Showing posts with label Japan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Japan. Show all posts

Saturday, January 05, 2008

Seinaru Koku Eien no Inori music video - Malice Mizer

Hello!

I'm currently obsessed with one of the songs off of Malice Mizer's "Bara no Seido" album, Seinaru Koku Eien no Inori. The song is rather lengthy, but makes excellent use of several orchestral instruments (including a grand organ!), a choir, and of course the band itself. The song is incredibly beautiful and complex, but due to its length I figured there was no way there could be a music video for it. Well, I managed to find a live concert performance of the song, and I'll be damned, it sounds just as good as the album version! Some bands are just too perfect...

Anyway, here's the video:

I've turned off the autoplay on my blog's music player, so you won't have to rush down there to turn it off while watching this video. ;)

In other news, I've gotten to the end of the Re-GZ Custom kit and was ready to apply the decals; but while inspecting the sheet for the wings, I noticed that rather than "Gundam," the decal says "Gundan" instead.
I don't know if it was done to avoid copyright issues since it's not an official product, or if it was a legitimate mistake... but it is rather annoying that I won't be using such a cool-looking decal just because of a typo.


But, while I'm doing the whole embedded video thing, here's a brilliant commercial featuring the creepy Burger King guy:

Sunday, April 08, 2007

MAXIMUM THE HORMONE!!!

As many of you who read this Blog (all 3 of you lol) may know, I'm a huge fan of the anime/manga series DeathNote. As with most anime series, when it went into its second season they changed the intro and ending sequences, and put in new music. I really enjoy the music that Nightmare did for the first season (I even featured their intro song "The World" in one of my previous Song of the Week posts); and was somewhat unsure of how well the new music would turn out since they are being done by a different band.

Well, to be quite honest, I hate the new intro song, "What's Up People?!". It fits well with the imagery of the new intro, and the frantic pace of the story arcs that this season will cover, but the song itself doesn't hold a candle to "The World".

HOWEVER...

The new ending song, "Zetsubou Billy" is incredibly good. The one minute of it that you hear in the ending sequence isn't enough to get the full effect of the song; the full thing is amazing though. And the drummer Nao sings the second verse! <3 also="" amusing="" and="" as="" br="" crow="" daisuke="" dressed="" it="" lead="" paul="" pretty="" s="" seeing="" singer="" the="" up="" wall.="">
DeathNote second season intro on YouTube

Zetsubou Billy on YouTube

DeathNote first season intro, just for old time's sake!

Sunday, January 14, 2007

Song of the Week: 01/14/07 - 01/20/07

The song for the week is....

Tightrope by Tetsu69

This is one of the first singles by the J-Rock musician Tetsu69, also the bassist of the immensely popular band L'Arc~en~Ciel. This song is great, even if you don't know Japanese. The heavy parts, during the pre-chorus, the high-pitched distant guitars during the refrain; everything about the music in this song is just awesome. If you know what he's saying though, it makes the song infinitely better; especially given its use as the ending theme for the movie "Gensomaden Saiyuki: Requiem for the One Not Chosen."

Hear the song: Tightrope official music video on Youtube (the audio's a bit low, though)

Understand what the hell he's saying (lol): AnimeLyrics.com translation

Meet the artist: Tetsu69 official site (unfortunately the old site's gone, and replace by an ad for his new single...)

Buy the CD: Wonderful World on CD Japan

Credits: Tetsu69, and AnimeLyrics.com for the translation