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Just listened to it. Still too early to judge, but I love how short it is. 39 mins. The members mentioned in interviews that they thought their albums were getting too long, so they decided to go back to what they used to do in the first 2 or 3 albums. Short, but sweet. Good idea, MERRY. Good idea.

Eu tô ouvindo basicamente as bandas que quero tentar ver durante a viagem, basicamente as bandas mais antigas que eu sempre gostei: BUCK-TICK, MERRY, Plastic Tree, etc. Eu e uma amiga vamos tentar ver o ラミエル, então vou tentar pelo menos ouvir um pouco, mas pelas fotos acho que não é muito a minha. E o fato deles copiarem o nome Lamiel é um grande strike contra. Não se pode usar o nome de uma grande banda querida assim.

peguei meu visto pro japão. vou em outubro de novo. 2/2, bebê! quero ver BUCK-TICK, MERRY (no mínimo 2x), D'ERLANGER, DEZERT, シド (mas tá difícil! ôôô, gente, bora botar mais uns ingressos ae!), ベル, KEEL, os projetos solo do Hitomi e do 手鞠 , Plastic Tree, ザアザア, バックドロップシンデレラ e outros. *dedinhos cruzados, amigos*

what a sweet, sweet setlist. まひるの月 is amazing live.

booooo, the acoustic version of Happy life is amazing. And I really like the original version. We also know now that MASS CONTROL is the ska-punk song from Tokyo Spring. Cool. I wonder when Screams of the Dark will appear in one of their albums officially. Judging from スカル, it will take about 10 years.

Ha, called it! Shame about lynch. getting XXX for YOU, though

I think I remember reading something about disagreements with Danger Crue at the time. But, I guess kyo also wanted to do something different than CIPHER and Tetsu. But, when you think about that, kyo was also featured as a guest vocalist throughout all of CRAZE's albums... so, my best guess is they actually had some problems with their agency. But whatever problems they had with MAVERICK 30 years ago have been ironed out, since they still have ties with them.

So the new Happy life is probably the punk version they played recently, right? I'm a bit disappointed that they decided to go with the "original" version for 平日の女, cause I really like the alternative version. Anyway, I'm seeing them at Yanagase (got my tickets!) and, if I'm lucky, I might also catch them at Nara and Kofu. *fingers crossed*

and get increasingly frustrated as their creativity slowly fades.

I'm not surprised, but this is pretty sad. グリーヴァ was amazing live. I was lucky to see them twice. One of the shows I went to was a double-bill with ゴシップ and グリーヴァ upstaged those guys pretty hard. The difference between both bands' performances was GINORMOUS.

Fuck! One of the best drummers in the scene. ザアザア needs to find someone who can pummel the kit just like he does. Shame he is "retiring", but I hope he changes his mind in a couple of years.

4ge and Lay HYPE! I have plans to see Hitomi in October, I hope I can find these minis as well.

livebu.com great way to track concerts around Japan. You can sort stuff by region, city or artist. And I think by venue as well. In Japanese only, btw.

When you listen to ネロ's drumming and then things like CRAZE, D'ERLANGER or BODY you can totally tell: "Oh right, he really likes Tetsu's busy style." And ネロ has said many, many times how much he loves CRAZE and D'ERLANGER.

I can see TUSK singing pretty much every D'ERLANGER song ever, so I'm good with whatever THE SLUT BANKS can come up with. But if they choose something like 1999 or INCARNATION OF EROTICISM, I'll be over the moon. Also, I would LOVE to see anyone doing XXX for YOU, one of D'ERLANGER greatest offerings.

SORA is, or was, one of Tetsu's many drum students (maybe an ex-roadie as well). ネロ is also one of his former students.

OMG TUSK SINGING D'ERLANGER??? THIS IS A-MA-ZING.

