I FINALLY GOT ハネト's SECOND ALBUM. <333

I bought 風ニ舞ウ in early 2005 when I randomly found three MP3s from it. Yes, those three songs were so enjoyable that I plopped down $30 for the entire album and it was SO worth it. I found out about 天照 around the same time but I prefer Haneto's easy-going groove to Amaterase's eclectic industrial RAWR, although I do like them as well.

One Aim came out in 2006 and I bought it as a thank-you gift to a wonderful friend who had borrowed my copy of Kaze ni Mau and fell…

L'ARC~EN~CIEL IS FINALLY GOING TO RELEASE "SHINE" AS A B-SIDE TO THEIR UPCOMING SINGLE.

YES, I LOVE SHINE SO MUCH THAT THIS IS GETTING ITS OWN JOURNAL ENTRY.

FUCK YEAH C/Ws.

This isn't going in my profile because it's too embarrassing. X3

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To be fair, the user-created tags are kind of fail, given that "alternative," "alternative rock," "soundtrack," and "video game music" are listed as separate genres, and the fact that some J Rock artists are unfairly generalized as categorized as J Pop (read: Gackt) just because they have a few humdrum pop singles. X3

I was trying to organize ID3 tags and noticed something peculiar… there's two different track listings for 天翔星使 (romanized as Ama kakeru hoshi no tsukai). The first one I've seen on English websites and is as follows:

1. kibou ga ouka
2. sai
3. sankon
4. marogare
5. haruka naru daichi e no sanka
6. gyou
7. honou
8. haja
9. kagerofu
10. ouma
11. itsutsu no umi no monogatari
12. akatsuki

But the one listed on Neowing (CDJapan's Japanese version of their site – since Amazon.co.jp doesn't have a track listing and CDJapan doesn't have this album) has…

I lost my job on November 1. Which is fine because work politics made things pretty shitty many months ago.

Unfortunately I didn't realize that the Last.fm iTunes plug-in that I was using on my home computer stopped working a long time ago and nothing has been scrobbled for weeks.

I don't really want to have to install Last.fm's actual program that runs in the background because my computer has enough memory problems as it is.

I'll figure something out soon. For some reason, I don't like not having my playlist listens scrobbled, even though my home computer's playlist is…

"List your top ten neighbours, their top three artists, and where those artists stand on your own chart."

Zetsu-Kei
1. L'Arc~en~Ciel (1)
2. Gackt (2)
3. Coldplay (9)

crimsonmagnolia
1. L'Arc~en~Ciel (1)
2. Gackt (2)
3. HYDE(6)

Ket-on-the-Net
1. L'Arc~en~Ciel (1)
2. Gackt (2)
3. HYDE (6)

chachamarusan
1. Gackt (2)
2. L'Arc~en~Ciel (1)
3. Gazette (?)

prositen
1. L'Arc~en~Ciel (1)
2. Erasure (?)
3. Nobuo Uematsu (3)

sooyong
1. L'Arc~en~Ciel (1)
2. Gackt (2)
3. HYDE (6)

capeofstorms
1. L'Arc~en~Ciel (1)
2. Gackt (2)
3. HYDE (6)

Ric4rdoXD
1. Gackt (2)
2. L'Arc~en~Ciel (1)
3. Malice Mizer (13)…

Smashing Pumpkins' 71% mainstreamness and sorting my Better Than Ezra MP3s this week seriously skews things. :B

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

• 1 - L'Arc~en~Ciel: 8% mainstream
• 2 - Gackt: 7% mainstream
• 3 - 植松伸夫: 10% mainstream
• 4 - The Smashing Pumpkins: 71% mainstream
• 5 - Plastic Tree: 2% mainstream
• 6 - HYDE: 4% mainstream
• 7 - Supercar: 2% mainstream
• 8 - BUCK-TICK: 3% mainstream
• 9 - Coldplay: 104% mainstream
• 10 - Air: 60% mainstream
• 11 - 宇多田ヒカル: 11% mainstream
• 12 - Gordon Lightfoot: 3% mainstream
• 13 -…

Ayaka is Utada Hikaru 2.0.

I never liked Utada Hikaru – except for Hikari. She was too hip hop and… I hate to say it but ¬__¬ Americanized for me. Hikari was my exception. Then Passion came out.

At first, it didn't hit me in the face with win like Hikari did. But after hearing it in every game store in Akihabara when I was in Japan, it started to grow on me.

Then Keep Tryin' came out and I gave up and tried the rest of her stuff. I'm still picky about a lot of it, but there are…

Geez. I'm FINALLY listening to Pink Floyd in high quality audio. I've only ever heard them on the radio, casette tapes, and 128 kbs or less MP3s.

Hearing Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2 in high quality makes the memorable guitar work so much greater.

Randomly, I started asking my parents to get me Echoes (or just about any Pink Floyd album) for my birthday when it came out six years ago. They never did buy it for me but they bought it for themselves recently and they loaned it to me when I visited in July. X3

I'm listening to Doomsday now but none of the previous 5-6 songs have been scrobbled, most of them Gackt.

alsjfkldj SCROBBLE HARDER, LAST.FM. >:/

Edit: Fixed. >:3