Exactly, those were just hide's songs, part of the 5% that the other members of X were allowed to contribute overall, those songs don't decide any direction change in the band, only Yoshiki's songs and decisions do, and the new direction of the rock/metal songs was actually Rusty Nail and Dahlia on that album, the main change in direction of the band was all the ballads on that album though.
Anyway I don't know why you're including Scars on there, Scars had a good Riff, kind of subtle & quiet though, a good solo, and the vocal lines were fast/exciting, so I'm leaving Scars out of this.
I.V and Jade have nothing to do with Drain, I.V and Jade sound the way they are because Yoshiki's been making techo tracks for movies for too long, and he's going down the "make a song that sounds like a boring generic modern rock song, that's what makes money these days" route, Drain has never been thought of as the new direction of the band, and I.V and Jade's sound has never been heard of before in X and none of us asked for it.
Also I don't think hide was thinking "okay, we've moved on, we'll never play any of our proper rock songs except the top three ever again. Yoshiki definatly was though.
Look anyway, this is going beyond the point of the topic, so lets just stop, my original post is my opinion on what hide now thinks and I'm sticking to it, now let someone else have their opinion and the topic continue as normal.
