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Teutonic Knight
2010-02-24, 11:10 PM
I would like to request recommendations for Japanese music from members of the Playground. If you listen to Japanese music, please post your favorites and suggest a few if possible.

Below are the songs I already have. 99% of them come from anime. Thank you Gendou.com.

My two top favorites are (song - artist):
Velonica - Aqua Timez
Speed of Flow - The Rodeo Carburettor

My other favorites:
After Dark - Asian Kung-Fu Generation
Rewrite - Asian Kung-Fu Generation
God Knows... - Aya Hirano
For You - Azu
Wana - The Black Horn
Ash Like Snow - The Brilliant Green
Karma - Bump of Chicken
Life Goes On ~Side K~ - Chemistry
Period - Chemistry
This Night - Chemistry
Thank You!! - Home Made Kazoku
Hishoku no Sora - Mami Kawada
Friends - Stephanie
Kimi no Shiranai Monogatari - Supercell
Crawl - Veltpunch
Houki Boshi - Younha

Everything else:
Innocent Sorrow - Abingdon Boys School
Strength - Abingdon Boys School
Hitomi no Tsubasa - Access
Doubt & Trust - Access
Ketsui no Asa Ni - Aqua Timez
Sen no Yoru Wo Koete - Aqua Timez
Koufuku no Zouhei - Ali Project
Haruka Kanata - Asian Kung-Fu Generation
Hit in the USA - Beat Crusaders
Tonight, Tonight, Tonight - Beat Crusaders
Winterlong - Beat Crusaders
Ring My Bell - Blue Drops
sailing day - Bump of Chicken
Now Or Never - Chemistry
Wings of Words - Chemistry
Invoke - T.M. Revolution
Donten - Does
Shura - Does
Akatsuki no Kuruma - FictionJunction YUUKA
Honoo no Tobira - FictionJunction YUUKA
Colors - Flow
World End - Flow
GO!!! - Flow
Re:member - Flow
LEVEL5 ~Judgelight~ - fripSide
Only My Railgun - fripSide
Yura Yura - Hearts Grow
Ichirin no Hana - HIGH and MIGHTY COLOR
Pride - HIGH and MIGHTY COLOR
Bokutachi No Yukue - Hitomi Takahashi
Ima Kono Shunkan Ga Subete - Hoshi Souichiro
Hanabi - Ikimonogakari
Kaidoku Funou - Jinn
Shutsugeki! Impulse - Kajiura Yuki - Toshihiko Sakahashi
Style - Kana Nishino
Chu-Bura - Kelun
Tatta Hitotsu no Omoi - Kokia
Kizuna - Kra
Ready, Steady, Go! - L'Arc-en-Ciel
Daybreaks Bell - L'Arc-en-Ciel
Boys & Girls - LM.C
Joint - Mami Kawada
Sense - Mami Kawada
Life Goes On - Mika Arisaka
Brightdown - Nami Tamaki
Believe - Nami Tamaki
Moment - Nami Tamaki
Realize - Nami Tamaki
Reason - Nami Tamaki
Phantom Minds - Nana Mizuki
The World - Nightmare
Hero's Come Back!! - nobodyknows+
Asterisk - Orange Range
O2 - Orange Range
Shiawase Neiro - Orange Range
Tsumasaki - Ore Ska Band
Pinocho - Ore Ska Band
Sanagi - Possibility
Alive - Raiko
Yuki no Tsubasa - Redballoon
I Wanna Go To A Place... - Rie Fu
Shizukana Yoruni - Rie Tanaka
Fields of Hope - Rie Tanaka
Imitation - Sachi Tainaka
Seishun Kyousoukyoku - Sambomaster
Shoujo S - Scandal
Shunkan Sentimental - Scandal
Kimi Wa Boku Niteiru - See-Saw
Primal Innocence - Suzumura Ken'ichi
Uso - SID
Happy People - Skoop On Somebody
Discord Satellite - Snowkel
No Boy No Cry - STANCE PUNKS
Hitohira no Hanabira - Stereopony
Tsukiakari no Michishirube - Stereopony
Hajimari no Hi - Suga Shikao
My Pace - SunSet Swish
Ignited - T.M. Revolution
Vestige - T.M. Revolution
Meteor - T.M.Revolution
Zips - T.M.Revolution
Zips (Under Cover remix) - T.M.Revolution
Movin!! - Takacha
Emotion - Tanaka Rie
Near's Theme - Taniuchi Hideki
River - Tatsuya Ishii
Forever We Can Make It! - Thyme
Pray - Tommy Heavenly6
Unlimited Sky - Tommy Heavenly6
Paper Moon - Tommy Heavenly6
Justice and Freedom - Toshihiko Sahashi
Kira, Just As He Pleases - Toshihiko Sahashi
Please - Toyogughi Megumi
D-tecnolife - UVERworld
Colors of the Heart - UVERworld
Gekidou - UVERworld
Hakanaku mo Towa no Kanashi - UVERworld
Endscape - UVERworld
Life - Yui
Rolling Star - Yui
Again - Yui
Mizu No Akashi - Yuki Kajiura feat. Rie Tanaka

Everything in the albums Dareka no Chijoue, Kaze wo Atsumete, and Utai Sarishi Hana, all by Aqua Timez.

Baby Baby (Last Farewell) - Big Bang
World is Mine - Hatsune Miku Version - Hatsune Miku
~Reverse Rainbow~ - Hatsune Miku and Kagamine Rin
World is Mine - Kaito Version - Kaito
DoLL - TЁЯRA
13_CBS
2010-02-24, 11:24 PM
Well, if you like Japanese shamisen with modern influences, you could try...

