Right, they really don't make sense from the previous information.
Also, Hurley, when you put it that way I think everyone will miss hide, but when you check who wrote all the songs then it's pretty darn clear that Yoshiki is the band in terms of musicianship. From what I remember, hide wrote Sadistic Desire, Give Me The Pleasure (together with Taiji), Celebration, Miscast, Joker, Love Replica, Drain and Scars(?). These songs really don't represent the X sound for me.
The ones claiming there can't be a real X Japan without hide are being silly billys.