The Hillary Duff sounding song "Endless Love" from We Love Katamari soundtrack. So good!
This morning on the train I jammed out The Fantastic Plastic Machine's "too" which is total disco mindfuck.
― Jdubz (ex machina), Thursday, 10 November 2005 15:44 (7 years ago) Permalink
― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Friday, 11 November 2005 00:45 (7 years ago) Permalink
― Patrick South (Patrick South), Friday, 11 November 2005 01:28 (7 years ago) Permalink
spontine i had just bought LOve Jam, which is good, is Love punch better ?Also i bought Chara "a scenery like me but had yet to listen"
not strictly jpop but i highy recommend Takako Minekawa "Roomic cube" and "Chat chat".
any other suggestion, expecially greatest hits, since i can permit to go bankrut and i buy tons od diverse genre of music. Yeh a J-Pop compilation for the wester market would be a goodidea, but probably noone is interested....
― francesco brunetti, Friday, 11 November 2005 17:34 (7 years ago) Permalink
― francesco brunetti, Friday, 11 November 2005 17:36 (7 years ago) Permalink
Kinokuniya Books sells "The Best in J-Pop! Volume X" type comps for better (yet slightly inflated but nowhere near Japanese import) prices.. so SOME labels (in the U.S. at least) have seen a market for this.
They also sell domestic releases of Japanese bands like Polysics and, occasionally, Boredoms related stuff... Still, I wish the buyers at Kinokuniya would be more on the off-the-radar tip -- but the AOR Japanese pop, J-Pop, and Japanese underground customer bases tend to be mutually exclusive, I guess.
― (plurplurplur) ^_- DJ 'O' Nut -_^ (rulprulprulp) (donut), Friday, 11 November 2005 17:56 (7 years ago) Permalink
BABYMETAL! I have nothing else to say.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 28 October 2011 18:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
That's...quite something.
I guess there's always been a crossover between j-pop and metal with people like Aikawa Nanase and the vis kei bands but i've never heard anything like that.
― Mohombi Khush Hua (ShariVari), Friday, 28 October 2011 18:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
Do not ignore their homepage:
http://www.babymetal.jp/
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 28 October 2011 18:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
Amazing.
― Mohombi Khush Hua (ShariVari), Friday, 28 October 2011 19:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
― bob loblaw people (dayo), Thursday, 12 January 2012 13:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
Have to post this here as well
(This being Momoiro Clover Z - the music video is great as well, but the official upload's sound is muffled http://youtu.be/TIokp4MonxE )
Big, amazing song. Marty Friedman featuring seems like a normal sort of thing for these girls. There's also this article from Japan Times:
The not-so-odd coupling between noise acts and J-pop http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/fm20120223im.html
However, a lot of it is thoroughly sincere, and in Japan, the burning heart of this love affair is Momoiro Clover Z, a pop group who provoke squealing, teenage admiration from punks, indie kids, noise musicians and heavy-psychedelic longhairs throughout the Japanese underground music scene.One such progressive rocker is Taigen Kawabe of U.K.-based psychedelic band Bo Ningen. More often seen in Tokyo playing alongside noise legends such as Keiji Haino, Kawabe's page on the website SoundCloud leads off with a curious mashup of his own band and Momioro Clover Z in which the former band's shifts in rhythm match surprisingly well with the idol group's distinctive penchant for chopping aggressively (and sometimes illogically) between seemingly unconnected melodies.
One such progressive rocker is Taigen Kawabe of U.K.-based psychedelic band Bo Ningen. More often seen in Tokyo playing alongside noise legends such as Keiji Haino, Kawabe's page on the website SoundCloud leads off with a curious mashup of his own band and Momioro Clover Z in which the former band's shifts in rhythm match surprisingly well with the idol group's distinctive penchant for chopping aggressively (and sometimes illogically) between seemingly unconnected melodies.
Interestingly, Momioro Clover's recent single, "Roudou Sanka," written by Ian Parton of British band The Go! Team, met with criticism from some fans for being too commercial, and the Hyadain-produced (and Friedman-enhanced) followup, the elaborately titled "Mouretsu Uchuu Koukyoukyoku Dainana Gakushou", is defiantly back in the group's previous furious conceptual mashup territory
Roudou Sanka is actually great http://youtu.be/Krj3dwKEaSk
― abcfsk, Friday, 2 March 2012 18:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
the music isn't killing me as much as the video concepts, but the Megadeth guitar + Volga Boatmen Russian choral coda is definitely some kind of... thing? they're 9000 times less disturbing than AKB48 in any case, if I could take back watching that one video of theirs a friend forwarded I would
that Japan Times article is great though; Merzbow had been influencing western pop artists from the beginning of his career, but when Shiina Ringo began integrating full on Otomo Yoshihide levels of noise-solos in her pop songs it really did come across as national heritage rather than some kind of collage. almost confused Japan Times didn't reference Shiina even though she basically moved away from noise in 2004
― Milton Parker, Friday, 2 March 2012 20:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
Here's the song performed live with a full choir and marty on the guitar!
