| Japanese Music
Posted: 5/19/2009 9:40:06 PM | J-Rock and J-pop for me. I got into it from watching anime and videogames. My favorites are:
-X Japan
-Gackt
-Chaba
-Namie Amuro
-The Teriyaki Boys
-Atari Teenage Riot
-Ayumi Hamasaki
-Utada Hikaru
-Dragon Ash
-Younha
-Minmi
I know I left out a few but oh well. | |
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| Japanese Music
Posted: 5/20/2009 2:38:23 PM | | I love Visual Kei artist, and TVXQ are really good. Matter of fact, I think they are one of the best groups in Japan. | |
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| Japanese Music
Posted: 5/21/2009 3:20:05 PM | | my copmany offer graphics, beats, and printing bussiness to all bussinessmen/women... with a two day turn around. lets make $$$ together. (v.p. of oce) | |
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| Japanese Music
Posted: 5/23/2009 5:39:18 AM | X-Japan is what got me goin!
I'm a big fan of AKFG!
and ORANGERANGE!
They have a good sound to them. | |
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| Ethereal Japanese music?
Posted: 5/23/2009 6:17:24 AM | Love to see a list of contemplative Japanese Music?
anyone out there know of Artists that play perhaps wonderful music with traditional intrumentation
with perhaps a little 'twist' | |
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| Japanese Music
Posted: 5/23/2009 9:53:08 AM | | I personally love Dir en Grey,especially their newest album Oroboros, but if ayou aren't into them, check out Versailles and Gackt. Versialles is reminescent of a group of aristocratic French vampires, and heavy on the music. They're very visual. And Gackt is more of a soloist who crosses between j-rock and pop. All-in-all,they're very pretty and very loud. | |
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| Japanese Music
Posted: 5/23/2009 10:29:34 AM | Naichaukamo by Morning Musume | |
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| Japanese Music
Posted: 5/23/2009 11:29:33 AM | I got into jrock from watching Bleach, I really like Ichirin no Hana that HIGH AND MIGHTY COLOR did.
Some other groups I like:
Lareine
Utada Hikaru
Arashi (Sakura Sake is awesome!)
Kat-tun
Morning-Musume
Tamaki Nami
HIGH AND MIGHT COLOR
Hinoi Team
W(double you)
Nana Mizuki
Soran Happies | |
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| Japanese Music
Posted: 5/31/2009 9:27:27 PM | | Im into Zone even though they split up. Hamasaki Ayumi, Glay, Exile, and Alice Nine are some more favs of mine. I also listen to a lot of Anime music like the theme from Ghost in the Shell. | |
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| Japanese Music
Posted: 6/1/2009 10:27:57 PM | | been listening to j-music for years. got n2 it from anime themes. id say i started out with songs from yu yu hakusho. my last couple downloads were from orange range n akino. next ones r gonna b da open n closing songs from fullmetal alchemist: brotherhood. shoulda got those a good while ago but i've been lazy lately. | |
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| Japanese Music
Posted: 6/2/2009 7:03:27 PM | | Well thanks to anime I now have an appreciation for JPop. I like the Seatbelts, Maximum The Hormone, Le Arc En Ciel, Alumina, The Pillows, Asian Kung Fu Generation, High And Mighty Color, Kim Sung Jae, Tomoko Tane, Tsutchie, Uverworld, Yuki Kajiura, and Orange Range, and I'm sure there are a few I missed. | |
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| Japanese Music
Posted: 6/3/2009 6:48:33 PM | I discovered it through a blog (7 days of J-pop).
http://mackro.blogspot.com/2007/04/seven-days-of-j-pop-introduction.html
"Ultra Relax" by Shinohara Tomoe appeals to the kawaii lobe of my brain that processes happy hardcore and kittens:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXZOzUrkIbE
also Harenchi Punch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qFZNkFDAgQ
And I discovered some other groups through watching Densha Otoko (movie and series), and Getsumen To Heiki Miina. | |
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| Japanese Music
Posted: 6/5/2009 1:22:11 PM | | I saw Shogo Tokumaru's Exit on promotion in a record shop. I picked it up and continue to enjoy it when I want something upbeat but not too saccharine. I particularly like the songs Parachute and Button. | |
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| Japanese Music
Posted: 6/6/2009 3:35:20 AM | my favorite band in the universe (and the source of my nickname) is Luna Sea.
