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Tetsuya Naito reference. Maybe.

I will allow this

With all due respect to yoshiki can eat my ass

Okay, got the setlist up at setlist.fm
 
https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/dir-en-grey/2017/kochi-prefectural-culture-hall-kchi-japan-73e4561d.html

I attended two of the shows on this old school tour in osaka and posted them on Facebook. Decides I might just as well repost them here:
 
Day 1:
"
I just attended the best show of my life, and it was a MUCC live.
 
The best way I can describe it is as if I went back in a time machine to 2001 and attended one of their oneman lives. They performed only old songs, including tracks so old several fans noticably did not recognize then, like Kranke (my favorite song!) and Koibito. The entire live felt dangerous and rough, just like one of those 90s lives where the audience are headbanging their necks off and the band is taunting them further into a frenzy. Before VK became a polished business.
 
It was super intense, during some songs the entire audience was moshing and thanks to the intense mosh I ended up in the second row in front of tatsurou during the second half of the live, where I ended up catching him as he stage dived during Orugooru. At the end, when they played Kurutta Kajitsu, we were even ordered to perform a wall of death and delivered it splendidly.
 
https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/mucc/2017/esaka-muse-osaka-japan-2be5b0e2.html
 
Tomorrow is Homura Uta day... can't wait. Dir en grey, take note. This is how you do nostalgia shows."
 
Day 2:
"
So... MUCC day 2 was every bit as good as day 1. Homura Uta day, so practically the whole album was performed, along with some songs from Antique and Tsuuzetsu.

Especially the performance of Kimi ni Sachi Are and Kurayami ni Saku Hana stood out as soulcrushingly beautiful, and tracks like Kokuen made the whole audience mosh yet again while Tatsurou kept jumping into the front rows to make us work harder.
 
Before OYOGE! TAIYAKI-KUN Tatsurou addressed me directly, asking if I knew the lyrics (since I was seemingly the only foreigner at least in the front of the venue). I made an OK sign and he looked surprised and happy and made some comment about it, and then we all sang it together, the entire venue.
 
During the wall of death during Kurutta Kajitsu today, he jumped into the audience and participated for a bit before being rescued back onto the stage. 
 
To be honest, unless MUCC makes further nostalgia tours, I might not attend any more of their lives in the future. Nothing can top this tour no matter how hard they try. Sure, I'd like to see a Zekuu and Kuchiki no Tou tour as well, but until that happens I might just lay off their lives in the future.
 
Todays Setlist:
HOMURA UTA (intro)
ZETSUBOU
SHIAWASE NO SHUUCHAKU
KOKUEN
YAKEATO
KARE GA SHINDA HI
KIMI NI SACHI ARE
MAMA
SHIGATSU NO RENGESOU
BOKU GA HONTOU NO BOKU NI TAEKIREZU TSUKUTTA HONTOU NO BOKU
KURAYAMI NI SAKU HANA
USO DE YUGAMU SHINZOU
KAERANU HITO
KOKONOKA
OYOGE! TAIYAKI-KUN
SUISOU
MAE E
SUIMIN
Encore:
YUME NO MACHI
SHOUFU
DAIKIRAI
KURUTTA KAJITSU (WARAI)"
 
Hope someone here finds it interesting to read!

We're going to get a new System of a Down album and the long awaited sequel to Chinese Democracy called Chinese Democracy 2: Electric Boogaloo before the new X Japan album.

We're going to get a new System of a Down album and the long awaited sequel to Chinese Democracy called Chinese Democracy 2: Electric Boogaloo before the new X Japan album.

We're going to get a new System of a Down album and the long awaited sequel to Chinese Democracy called Chinese Democracy 2: Electric Boogaloo before the new X Japan album.

We're going to get a new System of a Down album and the long awaited sequel to Chinese Democracy called Chinese Democracy 2: Electric Boogaloo before the new X Japan album.

