The thread of J-rock miscellany!

[Kinsao]

How to say this?
I wanted to start a thread for all those bits and pieces that on their own don't seem worth starting a thread for. For instance: news, good links, questions about trivia, etc. etc. You get the picture...

At the moment, I'm looking for good J-rock news sites to bookmark! Here's a few - I'm sure you already are familiar with these, but:

http://www.jmusiceuropa.com/en/index.php
It has good stuff... at the moment, interview with Diru (which was already quoted in full in another thread :cool: ), also interviews with MUCC, Electric Eel Shock, Moi dix Mois and Kagerou. Plus schedules...

http://www.jrockonline.com/

http://www.jmignited.com/

I thought this can also be a place for asking questions about a band you don't know, for instance I always feel awkward starting a thread for some group and just saying "I don't have any of their songs and I want to hear; someone please send me", it just seems really lame. Of course, a thread can be started for them later if much talk goes on... :winklove:

So anyway... I present to you... randomness thread... :blush:

Oh yeah, and before I forget - apparently Rena is leaving D...

[hebiichigo]

This is a good idea for a thread :-)

hmm.. well if you can read Japanese (it might be useful even if you don't :?), VisuNavi (http://www.visunavi.com) is a great site for news and just a lot of band profiles.

Rena left D already.. it was very quick.. apparently they announced it at a Live without any warning before hand and then he just wasn't there.. I'm not quite sure about, actually.. :worried:

[isayhello]

WOW Kinsao!!!! *tackles and throws stuff* It's a great idea! And and ... THANK YOU SOO MUCH FOR the links!!!! *cries from happiness* I... thanks to you... I learned that Miyavi-sama will release a new maxi-single 'ekkonshiki no uta ~ kisetsu wa zureno Wedding march~, ' on October 12th!!! KYAAAA I seriously didn't know! ... I didn't have any place to get news like that from... *dances the HAPPY-dance* ... I'm soo happy right now! I really am! I mean really really really happy! YAY! I must celebrate! I will be in a good mood for the rest of this WEEK now! :happy: :happy:
*dances away singing something about a maxi-single*

[Kinsao]

Oh wow - I'm glad that it helped some people out! :happy:
Seriously, I am sooo bad at finding news. It's because I'm at work - I might post a lot on here, but I really don't have the time to search around a lot (I mean, posting on here takes like 5 minutes rather than half an hour looking for news, fics, pics and whatnot). Also I'm cagey about bookmarking... because of the lurking IT team... :bluush:

[Furik]

I heard the creator of Jrockonline wrote a book. It's on sale on Amazon.

[Kinsao]

I heard the creator of Jrockonline wrote a book. It's on sale on Amazon.

oooo - what's his name? :? (*is stupid*)

[Furik]

It's a woman by the name of Josephine Yun.
You can find the book here: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1880656957/qid=1125611202/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-1104989-9446231?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

[Kinsao]

I'm not good at being PC. :gomen:
Thanks for the link! :cool:

[Furik]

You're welcome :)

[Anchyyy]

Well if you'll be bored one day, like me now :D go and take those quizzes:lol:

http://quizilla.com/users/Kyoliciousness/quizzes/How%20Jrock%20are%20You%3F/
How Jrock are you?

http://quizilla.com/users/hepsygurl/quizzes/Which%20JROCK%20male%20should%20suit%20YOU%3F/
Which Jrock mače should suit you?

http://quizilla.com/users/bokuXgaXinai/quizzes/What%20JRock%20hairstyle%20are%20you%3F/
Which Jrock hairstlye are you?

http://quizilla.com/users/nako/quizzes/J-rock%20quiz%20-%20Are%20you%20Jrock%3F/
Are you Jrock?

http://quizilla.com/users/redgreyrabbit/quizzes/Which%20JRock%20Vocalist%20Are%20You%3F/
Which Jrock vocalist are you?

http://quizilla.com/users/lunajile/quizzes/Which%20jrock%20pet%20are%20you%3F/
Which Jrock pet are you?

http://quizilla.com/users/emikun/quizzes/who%20is%20your%20jrock%20alter%20ego%3F/
Who is you Jrcok alter ego?

http://quizilla.com/users/Kyoliciousness/quizzes/Are%20You%20a%20JRock%20Package%20Master%3F/
Are you a Jrock package master? (you have to take that one:lol::lol: )

http://quizilla.com/users/Kyoukun/quizzes/Which%20Jrock%20Man-Slut%20Are%20You%3F/
Which Jrock man-slut are you?

http://quizilla.com/users/twosadsexually/quizzes/Which%20Jrock%20band%20are%20you%20stuck%20on%20a% 20deserted%20island%20with%3F/
Which Jrock band are you stuck on a deserted island with?

