilege signed photocard if I buy them all.

Proposed new topic of discussion, original vs. remake, would be interesting to see which versions people prefer. For example, my list, the preferred version is bolded. Counting only studio remakes and not acoustic versions etc. 業 (1997) - 業 (2013) Ash (1997 behind the mask ver.) - Ash (1997 kaede ver.) - Ash (2000) 秒「」深 (1997) - 秒「」深 (2002) 霧と繭 (1997) - 霧と繭 (2012) Unknown...Despair...a Lost (1998) - Unknown.Despair.Lost (2013) 残-ZAN- (1999) - 残 (2009) 密と唾 (1999) - 密と唾 (2011) Hydra (2000) - HYDRA -666- (2007) 羅刹国 (2000) - 羅刹国 (2011) children (2000) - children (2002) MACABRE -揚羽ノ羽ノ夢ハ蛹- (2000) - MACABRE (2013) 鴉-karasu- (2002) - 鴉 (2013) Bottom of the death valley (2002) - Bottom of the death valley (2013) undecided (2002) - undecided (2008) OBSCURE (2003) - OBSCURE (2011) かすみ (2003) - かすみ (2013) THE FINAL (2004) - THE FINAL (2013) CLEVER SLEAZOID (2005) - CLEVER SLEAZOID (2007) Before compiling this list I thought I was more sceptical towards their remakes than I actually am, turns out that I prefer the remake in 9 cases out of 17. THE FINAL is a draw because I really don't care for either version anymore.

Pretty sure the best song Dir en grey has released is 虜. Expecting it to become a setlist staple very soon.

Fresh fruit and meat at more reasonable prices, good cheese outside of specialist shops, salty liqourice which is almost the only kind of candy I enjoy eating, and finally and probably most importantly, my friends. Attending a bunch of amazing lives is fun and all but it would be more fun to go with people you know.

and Zero is actually played live so I guess its not as much a SE as an instrumental in a live context.

I support this idea, dropbox is great for convenience and tabs take up minimal space so it won't make a dent in most people's capacity. Out of curiosity, where did you find the sheet music?

Agreed, didn't see any other foreigners either. in Osaka I saw two who are also members on this forum but in Nagoya it was just hotaru and me as far as I could tell.