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Five Live Archives part 1
Oct. 15th, 2013 09:17 amIf I had told myself 3-4 years ago, back when I was still mostly stanning MUCC and Hilcrhyme, that I would start a new Last FM profile and my top two artists would be KAT-TUN and L'arc, I would have laughed myself out of the building. I still find it fairly hilarious actually.
Anyway.
Reincarnation was actually a pretty good live, save for the inclusion of two songs that really irritate me. I can stand 'I Wish' around Christmas, but C'est La Vie can go to hell. I often wonder for bands like L'arc, as relative to my own interests, if I had heard a different song in the beginning, would I have bothered to give them a chance? I mean, I can't imagine hearing either that song or say, What Is Love and wanting to do anything except make it stop. But, I would have to say that the performance of Shout at the Devil here is probably still the best. I don't think I've seen them rival it yet, well, when I say "they", I mostly mean Hyde because he's the one who often makes or breaks lives. Not to say the other three don't ever deliver lackluster performances, but Hyde's fail is often way too obvious. But he was really on in Reincarnation. That performance in Loreley was especially impressive, no not the sax part.
I only made it halfway through the Grand Cross live so far and i'm on the fence. I like Ken's improvs, but Hyde is Idk, sounding a bit shrill. His scatting in Ghost was also lackluster at best. And dear God, What is Love is such a mess of a song. Those tempo changes are completely ridiculous. Hilariously there's been two songs thus far where Hyde "plays" a guitar. Which is to say, he plays a few chords right at the start and then just wears it through the rest of the song. Like, thanks Hyde, that was really necessary. Hopefully he gets his act together for いばらの涙, because that's one of my favorite live songs.
I really dislike the main version of this tour, Grand Cross Conclusion, I think it was called. The band was swallowed up by the outside and Hyde's voice was basically shot. But so far, this one is only marginally better.
One of the reasons why 15th L'Anni is my favorite live is because Hyde tended to have a very shrill tonal quality in older lives. Not recorded, necessarily, but live. He seems to have figured out how to achieve a more balanced tone that actually shows off the quality of his voice. Whether that's the earplug/monitor wearing or what, Idk.
Parting shot that has nothing to do with the rest of the post: if you listen to VK and don't listen to LIPHLICH, you have no taste.
Anyway.
Reincarnation was actually a pretty good live, save for the inclusion of two songs that really irritate me. I can stand 'I Wish' around Christmas, but C'est La Vie can go to hell. I often wonder for bands like L'arc, as relative to my own interests, if I had heard a different song in the beginning, would I have bothered to give them a chance? I mean, I can't imagine hearing either that song or say, What Is Love and wanting to do anything except make it stop. But, I would have to say that the performance of Shout at the Devil here is probably still the best. I don't think I've seen them rival it yet, well, when I say "they", I mostly mean Hyde because he's the one who often makes or breaks lives. Not to say the other three don't ever deliver lackluster performances, but Hyde's fail is often way too obvious. But he was really on in Reincarnation. That performance in Loreley was especially impressive, no not the sax part.
I only made it halfway through the Grand Cross live so far and i'm on the fence. I like Ken's improvs, but Hyde is Idk, sounding a bit shrill. His scatting in Ghost was also lackluster at best. And dear God, What is Love is such a mess of a song. Those tempo changes are completely ridiculous. Hilariously there's been two songs thus far where Hyde "plays" a guitar. Which is to say, he plays a few chords right at the start and then just wears it through the rest of the song. Like, thanks Hyde, that was really necessary. Hopefully he gets his act together for いばらの涙, because that's one of my favorite live songs.
I really dislike the main version of this tour, Grand Cross Conclusion, I think it was called. The band was swallowed up by the outside and Hyde's voice was basically shot. But so far, this one is only marginally better.
One of the reasons why 15th L'Anni is my favorite live is because Hyde tended to have a very shrill tonal quality in older lives. Not recorded, necessarily, but live. He seems to have figured out how to achieve a more balanced tone that actually shows off the quality of his voice. Whether that's the earplug/monitor wearing or what, Idk.
Parting shot that has nothing to do with the rest of the post: if you listen to VK and don't listen to LIPHLICH, you have no taste.