Umm yeah that all for now:relief:

[Kinsao]

lol.... those are funny. And, yeah, I did take them. :blush:

I didn't need a quiz to tell me I was a pervert, though... :giggle:

[Anchyyy]

I didn't need a quiz to tell me I was a pervert, though... :giggle:

Oh yeah :giggle::giggle: But still...:D

Do you know of any pages with good Jrock fanfiction? :souka:

[Kinsao]

Oh yeah :giggle::giggle: But still...:D

Do you know of any pages with good Jrock fanfiction? :souka:

Ohh...
I'm not really very well up on that kind of thing. I don't read much fanfiction - not because I don't enjoy it, but because reading from a screen knackers my eyes up, and my printer is shite, so...... :(

But here's a few links you can try:

Arachnoid Web
http://arachnoid.reverie-noire.com/

There's 3 on here, but I've no idea if they're any good...
http://www.geocities.com/jcfanfics/

Pieces
http://piecess.cjb.net/

Beast of Vlood forum fanfic
http://beastvlood.proboards26.com/index.cgi?board=fanfiction

There's this one...
http://www.angelfire.com/realm/bloodncandy/PsyenceFiction/PsyFiFiction.html

Strawberry Shinya
http://www.strawberryshinya.net/

7th Deadly Sin
http://7th.child-prey.net/

And finally, if you want a bit of pure yaoi :blush:
http://totchi.tripod.com/

Ummm, I've not read much stuff off these sites (some not any) except the last one (NOT because I'm a pervert; just because I happened to find it yesterday -yeah really- :okashii: "yeah really!!"), so I can't vouch for whether they are any good or not. My experience with fanfics is that you have to wade through a lot of crap before you find the nuggets of gold, but... well, good luck with it! :wave:

Oh, and my quiz results (because I'm sad like that, ok? :okashii: ):
Vocalist - I'm Kyo
Pet - I'm Gackt little dog... go figure.... :okashii: :blush: (actually I was surprised by that one!)
Alter ego - was Kaoru (hey, cool!)
Jrock male that suits me - Gackt! :shock: Now that was unexpected... but he can cook... so... I can live with it...
Whether and/or how much I'm jrock - mostly; or, a mere 55%. Sounds about accurate to me...
... however, I am also, apparently the Hair of Doom, which makes up for a lot. :D

:lol:

[Anchyyy]

Thank you very much Kinsao!!!:-)

[Pjusk]

hehe, fun...look I'm good:relief:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y224/pjusk/1035690679_master.jpg
I'm the master :blush:
great thread btw :cool:

[Ivayim-a]

Oh yeah :giggle::giggle: But still...:D

Do you know of any pages with good Jrock fanfiction? :souka:
I dont know if it's very good.

Jrockyaoi community on livjournal (http://www.livejournal.com/community/jrockyaoi/)

Fanfics (http://www.geocities.com/v_mint/fics.html)

[Kinsao]

Wow Pjusk! We bow before your awesomenessessity at identifying jrockers' crotches! :bow:

Drain Away needs to take that test as well - she identified Shinya's... :blush:

[Anchyyy]

I dont know if it's very good.