― abcfsk, Saturday, 3 March 2012 10:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
I fell asleep listening to Perfume's JPN last night and had weird acidy candy store french electro dreams.
― owenf, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 22:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
Whoa, I completely missed out on Momoiro Clover Z's nutsoid Christmas song:
― Doch! (seandalai), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 00:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
^ the best bit is when it goes SANTA
― owenf, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 01:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
Dude who writes most of their stuff:
― abcfsk, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 06:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
bet he's tired
― owenf, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 09:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
Sufficiently so to forget his many chords in the new Momoiro tune- http://youtu.be/fATvdleWPtU
― abcfsk, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 10:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
TAKE FIVE! puts me in this really nostalgic mood
― flagp∞st (dayo), Saturday, 17 March 2012 23:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
live track by Salyu, from her new Cornelius produced album
― zappi, Sunday, 18 March 2012 12:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
I realize that i should have typed GIVE ME FIVE!. TAKE FIVE! is a dave brubeck song.
― flagp∞st (dayo), Sunday, 18 March 2012 12:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
not often that i really dig auto-tune/vocoders. she has a couple great songs but i can't find youtube hosts of them.
― kelpolaris, Monday, 19 March 2012 00:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
here's a real treat
― frogbs, Monday, 19 March 2012 00:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
Grabbed the new Ayumi Hamasaki album yesterday. The first few songs are pretty good in a blatantly Rihanna/pop-trance kind of way, but the album's latter two-thirds are all ballads with gloopy strings. Don't love it.
― 誤訳侮辱, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 13:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
Saw L'Arc-en-Ciel at Madison Square Garden last night; reviewed it for the Voice. I took many more pictures than they used; I'll put some up on my blog, and link it later.
― 誤訳侮辱, Monday, 26 March 2012 14:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
I really like the Ayumi Hamasaki album! I'm not big on ballads and gloopy strings either but they are much more restrained and creative than that description usually suggests. With the exception of the last one (the single) which, yes, is a bit much.
― if, Monday, 26 March 2012 15:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
I don't know - my favorite of her recent albums is Rock 'n' Roll Circus, so with the title Party Queen I was kinda hoping for something more in that vein.
Here's the link to my L'Arc-en-Ciel photos.
― 誤訳侮辱, Monday, 26 March 2012 15:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
Meta new Perfume
― abcfsk, Sunday, 1 April 2012 09:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
amazing. As usual.
― owenf, Sunday, 1 April 2012 11:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
yep, that's good
― James Bond Jor (seandalai), Sunday, 1 April 2012 14:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/03/japanese-idol-on-support-by-eating-positive-from-wbc/http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/04/another-member-of-tokio-hospitalized/
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 20:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
this song, wtf. its like a Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure version of Jpop starring teenage girl space pirates, with choirs and the kitchen sink flung in. it feels like it goes on forever! the "aye aye sir" bits are pretty funny tho.
― zappi, Thursday, 10 May 2012 16:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah I posted about it some posts over you and their excellent Christmas classic also got posted.
― abcfsk, Thursday, 10 May 2012 16:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
Why didn't we already know about this:
http://bourdaghs.com/blog/
?
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 19:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
DescriptionFrom the beginning of the American Occupation in 1945 to the post-bubble period of the early 1990s, popular music provided Japanese listeners with a much-needed release, channeling their desires, fears, and frustrations into a pleasurable and fluid art. Pop music allowed Japanese artists and audiences to assume various identities, reflecting the country's uncomfortable position under American hegemony and its uncertainty within ever-shifting geopolitical realities.In the first English-language study of this phenomenon, Michael K. Bourdaghs considers genres as diverse as boogie-woogie, rockabilly, "enka," 1960s rock and roll, 1970s new music, folk, and techno-pop. Reading these forms and their cultural import through music, literary, and cultural theory, he introduces readers to the sensual moods and meanings of modern Japan. As he unpacks the complexities of popular music production and consumption, Bourdaghs interprets Japan as it worked through (or tried to forget) its imperial past. These efforts grew even murkier as Japanese pop migrated to the nation's former colonies. In postwar Japan, pop music both accelerated and protested the commodification of everyday life, challenged and reproduced gender hierarchies, and insisted on the uniqueness of a national culture, even as it participated in an increasingly integrated global marketplace.Each chapter in "Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon" examines a single genre through a particular theoretical lens: the relation of music to liberation; the influence of cultural mapping on musical appreciation; the role of translation in transmitting musical genres around the globe; the place of noise in music and its relation to historical change; the tenuous connection between ideologies of authenticity and imitation; the link between commercial success and artistic integrity; and the function of melodrama. Bourdaghs concludes with a look at recent Japanese pop music culture.
