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Re: Park Han Byul reveals a new hairstyle!

Bottle — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 23:00:16 -0000

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Re: Best J-Rock Band of the Decade: It's Official!

Bottle — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:51:37 -0000

haha,

君という花 is pretty much the only song I've liked, and I love it! I found everything else very boring I am afraid...

Re: Best J-Rock Band of the Decade: It's Official!

Bottle — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:56:55 -0000

The only award AKG deserve to win is; Most Boring Band of all Existence.

But otherwise, I agree with you. ツ

I would say my favorite non-VK Jrock band formed after 2000 have been 9mm Parabellum Bullet. If we're allowed to include bands from the end of the last century too, I'd put in Bugy Craxone, or maybe The Back Horn ^^. Radwimps are also great, but their last album was a bit filler heavy!

Re: Who's the best post-millenial j-rock band?

Bottle — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:45:18 -0000

People were just rolling off their favourites. Thought I'd do the same n.n For me, their 4 songs amount to much more listening enjoyment than most other bands entire discographies.

Re: Who's the best post-millenial j-rock band?

Bottle — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:49:56 -0000

fra-foa were indeed awesome!

Re: Who's the best post-millenial j-rock band?

Bottle — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:48:47 -0000

Chemical Pictures

- 100% awesome songs
- 100% awesome members
- 100% different to all other Jrock/VK bands

and they break genre conventions on a daily basis.

No band can compete.
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I think 9goats Black Out come second ^^

Re: CYOGH: Shiina Ringo?

Bottle — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 02:58:32 -0000

I love Suberidai, especially the live version! n.n

Re: CYOGH: Shiina Ringo?

Bottle — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 02:57:36 -0000

My favorite from that album I think, and it blends so perfectly from Shuukyou!

Re: CYOGH: Shiina Ringo?

Bottle — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 02:54:17 -0000

What no, the rap is awesome! He's just rapping about his guitar, it's so random! xD

Re: CYOGH: Shiina Ringo?

Bottle — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 02:52:37 -0000

I really think you should consider including all of that album go! :p

Re: CYOGH: Shiina Ringo?

Bottle — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 02:52:01 -0000

WTF THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE TO CHOOSE!

Cappucino - from err, demo tapes and live recordings?
It's amazing! I don't know exactly what makes it so good, just it's simplicity and the melody n.n

Memai (眩暈) from the Koko de Kiss Shite single.
Chorus gives me shivers.

Re: CYOGH: Gazette!

Bottle — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 10:01:26 -0000

mm I second Sugar Pain, that should really be on it. And Ruder too, both great great tracks.

Re: review: karasu | "lastica" pv (2009)

Bottle — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:11:12 -0000

Hm, I think there's lots of little reasons as to why I don't like them. I think Hiroto isn't very good at writing a memorable hook in the solo for starters. The solo in Hana is just so messy and off-putting. He also seems to change the pace of the songs with his solos, I don't know how he does it, usually they have one too many parts in them. But It's more to do with the creative redundancy that comes across in Alice Nine songs nowadays with them constantly using out of place and song destroying breakdowns in "C" part of their now permanent ABABCB song structure, that usually revolve around one of his solos.

A prime example of all this is the song Atmosphere. A beautiful song, rendered unlistenable to me because of the breakdown in the middle.
Hana and Sleepwalker also have utterly terrible solos, but in those songs it's everything about the guitars that I dislike. From vandalize onwards their guitars have taken on a really out-of-place tone and style for me. (I'm not one of these people who thinks more rocky automatically = better)

This is speculation, but considering all these changes happened after Tora nearly paralyzed himself with his spine injury, and now that it's Pon who plays all the solos, I am guessing he has taken over the mantle of guitar composition duties for the band. He lacks all the creative subtlety Tora had, who knew when no solo was needed, or when an acoustic guitar would fit better and so on.

