np: Travis: Coming Around

It amazes me how quickly they went from the most underrated band (Good Feeling) to the most overrated band (The Man Who) and back to underrated (Invisible Band.)

Sigur Ros: Looking forward to their new album for this year, also Radiohead.

Sigur Ros - Vaka

Yes definitely. Look in our Books! Thread and you will see everyone loving this book.

Positivity is by far my favorite song by The Flare. It's the type of song I hope OSCA is when they say "speedy rock."

Hey, don't get me wrong. I love both guys, but prefer SRV overall. The only bad cover I've heard of Little Wing was by Steve Vai. Vai is an amazing guitarist, but surprised me with how weak his rendition was. It's like his brain and fingers shut down for a couple of minutes.


Currently listening to: Iron Maiden - The Trooper

I expect something like Hide - Doubt >_<


Bank Band - Hero (Mr. children cover)

Yano Maki - "Mahou" (Music Station 2001)

I think this is my second time posting this, but I can't stop being obsessed over this performance. >_<;; And I'm 95% sure it's Kameda in the background now. I think that's his bass, and I spotted glasses. 8D

Oh, I liked this cover. o_o Who is it by? >_<;;;; I've never really checked out Jaurim, although I've been meaning to. Are they still doing music now?

Aiko - Hanabi

On repeat

I always get hooked to new songs during my all nighters at the U

Sugizo's also called "The Walking Porn", you know? lol! Go look for his SUPER LOVE and DEAR LIFE PVs, I couldn't stop laughing when I saw them!

Badtzmaru, Jaurim is Korean. I don't know much about them, but they're kinda pop-rock, and the vocalist has pretty outrageous costumes. When I told my Korean friend that I liked Tokyo Jihen, she pointed me to Jaurim. But I think Jaurim is far far away from TJ.

Kaela Kimura - Ground Control

My god, Jpop english lyrics that actually make sense (uhhh...at least it follows most grammatical rules)

For a person whos half british her accent is really ehhhh...but i guess Kaela English has a flavor of its own.

Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra - Stroke Of Fate

Most of the band members get their turn to solo, and all the solos are awesome.
This is probably my favorite song of theirs.

didn't really think they were her lyrics, just surprised any jpop song has anything resembling grammatical structure. I thought they fcked up their grammer on purpose.

Haha
kind of like they say in Lost in Translation:

Charlotte: Why do they switch the Rs and the Ls here?
Bob: Oh, for yuks. You know, just to mix it up. They have to amuse themselves ‘cause we’re not making them laugh.

FAKE? has superior English lyrics to any other J-pop or J-rock band. Of course, they also have a half-Brit, half Japanese singer who just happens to be named Ken Lloyd. :P

Shiina Ringo - Akane Sasu Kiro Terasaredo

King crimson "Islands"

Anathema - Hope

Dio - Holy Diver

Utada hikaru - Blue

Kaela Kimura is awesome. I liked her first two albums a bit more than her newest one, but some of the songs on that one are great too.

I kinda like the new one better than circle. But happiness is still my fav Kaela song

I just heard Kringson King's Island for the third time.
No reason to stop now...

Reeeeally. I'll have to listen to it a few more times then. I thought Circle was really strong compared to Scratch.

Beautiful fields - Last Exile OST

It is fan made video that combining King Crimson's most beautiful song and surrealism paintings.

I can't stop laughing to watch Youtube's most viewed King Crimson vid (back in '81)
It was like Adrian Belew band. (BTW, he is American)
Only Robert Fripp(gr) was same member from Islands recording,
Bill Bruford(ds) was member from '72, Tony Levin (bs) played Chapman stick.

Elephant Talk

from Steve Hackett's The Tokyo Tapes

In the Court of the Crimson King

Watanabe Kazumi and other Japanese Musicans covered most famous song

21st Century Schizoid Man

21st Century was imaginary future back in 1969 when this song was made.

Heart Bazaar - Kitakaze To Taiyo

I am totally digging Heart Bazaar now.
I never would've imagined this, but I'm actually liking them more than Acidman.

This just appeared on youtube recently, one of my favorite passages in Oum Kalthoum's recorded oeuvre. (Sounds better on CD. This is probably many generations away from the original.)

Oum Kalthoum - Baid Anak (intro.)

(And hello to anyone who noticed I was gone. Either way, I was taking a break. I temporarily overdosed on SR a couple months ago and needed a break.)

:o But Acidman is easily the best mainstream active band in Japan right now. They've yet to have a bad release and "and world" is the greatest thing ever.

SADS - Making Mother Fucker

I dislike how the Youtube's pause when the whole Youtube part of the window is not visible. At least on my Windows box. Anyone else notice that? I wanna leave the music from this page in the background, but that means I have to open it up on the main youtube site, or just sit still and don't move a muscle and keep that thing on screen. Which means forum activity dies. :-\

Oum Kalthoum - Baid Anak (intro.)

