Same experience, but I am just 32. Amazing group of people. Saw them live in France on a tour with to me a complete stranger, who a friend of a friend knew. He knew I listened to X Japan and proposed we travel to see them. And we did. Good times, and we're still united through our love for this band.
For any who doesn't "get" or has a hard time enjoying the piano solo, i highly suggest listening to it on headphones or earbuds. The stereo separation makes it easier to hear exactly what's going and its just beautiful. The first few times I listened to this was through car speakers and was frustrated because the sounds just clashed too much. But after listening through headphones and getting some spacial context.... wow this is one of the greatest pieces of music ever written.
Why did this is so underrated? They sound so inspiring and strong, that band deserves to be next to Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Ramones, I know that are different styles but this song deliver everything... It's such an perfect music, this is avant garde, this represents the shit that life is but also represent the marvelous thing that life can be... The person that made this masterpiece should be respected.
It s the way far too long just extend speed metal with lazy guitars construction and overload drum beat this track could not compare to Dream theater Helloween or Watch Tower.BTW this speed metal with poppy lyrics ,the longest of the world
@@hth7607 Regarding the length, Yoshiki had shown a tendency of anti commercialism thinking in his music from early 90s, which was building up emotion and (multi) themes gradually in metal rock style. No wonder he got into classical orchestration in 2000s.
I know what mean. It is just difficult for ordinary people to understand. YOSHIKI challenged how to express the ART of our life in the mixture of ROCK and classic. I guess there is still a room for YOSHIKI to complete this song.
Yes, we all have walls but when you're stuck in a hospital as a kid or in your flat with chronic migraines it hits different. This song is one of those that were keeping me sane during those times. The melody, the drums, vocals and lyrics, it's perfect and feels like caresses inside my head and chest when it aches
finally, I'm not going to skip the piano solo anymore,this is exactly how Yoshiki express himself into his music,sadness,madness, anger...what I can hear now is all those kind of feelings that he scream through the piano... Although this is not the most beautiful parts that he usually wants to show,but what he did was just to release the feeling from deep inside his heart.he put everything in this masterpiece.I'm so glad that I found this song in my life and know him better than before I did.
@@lyricsevoq Funny then that in the rubble of all the piano madness in the middle and end/near-end of the song, theres still so much melody and its still just as good when the notes stop being scattered and become more organizef ^^ Sorry if i didnt make sense xD
Brilliant song full of emotions... First heard Art of Life in the 90's. I was just a teenager going through teenage phase where I felt everything and everyone was against me. To be honest, my life has been rather happy apart from the teenage phase of not being able to communicate well and express myself as much as I wanted. We love, we laugh, we ache, we die a little inside, we smile, we sigh, we cry, we hurt, we heal, we get angry, we feel relieved... Art of Life spoke to me in a way nobody and nothing could, I couldnt have possibly felt comforted, more at ease and at peace with myself. Art of Life is 30mins of knowing the art of life. And the different movements of Art of Life lends a hand that is forever comforting and there for anyone who is willing to give it a listen without prejudice RIP hide and Taiji, forever remembered and missed. Thank you X Japan. We are X, forever X
I passed through tha same phase, and this song helped me these times too. Now I look back and feel relieved that it got better, Im happy and confident now. Things get better!
I first heard this song when I was ten years old... and it changed my life and how I felt and heard music ever since. Twelve years later and I'm still insistent that nothing will ever top this musically for me. I still get chills every single time I hear it. WE ARE X.
+Shannon Wenzel me too heard this song 2 years ago and I still believe without any doubt that this is the greatest piece of music I have ever listened to
I first listened to X-japan when I believe I was 10 or 11, now its 12 or 13 years later, I'm 24. I can relate to this comment so much. The first time I heard X-japan was watching a vidéo of the last live. Incredible
This song inspired me musically, artistically, and got me through so many tough times in my life when I just felt like dying. This is literally a masterpiece of a song that needs to be listened to all the way to get the full experience. I always come back to listen and just feel a huge range of emotions every time.
