taiban.live

This was my last haul and I have another one in a few weeks!

Parade is one of my Spring/Fall albums, Ether is an incredible opener and then Rocket comes in with its doofy-ass opening. I like the song, the intro is just annoying every time.

@Jigsaw I've got two cali≠gari with tinted cases (Doukei, Suiren to Himawari regular press is blue and also scented and Haru no Hi CD-ban is pink) and Macabre is smokey grey.

I don't always love cali≠gari's covers (the photos of Shuuji with the cake for the 15 digital singles, I think the album art for 16/17 is much weaker than the singles and supplementary material), but Ao ALWAYS turns it out in packaging design and materials.

Wow, an album finally AND they won RuPaul's Drag Race UK vs The World season 3~!

I've got a bunch of fun shows coming up, but the next thing I am seeing is a friend's... medieval improv comedy show with live musical accompaniment. I am genuinely unsure if he is funny or not, but we'll find out!

@pyromania Voyage is probably my least favorite, but I will give it a listen for the first time in decades this morning!

They're also outliers in their overall sound, less so for Traumerai, but I do love a left field swing.

I don't like to do numerical ranking, but I'm thinking my all-timers are in the order I think of them:

cali≠gari - 8
BUCK-TICK - Six/Nine
Malice Mizer - Mervilles
GUNIW TOOLS - Dazzle (one of the greatest cover albums in the world baby)
Plastic Tree - Traumerai
Dir en grey - Kisou
Soft Ballet - Menopause (Maybe not technically vk, but close enough!)
Gackt - Mars
MUCC - Homura uta
hide - Psyence

I have been very lucky in that weird shit that I want has appeared for reasonable prices, but one of them, LAB. THE BASEMENT'S Sayonara, ningen bokujou Fukanzenban which they only made 50 copies of came with a bad burn on the DVD-R with the full live. Nothing I own can read it :/. I'd love to get my hands on a copy of Ura Archives 2003-2008, but I do at least have the files!