I pre-ordered the and world limited edition. Oddly enough that release took nearly a year to sell out.

The album is quite a trip and I'd say Equal is their next best thing.

But the thing about Acidman is that they weren't really an acquired taste for me. I was digging their material right away, but at the same time it's become a little overplayable for me. I'm finding it's more difficult to overplay Heart Bazaar, or at least in my own experiences anyway.

The Rodeo Carburettor - Outblaze

on repeat: Aya - Baghdad sky

Currently listening to part 1 of the BBC documentary on some modern bands re-recording Sgt Peppers to celebrate it's 40th birthday using only the original equipment (And subsequently showing the shortcomings of modern artists). Looking forward to part 2, if only for A Day In The Life (Don't know who's covering it).

Ned Rothenberg: Inner Diaspora

My favorite release so far this year, not that I've heard that many.





Kind of on the modern-classical-meets-jazz-meets-various-ethnic-traditions tip, so you have been. . . warned?

Oh, I attented his concert with Sam Bennett, Tanaka Yumiko and Yagi Michiyo.
Feb 8 1997 at Shinjuku PIT-INN.
He played circular breathing shakuhachi improvisation.

I thought of you when I posted about this album. This seems like the type of thing you'd like. It's actually pretty accessible though, for this side of thihngs. (He doesn't play a whole lot of shakuhachi on this, though.) This is very composed material, but it sounds like there's a fair amount of space for improvisation as well. Every musician playing on turns in an excellent performance. Violinist Mark Feldman, who appears on a lot of other Tzadik releases, in particular stretches out in wonderful (but rarely dissonant or difficult) ways.

Kent - Stanna Hos Mig.
I haven't heard anything like this in a long time.

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Kent rox. Did i recommend em to you?
Kevlarsjal and Kungen ar Dod are great ones too off the same record.

^ responsible

Le Muhr - Generation Destruktiv

I saw this band live yesterday. The female vocalist reminded me of Ringo through clothes, style, and charisma. This music however is "synthpop in Swedish".

Le Muhr - Stulen

http://lemuhr.se/
http://lemuhr.se/musik.html
http://lemuhr.se/pasadena.mp3
http://lemuhr.se/stulen.mp3
http://lemuhr.se/generation.mp3

That sounds like a kind of political song for a Japanese artist. Is it?

& Kent, I guess they are a very talented band, but they only remind me of being a fourteen-year-old geek with pink hair and no self-confidence :unsure:<_<

Tasogare Naki and Tasogare Naki for Mother on repeat. :)



I can't tell from the English in the song if it is or not (though it's doubtful), but here are the lyrics.


SAIDO MIRA- ni wa awai utsuro na sora
RAI mugibatake wo samayotteru BATAFURAI
soshite atashi wa kooritsuita yume

mune ni daita mukizu no mirai
tadashii owari nado nakute
tomadou keredo kuyami wa shinai

So, You don't have to kiss me & say good night
asu wo egakezu torinokosarete
Does anyone care if I cannot say goodbye?
koe wo nakushite tachitsukusu dake
tachitsukusu dake...

tachiyuragu kagerou GASORIN no kaori
ano hi atashi wa eien ni kieta

kawarihateta mujou dakara
hito wa koe wo age nageku
hitotsubu sae wasure ya shinai

* So, You don't have to kiss me & say good night
aenai negai wo hanataba ni shite
Does anyone care if I cannot say goodbye?
toki ni se wo muke arukisaru dake
arukisaru dake...

( http://www.corichan.com/lyrics/album...aghdad.html#10 )

You wish. :P It was Jonny.

Listening to: Kings of Convenience - Singing Softly to Me.

The Strokes - The Modern Age

I'm really a fan of simple but rawkin' music.

If you like that, download The Libertines - Up The Bracket. Very similar kind of rock, but with more consistently good songs, in my opinion. The album alone pretty much rejuvenated the British rock scene.

That's only what I found too, but have a hard time reading romaji so can't really tell.

Just "gasorin no kaori" would be the smell of gasoline. :-P

Younha - 思い出にできない (omoide ni dekinai)

The Beatles - Rain

My mom said when this song came out, she and her brother and sisters thought it was the coolest sounding thing in the world.

Mikami Chisako - Rain

(cover of ^)

Luna Sea - Rain

koda kumi - rain

Guns N' Roses - November Rain

Thom Yorke - And It Rained All Night.

Bonnie Pink - It's Gonna Rain!