Desert Rose Why do you live alone If you are sad I'll make you leave this life Are you white, blue or bloody red All I can see is drowning in cold grey sand The winds of time You knock me to the ground I'm dying of thirst I wanna run away I don't know how to set me free to live My mind cries out feeling pain I've been roaming to find myself How long have I been feeling endless hurt Falling down, rain flows into my heart In the pain I'm waiting for you Can't go back No place to go back to Life is lost, Flowers fall If it's all dreams Now wake me up If it's all real Just kill me I'm making the wall inside my heart I don't wanna let my emotions get out It scares me to look at the world Don't want to find myself lost in your eyes I tried to drown my past in grey I never wanna feel more pain Ran away from you without saying any words What I don't wanna lose is love Through my eyes Time goes by like tears My emotion's losing the color of life Kill my heart Release all my pain I'm shouting out loud Insanity takes hold over me Turning away from the wall Nothing I can see The scream deep inside reflecting another person in my heart He calls me from within "All existence you see before you must be wiped out : Dream, Reality, Memories, and Yourself" I begin to lose control of myself My lust is so blind, destroys my mind Nobody can stop my turning to madness No matter how you try to hold me in your heart Why do you wanna raise these walls I don't know the meaning of hatred My brain gets blown away hearing words of lies I only want to hold your love Stab the dollls filled with hate Wash yourself with their blood Drive into the raging current of time Swing your murderous weapon into the belly "the earth" Shout and start creating confusion Shed your blood for pleasure And what? For love? What am I supposed to do? I believe in the madness called "Now" Past and future prison my heart Time is blind But I wanna trace my love on the wall of time, over pain in my heart Art of life Insane blade stabbing dreams Try to break all truth now But I can't heal this broken heart in pain Cannot start to live, Cannot end my life Keep on crying Close my eyes Time breathes I can hear All love and sadness melt in my heart Dry my tears Wipe my bloody face I wanna feel me living my life outside my walls You can't draw a picture of yesterday, so You're painting your heart with your blood You can't say "No" Only turning the wheel of time with a rope around your neck You build a wall of morality and take a breath from between the bricks You make up imaginary enemies and are chased by them You're trying to commit suicide You're satisfied with your prologue Now you're painting your first chapter black You are putting the scraps of life together and trying to make an asylum for yourself You're hitting a bell at the edge of the stage and You are trying to kill me I believe in the madness called "Now" Time goes flowing, breaking my heart Wanna live Can't let my heart kill myself Still I haven't found what I'm looking for Art of life I try to stop myself But my heart goes to destroy the truth Tell me why I want the meaning of my life Do I try to live, Do I try to love in my dream [Piano solo] I'm breaking the wall inside my heart I just wanna let my emotions get out Nobody can stop I'm running to freedom No matter how you try to hold me in your world Like a doll carried by the flow of time I sacrificed the present moment for the future I was in chains of memory half-blinded Losing my heart, walking in the sea of dreams Close my eyes Rose breathes I can hear All love and sadness melt in my heart Dry my tears Wipe my bloody face I wanna feel me living my life outside my mind Dreams can make me mad I can't leave my dream I can't stop myself Don't know what I am What lies are truth? What truths are lies? I believe in the madness called "Now" Time goes flowing, breaking my heart Wanna live Can't let my heart kill myself Still I haven't found what I'm looking for Art of life I try to stop myself But my heart goes to destroy the truth Tell me why I want the meaning of my life Do I try to live, Do I try to love Art of life An Eternal Bleeding heart You never wanna breathe your last Wanna live Can't let my heart kill myself Still I'm feeling for A Rose is breathing love in my life
YOSHIKIの作曲で特に評価されるのは「音楽の普遍性」を捉えていること。 つまり、どんな国でも、どんな時代にも通用する曲である。 ART OF LIFEが誕生して２０年以上経つが時代の遅れなどを全く感じさせない。 過去・今の音楽業界に蔓延る多くの曲は、一時的に大ヒットをするが普遍性がない。歌詞の質も後世に語り告げられる程上品な物ではない。そういう曲は必ず時代に取り残され、忘れられていく。 「ART OF LIFE 」「SAY ANYTHING」 「ENDLESS RAIN」・・・大衆向けの曲ではないかもしれないが、普遍性を捉えた曲はいつまでも生き続ける。モーツァルトやシューベルトの曲のように。この先今のJ-POPの全ての曲が消滅したとしても、YOSHIKIの曲だけは永遠に生き続けるだろう。また、YOSHIKIの曲はTOSHIの声が加わって初めて具現化する。 この二人が存在してくれたことに本当に感謝。
He has a very finite stamina even less than some us but it's his will to perform a fucking masterpiece like his life depends on it is what makes every of his song sounds impossible to be played by a human.
元々アルバムJealousyに入る筈だった曲。津田さんに「30分の曲が出来たら聴いてくれる？」って茶目っ気たっぷりにYOSHIKIに言われたのを覚えている、って言っていたけど。 でも30分はあっという間って(笑) Rose of Painの壮大な組曲も知っている津田さんでも30分かぁ、って最初思ったって(笑) 正に！！この曲が20年以上前の曲とは思えないし今もなお進化していくような気がする。 今聴いても新しいし古いし(苦笑)凄いし…１００年先でも聴かれる曲はこんな曲なのかなぁ…、リリースされたときは何も考えなかったけど、今でも同じ気持ちで感動出来るな。
interesting fact: yoshiki write this song when he's in early 20s and so far this song only play 2 times live concert during the history of x japan, imagine play this full song in concert, such a world masterpiece
この曲が発売されたのは俺が中学の頃だった。当時まだ子供だったから「幾ら大好きなロックバンドX JAPANだからって誰が30分の歌、曲聴くか！普通は5〜6分だろう。」…と偏屈な思い込みから一切聴こうとしなかった。…ソレから6〜7年の年月が過ぎ、当時既にHIDEが他界し解散していたX JAPANの曲を聴きたくなりこの曲を聴いた…するとどうだろう。激しくも美しい曲で不思議と心に安らぎすら憶え眠ってしまった。20歳過ぎて大人になってたって理由もあるんだろうけど何故中学の時に聴かず嫌いなどしてしまったのか。素直に聴こうとしなかったのか…と後悔した。このART OF LIFEと言う曲はそれ程の楽曲であると今となっては確信している。そしてこの曲は当然YOSHIKIのピアノありきの楽曲。何か思い違いしとる馬鹿豚アンチが勝手に弄くり倒して原作レイプ紛いの醜悪な行為やらかしとるけどな。
Ikr, just listened to this and the live version here on TH-cam I wish the likes of other bands like Malice Mizer was there too, and they're missing Luna Sea's Mother album...
I just listened to this for the first time and I must say, after that piano solo, it felt my breath was surgically removed from my body. Absolutely incredible.
I think if a song is this long, it's a sign that it is a great one. I am sure only a dedicated artist would do so, with the amount of effort required, it makes me have a lot of respect for it.
Not all long songs are created equal. Just about anyone could theoretically stretch out or repeat parts of a song until it reached the desired length. But the fact they were able to make it this good while being this long is an an incredible accomplishment.
