Thread by @Iksterror

Eyyy am turning 31 in 30 days so why not I count it down with this eyh? 😃

(Day 1 was supposed to be yesterday but uh, well, y'know...)

Song with colour in its title, I give you Merry's Bluesy Night! An upbeat song on someone moping about a break up!

Seems like the live version is the only one available but God, the additional brass instruments is so perfect

And such sexy entrance for the song too 😍

Managed to find the translation for the song
antares489.wordpress.com/2008/10/13/blu…

Rad isn't it, to be tossing out all your stuff and getting a red sofa, especially when you think tiny bachelor apartments, just enjoying that sound of loneliness like the romantist that you are...

I love how Garaa write the lyrics and sang it and moved on stage 😍

Day 2, song with numbers in title

*takes out Rurouni Kenshin's Op and Ed collection*

BRB, gotta janken this one out...

BAHAHAHA WHO AM I KIDDING

Of course, ½ by Kawamoto Makoto!

Y'know the feel you get when you spit that verse/bridge part fluidly? OHHOHOHO YES I DO! \8D/

"Lips to lips, eyes to eyes, hand in hand"

Trying to find the lyrics with translation is super easy, thanks to it being an anime opening

animelyrics.com/jpop/kawamoto/…

Runners up are L'Arc~en~Ciel's 4th Avenue Cafe and Siam Shade's ⅓ Junjou no Kanjou

My heart yo ;^;

I dunno how many noticed but anime OpEd tend to be by artists/bands under Sony records... 🤔

What reminds me of Summer? LAB! 🤣😭

ANYWAYS putting WaT's Hava Rava for that friendship-healing-heartbreak vibe 💖

I know, the music sounds like the Kink's All Day and All Night 😅

Surprisingly, the more frequent shared translation was incomplete. Managed to find a better one with romaji too

Now y'all know the password 😉🤘🏾

yumico-chan.livejournal.com/2212.html#cuti…

Urgh, day 4 is hard. Not because of choice (it's staring at my face), but more to why

It's Paramore's Only Exception

This song obviously reminds me of him because he was that, an anomaly in many ways in my life.

Heck, I never would've imagined falling for some like him but, there I was! And it was devastating when I realised how I feel for him because I saw all the obstacles for us

Knowing him burst my comfort bubble again, and again and again. It made me painfully aware of the position that my identities put me, especially in society

I thought, probably if he understood, respected it, maybe we could work things out... It still hurts to think...

At times I wished I never knew him, so I would stay comfortable in my bubble

Ignorance is bliss, after all

But now I'm aware, it's not as easy as putting it aside, forgetting. Forgetting rarely happens for me...

The part at the start also hits a chord in me but it's not something I could really talk about in earnest

Filial piety is one of the many shackles we sometimes unaware that we wear

Day 5: song you play loud

LOUD AND BEST IF LIVE VERSION OOOYEAH!

The GazettE's Zetsu! 👅

Day 6: song to dance to...

Antic Cafe's Natsu Koi ★ Natsu GAME takes the cake

Like, how can you not dance to it if you're watching the PV?! Even Takuya's dancing! (k fine, he had the "I didn't sign up for this" face)

Welp, another Summer, flings and sex song

I swear when I first head it, I thought it was "natsu koi, batsu GAME" Someone should write about it

*heard it SMH

Oh yeah, these guys had performed in Malaysia (!!!) but for some music fest at Sunway Lagoon like I ain't paying for the whole shebang to watch ONE ACT! (also am not familiar with the current songs, which Imma guess is what they'll play)

Day 7: Song to drive to

Audioslave, Show me how to live

Start praying when the song is playing when I'm behind the wheels 🙃

Day 8: song on drugs and alcohol

The Beatles will say it's not, but Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds is a very VERY trippy song 🙃

Day 9: song that makes you happy

Judy and Mary, HELLO! Orange Sunshine! 🌞

Yuki hyper bright vocals and the really playful music really really shines the feel good vibe throughout the song

Like, OMG, I love Yuki so much like how can you not love her with that hyper power eminating from her 😍😍😍

And of course the lyrics matches the music, so upbeat, so cheerful

Of course it'll put the happy magic on me! 😍🌞

kimonobeat.tumblr.com/post/167012090…

BONUS: Judy and Mary is the band who brought y'all that first Rurouni Kenshin's 1st OP, Sobakasu

