Japanese Music

[Duddy]

I like Linkin Park....

 

[uhohs]

Originally posted by: 1prophet

Originally posted by: Saint Michael
I pose this question to people who have taste (thus not to a certain forum member who's name need not be mentioned). What is some good contemporary Japanese music? I don't want to hear J-Pop or lame American Alternarock/EMO copycat stuff (in other words I don't want to hear flavor-of-the-month bullshit). I want some good music that has a staying power beyond the current hits season.

Retired at the age of 21 in 1980 and still considered by many to be the best female japanese singer ever.

Momoe Yamaguchi (the eternal idol)

Cosmos

Playback part 1

recommend this album if you are interested in her

The one who was suppposed to replace her.

Akina Nakamori (1982- present)

???? Akina - Meu Amor é...

Check out videos at stage6divx.com

Recommend Best, Best2, and Best3 albums also available at Amazon or their resellers.

<3

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[Isocene]

Wow I'm surprised there aren't more non-anime related suggestions! I spent some time in Japan to study and found a few groups I really like. No specific genre, its a bit over but all good music.

Misia
Mr. Children
Yuzu
Southern All Stars(older music though)
Dreams Come True

DCT and SAS are my favorite. SAS has so much stuff over the past million years to sort through, just get the best albums. My favorite DCT albums are Sing or Die, The Monster and Monkey Girl Odyssey.

 

[mlm]

Originally posted by: Saint Michael
Here's a question also for any native speakers, and it's part of the reason I'm looking for Japanese music: why does so little Japanese music seem to rhyme consistently? Is it because rhyming is not traditionally important to the Japanese ear? Or because Japanese is a difficult language to rhyme?

It's pretty easy to rhyme in Japanese, it just isn't important.

 

[mlm]

For shits and giggles....

JERO

(He's actually not bad at all)

 

[konakona]

If you want some techno, Kotoko is pretty good (sometimes gets on Oricon), and Kawada Mami did come out with a new album that is techno which is also good and did get on oricon.

More like trance, but yeah. I would say most stuff put out by I've Sound is great, though I am not too fond of MELL. Mostly a KOTOKO fan here, I thought the KOTOKO + Sato Hiromi unit was fantastic. As of late, I been developing a taste for Utatsuki Kaori (Chasse and Open comes to mind).

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

m-flo, Hikki, Glay, Chage & Aska, Shimatani Hitomi, Matsu Takako and Maaya Sakamoto among others.

 

[effowe]

Originally posted by: KeithTalent
Not sure about your criteria but for hip-hop type stuff I have been a massive fan of DJ Krush for years. One of my favourite tracks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVjgRlto8PI

If you get anything after MiLight, you will find some great Japanese hip-hop.

KT

He is the man, I saw him a few months ago and it was great. He did a collaboration with a Japanese Jazz musician by the name of Toshinori Kondo. I also suggest some of this for some down-tempo chill out jazz.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...iqyKOY&feature=related

 

[KeithTalent]

Originally posted by: effowe

Originally posted by: KeithTalent
Not sure about your criteria but for hip-hop type stuff I have been a massive fan of DJ Krush for years. One of my favourite tracks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVjgRlto8PI

If you get anything after MiLight, you will find some great Japanese hip-hop.

KT

He is the man, I saw him a few months ago and it was great. He did a collaboration with a Japanese Jazz musician by the name of Toshinori Kondo. I also suggest some of this for some down-tempo chill out jazz.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...iqyKOY&feature=related

Sweet, thanks. I love this kind of stuff. :thumbsup:

KT

 

[Yongsta]

I'm not into Jpop but Nobuo Uematsu Nobuo Uematsu 2 (later final fantasy series) and Yasunori Mitsuda / Yasunori Mitsuda 2 were 2 Japanese composers that I liked.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

After Dark was a crappy song.

AKFG is a decent band. But they have LOTS of mediocre songs. Rewrite was in my opinion, their best song, but whatever. I really don't think they are worth listening too anymore

Ayumi Hamasaki is like a cheese grater to the brain.
Koda Kumi = Whore.
FLOW is pretty damn good.
Supercar is also decent
The Pillows are a good band, though they have been moving a bit too much toward mainstream rock.
I actually like L'arc en Ciel. They limit their Engrish, and their songs are good. Of course, they ARE J-Pop so stay clear.
YUI is good in that she has a great voice, but her songs can be pretty depressing.

Yamazaki Masayoshi is good for more Guitar oriented pieces. Kind of like Greenday, but more mellow- Has Engrish, but the rest of the song makes up for it.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=t9-VPbpZiYE

Hyde has a pretty damn good voice and a reasonable collection of good songs.

 

[gamepad]

sailor moon theme song

 

[uhohs]

Originally posted by: gamepad
sailor moon theme song

which one? for moonlight densetsu i prefer the moonlips version over the dali version.
but my favorite sailormoon op would have to be the sailor stars one. <3

 

[Shaotai]

Originally posted by: EGGO
I like Hajime Chitose. She treats her voice very uniquely, almost like the early classical Japanese music.

Check out Tsuki wo Nusumu by Hajime Chitose. Definitely hits home and has a very emotional You can listen to the first 30 seconds here or sign up at that place for free and listen to the whole song (I do that so then I can stream hard-to-find songs).

Hajime Chitose is the BEST!
Natsukawa Rimi is also very good. Both are from Okinawa, the sound is soo unique...
The girl who sang the theme song to Geddo Senki is also Okinawan, also sounds great... Not sure if she released any other songs...

<---- (goes off to search her songs...)

 

[Saint Michael]

Damn, this turned J-Pop pretty damn quickly. Actually I guess that happened pretty early on, but it just goes on and on. Seriously, who would need recommendations for this stuff? If I just listened to random Japanese music on YouTube I would happen upon all this crap and a thousand other things that sound exactly like it with no effort.

 

[1prophet]

Originally posted by: Saint Michael
Damn, this turned J-Pop pretty damn quickly. Actually I guess that happened pretty early on, but it just goes on and on. Seriously, who would need recommendations for this stuff? If I just listened to random Japanese music on YouTube I would happen upon all this crap and a thousand other things that sound exactly like it with no effort.

How about some Chinese music then?

Road To Heaven - Alan & Han Hong ?? ?? «??»


Alan - Ashita e no Sanka ?????? ??

 

[Saint Michael]

Originally posted by: 1prophet

Originally posted by: Saint Michael
Damn, this turned J-Pop pretty damn quickly. Actually I guess that happened pretty early on, but it just goes on and on. Seriously, who would need recommendations for this stuff? If I just listened to random Japanese music on YouTube I would happen upon all this crap and a thousand other things that sound exactly like it with no effort.

How about some Chinese music then?

Road To Heaven - Alan & Han Hong ?? ?? «??»


Alan - Ashita e no Sanka ?????? ??

These are okay, I like that they actually incorporate traditional Chinese style.

Actually I've been listening to some Chinese classical music lately. I always thought Chinese music was really simplistic and tedious, but there's actually a lot of good stuff in the repertoire, and a good deal of it is as sophisticated and grand in scale as Western classical music. I still have this opinion of Japanese music though, as most of the traditional music there seems extremely bland and repetitive. But I'm glad to be corrected in my assumptions by examples of good, native music.