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General chat / Re: X Japan new song - Born to be Free

« on: July 03, 2010, 06:58:13 PM »

Thanks for the vid, Ulquiorra

The intro and the interlude are beautiful and remind me why I like Yoshiki's style so much. It's a REAL shame for those guitars. I guess this is the price a band has to pay if it wants to go mainstream: less complex and far more predictable guitar work along with a really catchy melody, so everyone can immediately appreciate the song without too much effort. Unfortunately, this is the kind of songs that stays in your head for a while and then ends up being replaced by another catchy song after a couple of months. IMHO that doesn't happen with Silent Jealousy, Dahlia or even Rusty Nail, which despite its catchyness, features an interesting and more varied structure, thanks to Pata and hide's help.

Born To Be Free sounds good, but I can't say X Japan are really doing what they could and should be doing. So much potential wasted there...

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General chat / Re: Yoshiki Foundation Party ~ 01.07.10

« on: July 02, 2010, 10:44:48 PM »

I like the song and I think it is way better than I.V. and better than Jade, which is good 'cause it means that musically speaking the band has still something good to offer.
The vocal lines are great (maybe a bit too repetitive, but still great), and the guitar word is slightly better than Jade, but still not really impressing if compared to what X was capable of before the break-up. Anyway, Sugizo seems to have gained more space in this song, which is pretty great and makes me hope for even more in the future.

What worries me a bit is that, from what I can see, Yoshiki is trying to do with X Japan what he couldn't do with Violet Uk and the result is some sort of strange mix between these two projects, which may lead to X Japan losing its true nature and becoming an extension of Yoshiki's solo career.
Let Pata and Sugizo compose a whole song and Toshi write the lyrics for it, THEN and only THEN we can talk about X Japan!

Anyway, as I said before I like the song and I think it's a step forward, still, I'm hoping for something more

Oh and btw I LOVE the piano interlude and the piano intro it gives that melancholic feel that every good X song MUST have

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Forum Games / Re: Rate the song

« on: May 19, 2010, 10:37:07 AM »

8/10

I love french lyrics and I really the music

Now it's time for one of my favorite opening theme for an old anime.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCHd_uQa3qs&feature=related[/youtube]

The singer is Cristina D'Avena, the most popular singer for anime in Italy. She sang many opening themes for animes of the 80s and 90s.
Listening to these old songs and watching these old images brings tears to my eyes and reminds me of how lucky I am to be born in the 80s

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General chat / Re: X Japan new song - Born to be Free

« on: May 19, 2010, 08:38:55 AM »

I have to agree on the fact that the title doesn't sound very X Japan-ish, but whatever, I'm eager to hear it and to watch all of these pvs they're shooting. X Japan seems to be finally back from the grave: lots of news, new album, new pvs, new songs, that's a really good thing in my book

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General chat / Re: X Japan in Hollywood on January 9th

« on: January 10, 2010, 12:32:33 AM »

Ah and let me add that the Best Album is surely NOT going to have just 4 songs, which means that they still may include re-recordings of Silent Jealousy, Kurenai and satuff like that,

or maybe, just maybe it would be songs like tears, forever love, longing,...

It could be, but we still have no clue about it, so let's wait until they release it. I'm sure they won't leave out all the metal songs they recorded in the past, it's more than a half of their discography, it would be ridiculous and not convenient as well.

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General chat / Re: X Japan in Hollywood on January 9th

« on: January 10, 2010, 12:26:33 AM »

Ah and let me add that the Best Album is surely NOT going to have just 4 songs, which means that they still may include re-recordings of Silent Jealousy, Kurenai and stuff like that, which would be AWESOME in my opinion. I also think they made a perfect choice by choosing Rusty Nail and Endless Rain as songs for the PVs, they're both great songs and catchy as well and they MUST bet on those if they really want to conquer the American market.

EDIT: I'm happy someone agrees with me

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General chat / Re: X Japan in Hollywood on January 9th

« on: January 10, 2010, 12:14:24 AM »

I'll copy and paste what I wrote on another forum:

You know what? To be honest, I'm really happy about the songs they have chosen.
Endless Rain is great as it is, that's true, but I'd really like to hear a new version of it, it could be really interesting in my opinion. The same could be said for Rusty Nail and whatever other songs they decide to re-record. At least this Best Album will really have something new and won't be ANOTHER fucking Best Of, we have plenty of those. For the first time since the reunion I agree with a decision the band has made

And if we don't like the re-recorded songs we still have the old ones, right? Also, if you think about it, it's really difficult to completely ruin masterpieces like Endless Rain and Rusty Nail, if the new versions happen to be worse, they sure won't be SO much worse than the old ones, just different...and that's totally ok with me, I LOVE re-recordings

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General chat / Re: X Japan in Hollywood on January 9th

« on: January 09, 2010, 02:08:38 PM »

He did Zilch's "Electric Cucumber" too and was close friends with Paul Raven, Zilch's bassist. If you look on his myspace blog far enough back to 2007 he posted some photos he took himself from that particular shoot. Dean Carr was also present on the boat which released half of Hide's ashes into the water in LA.