HELL YEAH, THEY ROCK OOHHYEAH! 😍😍😍

Day 10: song that makes you sad

Kagrra,'s Utakata

It's a song of love lost but it's the nuances, stories around the song that makes it

Isshi actually wrote the lyrics after one of his dog died

The person who translated the song even did so with the interview with him about the lyrics (note he talked about the different "omoi" he used and the nuance they bring)

demonpassion.yolasite.com/utakata.php

demonpassion.yolasite.com/utakata-interv…

There's another translator who translated "Utakata" to fireworks, being the ephemeral nature of it. "blooming flowers" in the chorus can also refer to fireworks

Ephemeral, like how life really is

When the news that he passed away spread, it was a wierd moment for me; it's sad he passed away, like any other passing but I was taken aback that I felt... Lost, like I lost someone, despite I barely know the man personally

It was confusing, I kept praying, asking to God, why

It was winter's break. I was on my own, in a land at the time still foreign to me. I was silently mourning, eventhough I don't understand why

Then, the song played

His voice, singing the song, was like he's trying to soothe, assuring listeners

It was then I understand how kindness is; it's limiless, boundless, and can be from the most unexpected of things, like someone you've never met or even know, far apart from you

It's sad to see how some people, for whatever reason, put up barriers, even blindfold themselves, that they're not able to see and acknowledge the good of others

Limiting themselves when there's so much more to the world...

Day 11: song you never get tired of

This is confusing cause I'm not sure which... But I do listen to this a lot and I LOVE the various live version, seems like Ryuichi manage to carry the song regardless how his voice sounded

So, LUNA SEA's JESUS

I feel the music and lyricslyrics matches nicely, like the verses are chaotic, questioning then the chorus asks for salvation

It's quite the typical theme with faith, aite?

senshigakuen.com/translations/l…

I find the opening and ending line interesting,

"Jesus, don't you love me?"

Considering he's more synonymous with salvation and compassion...

The thing that happens when you came for the music but stay because of the lyrics 🙃

Day 12: song from my pre-teen

(bout time I show my age lelz)

OF COURSE I'M GOING WITH 911 OMG I WAS CRUSHING ON LEE BRENNAN SO HARD OYEEEE DAT MELTY CARAMEL VOICE 😍😍😍

Imma go with Love Sensation for maximum MELTY CARAMELLY effect!

Day 13: song you like from 70

*Dumps whole Queen's discography* not good, some were from the 80s

I'm picking Fat-Bottomed Girls for the memory

Our admin officer, Anys, works with the radio on and the station seems without fail play this song daily. I worked in the bubble next to the admin counter and be miming to it

She's such a lovely person, helped me heaps and still in touch with me, sends Christmas cards too! 💖

That first verse tho 👀👀👀

What is dis, Professor May?

Day 14: song you'd love to be played at your wedding

None, cause I'm eloping if I ever get married 🙃

A relative of ours slipped this song during her son's wedding and IT WAS RAD so imma adopt her brilliantness if I have to 😬

Day 15: Song you like that's covered by another artist

I'm picking Wild World cause I've seen it misatributed to Mr Big too often, even on TV shows (?!)

Here's the original by Cat Stevens 😻

Day 16: song that's a classic favourite

Imma go back to my JRock roots (lelz) and toss L'Arc~en~Ciel's Blurry Eyes your way 😂

(OHHH KIREI NAA, HYDE-SAMA 🤩🤩🤩 *FANGURLINGDESU*)

"why do you stare out the sky with your blurry eyes?"

This was how I felt towards my first serious crush. Like, OMG I ASK YOU A FREAKING STRAIGHT FORWARD QUESTION AND YOU CAN'T ANSWER HONESTLY?! GOOD RIDDANCE TO YOU!

ANYWAYS~ it's also D.N.A.2 OP ^^~

animelyrics.com/jpop/larcencie…

I'm still gutted that no decent quality of the PV is up on YouTube. Y'all are missing out on this beauty like, OMG THAT PART AT THE END WHEN HE'S WALKING AROUND THE MERRY-GO-ROUND AND DROPPED AT "yuku.." 😍 *SQUEEFUCKINGLOVE*

L'Arc SHOULD'VE VEVO THEIR SHIT ALREADY!

