Japanese Rock

[omarion111]

Does any one here listen to japanese rock? I;m looking for some new bands to listen to. I'm looking for stuff along the lines of The Pillows, Beat Crusaders, and Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad.

[suremanok]

I used to listen to a lot of J-rock back then but not anymore. I use to listen to L'Arc~en~Ciel, Dir en Grey, X-Japan, Pierrot etc.. pretty much any pop band. As you can see, I haven't kept up with J-rock. Got any recommendations?

[englandmj7]

I don't have any recommendations, but I was thoroughly surprised when I was doing some music-related research (as I always do) and noticed that these dudes are basically Japan's Rolling Stones with over 90 million records sold.........crazy, and I'd never even heard of them before:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B'z

[Tiranis]

'm looking for stuff along the lines of The Pillows

so far so good...

Beat Crusaders

ok

and Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad.

How the fuck do you listen to a manga/anime music group that never made any music?

[omarion111]

so far so good...

ok

How the fuck do you listen to a manga/anime music group that never made any music?

Download the soundtrack, i guess there songs are all covers but there sweet. Who is in Beck anyways, it sounds like the guy from husking bee singing, and that guy from ykz rapping.

[Ichigo100%]

If you want some J-rock, listen to some alice nine, BUCK, abingdon boys school..Thats really all i know...

im more into J-house though..

[billy dee williams]

mad capsule markets

missile girl scoot

ACiD

[steven]

balzac!!!!!11

[passant]

thee michelle gun elephant and guitar wolf are really doing it for me right now... (garage/punk/rockabillly)

[◕ ◡ ◕]

Asian Kung Fu Generation. very much like the pillows

Nature living. has a bit of screaming; hardly at that actually.

[Tiranis]

Asian Kung Fu Generation. very much like the pillows

The only j-rock I can stand, frankly.

[mrjuby]

Download the soundtrack, i guess there songs are all covers but there sweet. Who is in Beck anyways, it sounds like the guy from husking bee singing, and that guy from ykz rapping.

the songs from beck are mostly from the beat crusaders like the theme song and the one when koyuki sang with dying breed. i don't know anything else about japanese rock though.

[retemeris]

i saw the pillows live they were quite good.....except lots of REALLY fat kids screaming in japanese (who were not japanese) trying to crush you against the stage... that was a little off putting. asian kungfu generation, as mentioned before is pretty much along the same lines for more modern stuff. the noodles are alright too

[jimmyc]

I've always been a fan of the

Boredoms

[aziz]

Do you like Omarion?

[Renny]

The jap indie scene kicks ass:

ACIDMAN

Ogre you asshole

Bugy Craxone

Mono

World's End Girlfriend(post rock and electronic)

Go to keikaku.com... a whole list of jap indie bands

[partytaco]

not japanese rock but hardcore or punk...

G.I.S.M.

Death Side

the Comes

WarHead

Gauze

Systematic Death

Bastard

Confuse

Kuro

.....all amazing.

When the hardcore scene in the rest of the world went stale in the mid to late 80's Japan picked up the paces and put out some of the best records not only of the time but ever. Most of these releases went ignored because of limited quantites pressed and poor distribution outside of Japan. From what I understand Japan at that time didn't have any (or maybe just very few) vinyl pressing plants making it very expensive and hard to produce a record.

[aziz]

Gazette....

[pinkietan]

how about unsraw and rentrer en soi??

[wEstSidE]

thee michelle gun elephant and guitar wolf are really doing it for me right now... (garage/punk/rockabillly)

hhahaahahha thee michell gun elephant...yea that's the shit...

[Pogi]

Gazette

Art school

[Mr Calvin Oscar]

number girl!

[suremanok]

Hmm I'm gonna have to check out those indie and hardcore bands.

[Dachink]

Boris

Acidman

bloodthirsty butchers

Bugy Craxone

Spangle call Lilli line

CONDOR44

Supercar

Luminous Orange

Mono

[Pandemonium]

gackt (also, malice mizer)

gazette

l'arc~en~ciel

GO!GO!7188

dir en grey

janne da arc

asian kung fu generation

la-sadie's

KISAKI project

GLAY

just to throw some out.

[snickersnicker]

Everything Partytaco said, but you'll probably hate it all. Add Paintbox to that list, too.

Japanese stuff I dig:

Envy (hardcore punk turned post-hardcore turned post-rock..."All the Footprints..." and "A Dead Sinking Story" are crucial modern Japanese hardcore records...to this day the single most musically stunning show I've ever attended)

Toe (mostly instrumental math-rock)

Bloodthirsty Butchers (melodic Japanese punk; "Banging the Drum" is fantastic)

Luminous Orange (female-fronted shoegaze/dreampopish stuff; very good)

Endzweck (fast, fast raging Japanese hardcore with a sort of poppy feel, if that makes any sense)

LITE (sort of At the Drive-Inish...very mathy and explosive; I have the album "Filmlets")

Nice View (try to get "Thirteen Views"; more modern Japanese punk/hardcore with a sort of rough edge)

One-Thousand Travels of Jawaharlal (dynamic, fast Japanese hardcore)

Popcatcher (melodic, laid-back pop-punk/rock)

Spiral Chord ("Nonai Friction" is great; alternately gritty and melodic Japanese punk)

Nine Days Wonder (criminally underrated very melodic mid-90s style post-hardcore; "The Scenery is in Disguise There" is a good album)

Hope that helps. If you need any help finding any of those, shoot me a PM and I'll upload some next time I'm on a decent connection.

[totally epic]

Boris, Melt Banana, Mono, Envy.

[snickersnicker]

I'm going to have to go against everyone in this thread who mentioned Boris or Mono. Honeslty, that stuff is awful. It's bad enough that every other American band is jocking that style, but now so many Japanese bands are doing that instead of being in awesome raging hardcore or thrash bands the way they should be. Put down the bong and chuck that Orange or Sunn amp for a shitty Gibson and some GISM records.

EDIT: I forgot to include them on my list above, but Forward is the best Japanese hardcore band today (with a member of Deathside, how couldn't they be?). They're not as intense as a lot of their influences, so they're a good band to look into if you're currently into more mainstream Japanese bands but want to get into Japcore. "Fucked Up!" isn't hard to get ahold of.

[totally epic]

Wait...have you listened to Pink? That album is brilliant.

[asuzano]

acid mothers temple, boredoms, and august born are it for me...japanese psychedelic is where its at alright..