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vistlip - CLASSIC OPERA

so. damn. awesome.

Maximum the Hormone has always cracked me up

Lol. My parents listen to Chinese "oldies" that were popular from 20-30 years back

One of THE songs of 90s Mpop:

Another one from the same era:

Can't wait... x.x

"Any verse" was one of the stand-out releases for me in 2013. I'm seriously looking forward to their future stuff

Thank you for sharing your amazing experience. It was a great pleasure to read ^^

There are some songs that bring back a lot of memories for me, but probably none more so than vistlip’s songs. I will have to preface the music of my all-time favorite band with a condensed version of my “memory”.

I remember being in my second year of college then, leading nothing more and nothing less than the life of an average undergraduate. Here, college is a ridiculously disenchanting affair – most people you meet, professors included, are only interested in making money, or being “successful” (whatever that might mean, I still haven’t figured out) even at the cost of being happy. Probably the one thing that I could distinctly recall from that period was the overwhelming sense of loneliness – it’s the sort of thing which no one overtly talks about, but probably almost everyone around me was silently tortured by.

Between visual kei and my books (probably the two things I only ever need to survive), I felt that my life has always still been somewhat incomplete and lacking a certain something. Most of my friends had gone overseas for college, but I was vehemently against getting a scholarship like them because I never liked to be “bonded” to a company I had no interest in. One fine day, I found out that one of my best friends was returning for 2 weeks and wanted to meet up and chat. Of course, I was elated, and couldn’t wait to see him.

Yet, when we finally met that night, it felt so… different. I mean, we used to be incredibly close pals, staying over at each other’s places regularly and literally had no secrets between us. But somehow, when you interpolate a period of 2 years between then and now, suddenly everything changed. I wouldn’t say that we felt like total strangers, but there was an awkward discomfort throughout the entire conversation, and neither of us was oblivious to it. Today, unfortunately, we hardly talk anymore and it's a real shame.

Now I have already been a visual kei fan for at least 10 years, and there are several bands I greatly adore. But I always found vistlip’s lyrics to be the most genuinely Romantic (NOT “romantic” in the contemporary, highly watered-down sense) and resonates the most with my own temperament and in line with how I view the world. In their music I find all the beautiful themes of overreaching, of the capacity to be in middle states (the world isn’t just black and white), of the stoic individual who resists the tyranny of “oughts” and “musts”.

Of all these motifs in vistlip's music, one stands out for me – the nostalgia for lost time. I realized that no matter how close someone might be to you now, there is always the danger of time washing it away. The past is what it is – something that will remain irretrievable regardless of what you do.

But in its place, we have memory (another big theme of a lot of vistlip’s music). No matter how imperfect or how unreliable, our memory is the only means by which we can re-live every event, trivial or important, in our lost experience. Even now, everytime I hear a song like Kageoni etc., I'm immediately reminded of the great times I had, and how fortunate I was to have met all the wonderful people who had entered and left my life.
 

Dunno about others but the image wouldn't load for me.

レス フレディ レス ゲイズ ルージー (resu furedi resu geizu ruujii).

It's not supposed to mean anything apparently..

Apparently I never realized SID was so good????

Ive been jamming all day lol.

I was a huge fan of SID in their indies days. I still like their music because I think they have a crazy amount of flair, but somehow after they majored their music became more unattractive to me. I don't think the reason is them "becoming more mainstream" (or at least not entirely because of that) - I don't know - but they hardly write songs like Aikagi, Alibi and those from their "Ren'ai" album anymore

「SHOUT YOUR DESIRE」

Samekitta machi no naka de   Garakuta　tsumekomarete
Shigumareta yami no haguruma no naka   Daremo ga minna ochiteyuku utagai mo shinai de

MORAL toiu kusari wo   Tachikire   REAL ga chigau
Mune wo tsunagu omoi   Kotoba ni shitemiro   Saa

SHOUT IT OUT YOUR DESIRE
YOU BETTER GO YOUR OWN WAY
Sono koe ga karetemo
SHOUT IT OUT YOUR DESIRE
YOU BETTER GO YOUR OWN WAY
Ikiteiru akashi wo   Sagashidashite
Kizutsuite tozasareta   Sono tobira wo kowase
Kobushi wo nigirishimero   COOL ni kimete   Tobashiteyuku ze

Hashiridashita gekijou wa   Dare ni mo tomerarenai
Tsukisasaru shisen   Tobikau kotoba wa   Subete mu ni kaese

Kowaresouni Furueru yoru wa
Tsuyoku daite ageyou   Ima
Kanjita sono mama hakidase
Osoreru koto wa nani mo nai
Omae no subete wo tokihanatte
Sekai wo kaero

