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[ Jefferson Airplane ][ White Rabbit ]

This song has been haunting me since I listened to part of it on one episode of the Simpsons, the vocalization of the singer is amazing and the rhythm is alright, also the singer must have been really good cause think of the period of time in which this was made... to have such great vocals even when you're so high on all kinds of weird stuff is something huge for me hahah

There are also some other videos that are alright, mixing scenes from Alice In Wonderland:

[ Rather Good Music ]

Hi kids! I'm bringing you around 60 minutes of great music, got lots of stuff to tell you but no time to do so, I might during the weekend... see you, hope you enjoy it:

[ Immerse Your Soul In Love ]

Radiohead - Street Spirit [ Fade Out ]

[ Try Try Try ]

I've always liked this song by The Smashing Pumpkins but I had never watched the video until now and I liked it a lot, hope you do too. [ Great band by the way, thanks to the friend who got me to listen to it, he knows who he is ]

[ I'm 25.48 % mainstream ][ T_T ]

Last.fm-Mainstream-O-Meter result
RyoujiShiki's top artists:

1. Lacrimosa: 6% mainstream
2. Opeth: 19% mainstream
3. Therion: 12% mainstream
4. Trans-Siberian Orchestra: 8% mainstream
5. Mogwai: 32% mainstream
6. The Strokes: 66% mainstream
7. Haggard: 5% mainstream
8. Dream Theater: 26% mainstream
9. L'Arc~en~Ciel: 9% mainstream
10. Radiohead: 103% mainstream
11. Muse: 80% mainstream
12. The Chemical Brothers: 50% mainstream
13. The Delgados: 5% mainstream
14. Siouxsie and the Banshees: 14% mainstream
15. Joy Division: 36% mainstream

RyoujiShiki is 25.48 % mainstream

mainstream.vincentahrend.com

[ Lacrimosa - Der Kelch Des Lebens ][ English Translation ]

Lacrimosa - Der Kelch Des Lebens

Versagt im Wort
Im Traum zerflossen
Den Kelch des Lebens nur beruhrt
In einem Sog
Die Kehle mit dem Gift gefullt
Den Korper und das Fleisch zersetzt
Die Seele leer getrunken
Am Stamm der Sehnsucht wund gewetzt
Erhitzt - verbrannt
Zu heiss - vorbei
Sehnsucht

Ausgesetzt und abgeschoben
Den Samen in den Sumpf gepflanzt
Nunmehr da ich fuhle
Bin ich Mensch und will ich auch sprechen
Am Fuss der Berge will ich knien
Will das Meer mit Worten segnen
Welcher Wind hat mich gerufen
Welcher Clown hat mich ausgelacht
So brauche ich den Namen nicht
Werde nicht gerufen
Noch werde ich Antwort jemals horen

Es ist der Traum der mich gefuhrt
Und folgen werde ich bis in die Glut

______________________________________________

Lacrimosa - The Goblet Of Life

Devoid of words
Dissolved in a dream
The goblet of life is only touched
In a wake
My throat filled with poison
My body and flesh disintegrated
My soul drunk empty
Wounded in the realms of yearning
Burned and scorched
Too hot - all past
Yearning

Abandoned and discarded
Seed painted in the mire
Now as I feel
I am a person and also wish to speak
I will knee at the foot of the mountain
Bless the sea with words
Which wind has called me
Which clown had derided me
I do not need the name
I will not call out
Neither will I ever hear the answer

The dream has led me
And I will follow it into the glowing fire...

[ Logos - Como Relámpago En La Oscuridad ]

Avanza siempre sin cesar
Y nunca llega
Errante en la oscuridad
Buscando restos del amor
Que se ha perdido
Camina hoy la humanidad
Sin saber a dónde va
Buscando paz
A espaldas de su Dios

A pesar de que viejos muros
Fueron derribados
Hay un mundo lleno de maldad
Que al impulso de su propio
Vértigo ha caído
En esta ciénaga infernal
Presa de su propio mal
Buscando paz
A espaldas de su Dios

Miles de hombres
Se han cerrado a la verdad
Diciendo que Dios nunca volverá
Porque buscaron
En el cielo una señal
Sin antes ver su propio corazón

Como relámpago
En la oscuridad
Como relámpago
En la noche vendrá
Buscando a los que prometió la eternidad
Quienes creyeron en su nombre

Como relámpago
En la oscuridad
Como relámpago
En medio de este mar
Donde naufragan los que prefieren andar
En la vanidad de sus mentes

I'll post the translation later...maybe: here it is

[ (short) Evening Ride ][ II ]

