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i dont think i ever posted this pic on here. i look pale as hell and slightly girly but ayyyy idgaf
 
[egg hell]

Hi, I came up with this thread which doesn't exist in M-H and I was like... "A lovely person's birthday is something important, so this thread MUST exist."
So... please, SHARE all your Indie, Visual-kei "Happy Birthday" related songs. x3
I can now remember just a few ones...
 
~ # ~ 【_Vani;lla】 - Rabid Birthday -OZ- (オズ) - Birthday   ~ A ~   ~ B ~ bishoujo♂menZ (美女♂menZ) - Happy Happy Birthday BY-SEXUAL (バイセクシャル) - HAPPY BIRTHDAY FOR ME   ~ C ~ CANDY (キャンディー) - Happy Birthday   ~ D ~ DaizyStripper - Birthday Song   ~ E ~   ~ F ~   ~ G ~ GLAY - THE BIRTHDAY GIRL   ~ H ~   ~ I ~   ~ J ~   ~ K ~ Kuroyume (黒夢) - Happy Birthday   ~ L ~   ~ M ~   ~ N ~   ~ O ~ ORDERMADE (オーダーメイド) - Happybirthday TO ME SUUPAARAFU mix (Happybirthday TO MEスーパーラフmix)   ~ P ~   ~ Q ~   ~ R ~   ~ S ~   ~ T ~ the GazettE - No.[666]   ~ U ~   ~ V ~ ValettA - The Birthday Vidoll (ヴィドール) - waisetsu ningyou (ワイセツ人形)   ~ W ~   ~ X ~   ~ Y ~   ~ Z ~     There ARE A LOT MORE in my music library but they're kind of suicidal ._. ... a.k.a AWOI - unhappy birthday to me. See? xD It is so danceable, catchy, but its lyrics are very depressing. 
The point of this day is to be very happy with positive lyrics, doesn't matter if it is slow, or very fast like headbanging around all the song. xD 
 
I WILL be adding the songs you share in this thread! So that we can enjoy birthdays with our beloved ones in our abnormal-underground-original way. :-3
 
And I'll also add links to hear them all!. 

Nice to meet you all!!!!!!
 

Early days of Hyde for me, his voice was so powerful and deep. I still remember the first time I heard Flower and fell in love with L'arc~en~Ciel several years ago. 

I'm also a big fan of Seiji (Art Cube, Brain Hacker, AMADEUS, AFTER IMAGE) not for his voice, but for his ideias and concepts. Same with SHUN from Deshabillz. 

I love:
 
Takanori Nishikawa (TM Revolution, Abingdon Boys School)
His never-ending range, controlled tremolos, amazing melodies, honest lyrics...
But beyond all that, the attitude, the Never-Give-Up spirit. The effort he puts into everything, the diverse discography, the work with other artists, etc... My vocal hero.
 
Shou (Alice Nine, Givuss, Lost Age)
Loved his nasal tone, deep melodies, tremolos, energy, and transparency in tone.
Prefer the early stuff up until Gemini tbh. It is more my style, though I love what he does in smaller live performances.
Big inspiration to me.
 
Gackt (Solo, YFC)
Deep voice and style that inspired many.
Great emotional touch, soft falsettos, moaning lyrics, very original melodies and presentations...
Another big inspiration.
 
Keiyuu (Kra, Tokyo High Black)
Never really thought about it, just simply, and purely love his work.
 
Yui (UNiTE)
I really connect with him and his vocals.
Nice, youthful, and feel real to me.
 
Hyde (L`arc En Ciel, VAMPS, Solo)
Distinct, deep, vocals that don`t have to be harsh to hit hard.
 
Chisa (DIV)
New-comer by comparison, but just like his band is moving up in the ranks fast.
Something about his slightly deep voice that rings so clear and aesthetically that it is just a pleasure to turn up the volume and listen to. Love his original lyrics too, using PS Vita instruction booklets, talking about feelings through flavours, telling ghost stories, etc...
 
 
These are just some of my favorites that I enjoyed sharing with you. I have many more.