We're going to get a new System of a Down album and the long awaited sequel to Chinese Democracy called Chinese Democracy 2: Electric Boogaloo before the new X Japan album.

We're going to get a new System of a Down album and the long awaited sequel to Chinese Democracy called Chinese Democracy 2: Electric Boogaloo before the new X Japan album.

What is Yoshiki doing with Hillary Clinton?

type: official Online Shop Limited Edition【Available in limited number of copies】
format: 2 Blu-spec CD2＋1 Blu-ray ￥7,500 (tax out).
 
ADORATIO will be sold via GALAXY BROAD SHOP starting April 20th.
also to be sold at sukekiyo tour Rakkasuru Getsumen.
 
CD 1 to contain 13 songs including previously released Mimi Zozo and Aoguroi Hysteria, other 11 being totally new.
CD 2 will be a compilation of collab works.
Blu-Ray to contain two PVs for new songs and live footage.
 
band insists ADORATIO is a music and video collection, not an album or EP.
 

 

I mean, honestly, given how most tribute albums go, this could very well just be bands covering the singles. And if it ends up being, like, Sukekiyo cranks out some ethereal post-rock version of Falling Down I'm going to shit my pants. 

I think this may be what is going on:
 
Tsuuzetsu
CD 1 Re-recording CD 2 Track-listing & mix from the 1st press of Tsuuzetsu (2001) Homura Uta
CD 1  Re-recording CD 2  Track-listing & mix from the 3rd press of Homura Uta (2004)
From the sounds of this description from Puresound, it sound like it's meant to be a release that compares the old Mucc and the current Mucc.

Japanese
 
Google English
 
When they say [DISC-2:Tsuuzetsu 1st] I'm positive they're referring to the 1st press of Tsuuzetsu, and when they say [DISC-2:Homura Uta -ReMASTER-] I think they're referring to the 3rd pressing of Homura Uta which was indeed remastered (slightly clearer dynamic range and punchier than the first press.) and included Suiso (which was not included in any other pressing of Homura Uta).

While I'm talking about Homura Uta, funny little tidbit about the different pressings is that the only aesthetic differences between the two is that the 3rd press has a giant black & white sticker on the back of the shrink wrap with different catalog number information, the CD matrix has a different catalog number to reflect the pressing, and there's an extra little insert with lyrics for Suiso. Everywhere else you'll see that the packaging and artwork is pulled straight from the first press down to the catalog number on the case and even the bonus CD. 
 
 

 

That was a really interesting advert for shampoo.

After nearly three years since "NOISE," BORIS will release their next album "DEAR" in July 2017. It will first be released in Japan through Daymare Recordings, on 2CD (¥3,200+tax) and 3LP (¥7,000+tax), on 12th July, 2017. Then, Sargent House will release a regular 1CD/2LP version on 14th July, 2017.
 
According to NPR, the band was originally planning to release this as a final album and then disband, but they felt a presence of new energy during the PINK TOUR in 2016. The album reportedly contains "10 tracks culled from three albums worth of material."
 

 

 
 
Tracklist:
1. D.O.W.N -Domination of Waiting Noise-
2. DEADSONG -詩-
3. Absolutego -絶対自我-
4. Beyond -かのひと-
5. Kagero -蜉蝣-
6. Biotope -ビオトープ-
7. The Power
8. Memento Mori 
9. Dystopia -Vanishing Point / 何処へ-
10. Dear
 
Daymare Recordings bonus CD/LP
1. More
2. Evil Perspective
3. D.O.W.N -Domination of Waiting Noise- (Full Version)
 
Sources: NPR, BORIS OHP

That was a really interesting advert for shampoo.

That was a really interesting advert for shampoo.

That was a really interesting advert for shampoo.

That was a really interesting advert for shampoo.

That was a really interesting advert for shampoo.

That was a really interesting advert for shampoo.

hoping this will be the new Kyo aesthetic
 

I, too, remember when Toshi dove into the crowd to stop a fan from filming at a concert.