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Stone cold classics from Japan's past? Here's a few that steer well clear of the usual anime/idol tropes that you may be painfully familiar with. The Blue Hearts - Linda Linda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcvYz1xK7WI The Blue Hearts - Train Train https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxlJld2AxSo Very popular punk band, still very popular for karaoke and often used on tv/commercials. They're a lot tamer than their western contemporaries but they know how to make a tune. While the band split up a long time ago, some of the core members are still rocking in admittedly very similar sounding bands. C-C-B - Romantic ga tomaranai (Romantic doesn't stop) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo71KT4SUhw C-C-B was pretty much a one-hit wonder but their rhythm and sound is the epitome of Japanese mid-80's pop. Ringo Sheena - Koko de kiss shite (Kiss me here) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV1HLjeOEL4 A multi-genre singer-songwriter, she's gone on to much bigger, better and more famous projects but this was her first hit. Pink Lady - Nagisa no sindbad (Sindbad of the beach) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y6OihAlq-s One of Japan's first idol sensations, for an era in the late-70s Pink Lady was on TV and radio every day. Literally every day. They flew between studios by helicopter and didn't even take time off to allow one of the girls to recover from surgery. UFO is probably their most famous hit, but this is my favorite.
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Here's some popular Japanese songs you've probably heard in memes but didn't know much about. Yoshi Ikuzo - Ora Tokyo sa Iguda (I'm going to Tokyo) This got a fairly recent EDM remix but this is the original. It tells the story of a man who is unfulfilled by his antiquated home town, vowing to move to Tokyo. However, being from so far out in the country he has no idea about city life, and his plans for Tokyo life include keeping cattle and pulling a horse and cart. For most of his career the singer was a rather straight faced Enka singer but this is one of his rarer upbeat hits. EDIT: Almost forgot, very recently he did a special version to advertise Resident Evil: VIllage which plays on the lyric "I hate this village" ("Konna mura iya da") https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmL_LzDtl4k Hopefully this works in all regions Kohmi Hirose - Promise The song from the "Get Down" meme is actually a love song about (possibly empty) promises of eternal love. The lady herself has a fairly interesting back story as well, she mainly got into singing because she wanted to meet Michael Jackson, going so far as to move to LA and take lessons from his vocal coach. She recently got a second wind of popularity in Japan thanks to her Youtube channel where she does slightly unhinged piano covers of popular songs. And finally, not a great song (definitely not timeless at least) but worth mentioning in this context: Kyary Pamyu Pamyu - PON PON PON I think this was passed around a lot at the time as a "lol Japan is weird" type thing but they missed the point that this song and the video was made specifically to be as weird as possible (without being offensive) and for the few short years that Kyary was bankable she milked that aesthetic as hard as she could. RillAkBea has a new favorite as of 12:56 on Jan 19, 2022 |
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