Aya - Singing in the rain

prince - purple rain

m-flo - Magenta Rain

The White Stripes - Red Rain

Ozzy Osbourne - Black Rain

Glen Miller - Blue Rain

any member in the state listen to Interpol? they are only one US band playing Post Punk as I know and found them very interesting, I like the vocal expecially.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=-jTKtlM9v...related&search=

GO!GO!7188 - Ame Nochi Ame Nochi Ame

inspired by the rain theme (ame=rain)

SR - Yami ni furu ame

Furukawa Miki - Rain Song

Led Zeppelin - The Rain Song

Aww, mellotron

Noodles - Brain child

Nina Simone - My Baby Just Cares For Me

hàl - Cafe Racer

mass of the fermenting dregs - i f a surfer

(i'm like starting to wonder what that title really means. I forgot a surfer, Instantly formally aggregated surfer, In fandango a surfer, Immortal feromone and surfer, Indian falloses at surfer, Irritation feels awkward surfer, Independent freedom apple surfer, I fucked a surfer?)

Dir en grey - Disabled Complexes

The first half of this song is amazing and then the switch to the high-gain channel...

Luna Sea - Blue Transparency

All their songs are written by "LUNA SEA".

Shiina Ringo - Tsumi to Batsu @ otakara show

FAKE? - Used to be a Bad Thing

1, 2, sugar free and go

CONDOR44 - good night 44th music

OMG this song is so mugg's taste O_O

FAKE? - HATE IT

Proof positive that Pablo is the ultimate badass.

Björk - Homogenic album

IVY - Lucy Doesn't Love You

Polynesian Folk Music - Tahiti Drums

:unsure: What happens? I love it :wub:

Ayaka Hirahara - Niji no Yokan

Olivia - Dekinai

I discovered that song at Otakon (nerd fest) two years ago while I was in one of the music video rooms, and I was like WHOOOAAAA

It was really loud and gooood

Shiina Ringo - GAMBLE ZCS Ver.

Bob Dylan - When The Deal Goes Down

such a pretty video too. scarjo <3

Faithless - Blissy's Groove

Indeed. Scarlett Johansson FTW!

Travis Covering Lovely Rita For Sgt Peppers 40th Anniversary

Aya - Nobody

kick ass!!!

Sweet Pokemans Battle Music!!!

FAKE? - Drip

John Williams - Duel of the Fates (Dialogue Version)

Star Wars Episode 1 wasn't a particularly great movie, but it has an awesome soundtrack.

The Phantom Edit kicked ass tho, glath!
(guy re-edits Phantom Menace to cut out all the needless bullshit. Its actually really good. Worth tracking down.)

What shit? Jar Jar?

I'd rather not waste my time downloading the credits :P

Yorico - Asadoya Yunta

Such a simple, beautiful, piece of music from a masterful singer.


w00t, 50 pages!

Currently Listening to: Epik High - "Algo Boni"

I heard about her costumes. >_< Augh, I still need to check them out.

Sorry I'm late, but welcome back!! :D I hope you're back from her break now. @_@

That happens to me, too. @_@

That was the same for me, but I felt like I had to get acquired to their latest releases, the and world era and after.

You listen to m-flo!?!? :waa:

I don't always check this thread so I didn't know that someone replied when I posted that Jaurim performance. :P Anyway, that's not a cover song, it's one of their original works (though they did release a cover album I believe). And I have to say, those are probably the *best* English lyrics I've personally heard from an Asian artist. Especially in terms of grammar. Just look at the following line -

"I don't know what to believe in, whom to rely on"

She even uses the object form of "WHO"! That's just awesome.

Jaurim has been active since uh...1997 I believe. They broke up after the release of their fourth album but it didn't last long; they reunited like a year or two later, and are still doing stuff today. Kim Yuna, the lead singer, has also done some solo albums. Some of their work is more lighthearted/pop-ish, but they also have a lot of darker stuff like that song I posted. I only got into them recently but I love their music.

Here's another song that's really good, this time in PV form. I wouldn't know how to translate the title myself since my Korean sucks, but I usually see it translated as "Broken Flower" or "Falling Flower" or something along those lines.

Jaurim - Nakhwa

and world is brilliant. It was instant love for me. Acidman is filling the Luna Sea void for me. And yeah, I listen to m-flo occasionally.

Oblivion Dust - sinking

Hmm, that is pretty cool, Redstuff! o_o But is she fluent in English, or did they get help with the lyrics? I liked "#1" a lot more than this one. >_<

Maou, what did you think about green chord?? I liked it less than and world. o_o

Currently Listening to: Bonnie Pink - "Water Me"

Hey a PV by Jaurim has been playing recently on TV. It's the one where it has all the girls in black and green outfits dancing... You wouldn't happen to know what it was? I really liked that song and I'd like to check them out more.

Listening to:
Utada Hikaru - BLUE
Shiina Ringo - hatsukoi shoujo

Fame, do you live in Korea?!? O_O

Nope! But I am not in America or Europe.

I rank it below and world and Equal, but above Sou and Loop.

Iron Maiden - The Trooper

Kent - kärleken väntar

This song rocks.