20th Century Boy (live)

[AlexRaxwell]

they shouldn't play the music they are so far away especially live - XJapan had many good songs but not T Rex, they are just too far away...

[kieran4949]

Crap

[Vince1303]

What a horrible mess. The worse band I have ever heard. Pure shite.

[steverid]

I just watched a bunch of other videos of X Japan..............and this band ROCKS!!! They are super tight. So.....I suggest everybody whose been talkin' smack about this band & this video needs to reassess their opinion of them. Great song writing, song composition & the singers voice is amazing.

[ytt5]

fuckin american Idiot don't know how awesome are them

[ytt5]

fuckin american Idiot don't how awesome are them



[nullryuu]

... Guys. Before you bash such a great band as X Japan, please refer to the "actual" cover from the 1989 Blue Blood by the same band (the 爆発寸前ＧＩＧ). This video here is just them switching instruments around. They're not on their normal instruments here.

seriously. learn your shit before you judge.

[synystersevilheir]

WHAT IS THIS?

[pollywoggle24]

This is really really bad.

[ebrothersonline]

The instruments they´re playing are not their natural instruments.

The drummer in this vid, is the vocalist.

The vocalist is normally on guitar.

The bass player is normally on guitar.

The guitar players are from drums and bass.

So none of them is on their natural instrument.

Watch other X Japan´s videos, it´s a GREAT band, is a legend.

[Jimmyduudah]

@ebrothersonline

Excuses, excuses......

[ebrothersonline]

@Jimmyduudah No, not excuses, you should really watch them :)

[lionwarrior7819]

these guys are fucking posers.

[enisorian]

white men can't jump, and Japanese can't rock...........

[kiranuto]

lol, i love this song... this band... but, the cover is horrible e_e

[HAGGIS499]

CR*P COVER STICK TO WHAT YOU DO BEST, WHATEVER THAT MAY BE !!!!

AN DONT GIVE UP THE DAY JOB......

[trotylps2]

what a shit!!!

[MRLIZAUD]

SUCKS

[HeatLegs]

I wish they would sing it in an English to Japanese translated version because the ENGRISH IS ANNOYING. Do the Japanese not know how painful it is for us westerners to listen to their engrish? =(

[neilmac991]

why you no wisten, i loved this long time

[pegaso1989]

Idiots!

It's a great cover!

WE ARE X!

[sarahgeek5]

oh no so wrong!!!!

[BoMcFlo]

never seen an bader cover before xD

[ccjr39]

Really?

[tuckerrrrrrrrrrrrrr]

I can't even say what this is, shit just doesn't cover it

[Murretti]

HORRIBLESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

[karllucy98]

wok n woll ha ha  total shit

[Sukidan]

If y'all were smart, u'd know they aren't even in their instruments...

The drummer in this vid, is the vocalist.

The vocalist is normally on guitar.

The bass player is normally on guitar.

The guitar players are from drums and bass.

So none of them is on their natural instrument.

And please have INTELIGENCE when you badmouth a band such as X, search for more of their work, then u'll see.

[BlackJackDaveeeeyyy]

21st century fail

[soundsgrrr]

galm rock at its worst :D

mama must be proud ...

[jorgeonion]

no points for the cover (especially the drummer, he's total shite), 10 points for the hair.

[tomsoldtheworld]

im shitting my pants

[Mkaay]

What a load of sh**!!!!

[Mkaay]

Holy crap,could this possibly be the same song??!! Marc Bolan wouldn't even recognize this,what a piece of sh**.Are these folks,men,women or in transition??

[Magicalmike1]

Marc Bolan would be rolling in his grave. Doesnt the voice in audience say "Wankers". At least they are trying but........................

[kattdaddy2112]

What the hell???....these guys?? or girls??? suck big time.

[seahorse1960]

Im scared!

[hitchwatch]

Good lord.

[hansaplast666]

This is bad

[jaydavee]

Those Japasakis usually do great in everything I see them attempt, but I think this was the worst attempt I've seen :D

[fatalitydeath]

what a bunch of faggots! they ruined the song so badly.

[cujo1990]

??????? NOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[mintyninty21]

worst. performance. of. a. classic. EVER.

[nutz4all]

Oh my Lord...what the f*** was that??? Must be the worst remake I have ever heard or seen...They are crying for another A-bomb....just kidding, but that really, really, really sucked...........

