#album selection

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Album Selection of 2019 | November

Yusuke Chiba -Snake on the Beach- - Shiosai [Sea roar] (27.11.2019) [★★★★★]

TRACKLIST

Shinsei (Nova)

Kujira (Whale)

Knock Knock Knock

Eden

Tobira (Door)

Tokyo

Byakuya (White night)

Deadly Drive

Amaoto (Rain sound)

Ryuuhyou (Drift ice)

Yochou (Omen)

Jikan no kanata (Beyond time)

Carina

Kaika (Flowering)

Haru (Spring)

Yuuhi (Sunset)

Shounen (Boy)

Dezert - Black Hole (27.11.2019) [★★★★★]

TRACKLIST

Dark in Black Hole

Bakemono (Monster)

Thirsty?

Migite (Right hand)

Hakuchi (Lodging)

Call of Rescue

Hantomei wo taberu. (Eat translucent.)

Gohatto (Taboo)

Shinkei to juryoku (Nerves and gravity)

Tenshi no zentoyo (Angel frontal lobe)

Rhapsody in my Head

Kansen shoujo (Infected girl)

True Man

I’m sorry

Rei - Seven (13.11.2019) [★★★★★]

TRACKLIST

Territory Blues

Connection

U R Goin’

Dance Dance

Little Heart

Tourbillon

Bon Appetite!

Sengoku Jidai -The Age of Civil Wars- - Shippu jinrai [Gale storm] (06.11.2019) [★★★★]

TRACKLIST

Ginro (Silver wolf)

Kabukimono -Hana to nare- (Stranger -Becoming flower-)

Sengoku Big Bang

Hariko no tora (Paper tiger)

Ge.ko.ku.jo (

Yoi hanabi kasumi ga kure (Evening fireworks)

Dokugan (Monocular)

Namidaboshi (Teary star)

Abaredaiko (Violent drum)

Kazahana (Snow on the wind)

Dadaroma - Dadaism #5 (13.11.2019) [★★★★]

TRACKLIST

Twinkle Twinkle Star

Enzen (The very thing itself)

Keidoro (Hide and seek)

Kabukichou no onna (Kabukichou woman)

Pierrot no uta (Pierrot song)

「DAY BY DAY」 

「Pornograph」 (piano ver.)

HONORABLE MENTIONS

ARTiCLEAR - Reimeiki no yume [Early days dream] (27.11.2019)

TRACKLIST

pluviam

Reimei no namidaame (Early days tears of rain)

Solitudart

Senkou to kadou (Drilling and swirling)

Invisidia

Heiraku no 「Kimi」 e (In your blue sky)

The Genius Orchestration - Spread Your Wings (06.11.2019)

TRACKLIST

Spread Your Wings

Never Ending Future

Be Awake

Evils

A far of distance

Penicillin - Kyuuryuu atama -Kowloon Head- (06.11.2019)

TRACKLIST

Kyuuryuu atama

Sex

The pain song of the beast

Sabaku no Basilisk (Desert basilisk)

Too young to die!

Kiri otosareta tsubasa (Cut the wings)

Ningen shikkaku (Human disqualification)

TO BE CONTINUED...

[angelloverde]

* Album Selection *

Today’s album selection is themed as the “sexiest” album covers of the 70ies with an exception of Johnny “Guitar” Watson album “Gettin’ Down With” and Cal Tjader “Demasiado Caliente”. Also the Ohio Players have more than one sexy album cover. Of course there are more out there, but here’s some.

The Fatback Band ‎– The Best Of The Fatback Band  (1976) /  Jimmy McGriff ‎– Soul Sugar (1970) / The Meters - Trick Bag (1976)

Ohio Players - Ecstasy (1973) / Betty Davis - They Say I'm Different (1974) /  Johnny Guitar Watson ‎– Gettin' Down With (1984)

The Chakachas ‎– Chakachas (1972) /   Nico Gomez And His Afro Percussion Inc. ‎– Ritual (1971) /  Cal Tjader ‎– Demasiado Caliente (1960)

Check them all !

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Album Selection of 2019 | February

Mucc - Kowareta Piano to Living Dead [Broken piano and living dead] (13.02.2019) [★★★★★] *REVIEW*

TRACKLIST

Kowareta Piano

Psycho

Iris

Vampire

In the Shadows

Sekisou (Conception)

Yuri to tsubasa (Lillies and wings)

Countdown

Living Dead

Wing Works - Entity (03.02.2019) [★★★★★]

TRACKLIST

DISC 1

-W・W-Ⅱ [SE]

Annunaki

Welcome to TRICK DEATH LAND

SiLiConE

Mikansei sapphire (Incomplete sapphire)

Burn your soul

Inferno

El_Dorado?

