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In 1998, Riki Kinoshita, moved from Osaka to Tokyo to start a solo career and after the release of his first and sold out mini-album, teenage last in 1999, he decided to start the band ART-SCHOOL in March 2000 with his support musicians at that time Hinata (bass), Sakurai (drums) and later Oyama (guitar).
The same month, they gave a concert in the Shimokitazawa Shelter. Their first mini album SONIC DEAD KIDS was released on September 8th, followed by their single-tape and two other releases the following year.
Together with the band STRAIGHTENER they released a split-cassette on March 6th, 2002, which has been long sold out since its release. The band’s success continued into summer for two main reasons; first because of their appearance at the Fuji Rock Festival and second because of their contract with the major label Toshiba EMI. ART-SCHOOL released a new single that October and their first full-length album, REQUIEM FOR INNOCENCE, the following November.
Their first nationwide tour took place in January 2003, with the gig in the Shibuya Club Quattro being sold out on the first day. Evil, their second major single, was released in April and again they were part of a big Japanese rock festival, the Japan Circuit in June. The following tour left a great impression and ensured the band’s future success. The year continued with more releases and, unfortunately, ended with Oyama and Hinata leaving the band in December.
The same month, they gave a concert in the Shimokitazawa Shelter. Their first mini album SONIC DEAD KIDS was released on September 8th, followed by their single-tape and two other releases the following year.
Together with the band STRAIGHTENER they released a split-cassette on March 6th, 2002, which has been long sold out since its release. The band’s success continued into summer for two main reasons; first because of their appearance at the Fuji Rock Festival and second because of their contract with the major label Toshiba EMI. ART-SCHOOL released a new single that October and their first full-length album, REQUIEM FOR INNOCENCE, the following November.
Their first nationwide tour took place in January 2003, with the gig in the Shibuya Club Quattro being sold out on the first day. Evil, their second major single, was released in April and again they were part of a big Japanese rock festival, the Japan Circuit in June. The following tour left a great impression and ensured the band’s future success. The year continued with more releases and, unfortunately, ended with Oyama and Hinata leaving the band in December.
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Hayzi22 wrote:
ART-SCHOOL is my favorite.
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Nadechiko wrote:
my favorite band~
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BlackRose3367 wrote:
Love you guys <3 I can listen to all your songs one by one and never skip any. My favorite band ever :3
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Kebadatta23 wrote:
Hey, it was something I noticed. Song lyrics are sometimes good but then the pronunciation screws it up. But YES, there is overall more bands with bad English pronunciation AND lyrics. P:
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Audiotronica wrote:
Neither his English ability nor English pronunciation is good. It's a Mother Fucker is a cover of an Eels song. He doesn't really write more than a sentence of English or a few (5-7) words in any given song. If you like your English fragmented and wrong, then yeah, plenty of bands have great English lyrics ^_^;;
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Kebadatta23 wrote:
You mean his English pronunciation. And yeah, it's absolutely nothing special, haha. About A Girl (the Nirvana cover) is also a good example of this. There's actual a whole lot of Japanese bands with great English lyrics but you still can't make out any of what they sing anyway. ^_^;;
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Audiotronica wrote:
His English is pretty bad. Listen to a song like IT'S a MOTHER FUCKER from the Charlotte EP. The whole song is in English and most of it is hard to comprehend.
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Kebadatta23 wrote:
I'm pretty sure he knows very little English. I think he was an alcoholic drop-out or something like that before he started making music. ^o^
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seeyouinthesnow wrote:
i dont quite understand your question. i mean, he's a kansai person, when you hear him talking, you'll hear that he speaks a bit of kansaiben. however, all i know is he speaks no english except a few words..no clue if he's been abroad except from when they were recording their album in scotland..
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merrari wrote:
It's interesting that 木下さん (Kinoshita) doesn't have a Japanese accent when he sings. I wonder why that is... Does anyone know if studied English abroad, or something?
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peu-depeu wrote:
I really don't get it why my highquality cropped version gets more downvotes than up.
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Crobide wrote:
I think I may be in love with this band..
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lops-sama wrote:
14souls is my favourite album so far!
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mixordia wrote:
クロエ.. :)
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Kebadatta23 wrote:
http://artschool.freeforums.org/index.php <--- free forum I recently made for fans of ART-SCHOOL, if anyone is even the slightest, tiniest bit interested. =]
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Herr_Amn wrote:
Yeah. I really wish they'd have played Freesia or Lost In the Air, but I haven't heard/seen a live version of those songs anywhere.
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earsplugged wrote:
since theres a lack of ART videos on youtube, http://www.youtube.com/user/earsplugged check out my channel, i post up videos from their DVDs and anything i can get my hands on. other then me theres ChanningR (sp?) who uploads as well with english subs!
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earsplugged wrote:
nope =\ in the bonus dvd included with MISSING album, they only included the Freesia PV and 4 songs from their final show of the Freesia tour.
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Kebadatta23 wrote:
You mean they didn't play Freesia on either of the DVDs? I haven't checked the DVDs out but that is disappointing.
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earsplugged wrote:
they should play SWAN SONG more often one of my favourites ^^. i would also love to see a live of them performing Freesia.
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