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well ive been listening to a japanese mand called Nightmare for a few years and,
I was wondering if anyone has any intrest in Japanese music either?
so there ya go.
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Hoo boy, just look at my iPod. I've got dozens of anime theme songs on there from all the anime I watch (From the totally awesome - Zetsubou Billy - to the completely random - Kiiroi Vacances).
As for actual bands, I love the music of Gackt and Utada Hikaru. Even the English versions of Utada's songs are pretty darn good.
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Aikawa Nanase. Worth listening to from time to time, pretty hot too:
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For my final year of High School, I had a choice for my final course selection. Do History from 8:30am to 9am or do Japanese during the same time. I took Japanese as it seemed like learning a new language would be more useful than doing the same boring course that I had been forced to do for the last five years before it. Eventually I started listening to Japanese music as a way to help my studying and also English music seemed to be dieing at the time as well. Soulja Boy, and the other crappy ones that came out around the same time actually made me not listen to any music in English at all for around a year or two >_>
Abigdon Boys School
Access
Akiko Hasegawa
Aqua Timez
Asian Kung-Fu Generation
Aya
Aya Hirano
Back-On
The Black Horn
BECCA
Bivattchee
Boom Boom Satellites
The Brilliant Green
An Cafe
Chiaki Ishikawa
Cloud
Cool Joke
Daisuke Ishiwatari (Blablue soundtrack if any were wondering)
Fairy Fore
Fire Bomber
Flow
Fripside
Galneryus
Halcali
High and Mighty Color
Hironobu Kageyama
Hitomi Takahashi
Kana Ueda
Kotoko
L`Arc~en~Ciel
Maximum the Hormone
May'n
Meg Rock
Megumi Nakajima
Miki Matsubara
Miwako Okuda
Muramasa
Nami Tamaki
Nana Kitade
Nightmare
Okui Masami
Orange Range
Origa
The Pillows
Porno Graffitti
Puppy Pet
Romantic Mode
Sahashi Toshiko
Satori Negishi
School food Punishment
The Seatbelts
See-Saw
Shinkichi Mitsumune
Siam Shade
SID
Skankfunk
Stereopony
Susumu Hirasawa
TM Revolution
Tetsuya Shibata
Tomoko Tane
Tsuneo Imahori
Two-Mix
UVERworld
Yellow Generation
Yoriko
Yoshihisa Hirano
You Izumi
YUI
Sometimes when I'm bored I'll find new songs based on how funny the name of the song/band is. Some work (Shut up and Explode, Only my Raigun, School Food Punishment) some others don't (Bump of Chicken)
Pretty comprehensive list, n0t_u. I have liked stuff from a few of those bands/artists.
Lately, I have been pretty into the stuff by RuRuRu and Wagdug Futuristic Unity.
A lot of people closely associate J-music with Anime and will stay clear of it if Anime isn't their thing. It is kind of a shame. There is a lot of like if you're willing to be exposed to it.
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Ketara wrote:Nobuo Uematsu and the Black Mages.
Now I feel shamed for not mentioning them. They are truly musical gods among men. Opera ~ Maria and Draco (From the Distant Worlds tour) is epic, as is the Japanese version by the Mages (Darkness and Starlight).
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I have a serious liking for The Mad Capsule Markets, They split up about a year ago but they are worth a listen, mixing punk rock with drum n bass. Needless to say they have a very unique sound (well, noise is more the word) and it's even more awesome when they try to sing in english. They admitted in an interview they cannot speak a word, and so some of the all-english songs are just random words plucked from a dictionary! (one such gem contains only the words:
'Explode the nerves wake possibility restart everyone) but at the same time is an excellent song
And that is why you hear people yelling FOR THE EMPEROR rather than FOR LOGICAL AND QUANTIFIABLE BASED DECISIONS FOR THE BETTERMENT OF THE MAJORITY!
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I've listened to UVERworld a bit, Sambomaster too, but only because it was the theme from Naruto, not much else to be honest, if anyone can give me some names/albums of some decent metal bands (Something like Lordi or Slipknot which I've been listening to a lot recently) then I'd be grateful ^_^
Mainly because when I go I'd like to have something Japanese related to talk about apart from Anime....
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Gackt is pretty decent for rock/metal. You might also look into the Black Mages and the music of Nobuo Uematsu...and L'arc en Ciel is pretty good for lighter rock. Don't know any Japanese metal bands, but maybe that's helpful.
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Kal'reia Sept Tau - Farsight Sympathizers Da Great Looted Waaagh! The Court of the Wolf Lords
Also, the extended soundtrack boxed set for Cowboy Bebop is worth a listen. The Seatbelts are one funky band...
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not on topic but the climax of this song to me sounds like Cthulhu dancing to a polka:
Run a whole lot of wfrp and other rpg's, play The Woods and Kill Team, gather and look mournfully at imperial guard knowing I'll never finish enough to use them on the tabletop
It's a latin word meaning 'underground', coming from underground or underworld (alsopartly the name of The Luna Wolves homeworld trivia fans)
They have a nice imagery going in their songs. Part social awareness (they are very pro-taiwan and anti-china), coupled with local taiwanese myths and legends and good old fashioned fire and brimstone, Hell imagery. Seriously, go out and get their last album "Mirror of Retribution", a wonderful concept album that I have listened to almost every day for the past few months ^^
I got into Malice Mizer back in the day; I remember it blew my mind that they were all men. lol.
I like Teriyaki Boyz, funny hip-hop that doesn't take itself seriously.
My wife's a Southern-All-Stars fanatic so she usually keeps a CD of theirs around.
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Locclo wrote:Gackt is pretty decent for rock/metal. You might also look into the Black Mages and the music of Nobuo Uematsu...and L'arc en Ciel is pretty good for lighter rock. Don't know any Japanese metal bands, but maybe that's helpful.
L`Arc~en~Ciel occasionally plays as their alter ego Punk~en~Ciel. Basically they just do covers of their own songs after a few members swicth places. At least they try to be more Metal. They've progressively became more and more lighter though.
The song I was looking for was Trick ~New wave of Japanese Metal Mix~, but that one is close enough.
Maximum the Hormone is Metal I guess, and High and Mighty Color sounds like they're going that way since they got their new vocalist, from what I've heard of their new songs.
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Pika_power wrote:Just your average anime fan here. Music from anime that I like, that sort of thing. No clue who the bands are, etc.
Oh, but I know Utada. Of course everyone knows about reversing her songs?
Unless you're referring to something else, I do recall that the English version of "Passion" ("Sanctuary") had a few lines that were reversed. Did she do it for other songs, or are you talking about something completely different?
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Kal'reia Sept Tau - Farsight Sympathizers Da Great Looted Waaagh! The Court of the Wolf Lords
Pika_power wrote:Just your average anime fan here. Music from anime that I like, that sort of thing. No clue who the bands are, etc.
Oh, but I know Utada. Of course everyone knows about reversing her songs?
Unless you're referring to something else, I do recall that the English version of "Passion" ("Sanctuary") had a few lines that were reversed. Did she do it for other songs, or are you talking about something completely different?
That's the most obvious, and some of the other ones sound as if they have backward lines too, although it's more perception there than anything else. It's not just the English version though. Passion has it too.
Kal'reia Sept Tau - Farsight Sympathizers 
Da Great Looted Waaagh! 
The Court of the Wolf Lords 
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