violetchain

New album already? That's the Tetsu I know and love. Couldn't believe he hadn't announced a release for this band yet when I first saw this thread.

 

Not crazy about the song, but I'm cautiously optimistic as well since it seems like the album is going to be more upbeat than THE JUNEJULYAUGUST's releases. I hope this band leans more towards nil, tbh. The only JJA song that left any sort of lasting impression in my mind was 少年兵 - I can't remember a thing about any other song I've heard from them.

I do both, but I usually prefer manga because I feel like the story moves a lot faster and the art has more personality. Plus manga is easier to take along on a commute and I love all the little bonus pages with notes from the author or extra info on the characters.

Yay, Takeshi Hosomi is fun again <3

 

Haven't heard any of the others on this list except Talkie Dance, so I didn't vote, but Strike a Bell is a lovely song.

GLAY.

 

GLAY songs always just make me so happy. Plus they basically have a track for every season and stage of life at this point. (Childhood, graduation, marriage, becoming a parent, watching over your family from the afterlife...)

Oh wow, apparently she was one of the girls in Frederic's oddloop video? Small world.

 

Congrats to him!

God, the new RIZE song is atrocious.

 

 

Jewelduel

Is this supposed to be DuelJewel, or is there actually another band in the world that chose to combine those two words for some odd reason?

Apparently he had to have some of his large intestine removed, and he lost a ton of muscle and weight while he was in the hospital since he wasn't allowed to eat (he blogged about going from 55kg to 46kg http://simplog.jp/pub/22296647/32), so it seems like the recovery time will be pretty long...

The new MO'SOME song is gloriously weird and happy. Wasn't too crazy about the first mini-album, but I have really high hopes for the second one right now. 

 

GLAY - Hai to Diamond

 

ETA:

DEAD END - ZERO

Thee Michelle Gun Elephant - Cult Grass Stars (or Gear Blues, depending on the day, although I'd pick TMGE 106 if compilations counted...)

ELLEGARDEN - Don't Trust Anyone But Us

THE BACK HORN - Headphone Children

L'Arc~en~Ciel - Tierra

Perfume - GAME

The Birthday - NIGHT ON FOOL

the telephones - We Love Telephones!!!

Kuroyume - feminism

I do pretty much the same thing as ender-ender, except that I group projects involving my favourite artists together sometimes, so I can just drag and drop the main folder into Winamp and listen to all of the projects featuring a certain member together if I want to. Or I can just type the folder name into Winamp and everything will come up.
 

Ex.

 

TMGE AND RELATED folder:

 

-Thee Michelle Gun Elephant - ___

-Thee Michelle Gun Elephant - ___

-The Birthday folder   ->The Birthday - ___

                                   ->The Birthday - ___ 

-Chiba Yusuke folder ->SNAKE ON THE BEACH folder->SNAKE ON THE BEACH - ___

                                  ->Midnight Bankrobbers folder ->Midnight Bankrobbers - ___

                                  ->misc featuring tracks

-Radio Caroline folder ->Radio Caroline - __

-ROSSO folder          ->ROSSO - ___

...etc.

I vote for everything from the '70s to the '00s, cuz there's just too much good music, and it's hard to pinpoint (like one decade might be better in one genre than the others, etc).

Glad I'm not the only indecisive one. I did the same thing, just starting with the 60s instead.

Someone actually posted live footage of Missile Girl Scoot, and they opened with "411". Awesome.

 

"Hey gaiz, do you wanna know 'bout my 411?!"

 

I know he has heart problems, just seemed like unfortunate timing for another issue since he had a herniated disk not too long ago. 

He's really having terrible luck recently when it comes to his health.

Two from CAVU:

 

 

fiction

 

Music and Lyrics: GEN

 

Taisetsu na omoide tsunaide amidakuji

Aa kokoro futatsu ni BARABARA BARABARA

Heibon na SUTOORII kaki kamikakushi

Aa kokoro miezu ni kurai kurai kurai kurai

 

Jibunkatte ni kiritotte

Danmen to danmen o

Otogi FIKUSHON NONFIKUSHON

Tsubekobe iwazu ni koko ni atsumete

 

MEROU ni kasanari kasuka ni miete kita

Sekai o tsuzutte utsushite

Kotoba to oto ga kasanari miete kita

Kimyou na sekai da

 

Kaiteki na IMEEJI tsunaide kamidanomi

Aa kokoro furatsuki furafura furafura

Souzoushii kako no zangai mo

Horiokoshi ima mitsume naosu

Mie wa shinai kedo

Koko ni aru kara

 

MEROU ni kasanari kasuka ni miete kita

Sekai o tsuzutte utsushite

Kotoba to oto ga kasanari miete kita

Kimyou na sekai da

 

MEROU ni kasanari kasuka ni miete kita sekai o

 

Kotoba to oto ga kasanari miete kita

Kimyou na

 

MEROU ni nomarete ikareta

MEROU no sekai ni okaeri

 

Kanji:

http://j-lyric.net/artist/a059e12/l035809.html

 

 

Germany has a lot because of Gan-Shin. Whenever they release something digitally it goes onto German iTunes, and I think some other European countries too. 

 

That's why UNiTE are there, plus I think Matenrou Opera, MUCC, and maybe Girugamesh? 

 

They just released UNiTE's new album digitally: https://www.facebook.com/GanShinRecords/photos/a.345581279488.150732.213118129488/10153498007864489/?type=1&theater

Oh I didn't know that, back online now.

Mine is violetchain.

I've heard of Cool Japan, but only from articles about how it's supposedly not as effective as what Korea is doing, so...

Nintendo and Square Enix. But mainly Nintendo, because Fire Emblem. 

<3

 

 

http://www.barks.jp/news/?id=1000117150#utm_source=tw_BARKS_NEWS&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=tw_auto

The new 04 Limited Sazabys album is great. I'm sad that they changed the lyrics to "Any", though. It's not quite the same without Gen butchering the line "hoping I won't lose my future leaving me".

 

 

It's cool to see that he actually tried to make the English more natural on the re-recordings, though. I can really hear him trying to enunciate.

yeah idk why they worry so much about western audiences lmfao if ur band is flopping its because y'all suck not because 150 gaijins on an online forum didnt buy ur obscure live release demo shit wtf

I don't think it's that they're worried about losing sales from overseas, it's because Japanese fans apparently don't upload releases as much. 

 

I think the logic is that when that gaijin fan uploads a live-limited release to somewhere obvious like Youtube where all their Japanese fans are sure to see it, there's less incentive for Japanese fans to come to any other lives it's being promoted at to buy it.