Rest in peace Heath. Suffer no more. You will be severely missed.
X JAPANはメタルでビジュアル系バンドでとても近寄りがたいイメージで聞かなかったけど、飽きずに最後まで聞けてしまった。ピアノソロの所は、辛い状況を俯瞰してる自分と苦しんでる自分が別人格で音を鳴らしてる感じで鳥肌がたった。
解散しても、どうしてX JAPANがずっと人気があるのかわかりました。
27分18秒 ここから流れるメロディが 本当に素晴らしい
人間が生み出せるはずの無い この宇宙で最も美しいメロディです
YOSHIKIさんは 天才です 神です
30分の超大作。30分もあれば絶対どこかで曲飛ばしそうになりそうだけどその感情が全く起きない。
それどころか何十年も飽きずに聴いていられるんだよな。完璧な曲
中学生のころ聴いてました。
いまでも壮大で聞き入ってしまいます
この人達は計り知れないです。
曲が終わりのない物語のようで
4回くらい飛ばすボタン押してそう
ピアノソロは飛ばしてる人多そう…
ピアノソロも実際聴いてるとさほど長く感じないんだよな
この曲に対して常々思ってる事が有るんだけど、中間のピアノソロの部分はこの曲の演奏時間をを30分にする為に無理やり入れたんでは無いかと。
この曲を27歳のYOSHIKIが作り上げたなんて信じられない。
これは批判してるわけではないけど、
今時の27歳のミュージシャンはこんな曲を作れるだろうか。
この曲はYOSHIKIが亡くなった後もずっと聴かれるであろう超大作だと個人的には思ってる。尊敬に値します。
全くの同感です！
信じられない
I heard he was actually 21.
YOSHIKIは天才すぎる
I happened to listen to this great song when I was 13. I still listen to it at my age of 43 and I still get goosebumps just like I did 30 years ago.
It's absolutely epic.
Indeed. Same 4 me 🤟
Same but I'm only 30 :D
Same experience, but I am just 32. Amazing group of people. Saw them live in France on a tour with to me a complete stranger, who a friend of a friend knew. He knew I listened to X Japan and proposed we travel to see them. And we did. Good times, and we're still united through our love for this band.
Its crazy 20 years have gone by since I started listening to this. I feel like it was just yesterday. Time is so weird.
I can't believe I've been sitting here for 29 minutes. This song keeps you entertained.
本当に良い曲は、何十年経っても色褪せる事は無い‼️
終盤のオーケストラとギターのぶつかりあいはマジで秀逸
天才としか思えない
こんなに芸術的で完成度の高い曲を作り上げるYOSHIKIさんは天才。異論は認めない
俺的にこの曲がXの最高傑作やと思ってる
同意します(^o^)
私もです。
これ最高。何回聴いても素晴らしいと思う👍
This is one of the first symphonic power metal songs and one of the best SONGS OF ALL TIME of ANY genre... if not the best of all time.
3回しか聞いてないのに、いつの間にか1時間半たってた
正常な感覚やで
90年代後半の学生時代に洋メタルばかり聴いていて、日本のメタルを聴いてみようと友人に借りた｢blue blood｣に有る意味カルチャーショックを受けて何枚かアルバムを手に入れて聴いているなかでレンタル落ちのこのCDに出会って当時一曲で30分オーバーというのには度肝を抜かれたけど、今ほどこの曲の良さが分からず、すぐに手放してしまった事がここ数年XJAPANにハマってからは後悔に苛まれて仕方ない。
For any who doesn't "get" or has a hard time enjoying the piano solo, i highly suggest listening to it on headphones or earbuds. The stereo separation makes it easier to hear exactly what's going and its just beautiful. The first few times I listened to this was through car speakers and was frustrated because the sounds just clashed too much. But after listening through headphones and getting some spacial context.... wow this is one of the greatest pieces of music ever written.
色褪せない。
芸術は消耗品じゃない事を証明する曲。
為田祐斗
おっしゃる通りです！！(*^-^)／＼(*^-^*)／＼(^-^*)
素晴らしい言葉選び👍
激しく同意します🙌
素晴らしいコメント！俺も同意です。
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そうなんですか？
関ジャムでこの曲を知った者です。
この曲にもっと早く出会いたかった……
言葉に出来ない位素晴らしいです！
感想を聞いて嬉しく思う1ファンです。この曲は英詩も日本語詩もYOSHIKIが書いていて、それまでの彼の半生、特に心の苦しみが綴られています。よろしければ詩付きの映像もありますのでぜひ見てみてください。
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XJAPANのカバーをしてる方々もフルでは唯一嫌がる曲
洋楽のプログレメタル（Dream Theater）と通ずるくらいバカテクの曲
X JAPANの真骨頂、象徴となる曲です。紅とFOREVER LOVEくらいしか知らない人は是非Art of lifeを聞いてほしい。
Xの全てが詰まった曲です。
何百回と聞いてください！
1音1音が素晴らしく聞こえてきてもっと
好きになりますよ
懐かしく聞かせて貰いました。31年前の未熟だった私を思い出しまます。あれから、私は後ろを振りむかず逃げずに体当たりして、今のポジションを手にしました。目標としているゴールにたどり着けそうです。あと少し、最後まで走り続けていきます。アートオブラライフ、エックスジャパンの皆さん、未熟だった私を温かく包んでくれた家族に感謝しかありません❤😂
One of the best songs ever created
+Dreamwar19 110% AGREE ON THAT!
Six degrees of inner turbulence will always on top in term of most lengthy song
All Rounder also a masterpiece;)
All Rounder yes!
