I've spent the last two hours raping my sense of hearing with One OK Rock songs, but I can't say if I'm a real fan by now since I've only listened to six of their songs and only repeated them a few times to get the lyrics right.
The first time I heard one of their songs was when I sat through the credits of the first Rurouni Kenshin live action film. The song was The Beginning and it got me hooked the moment Taka hits "...I whisper into the night," and it was epic. I even tried to record the song on my cellphone but that would've most likely been a form of piracy and that wasn't right in the public eye. Anyway, next came Notes and Words on my playlist followed by Clock Strikes.
To this day, the song I use to test out speakers or earphones is Clock Strikes. There's just something they have in their music, a sort of sharp edge that seems so familiar yet it feels fresh every iteration. And I really like that, it's just really amazing.
Last week I got hooked in another one of their songs. My mom and I watched Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno, like the first film we sat through the end credits even if it's in Japanese what I stayed in for was Mighty Long Fall.
The chorus sounded a little identical to The Beginning but there were parts of the lyrics that perfectly reflected the movie and Kenshin's character. However, the overall tone of the movie by the end didn't match well with Mighty Long Fall.
Yesterday I had some time to kill and I killed it with Decision and Be The Light. So far, Decision is the simplest song I heard from them (the lyrics were basically repeated in each verse) but it's also my current favorite. Thanks to the music video accompanying the song, I appreciated it more than when I just listen to an mp3 file. Perhaps this is the kind of feeling you get when attending concerts. You don't only listen to music, you let it completely absorb you like you're in a completely different world with the same thing as before, everything just feels new and it makes knowing and expecting both exciting.
It's just a lot of fun and a lot of passion mixed together in their music.
Yep...these are my bat-sh*t crazy thoughts at 1:04 in the morning.
But really, though, One OK Rock partially toggled my preference in music.
The first time I heard one of their songs was when I sat through the credits of the first Rurouni Kenshin live action film. The song was The Beginning and it got me hooked the moment Taka hits "...I whisper into the night," and it was epic. I even tried to record the song on my cellphone but that would've most likely been a form of piracy and that wasn't right in the public eye. Anyway, next came Notes and Words on my playlist followed by Clock Strikes.
To this day, the song I use to test out speakers or earphones is Clock Strikes. There's just something they have in their music, a sort of sharp edge that seems so familiar yet it feels fresh every iteration. And I really like that, it's just really amazing.
Last week I got hooked in another one of their songs. My mom and I watched Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno, like the first film we sat through the end credits even if it's in Japanese what I stayed in for was Mighty Long Fall.
The chorus sounded a little identical to The Beginning but there were parts of the lyrics that perfectly reflected the movie and Kenshin's character. However, the overall tone of the movie by the end didn't match well with Mighty Long Fall.
Yesterday I had some time to kill and I killed it with Decision and Be The Light. So far, Decision is the simplest song I heard from them (the lyrics were basically repeated in each verse) but it's also my current favorite. Thanks to the music video accompanying the song, I appreciated it more than when I just listen to an mp3 file. Perhaps this is the kind of feeling you get when attending concerts. You don't only listen to music, you let it completely absorb you like you're in a completely different world with the same thing as before, everything just feels new and it makes knowing and expecting both exciting.
It's just a lot of fun and a lot of passion mixed together in their music.
Yep...these are my bat-sh*t crazy thoughts at 1:04 in the morning.
But really, though, One OK Rock partially toggled my preference in music.
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