^ He's got some pretty amazing perfs. (: I would kill to see him live.


Hm. Maybe I should get all up in my parent's faces early. See if it's possible to go to Korea for his tour (read: odds? about a billion to one. there's still a fighting chance). Maybe this time 'round he'll do a US tour. That would be... so very lovely...

Call me a pessimist, but I'm never counting on a US tour. The most likely scenario being a one-time concert in LA or maybe NY but that's it. =/

I'd want a NY concert because I'm far east coast, and if it were LA, I don't know how realistic it would be for me to go. Myself and my family would have to save up for a long time, and I don't even think they'd think it'd be worth it. On top of that, there are other things in the way as well. So I think it's safe to say my chances of going to Korea to see him are at 0%, unless I strike gold in the near future. And ever seeing him at all in my lifetime is looking pretty unlikely, but here's hoping.

^ how about me!? im in australia.
i live on a freaking huge island in the middle of no where HAHA....such a sad life.

Reading that depressed me to the max. Mostly because I'm in the same boat. Probably never gonna end up seeing my favourite artist live.
Except I'm in Chicago. Smack dab in between the two coasts... And the two coasts are the only places any Asian artists ever go. Ever.


No, Heffy, you're turning me into a pessimist too! XD;;

Is Taiji really on par as far as popularity goes in the states compared to the other pop acts? I dont know how well Seo Taiji would do in a venue anywhere that isnt LA or NY.

[Seo Taiji To Release New Album]



According to a music official in Japan, singer Seo Taiji, who currently resides near Harajuku, has been meeting with local indie bands and discussing potential collaborations.

Seo Taiji has been living in Japan since 2000 but has been coming back often to work on his music. His last album was released in January of 2004 and fans have been enthusiastically awaiting his 8th album, which has been postponed since last year.

Some speculate that Seo will release a new album by the end of the year, but an official said that nothing is certain.

Credits ~ KBS World Radio + Kpopper.com + noV@Kpop Kingdom

^
Collaborations with Japanese indie bands? *gaspshock* Sound interesting.

Hmm. J-indies, aye?

>_o

Whatever, in my opinion, Taiji hasn't really made a bad decision in his near 20 year old career, so he could do a collaboration album with Michael Bolton and I'll still be one of the first to pre-order it.

(No offense to any of you who like J-rock & Indie. I'm not a fan.)

Is he really collaborating with J Indie bands? Collaborating as in they will be singing on the album or just arranging some songs on the album? I know he had some japanese guy arrange the strings on Zero. As long as it isn't any visual kei bands I'm alright with it.

Taiji is a huge supporter of the indie scene so it comes off as no surprise.
But I'm curious as to which bands he's been meeting with.
I don't think it's to collaborate on an album though.
Probably to tour with him or attend etpfest or something like that.
Who knows. But this news is killer.

Lol i wonder if he's collaborating with the VISUAL KEI scene lol
i think taiji would make a good vkei guy
so would the rest of his band
except heff lool
but yeah he has worked in japan, J from luna sea played bass for recordings

^
Hah hah, yes, I could imagine Taiji as visual kei. ^^;;;; Not that I'm imagining it thinking "this makes sense" or anything, hah hah hah.
I didn't know that about Luna Sea. That's nifty, 'cos Luna Sea = <333

Wow. If I did fail at photoshop I'd totally make a project out of VK Taiji.

Taiji's releasing his 8th album in December, right?
Gosh--I'm so excited!

--Btw, what album from Seo Taiji do you guys recommend as one of his best?

^ December? As far as I or anyone else can tell, nothing is really confirmed except "IT'S COMING" (which, actually, has been confirmed for three years now.) *snort*

As far as album recommendations... Hmmm, my opinion? Heh heh. That's hard to say for multiple reasons. ^^;
There are very, very few Seo Taiji songs I even remotely dislike. And every single album of his has at least a few of my favourite songs of his. Thing is, his style is so highly changed from album to album, it's even hard to recommend just one unless you like a certain style and not the other. For example, if I wanted my friend to listen to Seo Taiji and be impressed, I wouldn't let him borrow a single album. I'd give him songs from different albums to sample, y'know?

But uh. Let's see. I really can't call any of his three solo albums a favourite. I just... can't choose. But of the four Seo Taiji & Boys albums, I'd have to say their 3rd album is my favourite. Which sucks because I think my favourite Taiji Boys song is Hayeoga, which is on their 2nd album.


.... Yes, I DO make things more complex than they have to be.
In short, I'm sorry, I can't choose.

My favorite Taiji album is his first solo album (vol.5) and my favorite Taiji and boys album is vol. 4.

I don't think Taiji would start doing VK stuff. And God I hope he doesn't.

