Old Japanese music

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This I think could possibly be special interest status for me, but is anyone else into old Japanese music? By this I mean, about 10 years or so old at the least, but mostly meaning around the 80s and early 90s. The reason I specifically ask for older, it's sorta easy to find fans of newer J-Pop and J-Rock, but it becomes like exponentially harder to find fans of the older stuff, especially English speaking ones. So yeah, I'm not expecting terribly much action in this thread, but I'd like to showcase some older J-Pop/J-Rock stuff I like, and if anyone else has stuff they like that's from the same timeframe, please feel free to show it off or discuss it here.

So here we go!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_1Dws68-PY[/youtube]
Boowy, one of the first really popular J-Rock groups, copying their name from David Bowie. Lots of good stuff by them, but overall not my favorite group of that era I've heard, but really some great shining songs that came out by them.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aycV59FkfwY[/youtube]
Koji Kikkawa, don't know too much about him, but heard 2 songs by him I quite liked.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMyAZh_BT4s[/youtube]
Kyosuke Himuro - Kiss Me

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaufM9HA_p0[/youtube]
TM Network, one of my favorite groups. They did the theme for Char's Counterattack in Gundam ("Beyond the Time"), and for City Hunter ("Get Wild") so if you're a big anime fan, you may have heard them before. Really huge group back then in Japan, and were one of the first groups to do visual concerts, and had one album called Carol which was a concept album, and it's a pretty marvelous album imo.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNRAmecPz1E[/youtube]
MAX is pretty much your standard girl pop group, but I quite like them. Their heyday was mid 90s, so a bit newer than most of the stuff I posted, but yeah. They also paid a lot of homage to my other favorite genre of music, eurobeat, and made lots of Japanese covers of eurobeat songs, which I think is really cool of them.

So that's a small portion of the older Japanese music I like. I also like Japanese jazz fusion of that era, and then there's the stuff like Yellow Magic Orchestra, the weird out there electropop made by them that's so great. Anyway, I doubt I'll get much response here, but if anyone has any older Japanese music to post, please share it. Thanks.

There's some old J-pop I like too. I was mainly exposed to it through anime. Eventually I discovered I really like a decent amount of it and I listened to it quite often back when I was in high school. I was a little embarrassed and often hid the fact that I listened to Japanese music from people who weren't my close friends. If it was as socially exceptable to be into Japanese stuff as it is now I would've explored even more Japanese artists when I was younger. For now I'll list my top 3
Megumi Hayashibara
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h47E66dSn5c[/youtube]
Hikaru Utada
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_QVB4Qdh6o[/youtube]
Two-Mix
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3I2r0viGyA[/youtube]

I like "makenai de" by ZARD:


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XI3FD0Xzfo[/youtube]

Mine would have to be "Teenage Dream" from DEEN which came out about 15 years before Katy Perry brought out her song of the same name
(see: "I Kissed A Girl" by Jill Sobule for an english language example of what I'm talking about).

Not 90s J-pop, so... o.o

I really like Okabayashi Nobuyasu. "私たちの望むものは" is my favorite song by him, hands down.
Here are a couple of different versions:

The best:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6R13Nx2Nhg[/youtube]

Other:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNXBp0ISF6M[/youtube]

And Kyu Sakamoto is one of my loves. He's so cute, too.
I've learned a lot of Japanese from his songs.

The standard "Sukiyaki" ("上を向いて歩こう"; "I'll Walk Looking Up," or something like that.) First and only Japanese language song to reach the top of the Hot 100.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zghHcP8_go[/youtube]

Some more Sakamoto.


His cover of 支那の夜 (China Nights)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaqBIDuQFrA[/youtube]

"Miagete goran yoru no hoshi wo" live
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKS3G_3tJEc&feature=related[/youtube]

Does anyone else like stuff like the songs I posted above?

I'm an X-Japan/hide fan. I always try to talk about them in forum threads for Jrock,, but I never meet other fans. I'd like someone who knows them to give me other recommendations.

[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 like that one very much, Auntblabby.

Me too.

my mother was japanese, so i grew up listening to traditional japanese melodies. my late german father described it all as "belly ache music."

Idk if it's old enough to be considered but I like the music at the end of Outlaw Star. Always have.

Singer: Akino Arai

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz1508RBx2w

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." 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