#malice mizer merveilles

[batsgunstein]

merveilles

March 18, 1998 — Malice Mizer

All music lyrics written by Gackt.

Track 1 (De Merveilles), Track 3 (Bel Air), Track 6 (Aegen), Track 7 (Au Revoir), Track 9 (S-Concious) composed by Mana .

Track 2 (Syunikiss) composed by Yu~ki.

Track 4 (Illuminati), Track 5 (Brise), Track 8 (Je Te Veux), Track 11 (Gekka no Yasoukyoku) composed by Közi.

Track 10 (Le Ciel) composed by Gackt.

Track 12 (Bois de Merveilles) composed my Malice Mizer.

Vocals, piano: Gackt

Guitar, synthesizer: Közi, Mana

Bass: Yu~ki

Drums: Kami

Cello: Masashi Abe •Violin: Chieko Kinbara, Toshihiro Nakanishi • Programmers (all instruments and computer programming): Gackt, Kami, Közi, Mana, Yu~ki • Programmer (synthesizer programming), sound designer: Nobuhiko Nakayama •Technician (sound adviser), keyboards: Yohei Shimada • Arrangement by Malice Mizer, Yohei Shimada (tracks 2, 3, 5, 7, 10, 11, 12)

Scans site: https://cantavanda.com/malice-mizer/scans/ (Check it out! High quality scans)

[memory-and-sky]

this is so sad, hey alexa play aegean by malice mizer

[dramamccringe]

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[stacked-rubbish]

[sfaghetti]

ok just watched the Bel air movie and if I'm not wrong? I think it's about a man (Gackt) who has a wife who has two brothers (Kami and Yu~ki) and a maid (Mana). they're doing fine until they go to a fortune teller (Közi) and she predicts like tragedy or a curse? and then with Gackt's nightmares + a clown's (also Közi) suicide performance he starts to neglect his wife and drinking and going to prostitutes (also Mana) until one day he finds out through her brothers that she killed herself so he goes immediately back to her place but he finds her already dead. then I think their souls meet afterwards but she ignores him while their souls cross the bridge. I can't figure out the role of the man with the book though

do correct me if I'm wrong on anything this is just my first impression after watching the movie

[soal005]

Album Review - Malice Mizer's « Merveilles (1998) »

de merveilles - non-evaluated (just ambient sounds)

Syunikiss ~ 二度目の哀悼 ~ - 9.7 (A+)

ヴェル・エール～空白の瞬間ときの中で～ (Bel Air) - 9.1 (A-)

Illuminati - 7.8 (C+)

Brise - 6.75 (C-)

エーゲ ~ 過ぎ去りし風と共に ~ (Aegen) - 8.6 (B)

Au Revoir - 8.65 (B)

Je te veux - 9 (A-)

S-Conscious - 5.6 (D)

Le Ciel - 8 (B-)

月下の夜想曲 (Gekka No Yasoukyoku) - 9.85 (A+)

Bois de Merveilles - 7.9 (C+)

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Best lyrics: "Ah...to the lord who dwells in the sky that granted my prayers, I make one more wish. Return to her her heart. You gaze at the sky with lifeless eyes, as if you know the place to which you must return" - Syunikiss

Cover of the album: 7/10

Overall score: 8.1 (B-)

[dorifora]

Comento canciones de esa escena arbitrariamente:

Malaleche, gato, cahuinero

La única y especial, la favorita del fandom, la consentida

El inicio de todo, discazo además, DADA por favor vuelve viejo ridículo te perdonamos todo

Es curioso como funciona el deseo, por ejemplo deseo que Atsushi Sakurai me haga suya (????)

Fuyu Tokyo pero al revés. Esta me pega más que otras

Opening del anime de mis sueños. Jóvenes y apuestos

Primer PV EN LA ESCENA donde aparecen bailarines como acompañantes. Bailarines po wn. Dos mil seis

Castratis japoneses tocan en Versailles, se queda sin voz (a color)

Treinta minutos de intro. Yoshiki lo da todo, se parte el cuello, se sacó la camisa, sigue tocando. El estadio vibra y llora, todos eyaculamos de la emoción, sobretodo él.

