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... have the two definitive highlights from the new Super Eurobeat Vol. 179!

track 15 Mega NRG Man - Red light and sex
I heard people were praising this one over the moon before I got it, so of course I was wondering whether it's really that good. Well, it is. The chorus just blows me away every time. Certainly the best Mega NRG Man song in a long time.

track 17 Remy Panther - On the road again to the show
I know it's hard to believe but this is one of the more serious tracks by Hi-NRG Attack. And IMHO, that style suits them just as well as the uber wacky one. The vocals are as cool as Eurobeat gets, and they fit the unusual (at least for the Hi-NRG label) racing topic. Also, note their musical trademarks - the howling guitars and the squeaking female backing vocals ^_^

(And yes, I know the Megaupload link says "SEB 178". My fault, didn't double-check. It is Vol. 179, tho.)

Well, Super Eurobeat Vol. 178 turned out to be far better than I thought during the first listening. There's quite a number of killer songs on it. "Glorious" is without a doubt the best Powerful T. release ever and it's certainly as Metal as Eurobeat can get ^_~ "Crazy for love" just stuck with me immediately. Apparently, it's a good title for a catchy Eurobeat song (there was at least one other track with that name and it was just as good as this one). The riff is just amazing and it's a good, albeit unusual move to not have the singer shut up during this central part of every Eurobeat track. I was a little disappointed with "Supersonic fire 2007" (Woohoo, finally a self-cover of which I actually know thw original XD) since they kinda eliminated the edges which I liked about it so much. However, they re-recorded the vocals which is all but usual Eurobeat practice. Nice! Dave Rodgers's newest song is pretty cool, too. It's called "California dreaming" but apart from the title, it's got nothing to do with its popular namesake. This is typical for Eurobeat as well, BTW. We've had "Like a virgin", "Goodbye yellow brick road" and many others I can't think of right now. On the other ahnd, there are real covers as well, like "Another one bites the dust" and "I was made for loving you". OMFG those crazy Italians ^^
Okay, I'm rambling now. So sorry. Back to 178.
HI-NRG Attack got to open the CD for the first time ever, which, as a rabid fan of most of their stuff, makes me rather proud. ( Cut again because of a few naughty words. You never know who might be offended by something like that ^^ )
Anywho. When I saw the preview track list for 179, I noticed that HI NRG will get both the first and the last slot on there. Wow!

BTW, here it is:

( SEB 179 tracklist )

Right now, I'm sitting here in a very crumpled skirt and a very crumpled spaghetti strap top. I'm just not bothering with ironing in this heat *wipes sweat*

Well. I just got Super Eurobeat Vol. 177 and while I was listening to it for the fist time, I wrote down what I thought. Just to annoy you with it ;)
Here we go.
(BTW, the thing in brackets is the label that produced each song)

( 177!!! )

Three people.
Three frickin' people, goddammit =_=
But! Teacher #2 is an American. Which I didn't expect at all since CPE is a British.... thing.
Call me racist, but I so could've hugged her :3
Still... I thought seven people (out of twelve) was bad. But... three?!
Well, we did the gapped text thingy and started on the next unit... Globalization (or, as written in the book, "Globalisation" *lol*).
Also, stupid old me got to give a lil' speech about the Japanese language and how to distinguish between Chinese, Japanese and Korean writing. That was cool ^^

In other news: DLing SEB 175 right now *excited*

Oh, and BTW: Good luck to everyone doing the BFNoWriMo ^____^

(From the show on Feb 17)
(They're talking anti-virus apps 'n' crap)
Mathias: "Never surf the 'net without a virus scanner"
Georg: "Like in real life - never without protection"
Jessy *head bursts something awful*

@.@
Well, that was unexpected indeed. I know I tend to find a lot of innuendo in their talks, but something that's actually intentional... I don't think that's happened before. Wow, that's SO cool.
... and I still don't think I'm the only person who counts an incident revolving around a reference to condoms as a historic moment. I *am* like that, aren't it? XD

