longhairmike74

holy crap i love this,, and what amazes me is that they don't even consider themselves rock. i listened to their two previous albums which were a lot heavier on the synth with less guitar (that being said,the instrumental versions of their tracks didn't do too much for me). but the vox + guitar tone definitely give them a permanent home in the AOR world. also, perhaps having spent most of the 90s buying snes / ps1 cd soundtracks from amazon.co.jp (since hair metal had been killed off here) helps me be more welcoming towards the synthwave aspect.

i have to say i don't like the 2nd album nearly as much as the first

this will be the only cd i buy this year,, coincidentally, the last one I bought was last december and it was their debut

a video with sharon makes is 1000x better

my wife left me 2 weeks ago,, and she left a reckless love-spirit/ crashdiet-generation wild mp3 cd in the stereo.. they have become my new favs. although i had heard her play the earlier 2 reckless love albums before ( i recognized beautiful bomb, hot, on the radio, and a few others right away),, i couldn't find those albums among all the stuff she left. 10 months of marriage, 13 year relationship,, and she just up and left me (and out 8 bunnies) in the middle of the night. my life is upside down right now. i have bawled my eyes out to Hot Rain probably 100x.

i like the tone and songwriting of that,, but the video and lyrics and borderline embarrassing.

i am not generally a big fan of 'best-of' albums, but Black 'n Blue Ultimate Collection spends a ton of time in my car's cd player. maybe because i didnt even know about them until i got the UC cd,, so none of the songs had been already beaten to death from my childhood

i prefer japanese bands singing in japanese. lyrical content was important when you were a teen and needed some sort of context to which you could relate. besides, if you listen to enough j-rock, you can still make make out what they're saying even if you don't understand a word of it.

statism, patriotism, and religion all share the same tactic of early indoctrination to snag their followers before they are able to utilize critical thought to question them. I moved to AZ for the weather, i have no plans to assimilate with the culture.

i think it's more geared towards those living in one.

i saw them with Delain & Sonata Arctica when then came to Mesa in october. it was a little club that held maybe a few hundred people at most. totally awesome. i had never heard of them either, but now i am hooked... and diane, well she is deserving of her own wayne's world code word. this is only her first album with xandria, but she's also in Ex Libris, which is more progressive than xandria's powermetal

lyrics dont mean squat to me,, in the past 20 years ive listened to mostly j-rock/metal,, mid 90's to early 2000's their hard rock ruled,,

just pick something from Final Fantasy 4, 6 or 7,, you can't go wrong there.

we saw Sonata Arctica, Delain, Xandria, & Insatia last nite at a club red in Mesa. nearly 5 hours of symphonic powermetal for $25. best fucking show ever so awesome to have a small venue (holds 500 at best?) with great fucking accoustics so close to home. this band lineup for this place looks to be 90% metal. almost made me forget that we were still living in the middle of suckingthefuckingjesusknobville i dont know about you guys,, but this beats vixen back in high school hands down (no puns intended)

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