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May. 4th, 2002 02:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
petronia(You know what I hate about livejournal comments, that are otherwise so nifty? The fact that I have to answer them absolutely immediately, or the entry gets shunted down the friends' page too far. Do you read comments on old entries? I don't read comments on old entries. Nobody reads comments on old entries. But on pitas/blogger, 'old entry' means 'within the last 2-3 days', whereas on lj it's 'within the last 2-3 hours'.
So this is actually a reply to the comments section of the last post:)
Never heard the Last Live! Have heard the other one - saints alive, there goes *my* brain - the Tokyo Dome one. (My friend Dave went and bought the CDs during his two weeks in Japan.) Yoshiki wrote the music to *match* Toshi's voice, by me; tunesmithing comes out best if you take into account the range of the prospective singer, and he probably didn't care very much about other bands attempting covers. XD Songs like 'Crucify My Love' do work rather well... with a soprano vocalist.
hide was the accessible one, that's for sure.
And on the subject of pretentiousness, I've just been forcibly reminded that Guns N' Roses' 'November Rain' is a full nine minutes as well - and it really *is* the same type of music, isn't it? ^^; I missed said era entirely, but my friends are kind enough to educate me retroactively. (I did watch the music video of 'November Rain' once, though; during someone's presentation in my sixth-grade class. Don't remember the subject of the oral, but do remember the video. Have the most embarrassingly crystalline memory for music videos. You'd think every time I watched MTV constituted an extraordinary world event.)
Re Driver's High: yup, it makes me think that too, at the beginning. :P (Then there's Gackt's 'Wasurenai kara', which is all motorcycles...) The lyrics don't work, though, not really - not the same kind of driving. The music video was about the band robbing a bank in some tumbleweed town in like Texas or Nevada or somewhere, and hightailing it off in a beaten up rust-coloured car, popping champagne and tossing bills out the windows while being chased down by the cops. ...Case in point, my memory. ^^;
Laruku is an acquired taste. I couldn't stand the music at first; then Dave lent me all the CDs, so I made myself listen to them, then ended up listening to them nonstop for about a month.
So this is actually a reply to the comments section of the last post:)
Never heard the Last Live! Have heard the other one - saints alive, there goes *my* brain - the Tokyo Dome one. (My friend Dave went and bought the CDs during his two weeks in Japan.) Yoshiki wrote the music to *match* Toshi's voice, by me; tunesmithing comes out best if you take into account the range of the prospective singer, and he probably didn't care very much about other bands attempting covers. XD Songs like 'Crucify My Love' do work rather well... with a soprano vocalist.
hide was the accessible one, that's for sure.
And on the subject of pretentiousness, I've just been forcibly reminded that Guns N' Roses' 'November Rain' is a full nine minutes as well - and it really *is* the same type of music, isn't it? ^^; I missed said era entirely, but my friends are kind enough to educate me retroactively. (I did watch the music video of 'November Rain' once, though; during someone's presentation in my sixth-grade class. Don't remember the subject of the oral, but do remember the video. Have the most embarrassingly crystalline memory for music videos. You'd think every time I watched MTV constituted an extraordinary world event.)
Re Driver's High: yup, it makes me think that too, at the beginning. :P (Then there's Gackt's 'Wasurenai kara', which is all motorcycles...) The lyrics don't work, though, not really - not the same kind of driving. The music video was about the band robbing a bank in some tumbleweed town in like Texas or Nevada or somewhere, and hightailing it off in a beaten up rust-coloured car, popping champagne and tossing bills out the windows while being chased down by the cops. ...Case in point, my memory. ^^;
Laruku is an acquired taste. I couldn't stand the music at first; then Dave lent me all the CDs, so I made myself listen to them, then ended up listening to them nonstop for about a month.
