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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..

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

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..