If you like this, you'll probably also enjoy _Gargoyles, Angels of Darkness_ by Rhapsody of Fire.
Why did this is so underrated? They sound so inspiring and strong, that band deserves to be next to Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Ramones, I know that are different styles but this song deliver everything... It's such an perfect music, this is avant garde, this represents the shit that life is but also represent the marvelous thing that life can be... The person that made this masterpiece should be respected.
It s the way far too long just extend speed metal with lazy guitars construction and overload drum beat this track could not compare to Dream theater Helloween or Watch Tower.BTW this speed metal with poppy lyrics ,the longest of the world
@@hth7607 Regarding the length, Yoshiki had shown a tendency of anti commercialism thinking in his music from early 90s, which was building up emotion and (multi) themes gradually in metal rock style. No wonder he got into classical orchestration in 2000s.
@@qinggao391 dude was trained in classical piano after all. X japan embodies my two favorite kind of music together, orchestral and metal/rock
This is masterpiece in the world , only one
I know what mean. It is just difficult for ordinary people to understand. YOSHIKI challenged how to express the ART of our life in the mixture of ROCK and classic. I guess there is still a room for YOSHIKI to complete this song.
なんだろう...この曲を聴くと現在のオリコンに溢れてるような曲ではなく、
魂を削って命懸けで作った曲なんだと感じる。
YOSHIKIさんが前にダウンタウンの番組で
「音楽家になろうと決めた時から100年200年語り継がれる曲を1曲でも作れたらいい」
って言ってたのを覚えてます。
まさにこの曲なのでは？と感じました。
永遠に色褪せない名曲です。
小６のころ兄貴のXのMDをこっそり聴いた時に鳥肌が止まらなくて気持ちを抑えられなくて怒られる覚悟でXカッコいいねって伝えたら勝手に聴くなって怒られたおもいで
29にたった今でもほぼ毎日聴いてしまう
。サタニキア ( ´∀｀ )b
ロックを聴いているのに、その中クラシックも同時に聴いている
壮大なオーケストラの中から、機関銃連射のようなドラムが激しく、だけど美しく叩き込まれ、
脳天を突き抜けるようなハイトーンヴォーカル、圧巻のギターと天才的なベース、そしてまるで意思を持っているかのようなピアノ との融合
芸術です。
誰にも真似出来ません。
X Japan were one of the first bands to have symphonic elements merged with metal. You can hear different composers' influence in X japan's music.
I'm not a big fan of this band but must admit this masterpiece deserves an appreciation
こんな長い曲は初めてです。
30分くらいあるのに全く飽きずに聴けますし、異色の合体…と言うべきかYOSHIKIさんのピアノとギター＆ドラム、そしてToshiさんの美しい声が無ければこんな素晴らしい曲は出来なかったでしょう。
XJAPANは永久不滅です…
20年前に初めて聞いたものです。
今更になって改めて聞き、感動しました。
素晴らしいです。
凄まじいです。
29:00の中にYOSHIKIの当時の生き様が全て入ってるかと思うと、号泣してしまいました。
また、それを表現できるメンバーの技術と、感情の豊かさ。
YOSHIKIの音楽のこだわりを、この年になって初めて感じました。
その当時のYOSHIKIの全てを込めた「Art of Life」。
一人の人間として尊敬します。
これからも人間の苦しさ、悲しさ、喜び、楽しみ、快楽、苦境を音で表現して、人々に伝え続けてください！！
それが今の現代に絶対に必要だと思います！！
偉そうなことを言って失礼しました。
ただしく「生き様」でだと思う
マーケティングのにおいが一切ない
古里直哉 h
五感を切り裂くＸの狂気
名曲って何年経ってから聴いても響くんだよね・・・
１９９０年代、彼らＸのことは知っていた。ただ、彼らの見た目のハデさや、パフォーマンス、言動、そして、ミーハーっぽい取り巻きが嫌で、彼らの作品を知ってはいたが、心をゆるしてはいなかった。すべては、わたしの偏見であり、ＹＯＳＨＩＫＩが１００年に一人、２００年に一人の音楽家であることがわかっただけでもありがたい。素晴らしい。
そうですよね👍
この時代一緒に🍀生きて🍀空を見上げ🍀心想う親友、家族🍀の為に、よっちゃんは…生き抜いている🍀
曲も凄いしジャケットもこだわりが伝わるまさに天才
Yoshiki said: "As a kid I was always ill, always in a hospital room, locked in four walls. Art of life is about breaking the wall"
We all have a wall
@@sorubro2193 Some have more walls than others.
I have four in my room I'm in ART OF LIFE!
Some walls are wood, some are concrete bricks, different walls to break.
Yes, we all have walls but when you're stuck in a hospital as a kid or in your flat with chronic migraines it hits different.