LS and X Japan have been my favorite bands for about 13-14 years now.
other great Japanese music includes (this list is a little skewed towards older stuff, i haven't been keeping up too diligently as of late with Japanese music, although I do like some newer stuff as well)
hide (to this day PSYENCE by hide is the greatest album I have ever heard in my life, hands down)
GLAY (in particular their 90s stuff)
kuroyume
Dir en grey (probably the most popular japanese band in the west these days, and for good reason...INCREDIBLE at times - but they ripped off kuroyume)
L'Arc-en-Ciel (they're megastars now in Asia, but it's their first 3 albums that really matter...before they went to a more mainstream sound - not that their newer stuff is bad)
Malice Mizer
Gackt
Shiina Ringo
Polysics
Buck-Tick
Loudness
Pierrot (they can be hit or miss but when they were on they were ON)
globe (again, hit or miss...they're more jpop than jrock, with heavy electronic dance influence...but often they're musically incredible especially from about 1997-99 when it truly seemed they could do no wrong - the song anytime smokin cigarette is the greatest pop song you've never heard)
Versailles
Kagrra,
cali=gari (WEIRD)
Ayumi Hamasaki (the reigning queen of jpop, and for good reason. not as popular as she used to be, but nobody's reached the level to dethrone her yet. a decent to good singer at best, but her music has awesome melody to it, mixed with a lot of other elements, everything from trance to metal in there at times...with a very distinctive sound and absolutely INCREDIBLE production values)
Namie Amuro (the former queen of jpop - produced by Tetsuya Komuro aka TK in her early, most popular days...TK is also the brains behind globe. there was a time when TK produced music dominated the charts almost completely...that time passed, she left TK, but some of her new stuff is pretty good)
SEX-ANDROID (an indie band that almost nobody inside or outside of Japan has ever heard of, but just awesome...they're like visual-kei gone punk)
and lots more. | |
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| Japanese Music
Posted: 6/6/2009 3:42:20 AM |
In addition, the first person to mention they love the musical stylings of Gackt gets an irritated stare and subsequent sarcastic eye roll from me.
his stuff since has been up and down in quality, often down - but his first album Mars really is genuine brilliance - with everything from folk to Ricky Martin ripoffs to creepy circus music on it, add a touch of metal, some operatic overtones, a few licks that sound like they were collected out of U2's recycling bin, and a bunch of strings and piano and you've got yourself a very messy masterpiece. | |
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| Japanese Music
Posted: 6/6/2009 8:39:26 AM | | My favorites are Gackt, Do As Infinity, Mono, Hyde, and Malice Mizer. | |
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| Japanese Music
Posted: 6/10/2009 12:36:22 AM | | SLIGHT SLAPPERS , SENSELESS APOCALYPSE , MELT BANANA , ROMANTIC GORILLA , BLUE BIRD ,SOB. | |
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| Japanese Music
Posted: 6/17/2009 5:55:15 PM | Crystal Kay, Aya Matsuura, Namie Amuro, Tohoshinki, BoA, Ayu, Utada, Perfume, and Capsule...
And I'm stuck on that Hatsune Miku. | |
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| Japanese Music
Posted: 6/17/2009 8:00:20 PM | Maximum The Hormone Only Japanese music i listen to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM_KQAh-TT0 | |
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| Japanese Music
Posted: 6/19/2009 12:01:53 AM | | I like Asian Kung Fu Generation; someone once described them as a Japanese version of Weezer. I also like the pillows; they have this retro feel to them so I'd describe them as a Japanese version of the Beatles. When it comes to heavy metal, Japanese and Western bands sound the same to me (I obviously don't appreciate it :p). | |
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| Japanese Music
Posted: 6/19/2009 1:09:59 AM | | What about Sigh??? Or Balzac??? Or the entire Crows Zero soundtrack? | |
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| Japanese Music
Posted: 6/19/2009 5:25:08 PM | | Anime music, it's actually pretty good. | |
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| Japanese Music
Posted: 9/24/2009 3:22:31 PM | various stuff like maximu the hormone, an cafe, dir en grey, nightmare, shonen knife, x japan, miyavi, girugamesh, electric eel fish, mucc, d'espairays, cthonic (actually there tiwainese symphonic deathmetal) the list goes on and on! lol
i have picked up stuff through anime and youtube!
also being to japan, and going to their live houses aswell, | |
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| Japanese Music
Posted: 9/24/2009 8:25:55 PM | | I can't believe that no one has mentioned The Ghost...... Apryl Fool and The Mops are 2 groovy psychedelic bands from back in the day, too. | |
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| Japanese Music
Posted: 9/25/2009 4:07:33 PM | Yeah love what i hear on anime but never really sought it out only one i got for you is.
Boom Boom Satellites | |
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