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UNDER CONSTRUCTION
UPDATED 29-OCTOBER-1998

It all began with the brainchild of Yoshiki, the talented and gifted brainchild behind most of X-Japan's music and success along with his friend Toshi at his side. The band formed in 1982, but didn't fully grow until a few years later. Their original bassist, Taiji, quit a few years ago and Heath took over. And they finally came out with their first hit album in 1988, and didn't stop there. With many million selling ablums and singles which hit #1 during the first week of coming out, X made quite an impression (internationally too). Not only that, they appeared on the Kiss album "Kiss My @ss" on the song "Black Pearl". The amount of loyal fans grew over the years, but as of September 22, 1997, X-Japan officially disbanded. The reasons were because Toshi decided to leave due to personal conflicts. On May 2 (?), Hide committed suicide. It could have possibly been an accident, since he was incredibly intoxicated.
Recently there has been a lot of talk surrounding Toshi and his involvement with the cult, Masaya. More info posted soon.

Top-left is Toshi, Bottom-left is Heath, center is eccentric Yoshiki

Quick Discography

Vanishing Vision [1988/4/14]
  1. Dear Loser
  2. Vanishing Love
  3. Phantom of Guilt
  4. Sadistic Desire
  5. Give Me the Pleasure
  6. I'll Kill You
  7. Alive
  8. Kurenai
  9. Unfinished

Blue Blood [1989/4/21] million seller-album
  1. Prologue ~World Anthem~
  2. Blue Blood
  3. Week End
  4. Easy Fight Rambling
  5. X
  6. Endless Rain
  7. Kurenai
  8. Xclamation
  9. Orgasm
  10. Celebration
  11. Rose of Pain
  12. Unfinished

Jealousy [1991/7/1]] million seller-album
  1. Es Dur no piano-sen
  2. Silent Jealousy
  3. Miscast
  4. Desperate Angel
  5. White Wind From Mr. Martin ~Pata's Nap~
  6. Voiceless Screaming
  7. Stab Me in the Back
  8. Love Replica
  9. Joker
  10. Say Anything

Art of Life [1993/8/25]
This is a mini album written by Yoshiki. The CD is a half hour long, but all worth it. The music ranges from their fast paced rock to classic piano solos.

X Singles [1993/11/21] --a collection of their recent singles
  1. Kurenai
  2. 20th Century Box
  3. Endless Rain
  4. X
  5. Week End
  6. Endless Rain (live)
  7. Silent Jealousy
  8. Sadistic Desire
  9. Standing Sex
  10. Joker
  11. Say Anything
  12. Silent Jealousy

Dahlia [1996/11/4]
  1. Dahlia
  2. Scars
  3. Longing ~Unchained Melody~
  4. Rusty Nail
  5. White Poem
  6. Crucify My Love
  7. Tears
  8. Wriggle
  9. Drain
  10. Forever Love (acoustic version)

X-Japan Ballad Collection
X-Japan Ballad Collection Best --this is their last CD to ever come
  1. Forever Love
  2. Longing
  3. Endless Rain
  4. Crucify My Love
  5. Alive
  6. Say Anything
  7. Unfinished
  8. Tears
  9. Forever Love (last mix)
  10. The Last Song (memorial track)

Singles -Atlantic Years (this is a CD singles box set)
  1. Tears-- X-Japan version
  2. Tears --classical version
  3. Rusty nail
  4. Longing ~unchained melody
  5. Dahlia
  6. Tears '93 Tokyo Dome Live Version
  7. Forever Love
  8. Crucify My Love
  9. Week End '93 Toky Dome Live Version
  10. Scars
  11. White Poem I (MTA mix)

A Final Look at X

Name: Real Name: Birthday: Instrument:
Yoshiki Yoshiki Hayashi 11/20/65 Drums: Tama Crystal
Piano: Kawai Crystal
Toshi Toshimitsu Deyama 10/10/65 Vocals
Hide Hideto Matsumoto 12/13/64 Guitar: Burny MG Custom
Pata Tomoaki Ishizuka 11/04/65 Guitar: Gibson Les Paul '59
Heath Hiroshi Morie 01/22/68 Bass: Burny EB Custom

SOLO WORKS-- A list of Yoshiki, Hide, and Toshi's solo works (along with some sound clips). If there's any information I should know, please e-mail me ^_^.
A look at Yoshiki at work ^_^



X-Japan On the Verge of Destruction Links

X-Japan Memorial Page
Yoshiki's X-Japan
The Official X Japan Homepage
The Unofficial X-Japan Mailing List
Rock'n Roll Vice's WWW - X-Japan's Picture
X-Japan Fan Club (in Japanese)
Cyber Namida: X-Japan (in French)--also has lyrics to some songs
Yoshiki's X Japan
Information On X-Japan and Links
XJAPAN--borrowed a few pics from here, great page.
Ben's Garden- X Japan
www.ex.org (EX)--Their review on B.O.X. (Best of X)

Do check 'em out, and you'll surely like them ^_^.


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