From the Jealousy album, one of the only (THE only?) X Japan ballads not composed by Yoshiki, and it's actually really good. The sound is entirely different, and there are more than a few similarities to Stairway To Heaven.
hide with Spread Beaver - Ever Free
From hide's third and final album, Ja Zoo.
Not one of my favorite of his songs, but certainly a hit in its own right.
Bart Allen/Impulse/Kid Flash/The Flash is dead . . . long live that guy! Or not . . .
The DCU gives Bart a send-off to remember, featuring guest appearances by Jay Garrick, Robin, Wonder Girl, Jimmy Olsen, Pied Piper, Trickster, Jason Todd, Donna Troy, one of the Monitors and a bunch of other guys.
One of hide's last hits, and possibly his greatest, here comes Rocket Dive from his final album, Ja Zoo. hide was the lead guitarist from X Japan who had a frightfully amazing solo discography of his own, and we can only speculate that he still had years to go before reaching his peak.
Japanese rock group X Japan performs The Last Song in their final concert before their breakup. Yoshiki on piano, Toshi on vocals, hide and Pata on guitar, Heath on bass.
It's not nearly one of his better videos, but Misery is definitely one of hide's best songs. hide was the lead guitarist of X Japan and had a spectacular solo career until his untimely death in 1998
Dice is from hide's first album, Hide Your Face. Not much else to say about it, although it's one of the better songs from that album - and as a personal recommendation, it fits great in a playlist after Lemoned I-Scream.
Yoshiki's piano solo during a performance during their Blue Blood era.
The riffs he covers come from the intro to Rose of Pain (and the classical song it's inspired by) and Unfinished.
X Japan's Crucify My Love music video, starring Yoshiki and Toshi.
This ballad from their Dahlia album is one of their few ballads in a minor key, and in my opinion it's one of their most beautiful. It's also the only ballad by Yoshiki that's completely in English, so that's good for us westies.
Mutsuhiko Izumi rips it up on the great oldie from Guitar Freaks/Drummania 4th/3rd, Fire. The timing feels a little loose in places, but it's as hardcore as ever. Love it.