SHOUT IT OUT YOUR DESIRE
YOU BETTER GO YOUR OWN WAY
Sono koe ga karetemo
SHOUT IT OUT YOUR DESIRE
YOU BETTER GO YOUR OWN WAY
Ikiteiru akashi wa   Sono te no naka ni
Kizudarake no kono sakebi   Dokomade mo hibikasete
Kobushi wo nigirishimero   COOL ni kimete   Tobashiteyukuze

Here you go:

「ARIA」

Hatenaku hiroi   Umi no you na sekai de

Amata ni chitta   Koukai wa nan wo nogareta

Sorezore no omoi daki   sorezore ayumi

Yagate yakusoku no toki ga   Kizamareteyuku

Meguriai no ARIA   Kizuna wo tsunde   Kabi na hana ga saku

Azayakana oto ni nosete   Dokomademo takaku e

Aoi taiyou ga   Ubugoe wo agereba

Tobira ga hiraki   Hikari to tomo ni anata ga

Tenshi no you na warami to   Yasuraka na koe

Kokoro ubai sarawareta   Sanbi no kotodama

Tadottekita michi no nani ga kaketemo   Anata wo utaenai

Sou subete wo aiseru kara   Towa ni chikau ARIA

Meguriai no ARIA   Kizuna wo tsunde   Kabi na hana ga saku

Azayakana oto ni nosete   Dokomademo takaku e

Towa ni hibikiwatare

Shimesu gosenfu ni

Kiseki okoshi yume wo kanade

It's really hard to see some of the more complex kanji characters lol. Will it be possible to scan it in a higher resolution?

I can help to romanize if you post a scan of the lyrics sheet

I found a scan (>w<) ! ! ! It really took me a long time... and this is what I found.

Hope you're still interested... 

Accidentally wandered into this thread and thought I'll do a transliteration of the lyrics (into romaji ^^)

「~0~」

Te wo nobasu    Todokanai sora

Seijaku no yoru ni asa wo matsu

Saketa yami    Matenrou no shita

Ryoute wo hiroge tsubasa wo maneta

break the wall! break the wall!

exceed yourself!!

Te wo nobasu    Nijindeku sora

Yubisaki ni koboreta hikari to kage

Itsukamita,    ikutsuka no yume

Sono me wo akete sora wo niranda

it's impossible to go back.

our endless dream is started.

the time came.

Don't fear anything! fly!!

Habataita ame wo nuketa

Itsuwari no sekai wo koe

Tsunaida te nara hanasanu you

Gyutto tsuyoku nigirishimete

Nozonda keshiki no hate

Toberu to shinjiteru kara

do not fear it    motto takaku e

Kakureta tsuki no kumo wo harai    Kitto (kitto) mirai e

draw the dream    Asu wo irodotte miseru

Harewataru sora ni

Kako wo toikaketemiru kedo

Furikaeranaide

Tada mae wo muite

Kanaderu dake sa

Habataita ame wo nuketa    

Itsuwari no sekai wo koe

Tsunaida te nara hanasanu you

Gyutto tsuyoku nigirishimete

Nozonda keshiki no hate

Toberu to shinjiteru kara

do not fear it    motto takaku e

Monokuro no asa wo    Irodori egaku yo

Niji no kanata e

P.S.: I did this on the phone while travelling, so if you find any strange parts let me know and I'll check again

^ WOW I really like that cover...

Mine's vistlip, and has been vistlip for the past 6 years =)

I've played a ton of survival horror games, including all the "classics" like Resident Evil, Silent Hill, etc.

My favorite is still Fatal Frame 2. I still replay it from time to time now, even after taking so long to complete the mission mode stuff lol.

I can't emphasize how enjoyable the game is because it doesn't really rely on jump-scares (it does occasionally [the boy ghost at the window comes to mind], but not as much as some other irritating survival horror titles). In fact, it creates so much tension alone with the music, ambience, surroundings, lighting (or lack thereof, by forcing you to play without the "torchlight" in certain areas), etc. Finally, the story is.. simply... mind-blowing. By the time you reach the end you'll be dying to play it through again just to piece together all the missing fragments of information you glossed over and never really digested.

I short, I can't recommend FF2 enough.

Edit: I forgot to mention Amano Tsukiko's "Chou" (Butterfly) - the theme song of the game which plays during the ending FMV and when the credit rolls. Nothing short of a perfect song to wrap the the game up with.

I'm not exactly a huge fan of the GazettE, but I like the cover art for"TRACES BEST OF 2005-2009"

Just thought it's classy, beautiful yet haunting at the same time.

Have a few others I like but can't remember offhand..