From the beginning of the American Occupation in 1945 to the post-bubble period of the early 1990s, popular music provided Japanese listeners with a much-needed release, channeling their desires, fears, and frustrations into a pleasurable and fluid art. Pop music allowed Japanese artists and audiences to assume various identities, reflecting the country's uncomfortable position under American hegemony and its uncertainty within ever-shifting geopolitical realities.
In the first English-language study of this phenomenon, Michael K. Bourdaghs considers genres as diverse as boogie-woogie, rockabilly, "enka," 1960s rock and roll, 1970s new music, folk, and techno-pop. Reading these forms and their cultural import through music, literary, and cultural theory, he introduces readers to the sensual moods and meanings of modern Japan. As he unpacks the complexities of popular music production and consumption, Bourdaghs interprets Japan as it worked through (or tried to forget) its imperial past. These efforts grew even murkier as Japanese pop migrated to the nation's former colonies. In postwar Japan, pop music both accelerated and protested the commodification of everyday life, challenged and reproduced gender hierarchies, and insisted on the uniqueness of a national culture, even as it participated in an increasingly integrated global marketplace.
Each chapter in "Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon" examines a single genre through a particular theoretical lens: the relation of music to liberation; the influence of cultural mapping on musical appreciation; the role of translation in transmitting musical genres around the globe; the place of noise in music and its relation to historical change; the tenuous connection between ideologies of authenticity and imitation; the link between commercial success and artistic integrity; and the function of melodrama. Bourdaghs concludes with a look at recent Japanese pop music culture.
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 19:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
ha ha as to the entirety of the samples chosen for Japanese Popular Music Since 1990
http://bourdaghs.com/Sayonara-current-JPop.html
will buy this book
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 19:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
that being said if he's calling 'KZK' her second instead of her third solo album, I will hope that the factual details in the rest of the book have been better proofed
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 19:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
Well how do you think I googled this thing up to begin with? Funny though, I hadn't even made it that far yet (to the page you link to).
Japan Times review here: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/fb20120513a2.html
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 19:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
And yes, that's some bad fact checking. University press too.
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 19:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
Had you seen this author's name previously?
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 19:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
There's a whole chapter on Misora Hibari.
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 19:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
certainly no way around that
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
new perfume!
― nathey, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 15:29 (9 months ago) Permalink
This one is way better than "Spending All My Time" imo:
Kind of weird how Spending/Hurly Burly/Point all sound old-fashioned in different ways.
― Cong rat ululations (seandalai), Thursday, 23 August 2012 22:13 (9 months ago) Permalink
yeah, I don't care for "spending all my time" at all, really. seems like a kind of lame and late to the game attempt to jump on the sound that's been all over pop music for a few years now. admittedly I don't like this sound anyway...
"point" and "hurly burly" are fun tho.
― (⊙_⊙?) (Alan N), Friday, 24 August 2012 16:48 (9 months ago) Permalink
But Spending All My Time still doesn't sound remotely like 'the sound' it's referencing, I mean, it's there in some form but the song otherwise more or less ignores it and the result is so different from that.
― abcfsk, Friday, 24 August 2012 16:53 (9 months ago) Permalink
yeah, maybe my hatred of those synth stabs is causing me to overreact but this sounds like a nakata rihanna remix to me. smoother and less frenzied, and yeah, agreed that the result isn't a carbon copy. but there's enough in the final product to irritate me.
but like I said, I'm a grouch about these productions in general.
― (⊙_⊙?) (Alan N), Friday, 24 August 2012 17:17 (9 months ago) Permalink
I like "Spending All My Time" way more than "Point." Too skittery and herky-jerky for me; the beat works against their vocal style.