Acid Castle -album ver.-

Amadeus

Flower World.

Nirai kanai

DISC 2

Vad†Man

Fushichou -Fennix-

Fixxtion Boy

Metoroa 3.0

Ravve of my Trinity

Ikaros

Matenrou Opera - Human Dignity (27.02.2019) [★★★★★] *REVIEW*

TRACKLIST

Human Dignity

Invisible Chaos

Monster

Rainbow

Sacrifice

Hako no soko no music (Music in bottom of the box)

Actor

Cee

Nishinaru senaka (Stranger behind)

Snow

The World

Diaura - Definition (13.02.2019) [★★★★] *REVIEW*

TRACKLIST

Ivy

Phantom (type B only)

Malice

Uso to waltz (Waltz and lies)

[Dignity]

Hell glide

Species

Dantou dai kana ai wo komete (Loaded with love from the guillotine)

Spool - Spool (13.02.2019) [★★★★]

TRACKLIST

Nightescape

Be My Valentine

Let me down

Shotgun

Winter

_ _ _ _ _ _

Sway, fadeaway (angel version)

Blooming in the morning

Springpool

Mirrors

Morphine

No, thank you (alternative mix)

HONORABLE MENTIONS

Zero[Hz] - Zelm (27.02.2019)

TRACKLIST

Axiz

Othello

Boku no shiranai boku (I don’t know myself)

Shuuten fuyuu (Final floating)

Redrum

Invisible kidz

IdeaTrump

Koe no yukue (Whereabouts voice)

Vanity

Dress Homunculus

Parallel World

Dahlia

Seiko Matsuda - Seiko Jazz 2 (20.02.2019)

TRACKLIST

Sway

It Had to Be You

Over the Rainbow

The Way You Look Tonight

One Note Samba

Fly Me to the Moon

How Insensitive

Human Nature

When I Fall in Love

My Funny Valentine

Ace of Spades - 4Real (20.02.2019) *REVIEW*

TRACKLIST

Wild Tribe

Mousou (Delusion)

Sin (ft. Hiroomi Tosaka)

Louder

Time Flies (ft. Pkczcr and Hiroomi Tosaka)

Last Night

Vampire

Dream in the mirror

Chikai (Oath)

Lookin’ For

Now here

Just like heaven

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Album Selection of 2019 | January

Hello my dear followers! As for the past years, the Album Selection will be posted here, month per month. I was thinking of doing it in a video format, published on my Youtube channel, but because of lack of time and likely technical issues which would have come out, I decided to stay for the old style. So, there will be a list of 8 albums per month, 5 main and 3 mentions, without adding commentary, like in 2018, and if you want to discuss about my picks, you can comment each post, proposing even your picks if you want. And now... let’s see what we loved the most in 2019! (Little hint: click on the album titles...)

Mono - Nowhere, Now Here (25.01.2019) [★★★★★]

TRACKLIST

God Bless

After You Comes the Flood

Breathe

Nowhere, Now Here

Far and Further

Sorrow

Parting

Meet Us Where the Night Ends

Funeral Song

Vanishing, Vanishing Maybe

The Sound Bee HD - Dead Silence (16.01.2019) [★★★★★]

TRACKLIST

Tenka (Conversion)

Deadman’s Walk

I

Dead Silence

So Sad

Syu - Vorvados (23.01.2019) [★★★★★]

TRACKLIST

Vorvados

Reason

Koko de kugire to tenshi wa utau (Here’s the break and the angel sings)

Akatsuki (Dawn)

Euphoria

Chaotic Reality

Cacotopia

AndroiDedication

Aishou (Sorrow)

Mikansei no tsubasa (Unfinished wing)

Blessing

Fate Gear - Headless Goddess (09.01.2019) [★★★★]

TRACKLIST

The Generation of Chaos

Headless Godless

Skykiller

Lifer

Fade Out

Hakai no bara (Destruction rose)

Megabullets

44Magnum - Prisoner (30.01.2019) [★★★★]

TRACKLIST

I’m Lonely Man

Girl

Come On Let’s Go!

Ow!

