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kasumi____'s top albums (overall) 1. Dir en grey - VULGAR (1269) 2. Dir en grey - Withering To Death (736) 3. Dir en grey - UROBOROS (708) 4. Dir en grey - Kisou (319) 5. Dir en grey - 激しさと、この胸の中で絡み付いた灼熱の闇 (239) 6. Dir en grey - UROBOROS -Unplugged Disk- (177) 7. alice nine. - Alpha (170) 8. Dir en grey - THE MARROW OF ABONE (160) 9. ガゼット - DISTRESS AND COMA (153) 10. Dir en grey - MACABRE (136) 11. J - Here Comes Nameless Sunrise (125) 12. Moi dix Mois - Dialogue Symphonie (119) 13. alice nine. - VANDALIZE (118) 14. HYDE - hyde (116) 15. X JAPAN - STAR BOX (116) 16. HIM - Razorblade Romance (111) 17. Dir en grey - THE MARROW OF A BONE (103) 18. J - RIDE (98) 19. The 69 Eyes - Devils (98) 20. Moi dix Mois - Lamentful Miss (93) 21. Tsuchiya Anna - NUDY SHOW! (91) 22. HIM - Venus Doom (88) 23. Lady GaGa - The Fame Monster (86) 24. KISS - Rock And Roll Over (85) 25. DéspairsRay - BRILLIANT (83) 26. girugamesh - NOW (76) 27. Gazette - DIM (74) 28. Dir en grey - GLASS SKIN (初回生産限定盤) (70) 29. Versailles - Lyrical Sympathy (69) 30. DéspairsRay - [Coll:set] (65)

I have a big problem with visual kei: I enjoy it very much, but I can’t exactly tell what it is.

It has been almost a decade listening to visual kei bands and many of them seem completely unrelated. On Tonberry Torrents, about 2 years ago, I started a topic called "What visual kei truly is... (I don't know anymore)" in an attempt to find out what's the real nature of VK: Music genre, subculture, just fashion? That was the first time I tried to end this issue that troubles me so much, but the discussion never lead to a conclusive answer and I stopped reading the replies some time after I started the topic.

My only source for everything visual kei-related is the internet. I’m part of this virtual community that enjoys visual kei, but has never sensed what it’s like in japanese culture; the crucial experience! Everything I read on the internet seems created by people who also happen to only know visual kei by this virtual world that didn’t start the movement.

What are the origins of visual kei?

There was a brazilian website in which I first read about subgenres in visual kei: Gothic Lolita was even mentioned among names like Angura kei, Eroguro kei, Kotekote kei, Oshare kei, White kei (no other website ever mentioned that name). Sometime later Nagoya kei gained popularity as a definition and I also came across names like Kotevi kei, Kurofuku kei, Soft visual kei, Koteosa kei, Iryou kei. I could never tell the commom characteristic that would bring all those into one main genre: visual kei. Would this be some aspect of the music? Fashion? Taking two examples of bands that are considered “visual”, what does LM.C and 犬神サーカス団 have in commom?

Personally, I like to think visual kei relates to the music of those bands you could find in labels like Matina and Key Party. I don’t consider angura and eroguro to be visual kei. X-Japan is not visual kei. 蜉蝣 didn’t remain visual kei to their very end, nor did PIERROT. Besides their elaborate make-up and costumes, were MALICE MIZER truly VK or much more than it? Are bands like the GazettE, 紗羅の夊, exist†trace and DEATHGAZE really visual kei?

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Addictions

C.N.Blue – Just Please
Dir en grey - 激しさと、この胸の中で絡み付いた灼熱の闇
Super Junior M – Super Girl
Super Junior – Sorry, Sorry
G-Dragon – She’s Gone
2PM – Heartbeat
Epik High – Back To The Future (Feat. Yankie)
G-Dragon – 소년이여
the HIATUS – the flare
摩天楼オペラ – ANOMIE
태군 – Call Me
U-Kiss – 만만하니
ギルガメッシュ – I think I can fly

Song of the year 2009
This year I just have to divide it into several types or genres, starting with Rock:
No other than 激しさと、この胸の中で絡み付いた灼熱の闇, Becoming Closer to Closure, Night of the Hunter or ANOMIE
For pop it’s either SUPER GIRL or SORRY, SORRY

Best albums released in 2009

DIM
Heartbreaker
Stand Up And Scream
MASTER OF ROMANCE
Trash We'd Love
NOW
Anomie

Personal highlights of 2009
Finally seeing ギルガメッシュ] Live! :p
Going to London with Geetha, TaintedProphet and webecca!
Further Asian-Craziness with webecca, SmileLikeADevil and others!