I didn't know any of this. That's great

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General chat / Re: X Japan in Hollywood on January 9th

« on: January 09, 2010, 01:47:12 PM »

Apparently the director for this video is Dean Karr, the same guy who's behind many videos for Marilyn Manson, Slayer and Megadeth. That's a good sign in my book

Here's his videography

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0440061/

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General chat / Re: X Japan in Hollywood on January 9th

« on: January 09, 2010, 11:42:24 AM »

Ok I have to say the pics look good

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General chat / X Japan's new direction

« on: January 08, 2010, 10:58:48 PM »

It's been months since I last posted here, but now I really feel the need to do so.
This whole post is in response to Ulquiorra's latest comment in this thread.

I'm not really happy with the direction X Japan are taking, I.V. and Jade are average songs with nothing but a really good melody and nice lyrics, but that's all. X Japan's songs used to be MORE than that, they were way more interesting in terms of composition, especially for what concerns the guitar parts, that's something I think everyone has realized by now.
I'd really love it if Yoshiki got back at composing heavy metal songs like he used to, but so far that's clearly not the case and to be honest, I don't think things are going to change in the future.
I'm kinda sorry this is happening because I think Yoshiki could still compose heavy metal masterpieces like Silent Jealousy, Dahlia, Kurenai, Rose Of Pain if he only wanted to...but that's exactly the point, he apparently doesn't want to and you know what? That's HIS and the band's decision to make, as fans, we only get to decide if we want to stick with them or not. It may sound sad but that's reality and it's the same with EVERY single band existing in the world.
Do you have any idea of how many times I've decided to stop following a band because it had taken a direction I didn't like? It happened MANY times and still happens now, which sucks, I know, and it makes you feel angry at them because you think they're doing something against their roots, but in the end complaining doesn't solve anything. The only choice you have is to just stop caring about their future works and keep listening to the old ones you like. I still do this with many bands I used to like and I'm fine with it.

X Japan have done amazing things in the past, you could say they've really left their mark, they will always be regarded as an historical band in Japan and they're one of the few bands to be known even outside of their country, I think that's really an impressive and important achievement, very few Japanese bands could say that of themselves.

Now they're clearly trying to reach the american-european market and they have decided to do it with songs like I.V. and Jade, which are more accessible to a wider audience, enabling them to gain a more solid fanbase. I personally don't like this decision, but there's nothing I can do about it, is there? I can criticize them (and I do), but there's no use in bashing Yoshiki, the band or their new fans, just because you don't like the current state of things. It's just useless.

So what I'm trying to say is if you still want to follow them, hoping things will change, do it, but please stop posting this kind of comments, everyone here knows what you think about Yoshiki and X Japan's current situation and I'm sure many people(including me, to some extent) agree, but you can't expect to convince everyone of your opinion. There are people who are ok with how things are turning out and they have every right to be in my opinion.

Bands evolve and often change direction, being a fan doesn't mean following them just because you liked them in the beginning and expecting them to always stay true to their roots.    

 

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X JAPAN World Tour / Re: Vote for the song you want to hear at the upcoming concerts!

« on: April 24, 2009, 11:21:39 AM »

Dahlia and Vanishing Love with intro would be killer

DEFINITELY looking forward to the concerts now!

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Violet UK / Re: New song "ROSA"

« on: March 26, 2009, 01:21:36 PM »

Here's another sample for this song



Sounds good

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X JAPAN World Tour / Re: Tokyo Dome Concert dates announced! Team Yoshiki!

« on: February 11, 2009, 10:11:30 AM »

.....please not Japan Expo AGAIN..... T_______T

Seconded.I'm seriously thinking of not going if it's during the Japan Expo honestly

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Sugizo / Re: New Member

« on: January 19, 2009, 12:39:10 PM »

It better be Sugizo otherwise me and tons of other fans will be VERY disappointed

I'm still a bit afraid it could be someone else though, after all,Sugizo's schedule for this year is very tight...

I just hope it won't be Miyavi, I would be forced to stop listening to X forever.
 

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X JAPAN World Tour / Re: January 16 and 17 2009 -- Hong Kong

« on: January 18, 2009, 12:39:28 AM »

Ok I'm still a bit shocked after viewing the video of Tears...that was probably the BEST performance they have EVER done for that song...Toshi was simply godlike...