All his stuff is pretty good. I finally listened to his first solo album and it was awesome.

Taiji Boys Vol.1 is my favorite album out of all of them. I like all the solo albums so I really can't choose.

So is the 8th issue coming out in December? Thats a long wait it will be almost a 4 year absence since the 7th Issue came out on Jan. 7

^ it's been really long hiatus. starting to worry me.

same as from when he (taijiboys) retired in '96 and he "finally" made promotional comeback in 2000 for ultramania...
...and that wait felt like an eternity...

but hopefully he will not take ANY LONGER than 4 years to make this new album...

--korean music industry is in desperate need of seotaiji right now--
every pop act is a clone of a clone.

On Z-Degrees they have they 8th album listed under December. So I guess it will be released in December.

^ Oh. Yay. I know what I want for my brithday early this year.

I don't wanna get my hopes up though

But ah hell, I can't help it lol.

I'm pre-ordering it the second I see it.

Seriously. I can't quite contain my excitement. I keep checking this thread hoping that someone posts "oh my god it's out." I'm not disappointed each time I check and there's nothing like that, but my excitement keeps building.

Finally some news:

http://music.msn.co.kr/news/news_index.htm...amp;news=278637

basically what was discussed before. He's in Japan recording his album and it should be out this year but there's a possibility it could take longer and come out next year.

anyway, i don't know that much about his music, but I liked "Internet War" dunno which album it was from, but could someone recommend other songs like that one? thanx

^ Internet War was from his 6th album, sometimes called "Ultraman" or "Ultramania." It's his heaviest, most metal-like ablum. If you liked that song you're bound to like the others, I'm thinking.
My suggestion? Head over to YouTube, look up some live perfs off that album, and if you like what you hear go on to annyoung.com and buy the album. It's only about $15 and it comes with a VCD. Very nice. ^^

Anyone know what this news is about? Here
It was on the front page of Yahoo! Korea

^stars/celebs are starting to be called "boss"
for seotaiji: after starting his company, people started calling him President Seo. Despite his musician-image fans have gotten used to calling him leader/president/boss seo.

i think that's the gist of the article.

i'm currently obsessed with hayeoga, orange, internet war, robot, livewire. i love the live recording of hayeoga esp.<3

does anyone know when his next perf. will be? after the album comes out? :x

I'd want a NY concert as well since I live in New York (;< Hm, how expensive would the tickets be if this came true? Well, even if you did go to Korea, :x it might not be when he's doing performances. I hope I'm going to Korea in the near future, I hope that his album will come out soon, and I hope he'll still be doing performances by the time I get there. IF I ever get to Korea at all (impossible ;_;).


Eh, I'm deciding not to believe this 100% because I'll get my hopes up AND because Z-Degrees did the same thing with Taebin's album when there really was no information on when it was going to be released. When I pointed that out, people went all D:< on me =______=. I'm just hoping it's this year or VERY EARLY next year when Taiji releases his album (:

Btw, after an album is released, how long does he do performances for? A few months?

^ Should be throughout the whole year? Shouldn't it? I thinks that what he did for the 7th Issue.

oh! nicee!! (: well then, haha i hope that the year that i go to korea will be the year that he releases his 8th album + does activities including perfs+concerts! aklfjwklejfklwajlw that would be so awesome *o*

^even if you do go,
good luck trying to get those tickets.
it's mad hard... even for native ultra manias in korea....
it's like this mini music war that goes on whenever seo taiji comes back to the scene.
it's very, very competitve.

but though it'll be war, i'm ready to fight for my dream .

omg i cannot wait for this album i wonder did he change or omg happy to know he is comeing back i missed him a lot~~

Does anyone have the hangul for "1996 When They Ruled the Earth"? I... can't type in korean, which is why I ask.

Which reminds me, did anyone else notice that annyoung and Yesasia don't sell Seo Taiji and Boys albums anymore? Which is the only reason I'm asking for Hangul because normally I'd just go copy and paste, but apparently Annyoung has caught THE LAME and yeah. That depresses me severely.

Ew, really? *searches yesasia*

Wtf? They only have vol. 5, vol. 7, the FTS single and the 2000/2001 VCD. That sucks. Good thing I bought some of his other stuff from there when I did.

Annyoung used to be really good with their selection. Not just STJ, but like I bought Nells second CD from there when I couldn't find it anywhere else. GREAT, I'm gonna have to find some more asian music sites sometime.

I can't read Korean, but I'm assuming this is it lol. 1996 그들이 지구를 지배했을 때

Did you just want the title, or the lyrics? Cause the site I got the title from has the lyrics too.