Bands I haven’t seen and I want to see live in 2009

Alesana, Sugarcult, Linkin Park, Thrice, HIGH and MIGHTY COLOR, Utada, Blessthefall, Chiodos, Saosin, 30 Seconds to Mars, Papa Roach, Underoath, Emanuel, 36 Crazyfists, ガゼット, 東方神起, lynch., ONE OK ROCK, The Devil Wears Prada, Vanna, The Bled, Nevea Tears, Vassline, D’espairsRay, Plastic Tree, Haste the Day, I Am Ghost, Attack Attack!, Epik High and C.N.Blue many more!

1. L'Arc~en~Ciel
SMILE
DUNE (ten years edition)
AWAKE
KISS
REAL

2.An Cafe
Magnya Carta
Goku tama rock cafe
Harajuku Dance Rock (autographed ^^)
BB parallel world
Nyappy go around the world DVD
Also pink top with the machine gun bunny in it :D
seen once live

3.ガゼット
Stacked Rubbish
NIL
DIM (version with the dvd)
Meaningless art that people showed DVD
Nameless liberty six guns DVD
DIM SCENE DVD
Repeated Countless Error DVD
poster
also a pin

4.MUCC
Homurauta
Kuchiki no Tou
Gokusai
Best of MUCC
flyer
seen 2 times live

5.girugamesh
13's reborn
girugämesh
Music
Grazy Grazy Grazy live DVD
T-Shirt
seen 2 times live

6.D'espairsRay
[Coll:set]
Mirror
Redeemer
also key chain (the one you can put in your neck i don't know the word for it.. :P) and sweatband and a pin set
Poster
Picture of Tsukasa that came between the album
seen 2 times live

7.Versailles
Lyrical Sympathy
Noble
Poster

8.SuG
n0iZ stAr
虜ロォルカラァ (Blue) (single)
虜ロォルカラァ (Red) (single)
39GalaxyZ (single)

9.Matenrou Opera
Gilia
Anomie

10.Alice Nine
Vandalize

11.VAMPS
VAMPS

12.愛狂います。
心臓。
Poster
picture of rubi that came between the album
seen once live

13.Moi dix Mois
Dixandu (the one that comes with some single)
Nocturnal Opera (2 cd pack)
dixandu live dvd (europe tour 2007)

14.Gothika
Zeitgeist (autographed :D)
flyer
seen once live

15.abingdon boys school
teaching materials
tour shirt and a photo set
seen once live

16.Dio - distraught overlord
sticker with their autographs xD
poster
seen once live

17.Miyavi
tour book, could get what i wanted to buy ;___; everything was sold out so quickly
seen once live

18.vistlip
empty water bottle thrown by.. someone of them :D
Rui's pick <3
seen once live

19. Dir en grey
Dozing Green single (or somethin like that..) My friend found this in flee market at 1,5euros so she bought it for me. I kinda have lost it somewhere but I defiantely have it.. It's just that i really don't like dir en grey so i anyway probably won't listen to this much.. or maybe i just should give it a chance..
I just have something against dir en grey. i don't like the fact that they abandoned their visual look among other stuff not related to their music. unfair i know.

20.DEATHGAZE
DEAREST single

21. Dolly ( Ｄｏｌｌｙ )
Cynical Closet mini-album

22. HYDE
best of album

23. Arena37C NO.326

24. UVERworld
poster

25. JaME collection, artists: vistlip , DELUHI ,
9GOATS BLACK OUT , Ap(r)il , DaizyStripper ,
Danger Gang , PANIC☆ch , Panic Channel ,
PureQ&A
J-Visua[lism] II

26. LM.C
gimmical impact

27. Gothic Lolita Bible vol. 6

Pile of magazines, vinyl syndicate etc.

well there is something.. I probably forgot something..
EDIT! i did forget something xD dir en grey and that dio poster.. both which i am not sure where they are.. xD
EDIT! i did some shopping and added stuff :)
EDIT 3&4 again, did some shopping 8D
EDIT 5 & 6 I'm hopeless.. i keep on forgetting stuff.. I first added gazette poster there and then NIL xD i can't believe i forgot that..

First, make a list of your top 20 artists overall. Then, for each of these artists, add the 7 most similar artists to your list. Delete any duplicates, count up the number of entries on your list and this will give you some idea of how eclectic your listening habits are. A score of 9 represents an extremely unvaried musical taste while a 140 represents an extremely varied one.