Jrockyaoi community on livjournal (http://www.livejournal.com/community/jrockyaoi/)

Fanfics (http://www.geocities.com/v_mint/fics.html)

Thank you! I will check it out! :p

[Anchyyy]

http://glitter-tramp.com/juuichi/

Check out this site. Lots of good wallpapers and msn/lj icons. And it has mp3 rotation too:p

[Kinsao]

Just in case anyone checks here for... err... miscellany... lol... and doesn't check Merry thread... I've tabbed Yasashisa Kid (except chords for chorus :sorry: ), here it is:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=22E5VE57

[Kinsao]

Oh, and some links too:

http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Towers/3959/srock.htm
Still Rock – a site of photos from a roadie, including band pics of Stalin, Zelda, The Loods, D-Day, EP4, Aburadako, Ucho-ten, Shonen Knife, Ghoul, Auto Mod, Psychic TV, Nav Katze and Friction, among others.

http://sweet-sincerity.net/romancer/index.php
(Ayabie)

http://bloodsd.com/
(Blood)

http://www.geocities.com/d_paradoxalice/
(D)

http://www.knkashi.pb-dreams.net/
(lyrics and translations)

http://www.centigrade-j.com/translations/translations.htm
(translations)

[Anchyyy]

http://www.gakuto.net/html/visual_ecstasy.html
Tons of scans!!! I love that webpage!!:love:

[kairi~vs~rinoa]

http://www.jrocksaga.com/site/content/artist_index.php

i use that site loads. it has almost every jrock band around and their official sites including sites that are in english/different languages. basically a jrock directory. its good =)
and centigrade j is good kinsao =) i used it for the Hyde lyric thread a while back

[Kinsao]

Yeah, I love the jrock saga page, I got it on my bookmarks. :-)

[Kinsao]

Forthcoming releases, for those of you who didn't already hear ^^

November 23rd, albums of MUCC and Penicillin :silly:
MUCC album have 3 versions: normal edition, special edition with bonus DVD, and limited edition with bonus CD. Album have 14 tracks.
Penicillin album have 2 versions: normal edition and one with a PV included.

November 9th, KuRt releases their maxi-single.

:-)

[Kinsao]

In case anyone likes tabs but doesn't check the Naito thread - here's Nightmare: Believe tab:

http://s63.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2JL1FI3M6E6YS3LEXO793ILTEZ

Excuses and disclaimers elsewhere - my tabbage skills suck. :(

[Kinsao]

Uhhh.... seems like I'm the only one who visits here :sorry: ... anyways... here's a site with Gackt translations, none from Diabolos yet but it's pretty good:

http://www.senshigakuen.com/translations/lyrics/gackt/

This site has lyrics for 4 songs off Diabolos:

http://www.life-stream.it/jmel/gackt/lyrics.php

If anyone ever finds the lyrics to Farewell (romaji or translated - preferably romaji) please post 'em! :p

[Anchyyy]

You are not alone Kinsao!:-) I always check this thread :lol: Thank you for Gackt translations!! -huggles-

[Kinsao]

It's a shot in the dark but I was wondering if anyone knows of any other upload space providers, other than Megaupload, where you are able to browse away from their page while uploading? The ones that tell you how much time you've got left are nice, but it's a pain once you upload, say, an album, have to leave your machine on but can't do anything else on it for another 30-60 minutes. :okashii:

And, for those of you who like Onmyouza, click here (http://www.jmusiceuropa.com/en/files/interview.php?id=204) for an interview with them after a live in Germany. :-)

Seems kinda strange, they were running 2 hours early but they still asked the interviewers to finish after 15 minutes and before they got to ask more detailed questions.... :?

[Kinsao]

And , yeah, it's me again... :blush: I didn't know where to put these... there isn't a thread for D and I really don't have so much infos that I'm gonna start a thread on them... except they are one of only 2 bands that I listened to because I saw their looks first (the other one was SID)... and I'm so damn glad I did!!! :happy:

Anyway... scans from D photobook...

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y193/Maieve/ruiza1.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y193/Maieve/hiroki1.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y193/Maieve/hidezou4.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y193/Maieve/asagi1.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y193/Maieve/hiroki2.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y193/Maieve/ruiza2.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y193/Maieve/hidezou3.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y193/Maieve/asagi2.jpg

[Anchyyy]

OMG Kinsao!! Those guys are so pretty! :love::love: Could you please upl some songs from them?:bow: Please? :souka:

[Kinsao]

Well, Drain Away missed the album PK uploaded - so I will upload their album for you some time and put it in the gift thread... I only have one album, and that was courtesy of PK. :blush:

In the meantime... I've posted this umpteen times before, but, as you like D... Here is Ruiza.... I swear he is the most lickable guy I have ever seen... :liplick: :D

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a227/spikedriver8/D10-ruiza-leathershorts.jpg

[Kinsao]

Yup, me again......... :bluush:
Go here (http://www.livejournal.com/users/shirabe/83762.html) to read a LiveJournal report from the "Three in the Black" concert - Kozi, D'espairsRay and Isabelle.