Confession time: I've used HYDE to confuse boners when I was in school 🙃 it's always amusing when we reveal he's a dude 😂

Day 17: song you wanna sing duet on karaoke

Salvation by The Cranberries cause I'm still gutted that one time my friends took me for a karaoke session and nobody, NOBODY knew to go "aahahaha, aahahaha" I NEED PEEPS TO DO THAT WITH ME! D8

Day 18: song from the year you're born

I know a buncha U2 songs from that year (and I love those!) but figured I'd still look up what other songs are and saw this one and thought,

OMG
THE
PERFECTION
🤩

RICKROLL, Y'ALL! 😂😂😂

Day 19: song that makes you think about life

Tsuki ni Murakumo Hana ni Ame by Kagrra, been playing in my head a lot lately...

Sometimes it can't be help to feel like existing is pointless, futile even

For start, nobody asked to exist in the first place. It would be easier to just... Disappear

Disappear, cause death is always associated with pain, who wants that?

demonpassion.yolasite.com/tsuki-murakumo…

The owner of Demon Passion is something, even translated the poem Isshi recited in the PV

It still carries the same tone

demonpassion.yolasite.com/tsukimura-mono…

Despite it all, I'd remind myself that I'm still here. Now, what do I do

Day 20: a song that has many meaning to you

The GazettE's $ocial Riot Machine$

GYEEAAAAHHHHAHAHHAHAA

Yah, I know, I'm cheating on this one since this is a headbanging song but my head can't be arse to think of something else but random, "KERRETUUHHH" and "Curse you waifff" 🤷🏾‍♀️

This is the official lyrics for this song BTW 🙃

I dug out my Peace and Smile Carnival 2005 DVD for that

OH LOOK AT THEM DORKY PEEPS, HOW THEY'VE ALL GROWN 😍

and unfortunately 1 passed away 😭

Still remember when the second print went up for sale on @CDJapan, people were having issue with the full title that includes "fuck you"

I remember 1 comment actually afraid tak lepas kastam but look where the phrase at and how they write it 🙃

That phrase there, "Minna sorrette egao de fuck you" can be translated as, "you people over there, smiling/sniggering, fuck you"

In a way, it reminds me of Bon Jovi's Have a Nice Day, the spirit of screw you people trying to bring me down/happy that I'm down

Day 21: song you like with a person's name in it

Apt timing, I'd say for Sumire ~September Love~ 😍

Am picking Megamasso X IZAM cause this is MY BOP when I was stuck doing labwork like fuck, I EVEN DID THE DANCE IN THERE XD

The song is originally by IPPU-DO then SHAZNA did a cover then Megamasso did a cover and invited IZAM along

Demmit, IZAM was cute for the SHAZNA cover whomever turn him into a makcik for the recent one...

It's a cute love song, obviously

Hoping for a cheery, bright, poppy month ahead of us! 💐

jpopasia.com/lyrics/31726/s…

HAH! FOUND SHAZNA'S

I forgotten how slow their version is and how trippy the PV XD

How obscure can I go? I found IPPU-DO's version 🙃

So SHAZNA was more faithful to the original than Megamasso

Day 22: song that moves you forward

... Not sure how/what to make of this so imma drop an upbeat song I like by another one of my loves

YUI - ROLLING STAR 😍

OMG I LOVE THIS LADY SOSO MUCH EVENTHO HYDE MADE ME PICK UP PLAYING GUITAR IT'S HER SONGS THAT I KEPT GOING TO TO LEARN TO PLAY EM 😍

Used to have the red one but lost it ☹️ but was SUPER ELATED to end up with this green one! *SQUEE* 😍😍😍

The translation is in the video but might as well include the website here

Fun fact, got my left hand swollen from attempting to play this song's chorus fast on my acoustic guitar once 🙃

animelyrics.com/anime/bleach/b…

Day 23: song you think everyone should listen to

Think this is something we should keep in mind, especially how we tend to put down people with different taste to ours, making fun of them for the stupidest of reasons

KRU Negatif

Just Wiki lyrics for this one 😬

lyrics.wikia.com/wiki/KRU:Negat…

Day 24: song from a band you wish are still together

This is super obvious for me, of course it's Kagrra, 😭

Had a hard time trying to pick a song that encapsulate why I love their music and finally settled with Amafurase Tanmaina

This song reminds me why I was drawn to their music in the first place

Their incorporation of acoustic guitars in non-ballady songs,

How they write and arrange the music to able portray the story contained in the lyrics,

The incorporation of traditional Japanese elements

The song tells the story how people prayed for the rain to defeat the god of destruction

I laughed at how the translator chose to translate the title as 😂 others translated as "prayer for rain"

demonpassion.yolasite.com/amafurase-tanm…

Notice the links at the bottom? It explains why the translator chose to translate it as such. The other link is to an interesting tidbit that it's done to end a long drought

I've always imagined the god of destruction was throwing flames all around, "scatters flower"

This is the beauty of this band. Not only their music is beautiful but the stories behind them and the lyrics are amazing!