1. ギルガメッシュ
D'espairsRay
lynch.
Sadie
-OZ-
DELUHI
DEATHGAZE
the GazettE
(7)

2. Linkin Park
Fort Minor
Chester Bennington
Xero
Dead by Sunrise
Papa Roach
Limp Bizkit
(6)

3. 雅-miyavi-
Dué le quartz
SuG
アンティック-珈琲店-
アリス九號.
ガゼット
(5)

4. GACKT
HYDE
MALICE MIZER
L'Arc~en~Ciel
Chachamaru
VAMPS
Acid Black Cherry
(6)

5. BIG BANG
G-Dragon
Tae Yang
SHINee
2PM
2NE1
Super Junior
F.T Island
(7)

6. 周杰倫
林俊傑
南拳媽媽
王力宏
S.H.E
陶喆
F.I.R.
蔡依林
(7)

7. 동방신기
東方神起
SMTOWN
Xiah Junsu
AnyBand
Super Junior M
(5)

8. MC Sniper
Drunken Tiger
Dynamic Duo
배치기
MC 몽
Outsider
리쌍
CB Mass
(7)

9. Disturbed
David Draiman
Slipknot
(2)

10. Godsmack
Drowning Pool
SOiL
Mudvayne
Staind
(5)

11. Dir en grey
ムック
RENTRER EN SOI
La:Sadie's
(3)

12. 赤西仁
亀梨和也
KAT-TUN
田中聖
上田竜也
中丸雄一
田口淳之介
山下智久
(7)


13. SS501
A'ST1
T-Max
김현중
U-Kiss
(4)

14. Ayabie
Megamasso
SuG
Vidoll
176BIZ
少女-ロリヰタ-23区
An Cafe
(6)

15. LM.C
(0)

16. Dope
Powerman 5000
Spineshank
Crossbreed
(3)

17. 唐禹哲
飛輪海
羅志祥
張棟樑
飞轮海
棒棒堂
楊丞琳
卓文萱
(7)

18. Plastic Tree
cali≠gari
heidi.
メリー
Guniw Tools
9GOATS BLACK OUT
ドレミ團
(6)

19. KAT-TUN
赤西仁
NEWS
(2)

20. The TRAX
문희준
H.O.T
(2)

Total: 97 gheh i listen to more chinese music but very various artists so they will never be in my top 20 XD except for Jay Chou and Danson ofcourse ;3

Idea stolen from hotarunohikari's page. With added new rules

Take ten bands/artists that should play at your show and determine their set lists:

- The first one plays 5 songs.
- The second one plays 5 songs.
- The third one plays 5 songs.
- The fourth one plays 5 songs.
- The fifth one plays 6 songs.
- The sixth one plays 7 songs. (an intro song i.e. no vocals doesn't count towards this 7)
- The seventh one plays 7 songs. (an intro song i.e. no vocals doesn't count towards this 7)
- The eighth one plays 7 songs. (an intro song i.e. no vocals doesn't count towards this 7)
- The ninth one plays 11 songs. (an intro song and outro song i.e. no vocals doesn't count towards this 11 & they must cover a song of another artist)
- The tenth one plays 14 songs, with a 2 song encore. (an intro song and outro song i.e. no vocals doesn't count towards this 14 & they must cover a song of another artist)

1. abingdon boys school

-HOWLING
-NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
-キミノウタ (Kimi no Uta)
-STRENGTH.
-JAP

2. DEATHGAZE

--1
-闇に雨 腐敗した世界. (Yami ni ame fukaishita sekai.)
-メメント モリ (Memento Mori)
-genocide and mass murder
-Evoke the world

3. Crossfaith

-Mirror
-blue
-Fiction in hope
-Voice
-k

4. ikd-sj

-CELEB HUNTER
-FULLMETAL GUNSLINGER
-eat my shit
-penisless
-vegetable garden

5. Pay money To my Pain

-Another Day Comes
-Paralyzed Ocean
-Lose Your Own
-Here I'm singing
-Train
-The Answer is not in the TV

6. Kagrra,

-京 (Miyako) {intro}
-渦 (Uzu)
-ぱらいぞ (Paraizo)
-風 (Kaze)
-四月一日 (Shigatsu Tsuitachi)
-さよなら (Sayonara)
-恋綴魂 (Kotodama)
-四季 (Shiki)

7. FACT

-CO-3 {intro}
-Paradox
-Fog
-Purple Eyes
-We Do It In Our Way All The Way
-los angels
-Slip of the Lip
-A Fact Of Life

8. Dir en grey

-G.D.S {intro}
-残 (Zan)
-鼓動 (Kodou)
-The Domestic Fucker Family
-CHILD PREY
-C
-IIID EMPIRE
-24個シリンダー (24 ko Cylinder)

