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15 Feb 2012, 2:37 pm

Some stuff that I like:

Taj Mahal Travellers:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLlgdH-SJ_w[/youtube]

Flower Travellin' Band:(RIP Akira 'Joe' Yamanaka, Aug, 2011)

(2008 Reunion show)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCAk2VThkzQ[/youtube]

(1971 Heyday)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI1lEluipBE&feature=related[/youtube]

Flied Egg:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eQOsb7H56w&feature=related[/youtube]

Les Rallizes Denudes:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5SCWu7cMBo&feature=related[/youtube]

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15 Feb 2012, 5:06 pm

I think this girl was pretty good when she was young:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP7bcwP8HLE[/youtube]

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15 Feb 2012, 6:40 pm

auntblabby wrote:

ue o muite aruko [i'll look up when i walk]- a sad song written by Rokusuke Ei [japanese author/tv personality whose high-fashion girlfriend dumped him] as a means of cheering himself up. it was given the name "sukiyaki" by an american disc jockey because he correctly judged that americans couldn't make head nor tail out of "ue o muite aruko." just the same, it would be the same situation if [the song] "moon river" were issued in japan as "beef stew." :roll:

anyways, the lyrics refer to a man who looks up and whistles while he walks so his tears won't fall.
unfortunately, the singer of that song, kyu sakamoto, (clicky!)died in the august 12, 1985 crash of japan airlines flight 123, the deadliest single-aircraft accident in history. RIP Sakamoto Kyu

Indeed. I have a minor Sakamoto obsession.

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18 Mar 2012, 11:53 am

"Ue o Muite Arukō" 上を向いて歩こう

"Sukiyaki", IMHO, is a timeless piece of master craftsmanship, lyrically and melodically, and so beautifully Japanese in its message! It is also the only Japanese song to reach the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart in America! I love the original stereo recording as well, with the instruments panned hard left and right.

If you like 60s surf/garage rock guitar, Takeshi Terauchi and The Bunnys/ The Blue Jeans is really great stuff, and Terauchi-san is a very technically advanced, soulful and inventive player.

I also really enjoy the enka/pop music often heard in late 50s early 60s Japanese pop cinema.

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19 Mar 2012, 12:30 am

Bandini wrote:

i've never been able to find the stereo [lp version] original, though i did hear a very close 70s era remake in very high fidelity stereo sound, using the same arrangements.

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19 Mar 2012, 12:55 pm

i have to come back here when i have my headphones on--it looks like a great thread!

my acquaintance with j-pop pretty much begins with the Shibuya-kei sound (mid-90s), which i regard as somewhat culminating with Fantasma by Cornelius. on an unrelated note, i love what Fushitsusha i have heard (not much).

now for OLD OLD japanese music, there's nothing in the world like that music they use in Noh plays. (i thought that's what THIS thread was going to be about.) --if nothing else, it certainly disproves the saw about music being a universal language...

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20 Mar 2012, 8:53 am

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JahD8xvWggg[/youtube]

was i surprised when i found out how much my lp of this was worth!

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20 Mar 2012, 8:55 am

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS51heRa1-E[/youtube]

i may have posted this somewhere else, but you can't have too much pink lady

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20 Mar 2012, 9:07 am

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsqDeowB8e8[/youtube]

they were playing Shonen Knife all the time when i was in Seattle the winter of '91-'92 but i wasn't converted till i heard Brand New Knife (US version, 2005).

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21 Mar 2012, 12:37 pm

graywyvern wrote:

"Twist Barbie" is the one that got me. i cant remember witnessing
anything that cute, brilliant and hilarious in a song before.

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21 Mar 2012, 8:55 pm

These guys were favorites of mine when I was a headbangin' teenager in the Eighties.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldXJSfX9Bpk[/youtube]

And after they signed an American record deal, they got a makeover: New name, new look, poppier sound, and (very probably) some English lessons.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAt3Qmk_nAw[/youtube]

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22 Mar 2012, 8:51 am

auntblabby wrote:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF_eiCvvieQ[/youtube]
my kind of japanese music- the late master harpist lily laskine, displaying extraordinary mastery of her instrument [this is a 1969 recording], emulates the sound of a koto [in places] on her pedal harp. this song is so sad yet happy

yet sad.

ms. laskine is accompanied by jean pierre rampal on flute, who, in places, emulates the sound of the shakuhachi [japanese bamboo flute].

i've heard many renditions of that song, but this may be the most beautiful one of all.

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22 Mar 2012, 3:32 pm

graywyvern wrote:

i've heard many renditions of that song, but this may be the most beautiful one of all.

i wish i had the technical facilities and expertise to post on youtube, i have one other version that i like a lot, which is a mix of old and new.

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22 Mar 2012, 5:15 pm

10 years at least (I began listening to Japanese music in the early 2000s...):
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTKwrPaoNxw[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0sjNXRcvDk&ob=av2e[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo2fGpKMsXo&feature=related[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w6yuFNuZGI[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrexEHH9LcI[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuHex_nxTCY[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo7oP2n87U8[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgHgYpTbsSc[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fvqZ4qFLRE[/youtube]
And this one is almost an 80s song,...it's from 1992:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lbCxU1yOo4[/youtube]

And this one sounds older than it is (release: 2001):
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cVoauKyHTE[/youtube]

This is probably more appropiate:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeH2JvY9fvM[/youtube]

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28 Mar 2012, 5:55 pm

I like Tokunaga Hideaki, a song from back then was Mayonaka No Liberty but sadly I can't find it anywhere as a clip.
There was also a soundtrack that I had, from a Japanese Surfer movie, I loved it and I can;t remember the name of the band. It was a band where the Japanese singer was fluent in Spanish and one of the songs in the movie was Love Potion no 9. If anyone can tell me the name of the movie or band that would be great!

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04 Apr 2012, 1:44 pm

I really like Cosmos by Momoe Yamaguchi (1978)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe5UezkwSxM&feature=channel[/youtube]

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