Quien diría que esto pasa cuando las geishas tocan operetas de rock en shamisen. 7/10

[ball-jointed-bi]

i’m going to try out posting scans from my copy of the merveilles CD at some point, they’re already all over the internet but i’d like to have my original photos on my blog as to give it a personal touch (‘ v ‘) and pray i’m able to scrape money together for voyage sans retour at some point so i can post scans for those too !

[shion2nd]

nothing gives me quite as much dysphoria / envy as gackts malice mizer live performances. i hope he dies. that should be ME..

[memory-and-sky]

can’t stop singing gekka no yasoukyoku since i sang it for karaoke in september, i’m going to sing it until i die i think

[dramamccringe]

MY MERVEILLES CD ARRIVED!!! I'll probably post some scans of the booklet because I haven't seen some of the photos anywhere online

[pigeon-playlists]

Monthly Music Diary #1

A project for myself, so I can remember the music I enjoy.

I've been on a Howard Jones kick for a few months now, but from the Howard Jones kick I've ventured into Nik Kershaw, Ultravox, Gary Numan, Simple Minds...I could go on.

I'm fully aware that my current interest in new wave is really credited to Goose, because she's introduced me to things I hadn't quite ventured into before.

So for my first Monthly Music Diary I'm looking at my January playlist - I make a playlist for every month and have been for...six years? Seven? I need to go back - there are months I didn't do it, as well. I also have been writing down all the full albums I've been listening to over the last few weeks as well.

Which is half the reason I made this tumblr for myself, because I wanted something I can go back and read.

Nik Kershaw - Radio Musicola

I was having a little Nik phase before Christmas, which resulted in me trying to argue to people that The Riddle counts as a Christmas song. I mean, obsession with lights, general temporal confusion, references to wise men...it's all there.

So I listened to Radio Musicola, and now am obsessed with it and genuinely have listened to the actual Radio Musicola single every day since.

Of course, I've also been enjoying this performance:

I love everything about it.

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Hall and Oates - Private Eyes

I've been kind of a Hall and Oates fan for a while, insomuch as I've always been a big fan of I Can't Go For That and Private Eyes as songs. So bearing that in mind I listened to the whole album, and quickly had Your Imagination on repeat.

The whole thing is kind of also related to Howard Jones, because he went on Darryl Hall's show and they did a cover of What Is Love together, and it was cute.

Also this Your Imagination performance is just...Darryl Hall really is a hugely talented vocalist. Somehow everything about this is the most 1980s thing ever.

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Ultravox - Vienna

So I don't actually super care for the song Vienna. I can see why people like it, and I don't skip it when it comes on, but my favourite tracks off the Vienna album are All Stood Still and Mr X. There's something about Mr X that feels kind of similar to Gorillaz to me? Idk I think the soft speech in it sounds like Damon Albarn.

Also clearly this album had an impact on me because I started calling my favourite pigeon who visits the garden "Pijj (Pidge) Ure". I always know it's him because he's extra chonky and has a slight limp, plus he likes to get IN the ground feeder in a way the other pigeons don't seem to do. I love him.

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Scritti Politti - Cupid & Psyche 85

This album isn't perfect, but for how much I like some of the tracks on it, it might as well be. This one wasn't new to me, but I do keep going back. Favourites are Hypnotize and Wood Beez, which I got into because for some reason the music Co-op plays on its in-store radio is extremely tasty?? Last time they went in they were playing my fave Kate Bush song...really just excellent choices all round.

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Howard Jones - The 12" album

Everyday I listen to Howard, and I'm really not joking. If I don't listen to Like To Get To Know You Well at least once per day, it's a bad day. But also looking for performances led me to this absolutely mad episode of TOTP where for some reason Howard Jones is performing LTGTKYW on Platform 3 at Bristol Temple Meads????