I Don’t Know What You Say

Be4 We Leave Together -Quite Decade City-

Through the Night

I Believe This Town

UK

-HONORABLE MENTIONS-

Gotcharocka - Guerilla (09.01.2019)

TRACKLIST

Guerilla

Kurui no mi (Only deviation)

Artificial flowers

Hana reidou -Kaleido- (Slave flower -Kaleido-)

Sorrow sorrow go away

#Sugukeshimasu (#Immediately erased)

Omedetai atama de naniyori - Omedetai atama de naniyori 1 (09.01.2019)

TRACKLIST

The Resistance

Tai toru

Tai Up (TV Size)

Hiizuru basho (Land of sunrise)

Kotoba no ayaya (Aya words)

We will luck you

Pi

Siren and jealousy -Ome one ver.-

Owaranai koi kara no dasshutsu -Mousou live ver.- (Endless love escape)

Kayou suspense theater 〜 Watashi ga yarimashita〜 -Ome one ver.- (Kayou suspense theater -I did it-)

Hell “O”

Chabashira tatta-

Meidara - Kirai [Hatred] (16.01.2019)

TRACKLIST

Kirai

Kisou tengai (Fantastic idea)

Noroi (Curse)

Konton onigokko (Chaotic demon pretend)

Shimensoka (Four sides)

Tenya wanya (Shambles)

Suisen (Narcissus)

TO BE CONTINUED...

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Album Selection of 2019 | December

Aura - Fantasia (01.12.2019) [★★★★★]

TRACKLIST

AK

Ambience

Shake it!!

Purple People

Sorrow

Beautiful Way

Taisetsu na hito (Important person)

Mori no miyako (Forest city)

Be one

Namida (Tears)

Minus (-) - C (11.12.2019) [★★★★★]

TRACKLIST

Glass work

Tsubame (Swallow)

Uchigawa ni mukau (Head inward)

Kono wa no tsuzuki o kikitai ka? (Do you want to hear the rest of this story?)

John in the dark

Luna Sea - Cross (18.12.2019) [★★★★★]

TRACKLIST

Luca

Philia

Closer

The Beyond

You’re knocking at my door

Sora no uta -Higher and higher- (Sky song -Higher and higher)

Anagram

Hisoubi (Tragic beauty)

Pulse

Shijima (Silence)

So tender...

Octaviagrace - Radiant (25.12.2019) [★★★★]

TRACKLIST

Raise a Belief

Everdreamer

Radiant

Midnight Highway

After the rain

Lastscene

Lucent Moon

World’s end destination

Pray

Closegame

Fragments

Nana Mizuki - Cannonball Running (11.12.2019) [★★★★]

TRACKLIST

Higher Dimension

Carpe Diem

Love Fight!

Daybreakers

Knock U Down

Blue Rose

Sweet Dealer

What You Want

Metanoia -Aufwachen form-

Glitch

Never Surrender

Light Births Shadow

Rebellion

Upsetter

All For Love

Final Commander -Aufwachen form-

HONORABLE MENTIONS

Indischord - Paradigm (16.12.2019)

TRACKLIST

Entrance

Connect

Starlight

Distance

Solution

Drama

Egoistic stepper

Ana no aita heya (Perforated room)

Fine

Tokyo Shoegazer - Moondiver (02.12.2019)

TRACKLIST

Into the Deep Sky

Your Relief

In Full Bloom

Night Dance

Bedtime Story

Moondive

Stay White

Arukara - New New New (11.12.2019)

TRACKLIST

Suspense Gekijou Dainigakushou (Passion suspense 2nd movement)

Shunkan Shunkan Shunkan (Moment moment moment)

Neko ni violin (Violin on cat)

Yuuwaku minuet (Seduction minuet)

Tsukiyo no utage (Moonlight song)

Kutabire Kokko-chan (Tired Kokko-chan)

Michisuu 2 (Unknown 2)

Yuuyaitsuka (Someday at sunset)

That’s all folks for the 2019 selection! See you with a new review in “Let’s Listen to”, hoping that 2020 will bring more and more emotions!

Thanks for the reading!

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Album Selection of 2019 | June

Ningen Isu - Shin seinen [New youth] (05.06.2019) [★★★★★]

TRACKLIST

Shin seinen maegaki (New youth preface)

Kagami jigoku (Mirror hell)

Tokushin (Blasphemy)

Yaneura no sanponsha (Attic walker)

Gankutsuou

Iroha ni hoeto (Barking color)

Uchuu no disclosure (Space disclosure)

Anata no shiranai sekai (A world you don’t know)

Jigoku kozou (Hell boy)

Jigoku no moushigo (Hell’s son)

Tsuki no Apenin yama (Apenin on the moon)

An’ya kouro (Dark night journey)

Mujou no scat (Heartless scat)

Kaya - Dress (23.06.2019) [★★★★★]

TRACKLIST

Refrain ga yonderu (Screaming refrain)

Ihoujin (Stranger)

Meu amor e...