This song is one of those that were keeping me sane during those times. The melody, the drums, vocals and lyrics, it's perfect and feels like caresses inside my head and chest when it aches
日本の誇りですね
国宝になってもおかしく無いほどの名曲
+grand kotaro (ぐっs) 私は本当にこの歌を楽しみ、私はそれは彼が英語で歌う素晴らしいが、方法より多くの人々をそのように達するだと思います and hi from other end of the world
英詞で国宝すか…(笑)
@@kamonegi122 TAIJIは何かやらかしてクビになったからな。TAIJIの音や個性がそんなに好きならTAIJIの結成したD.T.R聴けば良いじゃん（笑）X JAPANは君に向いてない。HEATHコケにする位の奴だからオメェw
そそ
いえ？やらかしてますよ。LOUDNESSとのセッションにいっからって言われてるけどこれも違う…もっと闇深い。テンションあげるモンを使っててだな。YOSHIKI程の御仁ブチ切れたって余程の事だね。つうことは昔からロッカー御法度だと言われたクスリが原因か…
YOSHIKIほど 世界一美しいドラマーはいません
xの曲が四半世紀過ぎた今でも 聞かれてるのは本当に偉大です
Xの最高傑作、とにかく曲が最強
この曲はX JAPANリーダーであり作曲者であるYOSHIKIのピアノ演奏込みで至高の一曲なんですよ。ドラマチックな曲なんてす。己の自己満の為にピアノソロ全カットして動画にあげる等あってはならん。許されるモンでも無い。原作レイプに等しい行為。…You Tubeにあげた奴はそのつもりかも知れんがね。
1990年発売のロングインタビュー本で、すでにこの曲の概要が語られていて、この曲を20代前半で作曲したYOSHIKIの才能の恐ろしさよ……と、40半ばになった私はしみじみ思う。XJAPANの曲、とくにYOSHIKIの曲は、ボーカルの部分はもちろん、間奏も永遠に聴いていたいぐらい素晴らしい。そしてこのアルバムジャケットがねぇ、美しさと畏れを感じさせて最高です。
11の時に感じたビジュアル・ショックは今も続いてる！
不動の名曲‼︎
Xの全てが詰まった曲だと俺は思う✨
久しぶりに聞きたくなった。
本当に素晴らしい🎵
この曲一回の通学に何回も聞いてた。そうしたら時間を長く感じずに済んだから。ほんま神曲やで
This is the song I want played at my funeral. What a masterpiece.
finally, I'm not going to skip the piano solo anymore,this is exactly how Yoshiki express himself into his music,sadness,madness, anger...what I can hear now is all those kind of feelings that he scream through the piano... Although this is not the most beautiful parts that he usually wants to show,but what he did was just to release the feeling from deep inside his heart.he put everything in this masterpiece.I'm so glad that I found this song in my life and know him better than before I did.
@@faenethlorhalien ^ what you said
I think the piano part meant to be tough, to be wanted to be skipped. You know. It's like a very dark moment of a life that we want an end.
You need headphone, phone speaker to car speakers doesn't do justice
@@lyricsevoq
Funny then that in the rubble of all the piano madness in the middle and end/near-end of the song, theres still so much melody and its still just as good when the notes stop being scattered and become more organizef ^^
Sorry if i didnt make sense xD
人間の喜びや悲しみ、怒りや恐怖などの全ての感情。そして人生がこの30分という長いような短い時間に全て詰め込まれているような題名通り「芸術」のような作品だ。今の流行りの曲ばかり聞いてる人に聞かせてあげたい。今の流行りの曲が悪い訳じゃないが、日本にはもっと素晴らしい曲があると言うことを教えてあげたい。
全面的に同意しますが、そのサムネでそんな論評書き込むとなんか面白いですw
@@naoyukibanba 同じこと思いましたw
確かにそうです。
全く別ジャンルですが、RIZINでPRIDEは良かったと言うとおっさん認定されます。
この曲が発売するのを楽しみにしていて発売日には店のオープン前から店の前で待った。十秒以上続く鳥肌を音楽で感じたのはこの曲だけ。十秒以上だ。十代のオレの受けた衝撃はこの先どんなアーティストも越えることはできない。
長いのに最初から最後までダレずに聴ける曲。
これを越えるものはないと思う。
この曲の歌詞を読んだときに衝撃を受けて涙が出ました。
楽曲を聞くというよりも魂のこもった絵画を美術館で鑑賞する感覚で聴いてしまいます。
この曲の重みは言葉では上手く形容できませんが…
Brilliant song full of emotions...
First heard Art of Life in the 90's. I was just a teenager going through teenage phase where I felt everything and everyone was against me. To be honest, my life has been rather happy apart from the teenage phase of not being able to communicate well and express myself as much as I wanted.
We love, we laugh, we ache, we die a little inside, we smile, we sigh, we cry, we hurt, we heal, we get angry, we feel relieved...
Art of Life spoke to me in a way nobody and nothing could, I couldnt have possibly felt comforted, more at ease and at peace with myself.
Art of Life is 30mins of knowing the art of life. And the different movements of Art of Life lends a hand that is forever comforting and there for anyone who is willing to give it a listen without prejudice
RIP hide and Taiji, forever remembered and missed.
Thank you X Japan. We are X, forever X
seems like I'm going through the same phase ;(
Ani Matsumoto I’m twenty years old and still feel like I’m going through that teenage phase.
31 years of age and still listening for the uplift. [WE ARE X]
As a young lad myself, i have your words as mine. This song clearly marks the phase i'm going through, with its hard times.
I passed through tha same phase, and this song helped me these times too. Now I look back and feel relieved that it got better, Im happy and confident now. Things get better!
胸にガツンと来る。
何とも言い表せない感情が溢れる。
この曲を聴くと涙がただただ滝のように零れてしまいます……
多感な時期を常にＸと共に歩んで来たから……こみ上げるものが……
この曲はyoshikiの才能が評価されがちだけど、地獄のレコーディングに耐えて歌い上げたtoshiも相当だと思う
NO FU ヒースってひょっとして戸塚通ってたことあるのかな…
平よしひと toshiさんの歌声素晴らしいですね🌹❤️
これの6か月に渡るボーカルレコーディングで精神に来てたところに、あれがさしこまれることになるんですよね‥。
「発音が違うんだよ！」
あー、ホントなんか身体の芯にくる！！
何十年聴いてなかったのに音を覚えてると言うか思い出せると言うか30分分の記憶があると言うか。。。
とにかく好きだわ！
I first heard this song when I was ten years old... and it changed my life and how I felt and heard music ever since. Twelve years later and I'm still insistent that nothing will ever top this musically for me. I still get chills every single time I hear it.