[vnubrunette]

what the fuck?

I like the original SO much better!?

[FactoryHen]

Are you kidding - this is shite

[cindyshealed]

What gender?

[Area5107]

Uhh, they are not playing their usual instruments, the bassist is on lead guitar, the actual lead singer is on drums, they're joking around.

[Xavienne]

I'm just amazed at how big his hair is! Fluffy drummer is made of win. :)

[gagebrwn]

haha This is like an Asian Motley Crue rip-off...these guys are taking cheesy to a whole new level. Well, at least the guitarist looks kinda cool. The singer almost sounds as bad as Axl Rose though! hahahaha

[oidige1977]

In this cover they switch their usual position:

Toshi the vocalist goes on drum;

Yoshiki the drummer plays the guitar;

Hide the solo guitar sing..

go check something like "vanishing love" or "X" from X-japan...and don't judge them just from their look.

[Ctarl]

Uh.....wtf?

[thecomposer1962]

Motley Crue wishes they looked half this good. Hair Metal finally achieves Nirvana:

BIG IN JAPAN.

[chiwa91]

what are these pieces of shits?

[cricketbat08]

Great Fun!! Lots of energy and a sense of wild abandon!!

[Yogaaaaaa]

taiji is cool

[Centurian66]

ha i agree with ya , it was soo funny when i seen this lmao

[acaftermath]

ur mom is not allowed to sing it

[imaisamadesu]

Ｔ.rexにかなうわけない

[mitch1982123]

hahahah this is amazing. they can't play their instruments the singer is unbelievably bad, look at their hair!!! and yet... look how many people are there!!

[DanaXBoo]

Hey mitch, if you cared to do some liiiiiitle, just minimum research you wouldn't be talking so much ;)

Do your homework before giving another uninformed opinion!

[mitch1982123]

Shut up you cunt rag. I don't need to do any research I have eyes and ears. ださいだよ

[DanaXBoo]

Uuuh that's brave... well, too bad there are still tons of dickheads (and I mean SMALL DICKheads) like you drooling around the world.

[cobalite]

Wow, I don't think Marc would approve of that hatchet job.

[kamikou12388]

reary sad

[PlungerA10]

East meets West - and miss by miles!

[nightwish5992]

shocking

[StuBri1964]

hmmm, no sort of bad but sort of...

[chazisbak]

oh dear

[masawata21jp]

お粗末。

録音のレベルも上がったり下がったり。

見ると曲のイメージが崩れます。

[planetmoonscape]

It's certainly different!

[tonupnolid]

Hahahahaha, priceless!

It's like a 3 yr old stomping about in her mum's stilettos, ghehehe.

[biotonk]

START THE FUCKING SONG !!!!

[HowardIrwin]

Look at the fucking hair on the drummer !?!? It's hilarious ! ha ha

[HeyYouMonkey67]

what the hell is this

[kookietur]

Stick to sushi and sake , but keep your fishfingers from Wock"n woll.

[HidenSeek]

hide before he found his true voice :P

[Joe4tune]

This is much worse than Pat Boone covering Ozzy Osbourne. Much worse. I hope the singers sounds better in Japanese than he does in English. ouch.

[vins181]

best a T-REX

[willgeek]

Japan is one bored country

[Dea7hLeprachaun]

True that.

[kookietur]

LOL "its just like wock"n woll.

[faisalroute66]

hahahaha you're right!!

[rippheat]

Japanese rockers...wow...what a trip! I wonder what the groupie scene is like backstage....sushi and sucki..oops..I mean saki. All jokes aside, this was really cool!

[tomfy1979]

yes.bad.very.

[waipe00]

es hermoso aver escuxado esa cancion en vivo

yo estando alli

en el concierto

nod e x, pero si con toshi

baba*

shio~

[azuredrak]

I didn't like the singing at all.....i find it so bad

[SsirathH]

Good Grief. I love X Japan and Marc Bolan dearly but for heaven's sake NOT TOGETHER. Some covers just DO NOT work. Aiyaiyai.

[krimson106]

hopefully they stay in Japan, they should ban it all over the rest of the world. I bet Marc Bolan is very pissed off now by the rape of his great song...

[Idnarmadur]

Nippon ichi, ne? o.O

No, that was really bad.

