violetchain

 

Watched about half of this so far, and it's everything I hoped it'd be.

Kyosuke Himuro x Teru (GLAY)

 

Momo Kazuhiro (MO'SOME TONEBENDER) x Chiba Yusuke (The Birthday, ex-Thee Michelle Gun Elephant)

^Sorry, I don't know any of those artists. 

 

1. AA= - Humanity2

2. Thee Michelle Gun Elephant - Danny Go

3. Dragon Ash - Cool Boarders

4. Shounannokaze feat. MINMI - Sakura ~Sotsugyou~

5. J - Across The Night

6. Corrosion of Conformity - Dirty Hands Empty Pockets (Already Gone)

7. Kyle Vincent - Goin' Down

8. nil - Mona Lisa

9. Nakamaru Yuichi - STEP BY STEP

10. Down - Nothing In Return (Walk Away)

 

I really love the AA= and Shounannokaze tracks, but Danny Go is the obvious winner from this list. It's one of the first TMGE songs I ever heard, so it'll always be special to me. 

The new 04LS song is great. Not the direction I was expecting them to go in at all after swim. 

 

 

Really hoping that this major debut does good things for them. 

Finally got around to listening to YON, so here's one more:

 

No video, but there's a full acoustic version up on No Big Deal Records' Youtube channel:
http://youtu.be/DIOQIwRPUHU?t=2m40s

labyrinth
 

Now here, No where

Aa koko kara mienai hodo yogoreta kinou
Aa kotoba ni dekinai koto no kurikaeshi da
Aa
Jibun no yowasa heikou ni aru jidai
Hibi ni kanchigai shiteru
Koko de, oto de, souzou de, fusaideru kara

Kankei nai furi shiteru to nandemo nai fushinkan no
Shoutai wasure wa shinai na
Nokotteru kara
Kansei mae no shinjitsu mo kanzen naru kojinsen mo
Shougai raku de wa nai na
Wakatteru kara

Aa iki ga tsuzukanai hodo kasaneta hi yo
Aa doushite mienai n da inaku natta
Aa
Jibun no kowasa zensen ni aru jirai
Hibi ni hanashigai shiteru
Koko de, oto de, souzou de, fusaideru kara

Kankei nai furi shiteru to nandemo nai fushinkan no
Shoutai wasure wa shinai na
Nokotteru kara
Kansei mae no shinjitsu mo kanzen naru kojinsen mo
Shougai raku de wa nai na
Wakatteru kara

Aa
Aa
Fukuranda sekai ni wa
Ima, musuu no mirai

Kankei nai furi shiteru to nandemo nai fushinkan no
Shoutai wasure wa shinai na
Nokotteru kara
TSUNTSUN tsurara rirurero KANKAN teri tarirurera
Shoutai wa sude ni nai na
Mukatteru kara
Shougai yakume wa nai ka
Sagashiteru kara

Kanji:
^in comments of Youtube video



monolith

Music and Lyrics: GEN

Itsukara kanashii to ka
Yasashii to ka namida no koujitsu
Kimi igai ni nani o toru
Itsukara ga tadashii to ka kuyashii to ka namida no kougi-chuu
Kimi igai ni nani o nozomu

Kitto machigaerarenai na yurayuraida kono kanshoku o
Samenai yume o shizuka ni mitai

Memo ni nokosareta tsukame-sou de tsukamenai yuugenjikkou
Kagiwaketa kibou de sae mo
Kimi ni aisarenai no ga ii no sa

Itsukara kanashii to ka
Yasashii to ka namida no koujitsu
Kimi igai ni nani o toru
Itsukara ga tadashii to ka kuyashii to ka namida no kougi-chuu
Kimi igai ni nani o nozomu

Memo ni nokosareta tsukame-sou de tsukamenai yuugenjikkou
Aisareta kioku ni mo
Saware-sou de sawarenai na
Tsunaida mama de ii no ni

Itsukara kanashii to ka
Yasashii to ka namida no koujitsu
Kimi igai ni nani o toru
Itsukara ga tadashii to ka kuyashii to ka namida no kougi-chuu
Kimi igai ni nani o nozomu
Kimi igai ni nanimo nai daro

Kanji:
http://petitlyrics.com/lyrics/1003039

Wednesday

MANY ME LIVING INSIDE MY BODY AND TIME
ME AND ME AND ME...
Gozen san-ji ikou no shikou
SHALL WE ALL TONIGHT LET ALL OF US TOGETHER IN MY ROOM
MEETING IN MY HEAD
Gozen san-ji ikou no shikou

MORE SIMPLY, THEN I CAN UNDERSTAND IT
HEY THERE, HERE’S MY FEELING
THAT’S ALSO MINE
SORT ALL OF THESE ON MY DESK

Saigo no koe ga suru suiyoubi
Kanjou no kyoukaisen
Kizukanai furi
Kutsuu datta darou
Dou natte n da
Boku no nounai shuuchuu kouji
Koumyou ni doumyaku ni kizukanu you ni
Keikaku henkou-chuu

MEETING IN MY ROOM
IT STILL DOESN’T SEE TO GOING WELL
TRUE VOICE IS CRASHES
Gozen san-ji ikou no shikou
MY PURITY AND MY PRIDE WENT HOT AND HAVING AN ARGUMENT
GRABBING EACH OTHERS’ SHIRTS
Gozen san-ji ikou no shikou

MORE SIMPLY, THEN I CAN UNDERSTAND IT
SORT MY ALL OF FEELING ON MY DESK
MORE SIMPLY, THEN I CAN UNDERSTAND IT
AND A HEARTLESS FEELING, MY CALM FEELING
NOW IT’S TIME TO GIVE A JUDGE

Henji no nai
Jimonjitou o
Kurikaesu tabi
Sono koe wa toonoite kieru kieru
Sayonara sayonara
Saigo no koe ga suru suiyoubi
Kanjou no kyoukaisen
Kizukanai furi kutsuu datta darou
Dou natte n da
Boku no nounai shuuchuu kouji
Koumyou ni doumyaku ni kizutsukanu you ni
Keikaku henkou-chuu
Kanjou no kyoukaisen kizukanai you ni
Shuuen no senritsu
Eien wa toutotsu ni kirisakareteku
LAST WEDNESDAY

Kanji:
http://petitlyrics.com/lyrics/1003250

I went with option 2. I find it really charming for certain artists. Especially bands that are a bit more on the silly side, like the telephones, the pillows, pop punk bands, etc. There are certain songs that just wouldn't be anywhere near as fun to sing along to in Japanese.