WE ARE X.
+Shannon Wenzel me too heard this song 2 years ago and I still believe without any doubt that this is the greatest piece of music I have ever listened to
Agreed. This is the magnum opus.
I first listened to X-japan when I believe I was 10 or 11, now its 12 or 13 years later, I'm 24. I can relate to this comment so much. The first time I heard X-japan was watching a vidéo of the last live. Incredible
Thank you. I'm glad about that as a Japanese person.
I'm there with you, just; +24 years later. But it's still the same.
Listening to this in 2018 still one of the best songs ever!
2019
Nick Barrie 2020
@@hydejekyll9950 2021
2022
Now
TH-camで90年代のバンドを
よく聴いてるが ずば抜けてToshiが美声だわ ❗
一時期はエンドレスで聴き続けていたこの曲を本当に久方ぶりに聴きましたが、忘れないものですね。
久々に聴きたくなって聴いたがよくこんな曲作ったものだな。
天才でありまた、狂人だと改めて思う。
EsDurもそうだが、ヨシキのピアノは不協和音なんだけど、それなりに和音になってんよなー。
この曲で一貫した美しさは本物だ。ま
これのピアノソロ無しバージョン聴いたけどやっぱりピアノソロあってこそのART OF LIFEだなと思った
@@齋藤秀喜-i2q ピアノ無しとかありえないでしょ。曲作ってるのYOSHIKIだし。X JAPANのボス、リーダーはYOSHIKI。勝手にピアノ全削除して馬鹿みたいに喜んでるキショいアホな輩いるけどあんな奴らX JAPANのファンじゃない。アンチです。YOSHIKI全否定の原作レイプ。質が悪いっすねぇ…
This song has saved me more than once.
もはやX JAPANを越えるバンドは、この世に存在しない❗❗❗
This song inspired me musically, artistically, and got me through so many tough times in my life when I just felt like dying. This is literally a masterpiece of a song that needs to be listened to all the way to get the full experience. I always come back to listen and just feel a huge range of emotions every time.
40のおっさんです。中学生の時に聴いて衝撃を受けました。当時も今も巷のJポップは5分くらいのが常識的な曲長ですが、この曲は世界的に固定概念、常識を覆す歴史的な壮大な楽曲であると思います。他のアーティストはテレビ局に配慮して長い曲は作ったりしません。テレビ局に忖度せず我が道を貫ぬくYoshikiに感嘆します☺️
30分に人間の感情全てを凝縮した感じ。エモいなんて安い言葉じゃいい表せない。
よっちゃんは本当に天才ですね Xの曲は何年経っても色褪せない よっちゃんみたいなアーティストはもう出ないでしょうね しかしhideちゃんのguitarは本当にシビれますね！
5:16 12:41 25:46
全編に渡り短調で構成されているが、曲中3回だけ訪れる長調に転調するこのパートが大好きです！
13:14
美しく荘厳なメロディー……
25分からのストリングスの下降が好きです。
コード進行は一般的なのにメロディがとても美しい。
🖤
めっちゃわかります！
長調のとこ好き
激しさ、美しさ、切なさが全て揃ってる‼️
Desert Rose
Why do you live alone
If you are sad
I'll make you leave this life
Are you white, blue or bloody red
All I can see is drowning in cold grey sand
The winds of time
You knock me to the ground
I'm dying of thirst
I wanna run away
I don't know how to set me free to live
My mind cries out feeling pain
I've been roaming to find myself
How long have I been feeling endless hurt
Falling down, rain flows into my heart
In the pain I'm waiting for you
Can't go back
No place to go back to
Life is lost, Flowers fall
If it's all dreams
Now wake me up
If it's all real
Just kill me
I'm making the wall inside my heart
I don't wanna let my emotions get out
It scares me to look at the world
Don't want to find myself lost in your eyes
I tried to drown my past in grey
I never wanna feel more pain
Ran away from you without saying any words
What I don't wanna lose is love
Through my eyes
Time goes by like tears
My emotion's losing the color of life
Kill my heart
Release all my pain
I'm shouting out loud
Insanity takes hold over me
Turning away from the wall
Nothing I can see
The scream deep inside
reflecting another person in my heart
He calls me from within
"All existence you see before you
must be wiped out :
Dream, Reality, Memories,
and Yourself"
I begin to lose control of myself
My lust is so blind, destroys my mind
Nobody can stop my turning to madness
No matter how you try to hold me in your heart
Why do you wanna raise these walls
I don't know the meaning of hatred
My brain gets blown away hearing words of lies
I only want to hold your love
Stab the dollls filled with hate
Wash yourself with their blood
Drive into the raging current of time
Swing your murderous weapon into the belly
"the earth"
Shout and start creating confusion
Shed your blood for pleasure
And what? For love?
What am I supposed to do?