Well, the fans seemed to enjoy it.

[Duesenbergh]

Voll Krass die Japse!#

[TheGoldenWater]

that really sucked ;; to be hoenst.

[skankang]

is that hide sing.lol

[czechphil]

o fuck me

I dont belive this shit

[Sharkboysk]

rOX a Lot!!!

[Temperalles]

"Twendy cenduweee bai....." Dear fucking lord.

[grelid7]

very good!!!!!vive x japan!!!日本一！！

[cagzy92]

Such an insult to Marc Bolan!

It's funny that it needs subtitles

[AGunnermt]

WTF OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[boxtroll]

Toss.

[DeviantChimera]

THAT was some funny isht!!

LOL

[EYEmusique]

Whilst I'm all for glam and that... this is one of the worst things i've ever seen in my life.

[Currrito1992]

me cago en elloss¡¡¡¡son para meterles una bomba por la boca¡¡sobretodo al cantante k paraece un castrati¡¡

¡¡ARRIBA EL BUEN ROCK´N ROLL¡¡

[xtratosxv]

awesome performance by X Japan

[thornatron]

wtf is this shit?

[Temperalles]

Well, a few thousand Japanese fans all simaltaneously stepped on a few thousands cats...

[chickenvideo]

to quote beavis and butthead ah ha ha ha ... what the hell is this crap?

[qwuirt]

hahaha that's a catastrophy

[Hieronymus76]

OMG.....this sucks. It's a insult to the original, behhhhh....what a bunch of crap!!!

[underworld85]

que horrivel!

[thewiz119]

this is excellent!!! i never thought toshi played drms :D

[Pofop]

REST IN PEEEEEEEEEACE.

[atishi]

This is what i said... i'm X's fan since many many fucking years...

[atishi]

If we have to repeat!

Here, the singing is the lead guitar, the drummer is the singer, the two guitarist are the drummer and the bassiste and the bassiste is a guitariste... That's the reason that's like a joke...

[mynippon]

It's false :

Toshi : Singing --> Drums

Yoshiki : Drums --> Guitar

hide : Guitar --> Singing

Pata : Guitar --> Bass

Taiji : Bass --> Guitar

[atishi]

this is what i said...

[surfyrock]

menuda mierda de version

[kaslavie]

bad bad bad

[koenraad72]

It sounds like its kicked in the balls

[venusloony]

Glam Rock taken to the extreme, but hey, they obviously love Bolan, so they're cool!

[chris25meza]

THIS is what happens when you play too much Guitar Hero AND think you can start a real band.

Yoshi on Drums,

Pikachu on guitars

Toshiba on bass

Sailor moon on vocals

[darkestdespair]

Really, you have to consider the fact that the one singing is the lead guitarist, the real vocalist is behind the drums, and the drummer is doing the lead guitar. So they've switched positions, no wonder it sounds odd :3

Oh, and hide, the one singing, is known for his very characteristic voice... It's only suitable for his own songs if you ask me, but I don't dislike it either ^___^

[rbccspb]

I walk like a cat, talk like a ram, look like a tit....

This is so bad, it's good. They've even got the riff wrong, and it's only two notes. That's attention to detail for you.

[shelly10538]

Holy fucking hell!!! Who shit this turd?

[kingglitter]

shame the singing is not that good ,but i sure like the sound of the guitars and drums!.

[Titootom]

That's so BAD !!!

BOUH

is it a joke ?

[pewsterbaby]

WHO and WHERE is that! That singer destroyed it like Yoko Ono would have. Why can't asian people even come close to approximating western style vocals?

[degergard]

tht's a big piece of hair!

[shakiswhity]

hahaha

Toshi at the drums, Yoshiki plays guitar...

Looks pretty good too...

hide is so cute but I don't like his voice so much in this ^^

[lickss]

that drummer puts the term hair extension to a whole new level.

[PaulChristy23]

played the song pretty well vocals is a load of crap doh ruined the song

[davedeedosey]

the worste thing ever~!!!!!!!!!!

[auresch]

Hide just like a fool...

but... I Like it ",

[fraulobsto]

...seriously?

[RichiBitch]

taiji is pretty good on guitar, and hide is like johnny rotten xD

[Kaopuschel]

is it hard when i say someone should kill him for that .. o.O.. oh WAIT :: Thank you ^^" *uh that was meeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan* XD

[drewbag]

that was shite

[tackface]

no

just no

marc bolan would be pissing himself if he heard this

[l3m0n3d]

hide was being stupid in this song.