― 誤訳侮辱, Friday, 24 August 2012 18:28 (9 months ago) Permalink
yikes, that really is in thrall to early Shiina
I have to say, I wish I could go to any of these Perfume shows. Shepherd's Bush isn't Tokyo Dome, but... more of the Dome show is up on youtube now, including the instrumental Capsule opening:
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 25 April 2013 17:52 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
YouTube Japan are streaming a series of live concerts and "original music programs" from April 27th to May 6th.smdh at all the Golden Bomber, intrigued by the idea of Hyadain playing live though.
April 27th – Golden Bomber / SEKAI NO OWARIApril 28th – Golden Bomber / AKB48April 29th – Golden Bomber / Kyrary Pamyu Pamyu / AAAApril 30th – Golden Bomber / BOOM BOOM SATELLITESMay 1st – Golden Bomber / NIGHTMAREMay 2nd – Golden Bomber / SEKAI NO OWARIMay 3rd – Golden Bomber / Shounan no Kaze / Koda Kumi / Yakushimaru EtsukoMay 4th – Golden Bomber / livetune / flumpoolMay 5th – Golden Bomber / Hyadain / Hamasaki Ayumi / VERBALMay 6th – Golden Bomber / Denki Groove
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 25 April 2013 20:04 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
oh there's this with clickable links
in the comments they say "Please be aware that all of these events are not necessarily live streamed, but can be archived concerts from before or music curator show showcasing each artists' favorite music." hmmmmmmm
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 25 April 2013 20:11 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
Managed to get Perfume tickets this time around.
― Chewshabadoo, Friday, 26 April 2013 08:11 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
Oh yeah! This is possibly going to be the weirdest gig I've ever been to.
― emil.y, Friday, 26 April 2013 11:10 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
― abcfsk, Saturday, 4 May 2013 04:25 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
I've been spamming the repeat button on this subtly catchy new SCANDAL single http://jpopsuki.tv/video/SCANDAL---Awanai-Tsumori-no%2C-Genki-de-ne/3f8e64544cc78af7457067c8f33bf005
Simple enough pop rock with a touch of elegance.
― abcfsk, Sunday, 5 May 2013 02:24 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
― abcfsk, Sunday, 5 May 2013 23:18 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
i have no idea what's going on here but it's strangely catchySumire - Nanatsu no Umi Yori Kimi no Umi
xpost Perfume make it all look so effortless
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Sunday, 5 May 2013 23:24 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
First thought on hearing that song is it's gotta be an anime theme song, and, yup.
I really like that Tokio Girls Style song! It sounds a like Nine Muses - Dolls, actually, but then Dolls sounds like a Jpop song, so XD.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 6 May 2013 06:32 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
New Pamyu Pamyu
― tarping, Monday, 6 May 2013 14:32 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Very retro, very sweet:
― scintilla (seandalai), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 21:16 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Love that.
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 22:39 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
^^^yup
tokyo girls' style track also sounding great to me. could use a rippin guitar solo but I'm still very into it.
"magic of love" seems fine but not super exciting? video looks like a target ad; wouldn't be surprised if it actually were one! but I really like the short sonic the hedgehog instrumental bits - those are pretty awesome. could see this growing on me more.
liking that kyary track. kind of a mess but maybe that's part of the charm? love the pre-chorus part with drum programming that would fit in nicely on a speed limit 140 bpm comp. and looool at the dubstep part, obviously.
― (⊙_⊙?) (Alan N), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 04:21 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Some funny metalhead comments as a result of this
― abcfsk, Saturday, 11 May 2013 09:06 (1 week ago) Permalink
ahaha! they were playing to an audience of kids at a zoo the other day as well.would be perfect if they were backed by MCZ cover band Metal Clone X.
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Saturday, 11 May 2013 10:28 (1 week ago) Permalink
One of my fave rnb singer songwriter flops JASMINE returns with another nice single, High Flying http://www.yinyuetai.com/video/663500
― abcfsk, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 06:16 (1 week ago) Permalink
Did a mix with japanese artists, Shibuya-kei, disco, j-pop, jrock... Hope you like it- http://www.mixcloud.com/tomaspinheiro/japanidades/
― tarping, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 23:55 (1 week ago) Permalink
Loving the mix, good work!
― scintilla (seandalai), Thursday, 16 May 2013 01:22 (1 week ago) Permalink
Yep, a good listen.
― Chewshabadoo, Friday, 17 May 2013 00:01 (1 week ago) Permalink
and here's the other new one from the "magic of love" single:http://lovetheperfume.tumblr.com/post/50917216856/handy-man-perfume
wow, I love this. and can anyone ID the sample running through it?
― (⊙_⊙?) (Alan N), Monday, 20 May 2013 20:29 (4 days ago) Permalink