pie-eater 207 Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 Gripping stuff! Wonder who'll win. Link to post Share on other sites
@tokyo 14 Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 The level of sad otaku bloke kind of behavior is almost unbelievable! Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 it looks a tough choice..... Link to post Share on other sites
brit-gob 9 Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 I want to hear what all their policies are on things like the economy, world peace, and cute little animals. And of course it goes without saying it will be tough to know who to vote for re: best singing ability. They're all so bloody good. Link to post Share on other sites
norcal 5 Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 Gripping stuff! Wonder who'll win. haha nice thread we still haven't changed it...but I won't be staying up to see who's number 1 lol Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 Got home late last night to find the wife watching the election. If only people cared about politics and policies as much as the akb48 election... Link to post Share on other sites
hellyer 216 Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 Excuse my ignorance but what are AKB elections? Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted June 6, 2012 Author Share Posted June 6, 2012 You don't know?! Well first off surely you know about AKB 48...... musicians, poets, lyricists, singers. They can dance too. As they are all so talented, they need erections to pick a leader. Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted June 6, 2012 Author Share Posted June 6, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K90mwOmVK7A Pretty bloody good stuff hey? Link to post Share on other sites
ug 0 Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 I prefer the Korean girl groups if I had to choose. Less "kawaii" and more grown up. Can't stand the pervy school kid cut kind of thing going on with most Japanese girl "groups" like this. Link to post Share on other sites
hellyer 216 Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 Thanks for the vid mate, they certainly are musicians, poets, singers and cunning linguists Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted June 6, 2012 Author Share Posted June 6, 2012 And that's only one of their many wonderfully-crafted songs. Here's another one. Note the music. It's almost impossible to believe it's the same group, such is the variety on display! I particularly like the authentic "brass" sounds they have going in some of their songs. Can you imagine the Beatles doing electro-house-something-dub? No, neither can I. These AKB girls sure take their artistic chances. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdhMjzfg6-k Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted June 6, 2012 Author Share Posted June 6, 2012 If I owned a company that made bananas, I would add "ba" to the beginning of that song and voila have my next marketing campaign wrapped up. (If they let me use the song for free of course. Not much money in marketing bananas). Link to post Share on other sites
hellyer 216 Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 Dub? you mean they are lip-syncing like Mirry Vanirry ? Link to post Share on other sites
yoroshiku onegai shimasu 2 Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 AKB have way too much artistic integrity to lip-sync!!!!!! Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted June 6, 2012 Author Share Posted June 6, 2012 Dub: Dub is a genre of music which grew out of reggae music in the 1960s, and is commonly considered a subgenre, though it has developed to extend beyond the scope of reggae. Music in this genre consists predominantly of instrumental remixes of existing recordings and is achieved by significantly manipulating and reshaping the recordings, usually by removing the vocals from an existing music piece, emphasizing the drum and bass parts (this stripped down track is sometimes referred to as a 'riddim'). Other techniques include dynamically adding extensive echo, reverb, panoramic delay, and occasional dubbing of vocal or instrumental snippets from the original version or other works. Link to post Share on other sites
veronica 2 Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 Ah dub! I don't know much about it to be honest but some of my favorite remixes have that in the name. I was just listening to some old DM remixes last night and rediscovered some of the classic Violator-era ones. They were just so good, it's sad compared with the utter dross they churn out now as "remixes". Used to and still do love this one, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPvIiOAKgAo Class. Come back Francois Kevorkian, I say! Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 Damn I missed it Was it on telly or just t'inta? Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 It was on TV. Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 I missed it too. Damn2 Link to post Share on other sites
gifugill 0 Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 Are Morning Musume still going? Any original members left? Link to post Share on other sites
Chriselle 158 Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 Na...they're all married, fat with 2.5 kids. Well, maybe not fat. My daughter insisted on watching the election. I even missed Close-up Gendai. The sacrifices I make....... Nope, wasn't interested in the least.... . Link to post Share on other sites
Error404 0 Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 It was almost as interesting to see all the saddo-s there as the action itself. Some hearfelt speeches though. I missed a few. Did any come up with solutions to "Fukushima" or the financial crisis? Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 I prefer more.... saucy than sweet. Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 Oh sorry I thought it was the crisps thread Link to post Share on other sites
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