[auresch]

agree.

earlier Hide doesnt seem like that.

[BLACKZOSOZEPPELIN]

wat a fag

[LunaSeaSane]

So?

All members of Led Zeppelin looked like MAJOR fags. And yet, you ate it aaall up.

[Kuroneko95]

They traded instruments for fun...no wonder this cover is not good. And except for the singing, it's really not that bad.

[DAVWAVE]

The crowd response to all of X-J's songs are unreal. Have you seen them live. What energy! Reminds me of the Beatles early crowds or ever T-Rextasy crowds.

[TheSaxby]

If you are scarred for life, please say "OH MY F*CKING G-D, WHAT HAVE THEY DONE WITH BOLAN'S SONG?!!!!"

[DAVWAVE]

Sax, I am a 30 plus year full tilt Bolan fan. I just found X Japan yesterday. They are a Metal band. And they are actually really talented. Listen to some of their other stuff. Now, consider this. Would Bolan mind cashing the royalty checks? They were actually clowning a little on this one. It was bad I admit. My Son is a metal fan and he likes them, he just heard them today.

[DAVWAVE]

Sax, one other thing. Check out Bolans's own version of this. X-J's version, even though bad has 10 times the views. So, it is exposing Bolan. I wish they would try to do it better though.

[TheSaxby]

Hm... I guess when you put it that way, it's actually a good thing. It's just that when someone like you or me, someone who actually has listened to Marc Bolan's music, you feel a bit disappointed in the band because, despite finding a great song to cover, they make a poor cover. It almost turns you off from anything else the band ever does.

Aside: It's kinda funny, I've never been called Sax ever since I joined YouTube. Not that it's a bad thing or anything, it's just funny.

[TheSaxby]

Actually, checking out Bolan's own version of 20th Century Boy, (the one that shows up first on the scroll bar next to this video) the original version has 74,000 more views than this one. So while this version may have brought some confused people over to watch the original be performed, it definitely doesn't have 10 times the reviews.

[DAVWAVE]

Sax,I was looking at Bolan's with the white boa scarf. It only had about 1100 views. And it is a great version. I think it might be french tv, not sure. By the way if you can stand it check out X-J other 20th Cent boy song with the normal lead singer and everyone back on their instruments. I wish Bolan were still around and Hide too. They could work out a better arrangement. Then Bolan would get even more royolties.

[Mornhugss]

WTF

[onepixedpup]

better than the original? I hope you get hit by a bus

[wilf58]

Oh my god! Where is T.REX ?

[julierex]

WTF was that????...that has to be the worst thing i've seen on here so far.......and thats saying something!!!!! What a complete disgrace to a brilliant song

[FluffyBlueAlienCat]

Haha, that was funny. But seriously to all those critics here...the Version they did of this on the Blue Blood Tour (just search for it) was better than the original.

[Pandurrr]

hahahaha no. shut the fuck up.

[FluffyBlueAlienCat]

I think I've already said what I really think on this other video you commented on. This is neither better than the original nor a disgrace, it's a cover and everybody who feels the need to be a bitch because of a stupid cover is...well, a retard for the lack of a better word right now.

[repsycle]

actually Fluffy is right. The version that X Japan played serious, with all the members on its original positions (if you don't know, in this video the guitarist is on vocal, the vocal is on drums, the drummer is on guitar, the bass player is on solo guitar and the second guitarist is on bass) was very good, quite more rocker than the version by T-Rex, which i like too.

[aceneill]

These guys SiizzzzzzUCK. Ding...STOP THAT! Stop that!

[ZX2ManDave]

What the hell is this crap?

[PartyNiga]

HYI SAATANA!! 20th Century Boy is now officially raped!:DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD­DDDDDDD

[Killerclaw]

Hearing this, you never would have guessed hide was a rather decent vocalist.

[JanePain]

FUCK YES!! X FOREVER!!

[hillbillyvampyre]

Um... yikes.

[trooperds]

good cover, the truth is the best

[hankazaria]

WOW!! I didn't know Poison had turned japanese! Actually, never saw or heard of a japanese band that was into glam metal. 20th century buy!!!!