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Title: Cool Japanese Bands
Post by: Barklessdog on February 23, 2008, 05:54:14 AM: Maxium The Hormone- What's Up People
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od5v7f67J4o

Buck Tick - Dress
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtY9Uq-98zs

Ali Project- Seishoujo Ryouiki
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNu2TTV-8PI
Title: Re: Cool Japanese Bands
Post by: gweimer on February 23, 2008, 11:14:06 AM: Gito Gito Hustler
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEayWNrFxhE
Title: Re: Cool Japanese Bands
Post by: Lightyear on February 23, 2008, 07:14:39 PM: Quote from: gweimer on February 23, 2008, 11:14:06 AM
Gito Gito Hustler
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEayWNrFxhE

Damn!! 8) Just like 1978! Except they're girls and they're kinda hot and and the lead singer plays a Rick - move over Sushana Hoffs - you've been replaced! ;D
Title: Re: Cool Japanese Bands
Post by: PWV on February 23, 2008, 08:47:55 PM: I always dug this, but not in a way I'd let anybody else know:
:-X

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rKM7B9Q-yc&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rKM7B9Q-yc&feature=related)
Title: Re: Cool Japanese Bands
Post by: nofi on February 24, 2008, 07:32:03 AM: chicken. ;D i have always been a big fan of zorn and ' eye'. particularly good on the painkiller lps with bill laswell.
Title: Re: Cool Japanese Bands
Post by: Lightyear on February 24, 2008, 07:42:39 AM: Quote from: PWV on February 23, 2008, 08:47:55 PM
I always dug this, but not in a way I'd let anybody else know:
:-X

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rKM7B9Q-yc&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rKM7B9Q-yc&feature=related)

:o ??? :o ??? WT*!?!?! I feel like my ears have just been raped ;D What is it that I have just watched/heard - performance art? what? Am I getting that old and out of touch? ???
Title: Re: Cool Japanese Bands
Post by: Dave W on February 24, 2008, 09:18:04 AM: Quote from: lightyear on February 24, 2008, 07:42:39 AM
Am I getting that old and out of touch? ???

Back in the old days we preferred the gentle vocal stylings of Yoko Ono. This modern stuff is harsh compared to her crooning on "Don't Worry Kyoko". ;D
Title: Re: Cool Japanese Bands
Post by: Barklessdog on February 24, 2008, 02:21:14 PM: Quote from: lightyear on February 24, 2008, 07:42:39 AM
:o ??? :o ??? WT*!?!?! I feel like my ears have just been raped ;D What is it that I have just watched/heard - performance art? what? Am I getting that old and out of touch? ???

Cool, avant/noise rock/music has been around since John Cage. Just not something that's radio friendly.
Fred Frith
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoQ6py9NF-I&feature=related
Hurra Torpedo- Rush inspired?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OemgQuSUb8
Title: Re: Cool Japanese Bands
Post by: Nocturnal on February 24, 2008, 04:27:31 PM: I still like this band a lot. Uwe posted a link to them way back at one of the Pit's and I went and bought some of their stuff. Plus the bass player plays an Gibson RD copy that looks pretty hot IMHO.

Dir En Grey

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tgq4laQxW6w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al7nhSXKlsA
Title: Re: Cool Japanese Bands
Post by: Lightyear on February 24, 2008, 06:26:02 PM: Quote from: Barklessdog on February 24, 2008, 02:21:14 PM
Cool, avant/noise rock/music has been around since John Cage. Just not something that's radio friendly.
Fred Frith
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoQ6py9NF-I&feature=related
Hurra Torpedo- Rush inspired?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OemgQuSUb8

I like Hurra Torpedo - they've got an interesting appoach to music :). The first one just wasn't my cup o' tea ??? :P

Dir En Grey

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tgq4laQxW6w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al7nhSXKlsA

I liked these guys too - is the chick that with white RD copy that we've been seeing from the neck down here? Can't really see her in the vids
Title: Re: Cool Japanese Bands
Post by: chromium on February 24, 2008, 07:49:56 PM: Quote from: Barklessdog on February 24, 2008, 02:21:14 PM
Hurra Torpedo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OemgQuSUb8

Nice, tight kick sound. That's it - I'm buying an ice box!
Title: Re: Cool Japanese Bands
Post by: Nocturnal on February 24, 2008, 10:29:06 PM: Dir En Grey

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tgq4laQxW6w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al7nhSXKlsA

I liked these guys too - is the chick that with white RD copy that we've been seeing from the neck down here? Can't really see her in the vids
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That chick is a guy. Although the entire band used to look like little Japanese girls a few years ago!
Title: Re: Cool Japanese Bands
Post by: uwe on February 25, 2008, 05:00:16 AM: Dir en Grey or, say, Einstürzende Neubauten or early John Cage'ish Velvet Underground are about as much "performance content" as I can take if I want to listen to music repeatedly. A little industrial/noise is ok. If it's more I can perhaps dig it at a one-off performance, but it's nothing that would revisit my CD player. But then that is why it's called performance art.

I liked Laurie Anderson - are Herr Reed and her still an item? - but then her stuff was pretty sophisticated with light and shade and not so much onslaught throughout.
Title: Re: Cool Japanese Bands
Post by: Lightyear on February 25, 2008, 07:51:26 PM: "That chick is a guy. Although the entire band used to look like little Japanese girls a few years ago!"

Quote from: Nokturnal on February 24, 2008, 04:27:31 PM

Plus the bass player plays an Gibson RD copy that looks pretty HOT IMO

:-[Well, all I saw was bass player and hot - I know that "RD" registered somewhere in there though ???

I guess I was still hung up on Gito Gito Hustler ;D
Title: Re: Cool Japanese Bands
Post by: TBird1958 on February 26, 2008, 12:08:07 AM: "That chick is a guy. Although the entire band used to look like little Japanese girls a few years ago!"

I love it that our threads seem to go here................ ;D
Title: Re: Cool Japanese Bands
Post by: Lightyear on February 26, 2008, 07:49:22 AM: Quote from: TBird1958 on February 26, 2008, 12:08:07 AM

"That chick is a guy. Although the entire band used to look like little Japanese girls a few years ago!"

I love it that our threads seem to go here................ ;D

I knew this would haqppen :) Truly an oversite on my part - I'm fixated on the neck down shot of the Japanese girl with the white ESP RD.

At least John hasn't seen this yet - threads like this take a turn when the Badgermaster chimes in :D
Title: Re: Cool Japanese Bands
Post by: Barklessdog on February 26, 2008, 08:08:55 AM: This guy is a chick

Melt Banana
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAdC2GtvgRA
Title: Re: Cool Japanese Bands
Post by: uwe on February 26, 2008, 08:52:14 AM: With music like this, I wish our former allies would go back to surprise attacking naval bases again. ;D
Title: Re: Cool Japanese Bands
Post by: Lightyear on February 26, 2008, 07:31:17 PM: Which guy is a chick?
Title: Re: Cool Japanese Bands
Post by: Barklessdog on February 27, 2008, 05:40:33 AM: The singer
Title: Re: Cool Japanese Bands
Post by: Dave W on February 27, 2008, 10:07:26 AM: Well, my favorite Japanese band isn't Japanese, but the two principals are. And at least you can tell they're chicks.

Cibo Matto is no more, but Miho Hatori (the singer) is still doing solowork.

Cibo Matto - Birthday Cake (live): http://youtube.com/watch?v=1MFpy-yw9G0