KODO, by the Yoshida Brothers (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ron17xFNBf0&feature=related&fmt=18)

Uknown shamisen piece by unknown artists (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5rs7pfZuPs&fmt=18)
Lord of the Helms
2010-02-25, 12:07 AM
Not too well-versed in Japanese music, and most of it is metal of the more obscure variety (Metalucifer, Sabbat (not to be confused with the British band), Boris), but, given they're like one of the greatest bands in the history of Japan and apparently everyone who lives or lived there knows all about them:

This topic (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUhwNWzdIAc) needs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq3nr-njPow&feature=related) more (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoSOteq6Vsw&feature=related) X-Japan (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx_06NHall8&feature=related).

Though their music does not, to my knowledge, have a lot of actual traditional Japanese influences.
Starfols
2010-02-25, 12:27 AM
Um, I like Mosaic.wav.

Also Iosys, but that's for a different reason.

Fripside is also good, but I think you have that.
Teutonic Knight
2010-02-25, 12:38 AM
Fripside is also good, but I think you have that.

Only two songs. Anything from them that's good?
Brother Oni
2010-02-25, 10:02 AM
Any of Utada Hikaru's Japanese albums (First Love, Distance, Deep River or Heart Station). I'm still on the fence about whether I like her English language stuff.

If you like R&B styled music, Crystal Kay and Yuki Koyanagi are good.

Ayaka has some good standard j-pop (then again I'm biased as she did the ending for Crisis Core).

Kokia does a huge range of stuff, but mostly concentrates on vocal and some traditional Japanese-style music.

I see you've got some High & Mighty Colour in there - have you listened to any Luna Sea?


I'm not familiar with most of those bands you've listed, but Hamasaki Ayumi does some decent dance/trance stuff.
Mercenary Pen
2010-02-25, 10:50 AM
I realise anime music may not be your thing, but I have to recommend a good number of the songs from the series Macross Frontier.
Zom B
2010-02-25, 10:52 AM
I don't listen to any Japanese music, but I assume that the singer of the song that goes with this breathtaking WoW machinima (http://vimeo.com/5241163) is Japanese. The song is "Hide and Seek" by someone called Namie Amuro.
Zen Monkey
2010-02-25, 11:10 AM
A couple of light j-pop suggestions without being a lot of squeaking helium:

Hitomi - Japanese Girl
DJ Ozma - Bounce
Fan
2010-02-25, 11:27 AM
I suggest JAM Project, all of it.

Personally, I'd start with Skill, or Full Fire Wars.

Then any of the fan songs by Christina Vee.

Yes, I know this be anime music, hate on me not.
Brother Oni
2010-02-25, 11:34 AM
I don't listen to any Japanese music, but I assume that the singer of the song that goes with this breathtaking WoW machinima (http://vimeo.com/5241163) is Japanese. The song is "Hide and Seek" by someone called Namie Amuro.

I personally find Namie Amuro (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namie_amuro)'s songs of variable quality. Some are good, catchy pieces of pop, some are not so good.

That said, I haven't heard any of her new stuff, which is more R&B themed apparently.
Zen Monkey
2010-02-25, 12:55 PM
For a rather diverse mix of pop, catchy, quiet, and just odd; you could try the soundtrack to Katamari Damacy. Be careful though, the game is addictive and the songs do get stuck in your head.
Decoy Lockbox
2010-02-25, 08:58 PM
This (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-5vZJXjk30) just came out this year. Amazing band.
Lawless III
2010-02-26, 12:27 AM
I don't really listen to Japanese music much, but I love the pillows. The soundtrack to FLCL was mostly their music, but they have some great albums all over the board. I like Happy Bivouac, Kool Spice, Little Busters, and Runner's High. Not sure if they really mesh with what's been listed so far, but I hope you'll like them none the less.:smallsmile:

(If they actually were listed before, I apologize. I looked through your list, but it's easy to miss things in a wall of text.)
Tengu_temp
2010-02-26, 04:47 AM
Seconding JAM Project and the Pillows. I also enjoy Nana Mizuki's songs, though I haven't heard many of them beyond what she made for Nanoha and Endless Frontier.
Cubey
2010-02-26, 06:27 AM
From people not mentioned yet:

Kurikinton Fox! He did covers (Cruel Angel's Thesis, Lost My Music, etc), but also original work, for example this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpzv-XJ_RDM). His website is shut down though... I wonder did he go pro and leave this identity behind, or did he quit music altogether. I hope for the former.
Prime32
2010-02-26, 01:57 PM
Seconding JAM Project and the Pillows. I also enjoy Nana Mizuki's songs, though I haven't heard many of them beyond what she made for Nanoha and Endless Frontier.What he said. Except that I have no idea who the Pillows are.
Athaniar
2010-02-26, 04:48 PM
The original Cruel Angel's Thesis (Neon Genesis Evangelion theme) by Yoko Takahashi is awesome. I also like The World (Death Note original theme).

Yeah, most of my exposure to Japanese music comes from anime.
Teutonic Knight
2010-02-26, 08:56 PM
The original Cruel Angel's Thesis (Neon Genesis Evangelion theme) by Yoko Takahashi is awesome. I also like The World (Death Note original theme).

Yeah, most of my exposure to Japanese music comes from anime.

The World is there. There are of course anime songs that I had but are not there anymore. Among them include Cruel Angel's Thesis, Alumina, What's Up People, Zetsobou Billy, Kawaita Sakebi, Kaisei Joshou Hallelujah, Kizuna, and that's all I can come up with for now.
derfos
2010-03-02, 11:20 PM
No Flower Travellin' Band (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeepRATzreU) fans in this forum?