J-Pop or Japanese pop music

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Any fans here? Looking for some new stuff to try out....

[DarkTirade]

1. I like some of the stranger J-rock type stuff myself.

Kinda almost like the J-rock version of symphonic metal. :P
Malice Mizer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F143kJea2tw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyG4AFzl4Dw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAFSqBGmllE

Moi dix mois
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du2R-CnbN_w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tatk7l4hP_4

Dir en Grey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzJghF3ySjk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG-_HekZ7k8

Although the first two bands are mostly just 'cause I think Mana's hot. :P

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2. Thanks I'll check it out...

Blue lips?? hmmmm

[opiate69]

3. Well, of course, gotta have the X.

X Japan... also, Despairs Ray, Siam Shade, Penicillin, Luna Sea, Gackt..

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7. Are they new?

All I have is some 90s stuff like Cibo Mato and Pizzicato...

[opiate69]

13. Nope.. X's reign was from about 92 to 97. Despair's is kinda new though..

X Japan: "Silent Jealousy" - http://youtube.com/watch?v=WzHbHxSEtVQ

Despairs Ray - "Garnet" - http://youtube.com/watch?v=GDVAe60ypAk

Siam Shade - "1999" http://youtube.com/watch?v=Sx8BIrqA81s

Luna Sea - "Storm" - http://youtube.com/watch?v=CWdHsm3QmEA

[DarkTirade]

4. Not always.

[RevolutionaryActs]

6. Of course Mana is wicked hawt.

I lurve Dir En Grey though. :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tgq4laQxW6w

[DarkTirade]

8. I wish I was as pretty as Mana.

:(

[RevolutionaryActs]

9. We all do.

:cry:

[DarkTirade]

11. I really need to find some kind of exercise that I can do in this weather.

I was starting to lose a little weight over the winter, but then all the rinks closed. :(

[skooooo]

14. It's sooooo hard..

...to lose weight and keep it off.
:(

I know where you're coming from.

[DarkTirade]

My problem right now is that I live in a house that has no AC, there's a heat wave

and to top it off... the only shower in the house is in the bedroom of someone who goes to bed by 8 pm.

And I'm not willing to spend 90% of my time smelling and feeling like crap. I left Florida to get AWAY from crap like that, and it followed me up here.

[skooooo]

20. Just do the ..

..best you can, and be patient with yourself. I know how you feel.




Hey, I want to get some sun glasses like the ones they wear in this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slHhOVjuKXk

[DarkTirade]

22. I'm impatient though.

:P

[skooooo]

25. At least we have Jpop!!!

:)

[Godhumor]

37. Mana without his make-up looks a little Michael Jacksonish...

Of course, nothing compares with just how horribly filthy Malice Mizer's lyrics really are.

[sasquatch]

39. You're in desperate need of a beating

:spank:
Feel better?
:D

[Lydia Leftcoast]

18. Oh, no! The Goth Lolita look!

n/t

[DarkTirade]

21. Cute, ain't it?

[sakabatou]

5. Watashi yo

Gackt - Redemption: http://youtube.com/watch?v=XUlbUnLrcQM

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10. I liked this..

way cool!! :thumbsup:

[opiate69]

19. Here's another great vid from Gackt..

"Returner"
http://youtube.com/watch?v=s3rFt9Jlo60&feature=related

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24. He's got a great voice. nt

[sakabatou]

38. And with long, silver hair

He looks like Sephiroth.

[DarkTirade]

12. Odd j-pop music video I just wandered upon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbEwiyNqlwA

[bbernardini]

15. Does Polysics count?

I tried some of their stuff, as I read that Devo sort of "passed the baton" on to them. Maybe I just tried the wrong album, but it was kind of annoying. You might dig it, though.

[skooooo]

16. Pretty cool - I like Devo

Check this out..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9aL7tQhnwI

[Lydia Leftcoast]

17. I enjoyed it in the 1970s and early '80sThe

So I have a collection of music from Pink Lady, Sawada Kenji, Yamaguchi Momoe, The Alfie, Alice, Saijo Hideki, Mori Masako, and others.

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28. How'd you get the music back then...?

I mean were you in Japan?

[Lydia Leftcoast]

31. Yes, I did part of my graduate work there

:-)

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32. Lucky you...!

That must have been very exciting and novel (more so than today even).

Did you stay with a family? Go to discos? Any fun stories?

[Lydia Leftcoast]

33. I lived in my own apartment, and the discos were too expensive, for the most part

However, I'd occasionally get invited to parties for foreign students. Once after such a gathering, I was walking back to the subway with a group that included a young Englishman who had auburn, Brillo pad hair.

A Japanese man ran up to him and said in English, "Excuse me. Are you Mr. Bob Dylan?"

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34. Were the Japanese youth..

...eager to befriend you?

[Lydia Leftcoast]

36. Not really

They were pretty shy for the most part. The ones I mingled with socially were either people who had studied abroad themselves or who had been introduced to me by older people in the neighborhood. But I spent most of my time with other foreign students, although none of them were American. (There were no other Americans at my school.)

To be fair, when I taught Japanese on the college level, I had to practically force my students to meet the 15 Japanese students who came on an exchange program every year. The American students, by and large, were NOT friendly to the foreign students.

But then, I found most of the students I taught completely indifferent to the many opportunities for enrichment available on campus. These events--music, theater, and dance performed by visiting artists or their fellow students, residencies or lectures by noted political figures or authors, foreign and independent films--were all kept alive by faculty and townspeople, not by students.

[ghostsofgiants]

23. When it comes to Japanese music I'm all about Eastern Youth.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrgjZzuvU8c

Granted those guys and Guitar Wolf are the only Japanese bands I know, but Eastern Youth kick all kinds of ass no matter what country they're from.

[bbernardini]

26. I forgot about another one: Box.

They released two albums in the 90s, I believe, although I've only heard the first one, "Box Pops." A brilliant Beatles-style album. Think Utopia's "Deface The Music" album with slicker-sounding production and a strange mix of Japanese and heavily-accented English.

[Maestro]

27. I'm mostly into JMetal/Goth

Dir en grey

http://youtube.com/watch?v=CGo5MBAiwaE

Girugamesh

http://youtube.com/watch?v=gvqkMzVxe8E

[skooooo]

29. Here's the favorite of what I've found so far - acoustic Miyavi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMsq9qH-4xs

[Taverner]

30. Pizzicato 5 is my fave personally

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

35. Yes - definitely

I'm a big fan of the cute-girl-singer-with-techno-backup variety. Sugar (though Korean, they also recorded in Japanese) was wonderful :loveya: and I adore what I've heard from Ayumi Hamasaki.