I saw that i didn't present me so let's go ! 
 
 
I live in France and i love visual kei since more or less 4 years. Of course i also listen j-rock,traditional japanese music,metal,classical music and so on 
 I have been learning Japanese for 6 years.
 
Next year i hope to be accepted in a school where i could have a better mastery of the Japan in general
I listen to a lot of old school visual kei bands and some who are quite new. 
 
 
I don't know what to add so bye bye ! :B

Nice favorites, I am all over DIV and UVERworld as well.
Hope the Japanese learning is going good for you.

Hey Everyone !,
 
hmh how to introduce myself.. well.. I'm from Germany,17 years old and I love J-rock /Vkei ﾍ(ﾟ∀ﾟ*)ﾉ  ❤❤

So I listen almost everything xDD  (also Japanes Music in general.。.I  thnk XD) öhm ｗhat else to say.. I learn Japanese since Sept.
 
last year(wuhu~) and play Bass for a few weeks now
 
Sooo my top 5 Bands are :
 
DIV
Xenon
Zin
UVERworld
Locus
 
I hope we'll get along with each other and that's all for now ^w^ 
バイバイー　~ヾ(＾∇＾)
 
 
 

Accidentally clicked on a goth/industrial site's visual kei section back in 2004 summer, got interested to try out some Japanese rock, so downloaded the PVs they had up there. Atsushi Sakurai, Dir en grey, Malice Mizer, Baiser, Buck-Tick, Dué le quartz, Kagerou, Noir fleurir, I think that was the selection.
 
...and the rest is history.

Kingdom Hearts got me to listen to Japanese music, so it grew from there on out I guess. Should be about 11 years ago now?

Sailor Moon in early childhood distorted my personality irreparably. Then through long time nothing, but about 2005, as I were kind of true goth these days, I've accidentally discovered Malice Mizer, Moi dix Mois, Schwarz Stein, Velvet Eden and Dué le quartz shortly after I've obtained internet access. Some of them became my favourites. but I weren't really into this scene in more general sense before two years later, when I listened to, let's say Protoplasm, or 太陽届かない場所. Therefore, if there were no Rentrer en Soi, it's kind of possible I wouldn't be here at this moment.

For me, it is alike you Neolitch XD
I liked Death note's opening and ending, then I found out Nightmare on youtube, and then the other videos suggested were An Cafe, the GazettE, LM.C ... and I loved it x)

My brother got me started on the scene as a whole at a young age, introducing me to X Japan, loudness, and even bands like The Piass and Werkmare. I guess since then...my interest for it grew immensely. Of course anime influenced it a lot too, which around that time, I started getting into bands such as Nightmare, Alice Nine, The Gazette etc..
 
To this day, I'm still not even sure how I got into angura and nagoya bands. It's been about 4 years now since I've been interested in it, at least. It's all probably due to me just clicking around on various youtube suggestions. I'm pretty sure it started out with me finding Codomo A, and what not, and then it grew from there. 
 
To be honest, I wouldn't even say I'm apart of the "fandom" (assuming that being in the fandom usually means you actually contribute to it). I just enjoy the music, that's all. 

I have been listening to japanese music since late 1998 along with watching anime. As usual, the close relationship between anime and Visual Kei bands whose songs were parts of some Anime's OSTs eventually brought me to Visual Kei.
 
In 2002 I moved to the capital of my country and I started to know some Visual Kei bands, but it was in 2003  that I started to listen to them more frequently because a radio programme started that year and they talked about anime, manga and of course, japanese music.
 
Well, in 2004 a TV programme that showed anime series started to show PVs and anime intros from anime series not dubbed at that time (mainly Visual Kei). One day they showed the PV Torikago by PIERROT and I loved the song and the easthetics of the band members and other day they showed the 2nd intro for Getbackers which is also a song by PIERROT (Barairo no Sekai), I loved it and when I returned to the capital after winter holidays I managed to know people who could share barairo no sekai with me. I met two girls and one of them gave me the whole discography of PIERROT. I was expecting to receive barairo no sekai only, but she was so happy about my request that she felt the need to share the whole discography.
 