Music by Dark Suns: a little bit of You, A Phantom Still "mixed" with a little bit of Patterns Of Oblivion

[ (short) Evening Ride ]

Music is by Theatre of Tragedy - Angélique [ just random song to cover the talking ]

[ I'm sick ][ fuck! ]

Argh I'm sick...It's been long since I was sick for the last time...I feel like shit or worst...like shit's shit XD, well just thought I would share that with whoever is reading this...I hope you get sick too XD haha kidding...uhm, so I'll just post some friend's sites since I want to help them draw more traffic to their sites [ rrright XD ]:

Gaijin Da's Multiply Page: Some of the members of this band [ Nikkita, Roberto and Akito ] are my friends and they play anime music covers in anime conventions and stuff. If you want to listen to what they'll be playing next you must be a Multiply member though :P. Oh the name means "Foreigners" in Japanese.

Wil Alfaro's Myspace Page: Wil is a friend I've known since highschool whom I appreciate a lot since he has influenced me so much in my musical taste and for that I am very thankful. He is a musician [ composer, producer, saxophonist, and a big ETC. ] and he has a recording studio and stuff, I don't think it has a name though haha but I remembered now I made a logo for it and I called it Studio SixtyWil XD. The stuff he has uploaded by now is very latin but he has also been producing a Salvadorian Death Metal band called Necrosadic, you can listen to a track he produced on their Myspace site.

Oh well and since I'm talking about Salvadorian bands I must talk about one of the bands that will open the Symphony X concert in my country, Symbolic, they're quite alright, sort of Speed Metal/European Power Metal, check them out.

[ Paul Hindemith ][ Quintet for Clarinet and Strings, Op. 30 ]

Sometimes I feel like Stravinsky's music is kind of "too silent", or at least it has too many moments in which there is only one instrument playing a couple of notes for a few minutes and nothing more... and it is not a bad thing the first 100 times you listen to it XD but then, I don't know, it gets kind of boring to wait for a part you enjoy among all those "silences" [ of course there is people who enjoy those "silences" but I am not going to listen to music to enjoy "silences" XD ]. There is also Shostakovich when I have the need to listen to this kind of chamber [ classical? ] music [ which I quite don't know how is called... modern classical (XD)? neo-classical? progressive classical? *shrugs* ] but I don't feel much comfortable with some of his instrumental compositions, I prefer his operas although I have only listened to one called Babi Yar [ his 13th "Symphony" ]; I feel sometimes the rhythm [ if there is one ] is hard to follow on his instrumental compositions.

Now I have found Paul Hindemith and I listened only to his composition "Quintet for Clarinet and Strings" [ Opus 30 ] and I enjoy it more than Stravinsky's or Shostakovich's instrumental compositions, I think it is less complicated than their music, but yet without getting too easy to listen to and maintaining an "avant-garde" style in which I find high pleasure to digest. The rhythms are easier to follow and the "silences" are not too long, only the necessary; I have been listening to this composition over and over during the past days and everytime I do the "silences" are more bearable [ in opposition to Stravinsky's :P ].

I am providing you the link to download the 5 movements of this composition recorded live at the Donnell Library Center, NYC on March 11th 1996 and performed by Gary Dranch (Clarinet), Yuri Kharenko (Violin), Alex Kirillov (Violin), Alexander Rees(Viola) and Vladimir Penteleyev (Cello). The files are hosted on mp3.com.au and they are provided by them free of charge so any legal complaint you have, please contact them. [ left-click the link and search for the "Download: " link, it will open a pop-up window in which you must right-click the "MP3" image and select "Save Link As.." or "Save Target As...", then rename the file from "download.asp" to something like "Paul Hindemith - Opus 30 - 1st and 2nd Movements.MP3" (notice that you must delete the ".asp" file extension and change it for an ".MP3" one) ]

1st and 2nd Movements -- Sehr Lebhaft & Ruhig.
3rd Movement -- Schneller Laendler.
4th and 5th Movements -- Arioso - Sehr Ruhig & Sehr Lebhaft - wie im ersten satz.

I hope you enjoy them, do post some feedback, please :P

[ Death Note ][ New OP+ED ]

My friend Chris sent me the YouTube links for the new opening and ending videos for Death Note [ the link might contain spoilers ] and I just had to post them here because they're quite something for an anime. I love the metal-ish style of both songs and they suit the anime very nicely. Also if you want to listen to the full version of the songs you can do so by clicking on them in the box.net widget of this post.

Maximum the Hormone - What's up, people! [OP]


Maximum The Hormone - Zetsubou Billy [ED]