hiroki

So good!

For me, disliking a band because of its fans is rather silly, since a band has no direct control over fan behavior in most cases. Of course, I'll be deeply relieved to find fans of my favorite bands having enough sense to conduct themselves in a proper manner. But even if they don't, it is tangential to my enjoyment/distaste of the band's music, since I would rather focus on evaluating the band on its own terms. Not doing so is simply unfair. Granted, this might be a bit difficult for people who are particularly steeped in "fan communities" - but I'm not, so I shall not comment on that. On the other hand, I don't particularly find anything wrong with having 2 pages on a band's new look, mainly because aesthetics constitute a part of the overall experience of any vk band. I would rather have bands invest some time/effort to pay some attention to their own presentation than disregarding them completely. So having fans who are sensitive to those stuff is a good thing (even as aesthetics may not be my primary criterion for judging if a band is "good").

Pop artists are different from "bands" by virtue of the fact that the overwhelming majority of them don't compose their own music. I'll not try to claim that they have no "input" into the kind of music that they eventually "produce", or that they are uniformly "worse" than singer-songwriters (I have a few favorite pop artists and dance/vocal units myself). But when you have a handful of people composing your song, another few arranging it, yet a different person writing lyrics, etc. etc., you have a lot less control over the kind of sound or concept (assuming there's one) that result.

For me there are only 3 stand-out discoveries: SINCREA: I started listening to Fest Vainqueur since they began activities 2(?) years ago. It was listenable - in fact probably above average - but after a while the music becomes forgettable. And so I didn't bother to seek out music from their previous band. When I eventually got around to do that... holy shit, even with just 10% of their tracks played I already knew I've found another band to enshrine as my all-time favorites. I really regretted not knowing about them earlier :'( LUCHe.: Seriously, high high hopes for them. They know what they're good at and don't try to be over-deliberate with their music. They're probably already one of my top 10 bands with just 3 singles released. Ray℃: I love them so much Their drummer just left and I'm praying that they don't disband. Also, it's so nice of them (and their label) to do the free album thing. :'D

I've felt really miserable to see some bands go, but after a while I"ll somehow get over it (as we all eventually do). The one and only that seriously hurt like hell even today is DELUHI. I literally couldn't do anything for like 2 weeks when I heard the news. Didn't even turn up for my exams. x.x

If anyone's interested: here's a very old video of me playing Versailles' "Episode" one lazy afternoon when I had nothing better to do. Sorry for the crappy audio quality, I recorded it using a very old digital camera =( As you prob can tell as well (haha), it's mostly improvised and not very well executed (especially in the piano solo section where I got too nervous thinking I was gonna forget the chords lol). >.< Maybe I'll redo it one day after some actual practice...

i've ordered this too.. hope it's better than their last single

Excellent

they had better come up with a better album art than their last single's.

^ Juri introducing his songs. So pop-rock now XD

I'm not much of a Moran fan, but I absolutely love SNOWING. And then there are those symphonic metal bands which I simply can't appreciate (to put it euphemistically). But I can listen to "Everlasting Dream" (HGP) and "Episode" (Versailles) all day. Although, to be fair, "Episode" is nothing like the typical Versailles song but it is amazing nonetheless. Sometimes less is more

Welcome!

Not a great fan of D.I.D, but still hope they find a replacement

Nice

Never really liked GALEYD, but still sad to see them go on hiatus (and probably disbanding unless they can find someone to replace Meku)

lol. gonna try just for laughs xD

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Awesome, I'll be sure to spread the word

A chinese song.. 小宇 - 再一次 v=TGAVQRD1i0s

yeah naoki looking gd although, somehow i've always had trouble "fitting" his looks with his voice, lol.