After that, I started to know more and more bands. I loved what I was listening to, but also loved the easthetics, dramatism and the attitude of most Visual Kei bands which suited me perfectly since I have always been a bit non-conformist and have some criticism against my society and Visual Kei kind of provided me with a tool to express my non-conformism and critics against it, something I wasn't expecting at first.

Someone sent me Flora by Nightmare back in high school...I have no idea why as it did absolutely nothing for me. However, shortly after someone mentioned Glay so I downloaded Drive and pretty much listened to that for ages. Shortly after finding JAME, I ended up listening to Alice Nine, An Cafe, The GazettE, Abingdon Boys School etc, which later led to me finding heavier bands like Dir En Grey. 
 
For some reason, in the hilarity of my teen days I searched for 'emo japanese music' on MySpace and ended up finding 9mm Parabellum Bullet...go figure.
 
Finding the Japanese music scene was something different and something I could call my own I guess, so I've clung to the scene ever since

When I was about 12,13 years old I thought that dressing in black and having colorful hair was great so I befriended some gothy-looking older kids from my school.
It turned out they listened to bands like Dir en grey and Dué le quartz and they showed me songs and pictures. I can't really say I 'got' the music at first but it sure impressed me.
It was all really chaotic and noisy (lol propably 30kbit) and the bandmembers looked fascinating and beautiful. So I was hooked. Soon I got into more bands, met other fans and we traded homeburned CDs.
2004 was the year I really got into the fandom guess. D'espairsRay, Blood and Eve of Destiny all played in my city and I also got fast internet access so I could use filesharing software like Winmx and Slsk. ;D

I can admit I've read this thread with big interest, so after some time of consideration I think I may at last express my opinion, although I have some strange feeling of dejàvu, that I did it before, but somehow my post disappeared. Anyway, I fancy it's kind of strange for me to read that some of You prefer not to understand the meaning of lyrics and especially about kind of "allergy" for English, or - in general - for understandable languages, as I would take liberty to call this phenomenon. Personally, I have no problem to listen to music with lyrics sung in languages comprehensible to me more than Japanese. In the latter one like most of You, I do not speak fluently, however since my earliest conscious experiences with Japanese scene I have been always trying to seek for such music, which lyrical themes and tropes would move me, even if my capability to understand any Japanese lyrics completely were scarce. But would not one be sure of possibility to identify with lyrical subject, if the song titles themselves talk about suicides, blood, roses and pale skins and madness? Absolutely!
 
More seriously, through long time I believed I already know Japanese good enough to understand most of favourite bands' lyrics. Actually I'm aware how wrong I was in such a ridiculous pride, but I still fancy my ability is sufficient to appreciate the beauty and richness of language. Naturally I can agree with conclusions from above: yes, the fact that almost every syllable ends in vowel really affects the poetical and musical properties of any work written in this language and second yes, the fact that this language is so rich in specific expressions (like with this snow-example by @237Q) leads to conciseness sometimes almost unattainable for users of many other languages. But I don't agree that uniqueness of Japanese syntax makes it somehow ideal and perfect. Since I prefer to listen to and to read poesy in many, mostly European though languages, I couldn't say that this or other language is in general way 'better' than the other ones, as I understood statements of some of You, as in my case it's absolutely not true. Except of Japanese, to my personal favourite languages used in music and poesy belong Latin, Occitan, Finnish and Middle High German. For I read a lot of mediaeval poetry, it may be reason, why it's for me difficult to agree that Japanese is the only nation which didn't lose strong contact with nature as well. I don't think that it's the only language with such a richness of expressions about nature, as works of some troubadours or minnesingers are comparable in this matter, but it's only my personal statement.
 
