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( Cut for utter shameless geekery ^^ )

Also, Super Eurobeat Vol. 171 is out. Currently getting it. And hopefully, Initial D Fourth Stage D Selection 3 will be available soon as well since it's released on the same day (today). I am a very happy geek bunny indeed ^_~

€dit: Finally managed to come up with a decent new user info.

Super Eurobeat Vol. 171 - The first look

(I included the labels in brackets after the song names)

01 Neo - Midnight love (A-Beat C)
Not quite as good as other Neo tracks, but still nice.

02 Melissa White - Wanna be with you (SCP)
A somewhat slow-ish, disco-y-trance-y sounding thing. The intro isn't that inpressive, but the rest surely is. This track was co-written by Christian Codenotti (ACE) like a lot of SCP songs are *squee*

03 Mr M - Welcome people (TIME)
It takes aaages for the riff* to start. Which I like cuz long intros are cool. Appealing riff, good chorus and vocals. Decent song!

04 Groove Twins - Dance dance monsteru (A-Beat C)
No, the title is not a typo. They're obviously trying to get some Japanese flavour in again *lol* The song itself is light-headed and not too interesting.

05 Oda - Rainbow (DELTA)
Yay, a particularly stupid into again, how I missed that... not X_X Strange song. The chorus is surprisingly cool, though O_o

06 Annie - DD dance (TIME)
Eh. Weak riff. The guitars don't really help either. Thumbs down *yawn*

07 Rick Castle - You'll never be lonely (Hi-NRG Attack)
The weirdos of Hi-NRG Attack are back with... a somewhat serious song. Which is no exactly their trademark and that shows, no matter how good the vocals are. Too bad.

08 Go2 - Power (SCP)
My heroes are baaaack to old shape after their last song "Music come on" which was more of a ballad. And wow, this feels GREAT. Amazing and powerful song that really shows their different voices and vocal styles. This one might just be the best Go2 song ever. Ready steady go ;)

09 Queen 26 - Popcorns & sex (DELTA)
Sometimes I hate Euobeat intros *headdesk* Luckily, the rest of the song is very bad as well so I prolly won't ever listen to it again *shoves it far away* =_=

10 Cy-ro - Intercooler (Hi-NRG Attack)
Cy-roooo!!!! His first song ("Get the dark side into my brain" on SEB 169) blew me away. Literally. This one... somehow didn't. What's wrong with Hi-NRG Attack these days? HELLO?!

11 Sophie - My world 2006 (TIME)
Typical girls' song. Sloooow. Just don't mention it O_o

12 Cody - Die die (DELTA)
Once again, I hardly believe my ears when listening to the ylrics so I try to overlook them. Same goes for the song, actually.

13 Dana - I'm OK (SCP)
Well, THIS is why I consider SCP my favourite label. They tend to produce a good number of great tracks while keeping the bad ones down. Translation: Thumbs up. Fast, powerful, great. The vocals at the end of the chours are especially thrilling.

14 Annalise - Say you will (A-Beat C)
And yet anohter one of the bad type of girls' song. Eh. Boooring.

15 Powerful T. - Ace of spades (A-Beat C)
Wow, that was unexpected. They dug Roberto Tiranti out again to do another decent track. Unfortunately, his stuff can hardly ever compete against the real big names on A-Beat C (Dave Rodgers, Mega NRG Man...) and it's no different this time.

16 Ai Yamamoto - Wonderful (SCP)
I doubt she's really Japanese. Her pronounciation is too accurate. Anyway, another trance-ish sounding song from SCP. It's OK but I don't care too much for it.

17 Mark Gilan - Honesty (TIME)
Neither really good nor completely bad. Average one, I guess.

18 Nuage - I'm gonna carry on (A-Beat C)
Another nice, trance-y sounding track from Dave Rodger's woman Nuage.

Overall, I'd say #171 is a typical Super Eurobeat volume. Which means that there's a few great tracks, a couple of good ones and a lot of crap. Oh well, I doubt they'll make anohter #167 anytime soon.


A "riff" in Eurobeat doesn't have anything to do with a "gutar riff". It's basically the main melody line of the song (usually made up of two identical parts). Sometimes, it's even more important than the chorus itself. Look here for the typical strucutre of Euobeat songs.

BTW, hope you like my new Go2 icon. The dark haird guy is ACE (Christian Codenotti), the other one is Fastway/Dusty (Ennio Zanini) :D

Eurobeat videos on YouTube

Cool!
There actually are some real ones on there. Links and thoughts in this entry :D
I read a number of comments that went like "WTF? I expected some Asian dude"
Somehow, I don't get people who listen to a certain genre of music without even knwing the most basic facts about it. Such as 99.9% of the people doing Eurobeat are Italian.
Jeez!

Anway.
On to the videos.

SEB Vol. 170 artitsts & producers short messages
These are... weird. Trashy and utterly strange, like the whole genre.
Luckily, most of the people were thoughtful and at least TRIED to speak English. It would've been fun to have all of the messages in Italian with Japanese subtitles... not XD
On the other hand, if you listen to Baby Bazooka's words, the message is simple enough that I almost understand it so maybe it wouldn't have mattered anyway ;)
And then, I'm happy that I knew how Franz Tornado looks before, because he must be truly scary if you see him for the first time.
Oh, and I loved Go2 playing acoustic guitars ^_^

Niko - Night of fire 2004
Nice body... if ony has face wasn't that appalling =_= Oh, and the remix is terrible.

Dave & Domino - Sunshine in your eyes
I wonder whether this thing should be filed under self-irony. Because that's what comes to my mind when I see an Italian musician sitting on a tiny Vespa and singing *facepalm*

Go2 - Not for sale
I liked that one comment saying "...this video makes them look like tards...". Well, it was to be expected, wasn't it? Actually, the video comes quite close to what I expected. And wow. Christian (ACE) has long hair in that one O_O

Okay, that's enough Eurobeat for a while. Er... Unless I get ID4 D Selection 3 soon ;)

Guess what I just did

I just translated a sheet of security remarks for dad's company (German -> English).
Well, if anything happens, at least they'll know whose fault it was X_x