Seriously, I love Annyoung (yesasia notsomuch), but I still don't have the Taiji Boys second album... so I'm really wondering where I'll be able to get it now. T__T;;;

I just needed the title, but where did you find the lyrics? 'Cause if you linked me I couldn't say I'd complain. ^^

haha yeah i guessed that (: ....but maybe it'll be a little less competitive (by like 0.000000001%) if it's not his concert/his first performance when he comes back to the scene?
how DO you get tickets to performances anyway? o_0'' i never really asked about that.
but, i think even if it's not his concert/his first performance when he comes back, it'll still be very very competitive...just maybe 0.0000000000001% less competitive than if it was his concert/first comeback performance.

Aww. Yeah, I don't have Taiji's 6th album and I can't find it ANYWHERE. If I remember correctly, there was a short-ish period of time where all (or most) of Taiji boys albums were randomly available on yesasia, that's when I bought them, I think. I actually might've bought one or two on Annyoung..? I forget. Anyway, so maybe the second one will come back in stock sometime.

I got the song title from a lyrics site, but I actually don't know if the link I clicked on for the song was the lyrics or not. There are two entries for the song with different characters, so I don't know which one is the lyrics, if either of them even are. Unfortunately I can't read Korean at ALL so I'm not much help lol. Here's the site just in case http://www.lyrics.co.kr/search/SingerView....1&sno=11926

I thought I'd share my taiji albums with everyone.

here is his discography ins 320kbps (i own all his cds)

http://www.mariyaguchi.net/music/Seo%20Taiji/

have fun ^^

o you have to go through seotaiji.com and links you to where you need to buy.
i heard that the server goes really slow though the last time they opened up for zero tour bc everyone is on at the same time ^ ^ keke
reminds me of first day of class registration... which I HATE bc i never get what i want and my computer alwys ends up freezing on me

and i dont know about the other performances like for mbc, i'm not really into those. for that, i think it's more of a first come first serve thing. i heard the people pick you when you're in a line... O.o -i'm not sure about seo taiji- but some pick audience people based on looks or i guess you can say luck...

slyph, you are awesome! thanks for the share. i just got into seotaiji. good stuff.

Annyoung has it on sale again. All of Taiji's solo stuff minus a DVD, actually.
O:

I'm hoping maybe after his new album comes out they'll start selling Taiji Boys albums again... Wishful thinking.

Awww >_< I don't see it anywhere.

The only place I know of where Americans can buy it is right here, but I'm not allowed to order from there since it's non-US based or something.

They also have Taiji bricks but they cost a helluva lot. Heh.

Wait, are you looking for his original 6th album? Because Annyoung has the rerecording here. Sorry, I didn't even think to ask which one you were referring to.. D:
I don't have the original either, could never get my hands on a copy. Though I did find the filler tracks for download. Just for the sake of having. ><;

And OMG WHY DIDN'T I KNOW THAT SITE EXISTED. They have everything, but it's all so overpriced. T____T; You know it's sad when you find someone selling Korean CDs for more than the average Japanese CD.
I want those Taiji Bricks so badly... They're 165,000 won = 179 USD, which means that website sells them for like $20 more than they should be. 8D Too bad they're out of stock and I don't have $200 anyway.

*fails*

Heh, yeah I meant the original. ^^ I have the re-recording album and I downloaded all the tracks from the original one, but I still really want to buy it. T_T

That site still has the Vladivostok brick-set-thing for $150 I'd buy it if I could order from there and I.. had much more money than I do now. o_o;

Ah, okay, really sorry about that for getting your hopes up then. DX
(I can't believe you're not allowed to order from there though. Just because it's not US based? I don't get it)

Oh god, that site pains me hardcore. I wish I had a job. My position in the Seo Taiji fandom depends on it. >[

Lol, it's fine ^^ don't worry about it. I use my parents credit card when I order online and they're the old-fashioned, paranoid-about-the-internet type. It took a while to convince them to let me order from America-based websites, they still have a thing about letting me order internationally, heh. Foreign things scare them. ..Lucky me!

But yeah, that site is pretty sweet. They have more STJ stuff than any other site I've seen. But being a broke American, I think I'll settle with the STJ stuff I have and am able to buy lol. ..... =/

Wah~ Still awaiting his 8th album T___T

Haven't been in here for awhile =P

Oh yeah, I came back from the Korean Celeb Pictures thread, from a topic about celebrities who had an IQ of over 140. Seo Taiji made it to the list, having an IQ of 150.

The internet can be unreliable at times so I don't know if it's really 150, but i don't doubt it.

LOL, wow, really?

I don't doubt it either. I've always said he's a genius.

Not that surprising since he can almost do anything with music.

WOW, really?

This is the guy who dropped out of school?

^ Heard about that too. But he dropped out for his music career right?