I think in my case the choice of Japanese music is partially because of lyrical themes used by my favourite artists and partially because of their sound and both are equally important to me. Probably I wouldn't listen to even my most beloved artists, if their lyrics wouldn't move me (the reason I listen to solo Satsuki so rarely). About my capability of understanding Japanese. I understand mostly nouns and verbs. I have problems with whole sentences and sometimes misunderstand persons and times. It doesn't disturb me to enjoy lyrics and identify myself with some best quotes. But I would never think that if this favourite quotations of mine were sung in English or German, would they move me with themselves somehow less than in case that they're in Japanese, as I have also a lot, or even more, since my ability to comprehend this languages is better, similar quotations from ensembles, or poetical works, or even novels, written in these mentioned tongues too. The point is that Japanese visual scene, or even Japanese music in more general meaning, is not the only one I am devoted too and it influences my look at referred problem.

I don't think lyrics are all that important...and they are. I have mixed feelings about it.
 
Whether it's involving japanese music or music with English lyrics, it's still equally important as it is unimportant.
 
There are some songs that I connect with that the lyrics just make me get all gooey inside or hit me hard that I in turn have to hit a wall to feel manly again, but then there are other that do that without the lyrics. I remember back when I listened to The GazettE's VOICELESS FEAR. I hardly understood the lyrics back then since my understanding of the Japanese language was miniscule. Still that was enough to not make me feel interested.
 
I also listen to a lot of metal, heavy metal, prog, all that. When there are growls, it's tough to understand what is being said but some songs can still influence me in a really good way.
 
Here's a band who's vocalist is hard to understand (Even though he doesn't scream or growl) and yet the song still makes me go nuts and it makes me appreciate the song about the same as if I knew what he was singing.
http://youtu.be/8vM4AE9SdrM

Saw TM Revolution Hot Limit PV... Was awesome.

Me with a creeper face...
 

 
Excuse the outfit - I tend to dress down at home, If the house was empty Id be naked

thats obviously a good thing for the band and although i understand when people have doubts about it, it still doesnt matter what people think. just because you probably wont like them from now on, doesnt make this a bad thing. its still going to be a good deal for the band.

[a lot of cursing]
The skin in my thumbs has been so dry the whole winter that I literally get wounds and cracks from using them. It doesn't matter what kind of prescription cortisone creams I use or how oily the drugstore creams I use are, they just keep cracking and cracking. Now I have 12 little bleeding cracks in my thumbs and a few in my index fingers. AND IT HURTS SO FUCKING MUCH AND I CAN'T EVEN BEND THEM WITHOUT THE SKIN CRACKING EVEN MORE. The cortisone cream I use kinda helps, but it burns and hurts more than pouring fucking strong HNO3 on your hand (been there done that).
 
My heels are also cracking so badly but OMFG I CAN'T MOVE MY THUMBS.
[/a lot of cursing]

Hello everyone !
Well I don't know how to introduce myself... so I would say that I'm a guy, 17 y o and I've been fond of Oshare kei (and japanese music in general) for almost 5 years now maybe ?
 
I hope I won't lose credibility as I also enjoy old school Visual kei bands and "darker" Vk (or even jmetal) bands as well haha 

But my favorite bands are
Awake
DOG inTheパラレルワールドオーケストラ
愛狂います。(aicle.)
カメレオ (kameleo)
 
I also love 己龍 (kiryu), サンドイッチで１２０分？(Sandwich de 120pun?), Fear, and Loathing in Las Vegas, D.I.D
And of course I like popular bands such as An Cafe, LM.C, SuG, Nightmare, THE GAZETTE, Moi Dix Mois...
 
Well that's it for my fav (maybe too long? XD)
 
 
Euhm.. I'm also fan of japanese fashion (mainly from 原宿 / Harajuku) and of rock music generally speaking ^^"
 
That's all !
 
PS: oh and as you might have found out, I'm French, therefore sorry if there are mistakes (´Д` ) haha

As stated above, a combination of anime and video games. BUT THEN... I saw the FFVII: Dirge of Cerberus commercial in 2006 which had Redemption by Gackt playing and I was like "wooooooooooooooooooooooooooow what is this song? why does this sound so good? omfg?" and then I used to play on a private server for this game I was obsessed with and a lot of the music in the game was replaced with jrock and I believe it was Abingdon Boy's School songs so I asked around and was given links to Youtube vids and then I just started exploring and yeah. :')