黝いヒステリア is incredible. Song of the year for me. Buuut, the new mix is not as good as the "single". (DIR EN GREY does the exact same of thing to their singles and it pisses me off too)

Relax, dude. This is a perfect (and probably the only) opportunity for us to dream about songs which are very hard to come by on this tribute thing, but are songs we all love And songs MUCC plays occasionally to this day. MUCC usually does great with their massive catalog, because they'll rotate between over 40/50 songs during a tour. Who knows! I don't want to be reasonable, I want to dream about nothing but stuff up until 葬ラ謳. Unlikely as it is. Is it going to happen? NO! But since it's not out yet, let me have a little fun. About PHYSICAL NEUROSE and staples, well, it's a fan favorite, like 地下室のメロディー, but so was オルゴォル. Fans (japanese or us western peasants) still love those tracks, but both bands don't seem to play them as much recently.By 2007, PHYSICAL NEUROSE wasn't exactly like, say, LOVE ME or Baby,I want you., but it's the type of song they'll whip out during THE DAY IN QUESTION tours, or FISH TANK dates. Maybe the occasional encore, once every three years. I would love to hear 九日 and 翼を下さい over ENDER ENDER live, but in 2017 it's highly unlikely. Anyway, you know what would be really, really cool? sukekiyo doing 夢の街. With the kazoos. I'm hoping for that now.

I agree that is hard to find something like that, but... THE YELLOW MONKEY tribute album had a couple of deep cuts like 4000粒の恋の唄 (but, then again, it was sung by the same artist TYM was trying to homage, closing the circle) and 空の青と本当の気持ち. くるり had Old-fashioned and 宿はなし, both non-obvious choices. All the THE BLUE HEARTS tribute albums had some left-field choices, same with the first BUCK-TICK tribute where we had PHYSICAL NEUROSE and 六月の沖縄, which aren't what I would call "staples". And that's what I remembered from the top of my head.

Oh yeah! Amazing songs, both of them.

That is a mighty fine list right there. Great read too! Very interesting.

@Carmelzors I.WANT.TO.BELIEVE! I tried to be somewhat reasonable with my predictions, hence so many singles, but I really wanted cali≠gari to come full circle and cover a very early MUCC song, or a more obscure b-side, 密室-era and all. It would be a nice tribute to their friends/juniors. And 最終列車 would be the perfect シド cover song, I hope you all know that. Don't ruin my dream, guys! Let Plastic Tree pick something else. 達瑯 or ミヤ said on the MUCC TO THE FUTURE stream that not all artists have selected their songs yet, but Plastic Tree had picked their song already. Maybe they'll announce it soon.

Cool. The bands announced aren't really surprising: Plastic Tree, ROTTENGRAFFTY, cali≠gari, MERRY, THE BACK HORN, ROACH. They basically asked their friends for a hand. Kinda like the BUCK-TICK tribute album. But I'm actually surprised to see sukekiyo there! (and also hoping sukekiyo will return the favor by letting 達瑯 sing in their next single/album) Didn't think they would do that, so that's cool. I'll be even more surprised if Ken isn't a part of it, either by playing as a guest guitarist or producing this thing. Someone mentioned that Ken helped MUCC during 球体, and that's true, but he's been helping MUCC since 葬ラ謳. Also, I'll be damned if Kei from ラヴィアンローズ isn't a part of this too. His bromance with ミヤ is too stronk. Now, what songs would you like to see the bands covering and what type of song would better suit each of them? I pray to have something close to this: MERRY - 遺書 or ママ. cali≠gari - 友達が死んだ日 シド - 最終列車 THE BACK HORN - 雨のオーケストラ Plastic Tree - 流星 ROTTENGRAFFTY - 蘭鋳 GRANRODEO - 謡声 lynch. - アゲハ ROACH - TONIGHT THE ORAL CIGARETTES - I dunno, one of the more recent shitty singles, I guess? CLASSIC or MOTHER, or smth. DEZERT - 我、在ルベキ場所 gibkiy gibkiy gibkiy - アカ BAND-MAID - Again, I don't know. Something more recent, I guess. World's End seems right up their alley. FLOW - フリージア POLYSICS - Shit, I would love to see them do a zany, over-the-top, cover of 大嫌い. sukekiyo - 朽木の塔

Dude was one of the greatest rock/metal voices ever. RIP.