 

This one, for example:

 

It gets a bit harder to make it work for more serious songs, but some singers pull it off.

Pre-ordered Suck a Stew Dry's new live DVD since it was oddly affordable.

The new WHITE ASH song is pretty sexy. Seems like Nobita's English is still completely incomprehensible though.

 

The new Suck a Stew Dry song is really cute. Not crazy about the video though. I can't take anything with slinkys in it seriously.

 

I've been pretty lucky. Most of my absolute favourite bands either came back in the past few years or are still going.

 

The only disbanded ones coming to mind are Psycho le Cemu and Thee Michelle Gun Elephant. PLC keep holding reunion shows every now and then, and it's not like TMGE can or should get back together after Abe Futoshi passed away, so I can't really complain about those two either.

Yeah, we need more details once they are released because I don't know what this is.

 

kagerou as in XII DIzzy kagerou?

And syokudai-kakko-kai as in http://syokudaikakkokai.com/ ?

 

And i'm not sure who rui is.

^Kagerou is the singer from Syokudaikakkokai's name.

Made these truffles today, (although I halved the recipe, used mostly dark chocolate and added way less sugar than it said to), and I'm actually really surprised by how good they taste. I think I'm going to make them again around Christmas - maybe with half coffee flavoured or with some nuts on the inside... 

http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/6344/easy-chocolate-truffles.aspx

KAGERO / 31

the telephones / 21

LIPHLICH / 11

MO'SOME TONEBENDER / 9

geek sleep sheep / 9

^Cyntia aren't called VK, as far as I know? They're a regular hard rock/metal band that's gradually becoming more pop-rock.

 

The comments in the OP are just comparing the way their sound is changing to VK bands, and the other poster even says "please stop comparing Cyntia to VK".

Paranoia Agent

 

Ranma 1/2

Was rediscovering my love for J last week.

 

J / 25

KAGERO / 13

MO'SOME TONEBENDER / 10

THREE LIGHTS DOWN KINGS / 8

クリープハイプ (CreepHyp) / 5

The bassist from KAGERO has such an adorable singing voice. I wonder if that's why he makes so much instrumental music.

 

http://youtu.be/uzSW6KrKXV8?t=40s

Ooh, a longer one. Might get this if the trailer looks good.

Facebook and Last.fm mainly. I scan Twitter for news and pictures sometimes but don't post on it. I used to love Livejournal, but now all I use it for is finding variety shows when I get a boyband craving.

I know a few of those artists, and I listen to a bit of Fear, and Loathing in Las Vegas, but I don't know any of those songs.

 

1. KinKi Kids - to Heart

2. asobius - new morning (Japanese ver.)

3. nil - Fighting Friday Night

4. Silver Ginger 5 - Brain Sugar

5. Tesla - We're No Good Together

6. Faith No More - Everything's Ruined

7. Cinderella - Sick For The Cure

8. David Usher - Alone in the Universe

9. Static-X - The Trance is the Motion

10. Shotgun Messiah - Side F-X

 

This is an interesting one. I'm surprised I got such a long string of English songs with the way my music library has been recently. There's some cheesy stuff on this list, but Alone in the Universe is a classic. Really brings me back to the glory days of MuchMusic.

The fact that they spelled Padalecki wrong eats away at the credibility of this story a bit...

 

I started listening to Japanese music some time in 2000 (maybe even 1999), but I didn't really start listening to Jrock until 2003. I am sure I listened to the odd VK song here and there before, but I really started to get in to VK when I stumbled across a certain website. I so wish I could remember the name of it. The person running it had short profiles of several of his/her favorite bands and then a list of their top favorite songs by each artist. They had a download link for the top song every artist, so my first VK songs were the likes of Dir en Grey's Cage, hide's dice, X Japan's Silent Jealousy, Penicillin's Chaos, Gackt's Vanilla, Glay's Two Bell Silence, Luna Sea's Rosier, and Malice Mizer's Syunikiss. For the sake of not over estimating, I put myself down for 2004.

Do you mean Project J? I don't think it's still around anymore, but that was the site that got me into almost all of my favourite bands when I first started listening to Japanese music.

In addition to the bands you listed they had a lot of profiles for non-VK artists like Thee Michelle Gun Elephant, Judy and Mary, the pillows, The Back Horn, etc. Lots of really good stuff. 

Seconding Hitomi Yaida and Silent Siren.

 

Also, no mentions for Shonen Knife and Judy and Mary?

 

I'm not a diehard fan of theirs, but Shonen Knife have the cutest lyrics ever.

 

"He gets his kicks from a tiny toy
A green frog filled with catnip
And pretty soon he's gonna be seventeen
Kitty cat birthday party

 

Catnip is a kitty cat drug
We plant catnip seeds together
All summer long he watches it growing
Dreaming of the harvest moon

 

Catnip dream, catnip dream, catnip dream
Meow, meow, meow"

 

Judy and Mary