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Your favorite music!
I was wondering what music you guys listen to, especially Japanese music. I'll start with:
Dir en Grey
Neil Young
Red Hot Chili Peppers
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Dir en Grey
Neil Young
Red Hot Chili Peppers
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Home Made Kazoku
FLOW
UVERworld
Suga Shikao
YKZ
The following bands I've been a big fan of for a long time:
Dream Theater
Rage Against the Machine
Incubus
Audioslave
A Perfect Circle
Silverchair
For almost 8 or 9 years my favorite bands have been in one order or another:
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Less Than Jake
Reel Big Fish
Naturally I've also been into Weird Al for as long as I can remember.
I have an eclectic taste in oldies ranging from AC/DC to The Temptations.
A couple of "local" bands like Jimmie's Chicken Shack and GUTA.
And as for Japanese music, I can't really name any bands I listen to besides Asian Kung Fu Generation but I still love the Trigun OSTs, and really want the ones for certain games, like Earthbound, Chrono Trigger, and a Final Fantasy (probably VI)
Edit: And how can I forget Weezer, especially the Blue Album.
YUKI
MOVE
Suneohair
UVERworld
HIGH and MIGHTY COLOR
Yuki KAJIURA
Yuuka Nanri/FictionJunction YUUKA
The japanese sure like that Caps Lock key :O
The Cure
Miles Davis
The Smiths/Morrissey
Jimi Hendrix
Skinny Puppy
Right now I'm listening to a lot of jazz and blues, mostly John Coltrane and Muddy Waters.
I haven't found myself listening to ANY Japanese music lately. My girlfriend keeps listening to Shakira's Hip's Don't Lie which makes me want to KILL.
I'm listening to my own band Abikyokan, cause we've just finished a CD and we have to listen to it over and over to make sure there are no glaring mistakes.
I like right now.
Animetal.(Moonlight Densetsu.)
Dragonforce.(Operation ground and pound.)
Anna Tsuchiya.(Rose.)
Lady-tron.(Evil.)
Home made kazoku. (Shounen heart.)
bands/composers I have like for a long time.
Beat crusaders. (Tonight, tonight, tonight.)
l'Arc~en~Ciel. (Driver's high.)
Yoko Kano. (Inner universe.)
Voltaire. (When you're evil.)
Pink Floyd. (Welcome to the machine.)
J.A seazer. (most of the utena OST.)
Boa. (Duvet.)
Ishikawa Chiak. (Utsukushi Kereba Sore de Ii.)
Radiohead
Cake
Pink Floyd
The Velvet Underground
Interpol
Of Montreal
Louis Jordan
I like everything except for modern country. Right now I'm particularly into some of the west coast indie bands.
I can't stand Japanese music because it a) is way too American Idol-ish/girl pop superstar-minded, b) is often oddly atonal, and c) tends to have nonsensical lyrics.
The Avalanches
The Beatles
Cat Empire (just heard about them recently)
George Gershwin
Paul Simon
Yoko Kanno
Yuki Kaijura Isn't that like me saying that I don't like American music because it a) is way too American Idolish/Boy Band superstar minded, b) is too twangy, and c) tends to have misogynous lyrics?
What I mean to say is you're painting with an awfully big brush there to describe a music industry of a size comparable to the US music industry and judging all Japanese music by Morning Masume is no more fair than judging the entire US music industry by the Backstreet Boys.
For your second point, I will say that some of my favorite Japanese music is oddly atonal the vast majority unfortunatly isn't. It might be that because its something you see in Japanese music with a greater relative frequency in Japan people who are fans of Japanese music might disporportionally like that kind of thing, and so if theyr'e trying to convert you or something they'd use a lot of it.