I believe in the madness called "Now"
Past and future prison my heart
Time is blind
But I wanna trace my love
on the wall of time, over pain in my heart
Art of life
Insane blade stabbing dreams
Try to break all truth now
But I can't heal this broken heart in pain
Cannot start to live, Cannot end my life
Keep on crying
Close my eyes
Time breathes I can hear
All love and sadness
melt in my heart
Dry my tears
Wipe my bloody face
I wanna feel me living my life
outside my walls
You can't draw a picture of yesterday, so
You're painting your heart with your blood
You can't say "No"
Only turning the wheel of time
with a rope around your neck
You build a wall of morality and take a breath
from between the bricks
You make up imaginary enemies and are chased by them
You're trying to commit suicide
You're satisfied with your prologue
Now you're painting your first chapter black
You are putting the scraps of life together
and trying to make an asylum for yourself
You're hitting a bell at the edge of the stage
and
You are trying to kill me
I believe in the madness called "Now"
Time goes flowing, breaking my heart
Wanna live
Can't let my heart kill myself
Still I haven't found what I'm looking for
Art of life
I try to stop myself
But my heart goes to destroy the truth
Tell me why
I want the meaning of my life
Do I try to live, Do I try to love
in my dream
[Piano solo]
I'm breaking the wall inside my heart
I just wanna let my emotions get out
Nobody can stop
I'm running to freedom
No matter how you try to hold me in your world
Like a doll carried by the flow of time
I sacrificed the present moment for the future
I was in chains of memory half-blinded
Losing my heart, walking in the sea of dreams
Close my eyes
Rose breathes I can hear
All love and sadness melt in my heart
Dry my tears
Wipe my bloody face
I wanna feel me living my life
outside my mind
Dreams can make me mad
I can't leave my dream
I can't stop myself
Don't know what I am
What lies are truth?
What truths are lies?
I believe in the madness called "Now"
Time goes flowing, breaking my heart
Wanna live
Can't let my heart kill myself
Still I haven't found what I'm looking for
Art of life
I try to stop myself
But my heart goes to destroy the truth
Tell me why
I want the meaning of my life
Do I try to live, Do I try to love
Art of life
An Eternal Bleeding heart
You never wanna breathe your last
Wanna live
Can't let my heart kill myself
Still I'm feeling for
A Rose is breathing love
in my life
Johan Liebert Thx!
x x.ENDRES np
Idalia Dal Yessir
素敵
あざす
This song is a masterpiece and for me is what life is all about. Is is truly an Art of Life!
YOSHIKIの作曲で特に評価されるのは「音楽の普遍性」を捉えていること。
つまり、どんな国でも、どんな時代にも通用する曲である。
ART OF LIFEが誕生して２０年以上経つが時代の遅れなどを全く感じさせない。
過去・今の音楽業界に蔓延る多くの曲は、一時的に大ヒットをするが普遍性がない。歌詞の質も後世に語り告げられる程上品な物ではない。そういう曲は必ず時代に取り残され、忘れられていく。
「ART OF LIFE 」「SAY ANYTHING」 「ENDLESS RAIN」・・・大衆向けの曲ではないかもしれないが、普遍性を捉えた曲はいつまでも生き続ける。モーツァルトやシューベルトの曲のように。この先今のJ-POPの全ての曲が消滅したとしても、YOSHIKIの曲だけは永遠に生き続けるだろう。また、YOSHIKIの曲はTOSHIの声が加わって初めて具現化する。
この二人が存在してくれたことに本当に感謝。
こういうプログレみたいな楽曲是非ライブでやってほしい。音楽って純粋芸術音楽でも大衆音楽でもその人一人一人の心の目次になって残っていけばいいことだと思う。今のアイドル音楽を夢中で聴いてるの小中学生の女の子たちだって今の音楽が生涯のBGM になっていくんでしょう。
音楽の普遍的な価値観は大衆的ではないって証明でもあるな。
@@espanist 大衆的ではないが共感するものは多いし共感度は非常に高い。
そんなのXに限ったことじゃないねぇ。
YOSHIKIの作曲でも泰司のアレンジだからここまでいけるのでは？
I just lost my father and this song has always been there to help me.
X from America
Why do people hate on the piano solo? I loved it!
The song is so long but the piano solo makes me crave it...
+LayLyann Tarabay Irizarry I think it might be a little more abstract than people can handle. I personally love the whole angry piano key smashing
xen05z well it kinda sounds like Yoshiki got confused playing the piano and thought it was his drums lol but I love it anyways
+LayLyann Tarabay Irizarry yeah man...me too...i like the emotion of the piano...it's too abstract and avant-garde...
Nugtroen I know right?!
The drums in this song are so crazy good... Yoshiki has unlimited stamina
He has a very finite stamina even less than some us but it's his will to perform a fucking masterpiece like his life depends on it is what makes every of his song sounds impossible to be played by a human.
Amazing. But surely no one could ever play this live . . . *looks at youtube recommended videos* THESE GUYS ARE GENIUSES!!!!!!
オーケストラとギターのソロ！凄すぎる！
9:38からがめちゃめちゃ好きなんだが共感してくれる人いないかな？
この、何かが迫ってくる感じ
たまらん
コーディネーター井端弘和 だよね。そう思う。
わかる！
わかります｡
さらに言うと11:38あたりの壮大にスリリングになっていくところが特に好きですね｡
そうそう！
ここの盛り上がりからオーケストラとの喧嘩みたいな11:38～の鬼気迫る展開が何度聞いても気持ちよすぎる！
激しく同意😤
この壮大な曲を20代半ばで作詞・作曲したYOSHIKIの凄さっていったい・・・
マジ？
元々アルバムJealousyに入る筈だった曲。津田さんに「30分の曲が出来たら聴いてくれる？」って茶目っ気たっぷりにYOSHIKIに言われたのを覚えている、って言っていたけど。
でも30分はあっという間って(笑)
Rose of Painの壮大な組曲も知っている津田さんでも30分かぁ、って最初思ったって(笑)
正に！！この曲が20年以上前の曲とは思えないし今もなお進化していくような気がする。
今聴いても新しいし古いし(苦笑)凄いし…１００年先でも聴かれる曲はこんな曲なのかなぁ…、リリースされたときは何も考えなかったけど、今でも同じ気持ちで感動出来るな。
こんなもんあんな若い時にかけちまったら本人は辛い以外のなにもんでもねえだろうなあ、と言うのが正直なところ。
アップロードありがとうございます。
2022年も聴いている人！
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I've been listening to it in 2024.