Be warned, though - the girl doesn't like D'espa ( :bikkuri: :okashii: ) and so didn't say anything (much) about their live... :(

[lastmagi]

Never noticed this before...

Thanks for the update on senshigakuen. I had figured she doesn't update anymore, but it looks like she still does. I hardly listen to Gackt these days, but it's nice to know that site's still active.

I haven't had much problems with browsing away (on another tab/window, of course) with YouSendIt. But other similar services I know of are, besides MegaUpload, are RapidShare.de, FileFactory and FileFront. I haven't tried uploading on any of those, though, so I don't know how good they are.

[Kinsao]

Hey, someone says Tsunehito from Scissor has joined D. Anyone know if that's true? :?

EDIT: Yup, it is true, he is bass player and here is a picture from the official site of the 'new' D. :-)

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a117/laKoziste/D19-newD.jpg

Hopefully D will go from strength to strength... I'd like to know what the other guys from Scissor are up to, though... they were a good band. :(

[Razzle]

Here's a link to review of lately Gackt live. :-)
http://www.livejournal.com/users/kimi_no_tsuki/48346.html

[POISONxIVY]

Yep that someone was me, and it is true!!! yay welcome to D Mr. Tsunehito!

[Kinsao]

I could have posted this in the Deathgaze thread, but I figured it might get a bit more attention here. :relief:

This was brought to my attention by a thread on Batsu, from where I get the info. So I must say thanks to Rew, who started the original thread, and I will also direct you here, where you can get infos and pictures:
http://batsu.org/viewtopic.php?t=10927

So what's it all about?
Hazuki, ex vocalist of Deathgaze and of Lynch, well, I hadn't known this before, but he was in 2 other bands, called Berry and Kusse.

For Berry, the bassist was Yairi and the drummer was Naoki. Sadly, they are disbanded now. I listened (this morning!) to some of their stuff (uploaded on the Batsu thread given, if you're interested) and they are really good! :cool: Their maxi-single is called Hakuchi. Apparently they also released a single before that. They also released a song in the omnibus you maboroshi kagami -sea - called REWIND.

Kusse have a single called Antithesis (I haven't listened yet so I can't comment O_o).

Does anyone else like these bands or have anymore infos? Or, if you're interested you can go to Batsu and pick up some stuffs. ^_~

[Nana007]

Gosh I had to dig a bit far to find this page. But I knew it was here and I found it Yatta! :cheer: But here is something new and random I learned today thanks to the wonder of Wikipedia BUT.

Free-Will the company that is oh so famous due to the band Dir en grey ALSO owns PS Company as well as other J-Rock Indies Labels Did anyone else know this? Information taken from here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-Will_%28label%29

Also Gazette now has an english page...I wonder whatever that can mean hint hint hing :lol:

[Kinsao]

NANA! You resurrected my thread!!! :silly: *tackles and hugs*
Ummmm... that was all I had to say, really. :D ... except for, thank you for the info/news! of course! :cool:

[wandering.legy]

WOW i've never seen this thread before, it's a great idea! Thanks for resurrecting it Nana!! :D

I had so much fun doin those quizzes on the first page....oddly enough, by results were very similair to Kinsao's lol. ;-)

[Aoi.]

Gosh I had to dig a bit far to find this page. But I knew it was here and I found it Yatta! :cheer: But here is something new and random I learned today thanks to the wonder of Wikipedia BUT.
Free-Will the company that is oh so famous due to the band Dir en grey ALSO owns PS Company as well as other J-Rock Indies Labels Did anyone else know this? Information taken from here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-Will_%28label%29
Also Gazette now has an english page...I wonder whatever that can mean hint hint hing :lol:

I did! :blush: Cause I was watching Die and other Jrockers bowling, and It gave out each Jrocker's name, band, and their label. They put Dir en Grey under Sun-Krad, when I thought they were Firewall DIV. So I ran to Wikipedia and did a bit of research. :p I've never seen this thread. Thank you!