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JPOP/J ROCK
Aphi:
Hmmmm.....
Are the 5,6,7,8s Chinese or Japanese? Ah, well. They're great anyway. Nothing like asian girls imitating american surferpop.
Aw, come /on/. You know, Kill Bill? The band of barefoot girls in the house of blue leaves? The 5,6,7,8s!
Skibas_clavicle:
Japanese I believe. They rock, totally agree with you, Aphi.
niatinari:
Mix of Jpop, Jrock, Visual Kei, Euro/Guro names (some of them just go all over the board) that I enjoy:
Maaya Sakamoto-- familiar with Escaflowne or RahXephon? The opening themes are hers, along with the image songs. Some of her stuff is rather filk in style
Gackt-- dresses up like Char from Z Gundam currently. Getting back into his older style and losing all the random "wooo-ooo-oooo" warbling and overused dakishimetes is good for him. I don't think he's made anything I don't like though
L'Arc~en~Ciel (also P'unk~en~Ciel and D'ark~en~Ciel)-- watch FMA? READY STEADY GO is their work. Also featured in Kenshin (The Fourth Avenue Cafe) and who knows how many other animes
Dir en Grey -- scary fangirls, good music. Harder stuff with occassional Kyo scream, but they do the occassional ballad too (including full orchestra in Ain't Afraid to Die~with frosted ambience)
Miyavi-- varies with the song. If you like Dir en Grey, you might enjoy it.
SID-- somewhat jazzy. Mao sings with a odd sort of breathy desperation.
Malice Mizer -- their style depends somewhat on which "era" the song was made during (Tetsu, Gackt, Klaha). the Gackt stuff is somewhat more catchy (e.g. Brise, Ma Cherie, Apres Midi); the Klaha era is a bit harder
Hide (of X-Japan)-- if for nothing more than his awesome guitar ability
Hyde (of L'Arc~en~Ciel)-- if you like his band, you'll probably like his solo work
Asian Kung-Fu Generation -- of Naruto and FMA fame. catchy stuff
Orange Range -- of Bleach fame. They make me think of a mix of Porno Graffiti and Asian Kung-Fu Generation
Porno Graffiti-- the song Melissa and Agehachou is a good place to start. fast paced, bouncy, depressing lyrics to happy music much?
Yoko Kanno-- Did you like the music from Cowbow Bebop or Wolf's Rain? you already like her work
I don't know why, but a lot of Two Mix's music makes me think of Take on Me. Best way I know to describe them. I also think very much of the 80's.
And does anyone remember Luna Sea?
Anyway I'm done recommending for now ^^
JLM:
Define "Pop."
For more traditional JPop, there's always Utada Hikaru, Minmi or Boa, Dragon Ash, Smap...
For more rockin' stuff, there's Orange Range, L'Arc en Ciel, Flow... of course Puffy Amiyumi who everyone probably knows for their Teen Titans theme more than anything else :/
Yoko Kanno is interesting, though not really Jpop, since a lot of her stuff is really orchestral in nature. I'd almost put her at pure electronica.
Dudette634:
If you have the international channel you should definatley watch pop japan tv, that's a good show and it was what introduced me to some of the stuff I know. The only band I know of that no one else mentioned is Zone. They rock, as do Orange Range and Nami Tamaki. Sowelu is pretty good too. Also without a doubt all the music from Gravitation, I can't remember for the life of me what the band is called at the moment though. I'm sure Aphi could help me out here as she has a rockin avatar featuring the main character from that show :).
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