@@ganymede12283me too
@@ganymede12283 ditto.
X japan the only band I've listened to consistently from 10 years old to now 30. Incredible and will never be replaced
5:50この女の人の声からのドラムとギターの始まり方めっちゃいい。
23:20 激しいピアノのこのあとのオーケストラがまた響く
This is pure perfection. Not only isn't the lyrics beautiful, the instruments speak a thousand words.
激しくも 暗く 悲しく 美しい
X!!!!
EPIC MASTERPIECE!!!! Yoshiki is one of the greatest artist of all time.
interesting fact: yoshiki write this song when he's in early 20s and so far this song only play 2 times live concert during the history of x japan, imagine play this full song in concert, such a world masterpiece
Accidentally found. A masterpiece that I anticipate to listening to in moments of deep emotions.
この曲が発売されたのは俺が中学の頃だった。当時まだ子供だったから「幾ら大好きなロックバンドX JAPANだからって誰が30分の歌、曲聴くか！普通は5〜6分だろう。」…と偏屈な思い込みから一切聴こうとしなかった。…ソレから6〜7年の年月が過ぎ、当時既にHIDEが他界し解散していたX JAPANの曲を聴きたくなりこの曲を聴いた…するとどうだろう。激しくも美しい曲で不思議と心に安らぎすら憶え眠ってしまった。20歳過ぎて大人になってたって理由もあるんだろうけど何故中学の時に聴かず嫌いなどしてしまったのか。素直に聴こうとしなかったのか…と後悔した。このART OF LIFEと言う曲はそれ程の楽曲であると今となっては確信している。そしてこの曲は当然YOSHIKIのピアノありきの楽曲。何か思い違いしとる馬鹿豚アンチが勝手に弄くり倒して原作レイプ紛いの醜悪な行為やらかしとるけどな。
this song hits me on so many levels. what a masterpiece. imo the greatest song ever written and played.
『ART OF LIFE』は実は最初『LIFE OF ART』というタイトルになる予定だった。YOSHIKIは、発売当時のインタビューでこう語っている。「ああ、やっぱり『ART OF LIFE』だな。 “人生の芸術”というと、意味が分かるようで分からない。その違いがデカかった。」
モーツァルトやバッハ、ベートーヴェンのように世紀に渡って愛されると思います。メロディとサウンドは、詩と共に魂に響きますね。音楽で極限の美を表現しているＸと 同じ時代に生きてることをかみしめたい(´･Д･)」
XJAPANの魂は大和魂の頂点ですね
バッハも好きってゆうわ
I have never have more respect for this song after watching the documentary.
What a master piece.
The best almost 30 minutes of my life invested in listening to this whole song.
My favorite part is the first 29 minutes.
Whit 2 seconds :)
@@twistedfate9053 Yea, what's wrong with them?!
@@hitkid2456 it mean 29m 2s....
Caio Sacra 草
They're good but the last 29 minutes are better.
Why is this not on Spotify oml 😭
I was finding it just yesterday because of your video, truly tragic
We came here bcz of u sakura
Its not on American Spotify :/
many songs are not available for other countries in the world except japan
Ikr, just listened to this and the live version here on TH-cam
I wish the likes of other bands like Malice Mizer was there too, and they're missing Luna Sea's Mother album...
2020でも聴いてる人？
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yo mero maromero
こんにちは！
@@jr1800
こんにちは！
いつも:)
France, et j'écoute X-Japan depuis 1995. Merci pour l'upload
この歌は私の子供時代を取り戻します。ネパールからの愛
How can people not weep at such passion and artistry.
Toshiの歌い始めでもうすでに鳥肌
凄い曲
I just listened to this for the first time and I must say, after that piano solo, it felt my breath was surgically removed from my body. Absolutely incredible.
im chinese and i just love Yoshiki.I love japan and japanese.hope theres no war between japan and sino forever.WE ARE X!
I love this comment :)
No war! I love this!
@@김동준-t9p It's not *his* fault
If there's ever a war of any kind in any time between any two nations let us be the example of non war living entities
김동준 korea unite as one, long live Supreme Leader Kim Jong-Un ☝🏼☝🏼
最近TVに出過ぎてげんなりしてたけど、やはりYOSHIKIさんは天才だと改めて思った
音楽を聞いて初めて自然に涙が出ていたのがこの曲だった
リリースからもう30年経つんか…
初回盤で買ったCDはもう手元に無いけど、最近はtubeとかでほぼ毎日聞いてるや
飽きっぽい俺には珍しく未だに飽きない名曲の中の1つ
23년인데 지금 들어도 완전 세련됬네 30분을 이렇게 끌고 갈수 있다니!
ありがとう！これからもずっと
I think if a song is this long, it's a sign that it is a great one. I am sure only a dedicated artist would do so, with the amount of effort required, it makes me have a lot of respect for it.
It took Yoshiki about two years to compose this song.
Not all long songs are created equal. Just about anyone could theoretically stretch out or repeat parts of a song until it reached the desired length. But the fact they were able to make it this good while being this long is an an incredible accomplishment.
XJAPANとの出会いは友人から借りたArt of lifeのCDが私の人生を変えてくれたのよ！今だから当時の
友人に感謝を伝えたい、ありがとう！