And how they brought people together to dig up the references, learning of other's legend, myth and culture, they're truly amazing 💖

Day 25: a song by artist no longer living

Making this a sorta continuation of yesterday, I'm picking Shirakuen by Isshi

He goes by shiki∞project for his solo work. This version of the song was made available for download on the official website

It's quite... IDK, ironic? But kinda creepy it played in my head one time, especially the first and last verse...

I still remember the evening of my 24th birthday, a month after he passed away, I saw him eventho I was in class

Standing next to the tree right in front of the building's entrance in his Shiki PV outfit, holding his hand out to me...

"Don't leave me," you whispered in my ears

Day 26: song that makes you wanna fall in love

None really I'm done with it. But if you want a sweet song I'll give you Kra's Setsugekka

the title is written as 雪月花, "winter-moon-flower"

Is a very sweet song, I've always love Kra as a band and Keiyuu's one of those male vocals that have that clear, far-reaching voice

antares489.wordpress.com/2009/06/29/set…

Day 27: song that breaks my heart

Think the timing is apt for this cause it's been Queen's Somebody to Love when I realised something, and maybe forever will be

I heard this song one day, passing that part in the first verse... Then I got reminded that Freddie wasn't straight...

It struck me how painful this part was, like it's his lamention to God

I don't think we really grasp how it feels to be told again and again that our existence is wrong, that we have to be made "right" by society

Our society is hardly kind, despite doing, muttering "in the name of God, Most Gracious and Most Merciful"

It's upsetting

more Instead, our people are more adamant to punish those that did no wrong to others, but willingly close their eyes to abuses and injustice

Kalau tak yang tak bayar nafkah dah ramai2 kena sebat adeke biar mak anak kau tungkus-lumus jaga anak kau, kau duit pun tak hulur?!

Senang kata pasal diorang Tuhan turunkan bala, lupa pulak tanggungjawab kita sebagai khalifah di muka bumi untuk jaga segala benda atas dan dalam kita fail tergolek2

Tengok je la bukit2 botak, siap kena rata. Berapa banyak hidupan pupus terancam nak puaskan nafsu tamak kita

Banyak lagi kesalahan lain yang kita buat terang2 nampak kita yang nak kiamatkan dunia ni tapi tak,

Salah LGBT wujud korang kata yang buat dunia porak-peranda

Korang buta hapa?

I wish I could help stop the madness, heal your pains. I'll do what I can, with whatever I have for you

Sending love to all the LGBT folks

🌈💖🏳️‍🌈 💖🌈

Day 28: song by an artist whose voice I love

I always thought to myself, "if melancholy has a voice, it'll be Ryutarou's"

So here's Plastic Tree's Spica ✨

Fitting time as Spica is the brightest star in the Virgo constellation. It's actually 2 stars but since they're so close to each other, we see it here as 1 bright star

That's what the first line meant by "2 stars that's called by a name"

This is one of those songs that I read people's translations and go, "... Maybe this wasn't what Ryutarou's saying...?"

Then I found this translation and the second note makes sense...

Can't fit the screencaps cause they use YUUUGE spacing so click link

abstract-raven.livejournal.com/3469.html

Day 29: Song you remember from childhood

HELL YEAH AM GOING WITH POWER RANGER'S THEME SONG SPECIFICALLY THE 1995 MOVIE'S VERSIO LIKE HELL FUCK, I EVEN HAVE THE CASSETTE FOR THE SOUNDTRACK! \8D/

THAT INTRO SO EPICAL THEY EVEN HAD MR. BIG'S ERIC MARTIN SINGING THIS LIKE OMGOMG

*SQUEEEE*

Side note, Power Ranger's is one of those shows that taught me that I can kick butts!

I mean, Trini and Kimberly OMG KIMBERLY DAT GYMNASTIC BUTT KICKING COMBO 😍😍😍😍

Day 30: Song that reminds me of myself

Gosh this is a hard one. It's easier to point to songs of what/how I aspire to be but me as is?...

I guess Driftwood by Travis

Finally finished despite shit hits the fan and all 🎉

Would be interesting to see what people would infer about me from this list 🎶

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