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High and Mighty Color

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Recently I have been listening to the band High and Mighty Color because my band member let me borrow his high and mighty color CD. The band has this one hit single called Ichirin no Hana. It was just okay at first, but when I have the CD playing in my car for a couple of times, it became a nice song that would got stuck in my head. The only thing is, I am not into shouting vocals. To me that's not singing not really my thing. And they do quite a lot of angry desperate shouts in between the feminine female vocals. Shouts that sound like "AAAHHHHH", like someone is trying to imitate a dinasour howl. I know it is a genre in itself, but to me that's just not music not very pleasant to my sensitive ears. But I like her last phrase "Ichirin! no! Hana!" It is very powerful. And that's the only phrase that got stuck to my head and repeated. Ichirin no hana- High and Mighty Color

Soutaiseiriron 2

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I remembered that I blogged once about the band Soutaiseiriron . They have this mysterious and unique sound. When I listened to their album, every single song seemed a different genre from the next song. So it was surprise after surprise even within an album. But I think I also mentioned that I did not like all of their songs. Some are just too indies for me... But I like how mellow and light Soutaiseiriron sounds. It's as if she is singing "whatever, whatever, whatever....." Yes to non-Japanese speakers, let's just translate it that way and it would not be too far from the original intended meaning, I think. :) Soutaiseiriron - Sikaku Kakumei