Here's the new music forum! I'm guessing a bunch of you here listen to Japanese music so what bands/artists are your favorites? Is anyone here going to the POLYSICS or Dir En Gray shows in SF this month?
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Posted 3 years ago #
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oh man, i was the biggest j-rock geek back in high school (late 90's) but unfortunately none of my friends were...where was bay anime when i needed support the most!? :-)
the brilliant green was my gateway drug into japanese musics, but by far my favorite was hide (who died tragically a few months before i discovered him)... visual rock is pretty interesting, but unfortunately like most music there's a low signal-to-noise ratio -- for every x-japan there's a zillion mediocre imitators.
a few others on my favorites list is buck-tick, gackt, guniw tools, pillows, plastic tree, tomoyasu hotei, cornelius, and, last but definitely not least, thee michele gun elephant -- the grungiest garage/blues band of all time.
i found some old dir en gray stuff in my collection too -- i'm surprised they're still around. i don't think i'll be able to attend the SF concert, but if anyone's going i'd be curious to hear about how it goes (specifically the demographics of the crowd). i went to a b'z concert in LA a few years back and it was a good time (the crowd even chanted "AN-KO-RE" in the japanese fashion)
hmm...my collection is getting close to 10 years old now, so yeah...kids, lawns, get off of it.Posted 3 years ago # -
I found some kind of J-pop online trading post back when I was in college and started trading all kinds of random Japanese music video files so I've heard something from all of those bands you named, ultramike, except for guniw tools. I was in Japan for the summer when the brilliant green's "there will be love there" started playing everywhere! Tomoko's vocal style eventually gets a bit too monotonous for me although I do like their music.
Ha, well kids these days don't know how good they've got it with almost any mp3/anime/manga just a google search away! For the longest time I only listened to anime music but I eventually branched out into some Japanese rock. My favorites were probably Aikawa Nanase and B'z (definitely super 80's) and I've seen them both live in concert in Japan. B'z I saw a few years back and even though they are a couple of old(er) guys it seems they are really still in top form! Some of my favorite songs also came from hide and X-Japan. I was never into hardcore so I won't be going to the Dir En Grey concert either.
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b'z must be using some sort of devil rock magic -- the fact that they've been consistently topping the charts for ~20 years now is crazy. (i think they're just showing off at this point)
my master plan is to become the 3rd b'z member as their tambourine player, so that i too can live the fabled rock star life.Posted 3 years ago # -
In Japan, 80's rock lives on! I think Tak still sports a mullet to this day (at least he did when I saw them live)...
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roflcopter! that made my day
Posted 3 years ago # -
If you guys ever see Geinoh Yamashirogumi (Japanese gamelan group behind the Akira soundtrack) then pick them up. Great music, and it's HARD to find.
Polysics did a cool ending to Moyashimon -- I like their energy. And the Nana anime has a lot of well-arranged girly-pop-punk-stuff associated with it, along with gorgeous incidental music.
And hurrah for anime, where ending themes AND opening themes are both just as important :)
Posted 3 years ago #
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