9. the GazettE / ガゼット

-ART DRAWN BY VOMIT {intro}
-AGONY
-A MOTH UNDER THE SKIN
-Disasterpiece {cover of Slipknot}
-MAD MARBLE HELL VISION
-HYENA
-ザクロ型の憂鬱 (Zakurogata No Yuutsu)
-Bath Room
-紅蓮 (Guren)
-COCKROACH
-No.[666]
-LEECH
-Disorder Heaven {outro}

10. HIGH and MIGHTY COLOR
-G∞VER {intro}
-Notice
-PRIDE
-STYLE ~get glory in this hand~
-Days
-フラッシュバック (FLASHBACK)
-罪 (Tsumi)
-パールシャドウ (PEARL SHADOW)
-HOT LIMIT {T.M. Revelution cover}
-DIVE into YOURSELF
-東京ナイト (Tokyo NIGHT)
-XYZ
-一輪の花 (Ichirin no Hana)
-fly me to the other moon
-メキメキ (MEKI MEKI)
{encore}
-Energy
-RUN☆RUN☆RUN
-swamp man {outro}

Holy shit I'm more of a weeaboo than I thought.

Musicalement, 2009 fût une année excellente pour moi, malgré d'immenses déceptions venant de groupe que j'adore (ムック, メリー qui continue dans la médiocrité, ガゼット, D'espairsRay).
C'est surtout l'année qui m'a fait réaliser que mon nouveau style de prédilection est bien ce qu'appellent les japonais le mixture rock.
J'ai donc découvert énormément de nouveaux groupes pour malheureusement délaisser le visual kei. Et justement... En faisant mon top album, je me suis rendu compte de quelque chose qui fait vraiment peur : je suis très très loin de pouvoir faire un top 30 comme le gritche ou kiluuna... J'ai donc principalement fait tourner des vieilleries cette année !
Facile d'obtenir un top 10, sachant en plus que je n'ai pas encore écouté le nouveau dataspeaker et ses featuring de ouf-malade (introuvable en mp3) et le dernier cali≠gari (oui je sais honte à moi). L'excellent album de KO-JI ZERO THREE étant sorti mi-décembre 2008, je lui attribue quand même une mention spéciale (il serait 4e)...

1. Dragon Ash - FREEDOM
2. Aggressive Dogs - 蒼き餓狼
3. GNz-WORD - GEAR SECOND
4. Suns Owl - Over Drive
5. 金子ノブアキ - オルカ
6. AA= - #1
7. Gari - TOKYO SOLDIER
8. BoogieMan - Libido
9. 9GOATS BLACK OUT - black rain
10. the studs - alansmithee


J'avais prévu un petit paragraphe pour dire tout ce que je pense de la scène occidental et particulièrement française actuelle, mais bon je laisse tomber car c'est sans importance.

First, make a list of your top-10 artists overall. Then, for each of these artists, add the 8 most similar artists to your list. Delete any duplicates, count up the number of entries on your list and this will give you some idea of how eclectic your listening habits are. A score of 9 represents an extremely unvaried musical taste while a 80 represents an extremely varied one.

1. Lady GaGa
Britney Spears
The Pussycat Dolls
Space Cowboy
Ashley Tisdale
Katy Perry
Ke$ha
Little Boots
Madonna
8/8

2. the GazettE
SCREW
アリス九號.
SuG
Sadie
Dio - distraught overlord
D'espairsRay
girugamesh
12012
8/8

3. Ayabie
Megamasso
Lolita23q
Vidoll
176BIZ
アンティック-珈琲店-
LM.C
6/8

4. abingdon boys school
T.M.Revolution
UVERworld
HIGH and MIGHTY COLOR
Flow
BACK-ON
Acid Black Cherry
Nightmare
7/8

5. BIG BANG
G-Dragon
SHINee
Tae Yang
2NE1
Super Junior
F.T Island
Epik High
동방신기
8/8

6. 雅-miyavi-
Dué le quartz
the GazettE
ガゼット
GACKT
4/8

7. Base Ball Bear
フジファブリック
Monobright
ストレイテナー
チャットモンチー
ART-SCHOOL
9mm Parabellum Bullet
NICO Touches the Walls
凛として時雨
8/8

8. Versailles
HIZAKI grace project
LAREINE
Kaya
Juka
D
摩天楼オペラ
Moi dix Mois
Matenrou Opera
8/8

9. aicle.
Aicle
ClearVeil
お遊戯ゎが魔々団×【PaRADEiS】
Himeyuri
DecoLa Hopping
canzel
愛狂います。
Zip.er
8/8

10. The Sounds
Sahara Hotnights
Disco Ensemble
The Crash
Anna Puu
Melody Club
Haloo Helsinki!
Pariisin Kevät
Shiny Toy Guns
8/8

73/80 no bad, no bad