Oh, and BTW: They're right. Anyone who still doesn't use any anti-virus program, consider yourself whacked. Hard. Very hard.
Hell, you don't even have to pay to get a decent one. Use Avira, for god's sake. It's better than Norton and other shit (Believe me, just because it comes free with most new computers, it doesn't mean Norton's any good. It's not!). It's got a fast search and - perhaps the most important aspect - definitions are updated quite often.
So there's no excuse to wander around the intarwebs unprotected. Right, Georg? :3

In other news: The way Eurobeat simply makes bad moods evaporate is beginning to scare me. Seriously. But in a good way *swoons*

... is quite nice as an OS.
But as a base for a web server, it's The. Most. Revolting. Thing. In. The. History. Of. Mankind.
Especially combined with a crappy, limited web hosting plan that doesn't let you do anything and so you have to work around all the stuff you usually do with two clicks.
Dammit. Dammit to hell!! >:O
(Can you tell I'm pissed?)

But...
*hugs Unix based shared server with full access and universal permissions*
I love that thing. And I'm glad takaraMONO and all its sub-sites has found such an affordable, yet reliable and delightful home in the south of Germany.
Hail all-inkl!

In other news: SEB 174 is out in BT form, so I'mma go get it now.

Just got Super Euro Xmas 2006. It's certainly better than some of the older ones. Hi-NRG doing Gospel is just priceless. And the Euro version of "last Christmas" was so totally overdue ;)
Still, I wonder whether there are people apart from me who notice that they keep recycling certain songs...
Also, SEB Vol. 173 has been out for three days. And it's nowhere to be found. Not even the eager Chinese people managed to come up with it until now. Uh-oh. Glad I didn't murder anyone yet. I want that album T_T

Well, at least I managed to get foobar working with GTSDLL on IRC.
... and I think nobody got what that means ^_^

I just discovered a video game sample in an Eurobeat song.
The track I'm talking about is "Super Kaiser"* by Garcon (Super Eurobeat Vol. 169).
It uses the Pac Man dying sound as a transition between the intro and the riff.
Interesting.
And it kind of proves my theory that there's nothing the Eurobeat people won't sample ^_~

* The title already denotes that it's a mecha (parody?) song. It's by HI-NRG Attack (my favourite label) and therefore really weird and wacky.

Yesterday, I told mum all that stuff about (non existant) gay people on Star Trek and the Picard/Q thingy.
And she asked me to honestly tell her whether I think it's awkward when two guys are kissing. Because she thinks it is. Well, I honestly told her that I don't.
Okay, it does depend on the guys in question whether it's hot or not, but me being gossed out by the general idea? No, ma'am.
Anyway, me holding that speech was entirely in vain ONCE AGAIN. Don't try to expand horizons that are apparently made of lead =_=

Today, I stole mum's pay TV card out of her receiver and tested it in mine. Works perfectly :D
Mum also told me her choir has just started rehearsing Son of a preacher man. Now is that bloody COOL or what?
Bro FINALLY got his Nokia 6230i today. Awww, twins *glassy eyes* [/stupid]

In other news: Got Initial D Fourth Stage D Selection 3 today. Okay, most of the songs are old, but they're all mixed in a different way to make them LONGER. And that's certainly nice. But some of the few new songs are pretty good, too. "Mission impossible" by Nick Mansell, for example, simply rocks. It's also an ideal "first time"-track for those people who have never listened to Eurobeat before. Same goes for "City lover city rider" by dear Matt Land. Simply brilliant. What scared the hell outta me is that fact that they chose to add an extended version of "Back on the rocks" by Mega NRG Man. That was my first Eurobeat song ever. Wow. Circle complete, or something?
Anway, if you want to have a listen, the torrent (among others) can be grabbed at the Initial D WOrld Tracker. It's more than well-seeded right now so act quickly ;)

(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