May - Top 10 Songs

A bit late but here it is my top 10 songs, once again, there is no particular order. Also, these songs are not recent, are songs that I have played a lot that month.

1- Ajax - 2MYX

This boy group was promising but unfortunately, all of the sudden, I never heard of them again, damn you DSP ¬¬

2- SS501 - Love Ya

I loved this group, they didn't have the fancy dance moves but still they the coolest! and their voices were just perfect and the perfect songs. 

3- One Ok Rock - One Way Ticket

Do I need to say anything? It is OOR and their songs are just perfection! I know many people don't like their new album but I do even though there is a song I can't stand u.u

4- Park JungMin - Not Alone

I love his voice! I loved the strings presence on this song and the story line of this video.

5- My First Story - Love Letter

I am not much of a fan of slow love songs but this one just melts my heart and makes me picture a sweet story line.

6- VIXX - Error

The song I never understand why I like it...in somehow it is plainsong, it should bore me but it does not... the dance is creative and has a good concept. 

7- Linkin Park - Crawling

An old song, this album was one of my first cds I bought, I loved this album so much!

8- Nu'est - Face

Another group that had amazing start and continuous great songs and all of the sudden no one ever heard of them...damn Pledis ¬¬

9- Born - Mother

This song captured from the first few seconds, I wasn't that familiar with Born, by that time I love their song 'Spiral' and decided to download any songs I could find from them and suddenly listened to this one and until today is one of my fav songs in the vkei genre

10- Infinite - Bad

Last but not least, one of my fav boy bands in the kpop industry, the incredible boys of Infinite. This song it is so damn catchy, I love the kind of creepy element in their music video and even though is not my fav song from them it is very good and enjoyable. 

Kamijo - Moulin Rouge

So today after so many days without writing, we have music review post! Actually there is many music I will like to write a review on but today the chosen one is Kamijo!

If you are not familiar with Japanese music, specially visual kei then you probably are wondering who is this guy? Well Kamijo is a very  famous singer in the Visual Kei music field. He was vocalist of the band Lareine and then more people knew him because he was vocalist of Versailles and now he is as solo singer.

Moulin Rouge is one of his latest songs but previously to that he already released one single, a mini album, this single and one that is coming next. So he actually always is creating new songs. His voice is powerful and just precious. If you never have listened to him then I will recommend you to do so. His voice is very nice and is amazing for ballad songs or very hard rock songs, he can sing anything and his voice adjust beautifully. Just compare his voice in Lareine and Versailles, many people can't believe he was the same guy.

The song is fun to listen to. Once again this song is different from Symphony of the Vampire or even Grazioso. I just love how Kamijo plays with melodies and doesn't get stuck on one melody, he just tries different aspects of rock music. 

Just a little but it made me remember Acid Black Cherry with their first song, was it Black Cherry? sorry that I don't remember the song title, please write below if you know the title ^^;; Anyhow even though actually has nothing to do, I mean I remember it because of the fun or up beat of the song or even the debut song of Gremlins...the three songs are different but has that kind of jazzy, fun beat inside a rock song. 

 

The video is another thing, I actually didn't like it and found it boring and if it wasn't because of Kamijo I would have just closed the window. I actually just opened another tab and kept listening to the song but stopped watching the video. I was really disappointed of the low budget video and so not creative video when the video had the potential to be creative and introduce us to a magical world. I mean the video is not fair to such an awesome song!

I could write more about how unfair was this video to the song, how terrible it was. Anyhow I will leave it for you to watch and have your own perception of he song and video (specially the song, the song worth it!)

Xepher - Lost Eyes

So today I will write brief music review too. Sorry that I am writing so little but well a lot of assessments due soon and well they take all my time!