I'm really starting to feel excited again at the thought of maybe having the chance to see them in Europe this year.

They are back in amazing shape.

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Violet UK / Re: "VK-R",performed by Violet Uk,to be the endtitle song for Repo!The Genetic Opera

« on: January 10, 2009, 01:51:39 PM »

Here's a small preview of VUK-R right from Repo final credits



The chorus is great IMO,but I was hoping for something more unique...
Anyway,it sure does sound good,I'm sure this is going to be way better than Blue Butterfly.It's a shame that we can only hear 1 minute of it and I'm afraid we'll have to wait for Yoshiki himself to release the whole track,which means probably another year or so XDD

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General chat / Re: Your ideal setlist for X's World tour

« on: January 04, 2009, 03:18:08 PM »

Here's mine:

Prologue ~World Anthem
I'll Kill You
Rusty Nail
Silent Jealousy
Piano solo
Unfinished
Dahlia
Week End
Drum solo
Say Anything
Orgasm ~Ode to Joy~

Encore 1
X
Alive
Sadistic Desire

Encore 2
Rose Of Pain
Without You band version(I stil heaven't listened to it of course,but considering how great the classical version is I doubt the final one will be bad)

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X JAPAN World Tour / Re: Countdown live to be broadcast live!

« on: January 04, 2009, 10:12:40 AM »

In the PROLOGUE,no(from what I remember), but in X,yes

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X JAPAN World Tour / Re: Countdown live to be broadcast live!

« on: January 03, 2009, 12:25:27 AM »

Btw,
to me,
after watching this countdown gig it felt more like they're officially back..the reunion one in March didn't really gave a feeling as strong as this countdown live.

Totally seconded!X are NOW officially back

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News / Re: X Japan's concerts on 2009 revealed!!

« on: January 02, 2009, 04:11:44 PM »

the answer is no XD

I think I'll have to second that XD
In my opinion, it's highly unlikely that they manage to fill Bercy even if it was the only European date.
X Japan are not that polular in Europe and I'm sure X Japan know that better than us.Anyway, this doesn't mean that there will be just a bunch of people,there'll be many(if the concert happens of course XD), but not as many as required to fill Bercy I think.

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X JAPAN World Tour / Re: Countdown live to be broadcast live!

« on: January 02, 2009, 10:54:12 AM »

Ok I've just finished watching the live and it was AWESOME!

They are in great shape and Sugizo fits perfectly!Watching this live I remembered why I love this band so much...

In my opinion this was the best performance since the reunion

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News / Re: X Japan's concerts on 2009 revealed!!

« on: January 02, 2009, 10:47:07 AM »

I'll be in Paris and/or Germany

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X JAPAN World Tour / Re: Countdown live to be broadcast live!

« on: January 01, 2009, 11:27:55 AM »

You may be new to the forum , but you're already deserve a BIG thanks from me!
Welcome to the forum!

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X JAPAN World Tour / Re: Countdown live to be broadcast live!

« on: December 31, 2008, 05:54:32 PM »

Amazing!
This gig was short, that's for sure, but it was damn intense!

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X JAPAN World Tour / Re: Countdown live to be broadcast live!

« on: December 31, 2008, 12:16:30 AM »

The countdown gig is NEAR
I'm looking forward to living it with all of you guys, following the March concerts on this forum truly kicked ass

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X JAPAN World Tour / Re: Countdown live to be broadcast live!

« on: December 27, 2008, 11:01:17 PM »

This is going to rock.
Luckily it's 15-18 GMT+2 (my timezone), so I get both X and fireworks. \o/

Same here!I'll get the countdown live and then I'll go out celebrating the new year with my friends. It doesn't get better than this

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X JAPAN World Tour / Re: Yoshiki jewelry promotional event, national tour with X Japan

« on: December 26, 2008, 08:13:16 PM »

Great news 

From what I read on X boards it isn't sure whether they will be ready to play the new song during the countdown live or not, but they promised that if they can't they'll play it during the other upcoming shows.

Can anybody confirm this?

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General chat / Re: The "I dont like ..." Thread

« on: December 26, 2008, 03:53:09 PM »

Having such high expectations for the countdown gig and fearing they may be disappointed

Yeah, same here. On one hand I think they are gonna be similar to the reunion concerts (which were great btw), but on the other hand deep down inside, I'm hoping for a few things (new permanent member, new songs, more old songs, and so on

I'm hoping for the exact same things Let's hope at least one or two of them become reality.

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General chat / Re: The "I dont like ..." Thread

« on: December 26, 2008, 01:55:14 PM »

Having such high expectations for the countdown gig and fearing they may be disappointed