Who likes japanese music

[Kathryn]

what type of Japanese music do you people like? for instance I like: Visual kei. Btw if you could name some of the bands/singers you like, that would be even better.

[Azure Chrysanthemum]

JAM Project is fairly rockin' in a shounen burning passion sort of way.

[NeoCracker]

I don't know many names of J-rock and such, but there are quite a few good songs I hear from time to time.

Some pretty horrid music too, but meh, it's to be expected.

[Araciel]

Can't say as I like it :S

[Aerith's Knight]

I love some japanese songs.. but not all of them in general.. but some themesongs.. and some japanese gamesongs are smurfing awsome ^^

[Namelessfengir]

i dont know the names/bands of half the songs ive been listening to for 20 damn years

[Big D]

I'll confess that there's a lot of Japanese music and musicians I only know through video games, but I still like 'em a lot. Risa Ohki, Utada Hikaru, Mr Goo, The Black Mages, and more besides.

Japan's also got some great classical performers, too - a really strong following for Western classics there.

[Tasura]

Oh man, last time this argument came up, it was a massacre. Visual Kei isn't a type of music, it is the style of the band, for instance, KISS is a Visual Kei band, following the definition.

But as for the Japanese music I like, mainly anime OSTs, Malice Mizer and Orange Range.

[Kathryn]

orange range
high and mighty color
dir en grey
GazettE
ayumi Hamasaki
Jade
Antic Cafe


all those bands are good Malice Mizer was good especially "color me blood red"

[Tasura]

I forgot to mention; Baiser, Larc en'ciel, UVERworld and ALI Project, mind you there are many more.

[Germ Hamee]

Aside from Video Game/Anime composers, the only Japanese musician I really like is Utada Hikaru. There's been a few other groups I've stumbled on that make good music, but nothing I really follow.

[JKTrix]

I don't particularly follow Japanese music, but there are a few groups I've been exposed to through anime and games and such. Two of my favourite 'discoveries' have been ikimonogakari and Asian Kung Fu Generation, I actually kind of follow every release they do now. They're both kind of Pop Rock groups. JAM Project gets me pumped too.

There are a lot more that I have and like, but I can't think of them off the top of my head and my iPod is not within reach. I started listening to 'Japanese music' a while back when I started trying to actually learn Japanese. While it doesn't really help me learn new words, it definitely puts them in my brain so I have an idea of how to say them.

Really though, most of my 'Japanese Music' comes from Yoko Kanno. Her stuff is mostly instrumental, but there are a number of excellent vocal pieces she's composed, particularly with Maaya Sakamoto (who I'm also a fan of). I have a lot--a LOT--of Kanno's music. About 80 CDs worth. I could (and do) listen to her music all day.

[Quindiana Jones]

Japanese kids.

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I really like Utada's new single: HEART STATION / Stay Gold.

[Rye]

Oh, she has a new single?

I'm not much of a J-Rock person, but I like some of it, mostly the stuff Kumar sends me, like Mad Caps Market.

I mostly prefer fruity J-Pop. I love Utada Hikaru, Namie Amuro, Ayumi Hamasaki, Kumi Koda, (She's Korean, but she's always lumped into J-Pop) BoA, Morning Musume... and Teriyaki Boyz, of course. <3