As to nonsensical lyrics - do you speak Japanese? If you mean that many Japanese songs have badly used English in them then I can see how you could think that. It seems that at least the Japanese music I listen to has drastically improved in the quality of the English used over the last ten years, with the hiring of a fair number of native speakers to help out with that aspect of it (even if the singers don't neccesarily pronounce everything perfectly). Please remember that the average Japanese person's command of English isn't that much better than the average American's command of whatever language they learned in High School and even if Japanese bands sometimes inserting random english words into their songs can be painful, let me assure you that listening to "Domo Arigato Mr. Roboto" can be painful for someone who understands Japanese as well. If you meant that the Japanese lyrics don't make sense instead then I'm afraid I have very little sympathy for you.
Internets music:
Jeph Jaques
Tom Smith
Escape Key
(Semi)Popular music:
The Doors
The Fugees
And beyond that it's all musicals.
Barenaked Ladies
Cake
Queen
Offenbach (classical composer)
Bulldog Mansion
The Presidents of the United States of America
Tenacious D
Smash Mouth
Weird Al
/I kid
Weird Al
Battlestar Galactica soundtracks
Blue Man Group
Apocalyptica
Rasputina
Darling Violetta
Tenacious D
Cat Empire
Man Man
Tom McRae
Tegan and Sara
VNV Nation
Sufjan Stevens
Poe
Snail Ramp
Asian Kung-Fu Generation
I'm probably the only person who knows of most of those bands... beyond Rym, who I think I shared the majority of my music collection with the last time I visted Beacon.
Gansta Rap (other rap specifically excluded)
Contemporary R&B;
Limp Bizkit and bands like them
Fantomas Due partly to most of the above being on the Mac after you shared them with me, the list of bands I'm currently listening to is identical to yours. ^_~
Nightwish, Rhapsody, Epica, Kamelot, etc. Many of those bands have orchestral arrangements in their songs.
Therion uses orchestral stuff quite often as well.
Listening to Right Now
Strapping Young Lad
Dragonforce
Behemoth
Dimmu Borgir
Slayer
Kamelot
Epica
Kiuas
Lamb of God
Buckethead
Old Standbys
Metallica
Megadeth
Anthrax
Dream Theater
Blind Guardian
Rhapsody (without the fire)
Manowar
Apocalyptica
Pain of Salvation
Children of Bodom
Tori Amos
Deicide
Nile
Cannibal Corpse
Iced Earth
Cradle of Filth
Opeth
Therion
Bands I Need to Get Into
Jag Panzer
Lacuna Coil
Finntroll
Mayhem
At the Gates
Amon Amarth
Celtic Frost
The Greatest Musical Artist, Band, Group, or What Have You, to Ever Walk the Face of the Goddamn Earth, Hands-Down, No Discussion
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Favoritest Rapper/Vocal Poet
Sage Francis
The Arcade Fire
Fiery Furnaces
Sigur Ros
The Decembrists
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
M. Ward
The Microphones
Toby Keith
Mouth Music
Dar Williams
But my top 10 is as follows (for the most part in no particular order):
Metallica(1st place, even if all the others aren't)
Dir en grey(this would prolly rank number 2, lol)
Alice in Chains(ok, I lied. THIS is number 2)
Asian Kung-Fu Generation
Franz Ferdinand
Beck
Apocalyptica
N.EX.T(These guys pwnz the Guilty Gear XX Korean OST)
Gorillaz
Of course, I'm a big fan of lots of game music, although I must say that I find Nobuo Uematsu to be highly overrated. I mean, yeah, he gave us One Winged Angel, and yes, he was responsible for the Advent Children OST, but other than that his music just doesn't move me (which is my primary gauge for how much I like music). And, since everyone else added this:
Weird Al
Japanese Music
Gackt / Malice Mizer
L'arc~en~ciel
Moi Dix Mois
Do as Infinity
Nahoko Kakiage (she's so... Bjork)
Akino Arai
Metal!!11zomg
Kamelot (my favorite band of all time)
Epica
Kiuas
Apocalyptica
Therion
Nightwish
Within Temptation
Sonata Arctica
Blind Guardian
Stuff that is neither Japanese nor Metal
Vanessa-Mae (another all-time favorite, crazy violin)
Voltaire
Vienna Teng
Frou Frou
Andrea Bocelli
Enigma
Loreena McKennitt
Better than Ezra