So today I will be writing about the new PV of Xepher

So if you are not very familiar, to be honest I am not really familiar either, I started listening this Vkei band not too long ago but I do enjoy of the few songs I have listened of them. Their music has a nice balance of melody and strength of beat...don't know really how to describe it, I am not a music critic after all and despite their "scary looks" I think their music is not how they look but I still enjoy of the visual style  

 

The song Lost Eyes is their latest single "Display" in where there is also two more songs "The Raven"and "Pellet"

The three song are really good to listen too, with that nice balance as their other songs. The single makes you want to listen to more songs.

If you haven't heard of them before then go ahead and listen to them, even if you don't like all their songs, you will surely will like one out of these three songs

The video; is very Vkei, is dark and I really like the change of scenes, it goes very well with the song. What I liked the most was the movements of the vocalist, his expression and hand gestures, it really bring me back memories.

Anyhow now I leave the video with you so you listen the song and watch the video too!

Nightmare - Taboo

So after a long absence, I will write this brief music review. To be honest I was waiting this video to come, so I could listen to this song.

So today I will be writing about Nightmare's new music video "Taboo"

So Taboo belongs to their new single, which will also include the track "Drastica" that is already in their new album "To be or not to be", both songs are for the movie " Doreiku boku 23nin dorei" which will be released on the 28th of June. And the single is released on the 25th of June.

The song; well the song is very Nightmare, when starts you know is Vkei. Yomi's voice as usual is perfect but is like you know Yomi's voice can do better and you kind of feel frustrated because this song is not the best and doesn't highlight Yomi's voice properly.
 

The video, well...not my favorite I must say. It has a sexual reference, but with Vkei you are used to the sexual reference and this video is not exception, with a reference of maybe sadism or masochism but what I didn't like was the old perverted guy. I do get "Taboo" prohibited connotation. I don't mind the masochism in sexual way but the old man just freaked me out!

Anyhow here I am leaving the video to you.

 Anyhow, I love Nightmare, they are one of my favorite band but I think this is not one of their best songs.

CrowxClass

Because yesterday I couldn't write two updates, today I wish to write at least two updates, even though I cannot come up with nothing cultural related for this post, I decide to write another music review but this time instead of kpop I will focus in another genre such a music from japan and what can be called "Neo Japanesque" this movement can be understood as the fusion of what it is modern rock music with the traditional Japanese music,so we find bands that have your typical rock instrument plus their traditional instruments. You may think this mix doesn't work well here I am to make you change your mind (or try)

Today I will be writing about CrowxClass, they could be cataloged in the popular genre of Visual Kei but I will prefer to catalog them under Neo Japanesque (because of my good memories of that genre).
What is the cool thing about this group? All the members are professional Japanese instrument musicians!
They are quite new and so far they have released two music videos, if you try you can find some performances of the band or even of  some members with their respective traditional instrument.
The band has a YouTube channel, Facebook page and Twitter and each member has a personal twitter account.

Now I will leave you the videos for you to hear and watch.

Now time for my personal opinion (:p), well I do like them indeed, I think they are a very promising band in the music industry of Japan and even in general because it is quite innovative. The first song I thought it lacked some power, not from the instruments but from his vocalist. Please don't misunderstand me, I like his voice and I think he has a really good voice but the instruments go over his voice. The second song you can already notice the music quality progress of the band, his voice becomes more strong but still needs a bit more of practice.

There is just one thing I want to express,  I think what they need is more beauty. I don't know really how to express this, but I feel like there is something missing in the music and I am feeling is beauty or feelings.
I know my thought comes from comparison (another band's music) and I know is not good to compare one band with another because they are different. And also my comment it is just from the impression of two music videos and I haven't see them live (but will love to!!)
But as I mentioned early they are quite new and still have a lot to go through and while time passes by this band will become better and better, there is no doubt!
 

In conclusion this band offers good quality of music, a different proposal to your ears, so give it a try!

If you are interested I am leaving the links of the band on the social media :)

Official Website: http://crowclass.net/wordpress/
Official Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/crowclass
Official YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/crowclass