Haitoku no scenario (Immoral scenario)

Yasashii kiss wo shite (Give a gentle kiss)

Soredemo asu wa yattekuru (Still coming tomorrow)

Nanpasen (Shipwreck)

Cage

Tsumi to batsu (Sin and punishment)

Countdown

Same (Shark)

Tanjyo (Birth)

Ai no sanka (Hymn of love)

Aiolin - Fate (15.06.2019) [★★★★★]

TRACKLIST

Overture -Fate-

Liar

Fate

Venom (ft. Kobayashi Taro)

Orpheus

Alone

Breathing

Someday

Remember the Name (ft. REO)

Faded -Live arranged ver.-

Mary’s Blood - Confessions (12.06.2019) [★★★★]

TRACKLIST

Labyrinth of the Abyss

Karma

Arcadia

Laylah

Aim

Hello

Mermaid Serenade

High-5

Go Ahead & Laugh

VirtuaReaL

Syokuzai no kane (Requiem for the victims)

Razor - Sennen no shirabe [Millennium survey] (26.06.2019) [★★★★]

TRACKLIST

Shirabe (Survey)

Dimension

Sennen no shikisai (Millennium color)

Administrator

Liquid Vain

Innovator

Uprising

DNA

Akaku chirabaru hana (Flower colouring by red)

Daybreak

Hibiscus

Undo

Bishuu (Beauty or ugliness)

Locus

Brilliant

HONORABLE MENTIONS

Blue Encount - Sick(s) (05.06.2019)

TRACKLIST

Predator

Wanderlust

Howling Diver

#Yolo

Genchou (Hallucination)

Encore

Ayasa - Chronicle VI (01.06.2019)

TRACKLIST

Mermaid Gold

Blue Hole

Buffalo

Hope Island

Inferno

Boris - Tears EP (26.06.2019)

TRACKLIST

Doushitemo anata o yurusenai -Sadesper Record Version- (I can’t forgive you)

U Fu Fu

To the Beach

Peaches

TO BE CONTINUED...

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Album Selection of 2019 | October

Boris - LφVE & EVφL (04.10.2019) [★★★★★]

TRACKLIST

Disc 1: LφVE 

Away from You

Coma

Evol

Disc 2: EVφL

Uzume

Love

In the Pain(t)

Shadow of Skull

Demon Kakka - Uta dokuro -Gekidan shinkansen gekichuuka shuu- [Skull song -Gekidan Shinkansen song collection-] (16.10.2019) [★★★★★]

TRACKLIST

Shura to gokuraku (Fighting and paradise)

Love dies

Ikiru (Go)

Tenmaou tanjou (Heaven devil birth)

Yaiba yo asu ni mukae (Blade, for tomorrow)

Kimi shinitamau koto nakare (Never be killed)

Nagare nagarete gokuraku ni (Flowing and paradise)

The Rock Age -Yami ni tsudoishi ayashiki shujou- (The Rock Age -Mysterious gathering in the dark-)

Namonaki hi no tori (Nameless firebird)

Burning Beauty

Medley Sanchago -Kami no oukoku wo tsukure -naze ni ubawareshi hikari (Medley Sanchago -Create the kingdom of God)

Get the Planet’s Power

Galneryus - Into the Purgatory (23.10.2019) [★★★★★]

TRACKLIST

Purgatorial Flame

My Hope is Gone

Fighting of Eternity

Glory

Never Again

The Followers

Come Back to Me Again

Remain Behind

The End of the Line

Roaming in my Memory

Cocco - Star Shank (02.10.2019) [★★★★]

TRACKLIST

Karan (Flowers)

2.24

Yuzuki (Evening moon)

Umibe ni saku bara no ohanashi (Story of roses blooming in the sea)

Gracy Grapes

Kuchizuke (Kiss)

Ho-Ho-Ho

Negai kaneba (If you wish)

Gokukaku maachi (Evil march)

Come to me

Being young

Fringe

Heidi. - Hyohon [Specimen] (23.10.2019) [★★★★]

TRACKLIST

Ichibetsu (Glance)

Halation

Ghost

Kyo (Emptiness)