Alice Nine was never about the guitars for me. When I think about my favorite tracks (stuff like, Corona, Time Machine, Blue Planet and Gekkou Yoku), it's the the vocal melodies that are the draw to the song. Now the guitars have taken on this new rocky edge and I hate it. It pulls the songs in the opposite direction to were the rest of the band are taking them, and the result is just mess after mess :/

Sorry for the essay Asari. Alice Nine used to be my favorite band pretty much, now their stuff only gets one or two listens on YouTube for me.

Re: review: karasu | "lastica" pv (2009)

Bottle — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:56:14 -0000

Hiroto ruins ALL SONGS with his guitar solos. The exception being Alice Nine - Rainbows, but then that was the catalyst for all these terrible solos. I struggle to listen to any of their newer stuff because even if I like what I am hearing, I know they'll be a terrible solo at around the 2:30 mark that'll destroy it all for me :|

The only word that comes to mind to describe this song is "Romp" for some reason xD. I don't like it

Re: Choose Your Own Gaventurezette

Bottle — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:51:36 -0000

That was my second choice, so I'm glad someone picked it ^^

Re: Choose Your Own Gaventurezette

Bottle — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:45:27 -0000

Kore de Yokattan Desu... (「これで良かったんです・・・」)

It's their best song.
It has this really nice punk fragility to it, whilst having some ridiculous VK clichés embedded in it, like the guitar solo that goes into a 3/4 bridge xD
I love it so much n.n
They were so great before they got the major label gloss bukkaked all over their music.

Re: review: gazette | "before i decay" (2009)

Bottle — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:55:43 -0000

I thought this was terrible.

Utterly utterly terrible.

Re: Tokyo Game Show 2009 "Companions"

Bottle — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:50:52 -0000

Both the MGS girls for me!

I have a thing for gyarus though ._____.

Re: New Chemical Pictures Song - "Ode to the German Fish Woman of Thailand" coming soon!

Bottle — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:15:09 -0000

OMG - Everything I hear by them blows my expectations away and away, even though they keep getting higher! Can't actually wait to hear the whole thing. D;

Elec, you rock!

Re: Albums Dying More and More, as Predicted.

Bottle — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 09:47:08 -0000

Wow, 1200+ !? I can see that being a burden. Have you considered big CD wallets with square pouches? I bought one to cart my favourite CDs to Korea with me. It fits 144 CDs in it, takes up about as much space 12 cases would previously (2x2 stacked 3 high) and the square pouches mean you can fit in all the album artwork together with CDs! Ten of those and you could fit your whole collection under your bed :]

Re: Albums Dying More and More, as Predicted.

Bottle — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 08:23:53 -0000

I really don't want albums to die out! But it would be cool if bands didn't feel as tied to the 'Albums with Singles' concept. I'm a big fan of EPs and one off singles. But yeah, if all physical releases were to die out I would be very sad :/

Korea has already largely changed to EPs over albums. But they also offer the coolest packaging of their releases, (they hardly ever come in CD cases anymore.) Which is something more bands should do I think.

Re: review: despairs ray | "final call" pv (2009)

Bottle — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 06:58:03 -0000

If I was in a band, I'd totally want to be on "Delicious Deli Records" too!

Re: man transformed into goat!

Bottle — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 10:38:02 -0000

It's for this sort of stuff why blogs were invented. Epic xD

Re: Gaijin VK Gets Even More Legit

Bottle — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:49:43 -0000

- Also the talking bit, and then when he erupts, is so damn cool >_<

Re: Gaijin VK Gets Even More Legit

Bottle — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:43:07 -0000

I think your burning sarcasm misses the point a little. Sure MM has lots of visual elements to his stuff, but he isn't VK. And sure VK evolved from a number of things including Glam Rock, but calling Glam rock the same as VK is like saying Rock n' Roll is no different to Metal.

Anyway I liked both the songs! Both capture different aspects of the "VK sound" really well! In terms of appereance, AKADO's Singer, Guitarist and Bassist really do look the part! (Bassist reminds me of Zero from D'espa in the Garnet PV) - thanks for sharing Go!