This is so fucking funny for some reason. Also I've noticed that in performances where he doesn't get to sing live, Howard is always chewing gum.

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Opeth - Last Will & Testament / Sorceress / Heritage

Opeth are my favourite band, and I got a copy of Last Will & Testament on vinyl for Christmas. I took a while to listen to it, because I was worried I wouldn't love it as much as I love some of their older stuff - I don't love their super early albums, because I'm not really a big death metal fan. I'm much more a fan of them when they got more folky and really leaned into the prog angle.

But, Last Will And Testament was great, and half the tracks made it onto my Jan playlist. Which is good, because I'm seeing Opeth later this month and now I know I'll definitely enjoy it.

But, this led to me listening to two of my top three Opeth albums - Sorceress, the first album of theirs I ever listened to, and Heritage, which isn't my top Opeth album but the one I consider their best. I'm really not a fan of Steven Wilson's music, but I really can't fault the man as a producer.

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Paper Rival - Paper Rival

This band stopped existing extremely suddenly just after they dropped their second album, and I was obsessed with their first when I was a teenager. A Fox In The Garden was my favourite 'I'm so sad and i need something sad to listen to' track when I was about 15 years old, and I still have a physical copy of this CD in storage somewhere.

It just felt really comforting to listen to.

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Elliott Smith - Either/Or

I'm a big Elliott fan, but when I listen to him I mostly listen to his self-titled album (the one with Christian Brothers, St Ides Heaven etc on it) and hadn't listened to this one in forever. I loved it, of course. I will never not be sad that he isn't still here, making music. Hope you're resting well, Elliott.

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Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water

I come back to this album every now and then, but it's another one where I think half of it is perfect and half of it is massively skippable. I did also find myself going The Legend Of Zelda: Bridge Over Troubled Water when I realised the acronym for this album is also BOTW. Of course, that's mostly because I'm still in the middle of replaying Tears of the Kingdom.

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Daft Punk - Discovery

Now THIS is an album that is no skips. Even if, admittedly, I don't care for One More Time, but mostly that's because I heard it over and over and over and over on TV when I was about 7 years old. I have loved this album for what feels like my whole life, and I consider Something About Us to be a perfect song.

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Inhaler - Open Wide

I went in not knowing what to expect, honestly. The firsy few tracks kind of felt like generic jangly indie, but then as I got further through it, the quality just got better and better and better. I'm gonna be thinking about this band for a while.

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Simple Minds - New Gold Dream 81/82/83/84

Half of the tracks from this album got added to my current monthly playlist, but Promised You A Miracle is the one I feel really stuck on at the moment.

I also love - and this is kind of just something Goose and I talk about - that a lot of stars from the 80s now look like someone's dad at this point in their lives. I think it's really sweet that Jim Kerr from Simple Minds looked like someone's dad in 1985. Genuinely adorable.

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Malice Mizer - Merveilles

I must have been listening to Gackt again recently, because the YouTube algorithm suddenly gave me a load of Malice Mizer live videos from the Merveilles album tour. I wasn't quite sure what to think, because my forays into J-Pop haven't extended that far, and there's only been one visual kei group I've been sorted of interested in before this point. Even then, it was mostly because they had a song that was a Bleach opening/closing theme.

ANYWAY, after realising that this album is just not on Spotify at all, I managed to find it on YouTube. I was working until 7pm the week I found it, and it was really good at giving me the energy to keep going. I really enjoy Illuminaty particularly - the live of it is so fucking extra. The use of the whip crack as percussion is also just so??? Idk it scratches my brain just right.

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I have a ton of stuff on my To Listen radar right now, but right now I'm checking out a lot of new stuff for writing/review purposes. That's it for now.

xo Ells

[neptunianrefrain]

need this bitches outfit

best screenshots i cld get ahdfsifkdjgfd