Utopia

Suisou (Aquarium)

Haritsuke (Crucifixion)

Parasite

Garandou (Empty)

Eternal

Shoku (Candle)

Milky Way

HONORABLE MENTIONS

Xaa-xaa - Minna ga uta [Everybody sing] (30.10.2019)

TRACKLIST

Kietai (I want to disappear)

Chameleon Onna (Chameleon woman)

Futsuu no koi (Ordinary love)

Watashi wa allergy (I am allergy)

Daiji no ohanashi (Important story)

Uso o tsuite live ni iku (Go live with a lie)

Kiyoshi - Kiyoshi4 (31.10.2019)

TRACKLIST

Warning

Little King

Frustration

Reset

Hurt

Pride

Go for it

Melody

Pierrot

Roots

Babymetal - Metal Galaxy (11.10.2019)

TRACKLIST

Future Metal

Da Da Dance

Elevator Girl (English ver.)

Shanti Shanti Shanti

Oh! Majinai (Oh! Charm)

Brand New Day

Night Night Burn!

In the Name of

Distortion

Pa Pa Ya!!

Kagerou (Ephemeral)

Starlight

Shine

Arkadia

TO BE CONTINUED...

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Album Selection of 2018 | September

Schwarz Stein - Immortal Verses (01.09.2018) [★★★★★]

TRACKLIST

Morgue

Immortal Light

Forest of Paralysis

Lotus

Wachtraum (Daydream)

Dir en Grey - The Insulated World (26.09.2018) [★★★★★] (REVIEW)

TRACKLIST

Keibutsu to hajimari (Begging with contempt)

Devote my Life

Ningen wo kaburu (Wearing human skin)

Celebrate Empty Howls

Utafumi (Rhyming poetry)

Rubbish Heap

Aka (Red)

Values of Madness

Downfall

Followers

Keigaku no yoku (Chasm of greed)

Zetsuentai (Insulated)

Ranunculus

Hollowgram - Fluid (19.09.2018) [★★★★★]

TRACKLIST

DID

More than just love

27,Co

Mona Lisa

Peach Moon

History

Adolescent -Acoustic ver.-

Ryutaro Arimura - Demo #2 (19.09.2018) [★★★★]

TRACKLIST

Genkeifuirumu (Ghost film)

Kuruoshibana (Maddening flower)

Tsuki kage to tsuki kaze (Moon shadow and moon wind)

Zajimachi (Waiting)

Kyurururu (Exiled)

Sikirei (Color shadow)

Nichibotsuchiku (Sunset area)

Jukyusai (19 Sins)

Naoryu - Isshokutan [Color bowl] (05.09.2018) [★★★★]

TRACKLIST

Indiscriminate

Let’s spend the time with a laugh

I wanna go back

Soliloquia

Dan-Sha-Ri

Flower that doesn’t die -If tomorrow is the same as today-

And falling into a doze

Eight

A fake song

Love color glasses

Deep breath

-HONORABLE MENTIONS-

Kinoko Teikoku - Time Lapse (12.09.2018)

TRACKLIST

Why

&

Lapse

Thanatos

Kasa (Umbrella)

Hero ni wa narenai kedo (I can’t be an hero)

Kin mokusei no yoru (Night of the gold tree)

Chuo sen (Center lane)

Humming

Like our life

Tightrope

Canon

Yumemiru koro wo sugite mo (Even after a dream comes true)

Fest Vainqueur - Ikusa [War] (26.09.2018)

TRACKLIST

Jin (Battle formation)

Ikusa

Gekijou (Passion)

Lunatic Serenade

MIA

Minority

Soan Project with Temari - Seiren naru kyousou, joumyaky ni ategau [A silent ring, addressed to a vein] (19.09.2018)

TRACKLIST

Rakka no kyodou, kasoku, anten, hansha soshite chouwa suru boku to kimi to (Falling behavior, acceleration, darkening, reflection and harmony with me and you)

Shunshoku no neiro, kioku kairou (Spring tone, memory corridor)

Tasogare iro ni yukai suru shikai to kussetsu shita ruisui (A view that melts to yellow-ish and refracted blue)

Shuuaku naru kemono ugatsu ya, chishi o motte yahi o hofuru (Hatred beast bears arrow, and slays a wild boar with lethality)

Tojou, shita-jou nettai yoru (Grief, tongue, tropical night)

Ajisai ga mata saku koro ni (When hydrangea blooms again)

TO BE CONTINUED...