Someone Explain Japanese Pop/Rock Bands
I Just Plain Don't Understand Them. Can Someone Please Explain Why These Japanese Even Think This Crap Is Good? I Mean, They Take Something That Is American, Then Make It As Bad As Possible! What The Hell!
Potarius
12-02-2006, 23:22
Pop Rock. Why do you think it isn't shit in the first place...?
Anyway, listen to the real Japanese Rock bands, like Guitar Wolf. You'll change your mind.
Alinania
12-02-2006, 23:23
Anyway, listen to the real Japanese Rock bands, like Guitar Wolf. You'll change your mind.
Hehe...never heard of them, but the name sure does sound very Japanese :p
Potarius
12-02-2006, 23:24
Hehe...never heard of them, but the name sure does sound very Japanese :p
They're pure, grungy, dirty Rock 'n' Roll. It's good stuff.
The Similized world
12-02-2006, 23:59
Try some GISM or Ultra Bidé
Megaloria
13-02-2006, 00:02
I'm on the fence about it, but I assure you that I loathe the fans of it, who seem to be mostly youngsters who eat anything that Japan coughs up as if it were a blue ribbon pie.
Super-power
13-02-2006, 00:10
I Just Plain Don't Understand Them.
Well maybe you might if you learn to speak Japanese!
Adriatica II
13-02-2006, 00:36
I Just Plain Don't Understand Them. Can Someone Please Explain Why These Japanese Even Think This Crap Is Good? I Mean, They Take Something That Is American, Then Make It As Bad As Possible! What The Hell!
Why do you start all your threads like this? Every Word Begining In Capital Letters? Seriously, it isnt accurate and looks silly
Teh_pantless_hero
13-02-2006, 00:42
Why do you start all your threads like this? Every Word Begining In Capital Letters? Seriously, it isnt accurate and looks silly
I don't even read them, it's worse than all caps.
My friend, you miss the appeal. For most guys it's a matter of skimpy dressed women bouncing energetically.
For most gals, it's a matter of very pretty boys alternating tossing inoccent looks with naughty ones.
Japan's just a little bit more honest than the US where it's the same thing. ;)
I Just Plain Don't Understand Them. Can Someone Please Explain Why These Japanese Even Think This Crap Is Good? I Mean, They Take Something That Is American, Then Make It As Bad As Possible! What The Hell!
Because there is no bad American rock or pop of course: every song by Britney Spears or Kelly Osbourne is a masterpiece that fills the listener with transcendent joy.
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
13-02-2006, 01:25
Because there is no bad American rock or pop of course: every song by Britney Spears or Kelly Osbourne is a masterpiece that fills the listener with transcendent joy.
Of course, the depth of philosophical thought in Toxic demonstrates a level of understanding of the human condition not often seen:
With a taste of your lips
I'm on a ride
You're toxic
I'm slipping under
With a taste of poison paradise
I'm addicted to you
Don't you know that you're toxic
And aren't we all, on a ride with the taste of someone's lips? Even as we live, do we not feel that we are slipping under the waves of this modern existence?
Don't you know that you're toxic?
That one quite probably would sound better if she sang it in Japanese: you wouldn't notice how godawful the lyrics are, though the fact that she has a singing voice similar to a goose being fisted would still be a problem.
The Similized world
13-02-2006, 01:35
Forget my recommendations then. They're neither sexy, untalented crap or meaningless.
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
13-02-2006, 01:37
That one quite probably would sound better if she sang it in Japanese: you wouldn't notice how godawful the lyrics are, though the fact that she has a singing voice similar to a goose being fisted would still be a problem.
One of the main reasons for listening to music in a language you don't understand, the meaning lyrics don't matter, so you are free to enjoy the form of the words:
Oh, that woman is singing in Italian?
Sounds nice, what is she singing?
Oh, its a song about diarrhea, nevermind.
That said, Japanese just sounds silly. German, Russian, and any romance language are the best for music.
Forget my recommendations then. They're neither sexy, untalented crap or meaningless.
Could be worse, could be this:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?d...4044258&q=hinoi
Grave_n_idle
13-02-2006, 02:09
I Just Plain Don't Understand Them. Can Someone Please Explain Why These Japanese Even Think This Crap Is Good? I Mean, They Take Something That Is American, Then Make It As Bad As Possible! What The Hell!
Japan has some crap, and some good stuff. America has some crap and some good stuff.
I'd much rather listen to Mad Capsule Markets (Japanese Punk-ish), than Britney Spears...
New Foxxinnia
13-02-2006, 03:17
Indian music pwns everything else.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5995556455415798282&q=tunak+tunak+tun
Bodies Without Organs
13-02-2006, 03:24
Try some GISM or Ultra Bidé
Or Lipcream, CFUDL, Merzbow, Ruins or Zeni Geva.
The Similized world
13-02-2006, 03:48
Or Lipcream, CFUDL, Merzbow, Ruins or Zeni Geva.No on all counts. You made the same mistake as me. Same genre even. But ok, I have no idea how Lipcream looks, so I suppose they might be sexy... I seriously doubt it though.
It's all about Boris (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_%28band%29).
Bodies Without Organs
13-02-2006, 03:54
No on all counts. You made the same mistake as me. Same genre even. But ok, I have no idea how Lipcream looks, so I suppose they might be sexy... I seriously doubt it though.
'Sexy'? Huh? If you have a thing for late-80s Japanese male crusties possibly, but 'sexy' doesn't really spring to mind in connection with the band.
Daistallia 2104
13-02-2006, 04:52
I Just Plain Don't Understand Them. Can Someone Please Explain Why These Japanese Even Think This Crap Is Good? I Mean, They Take Something That Is American, Then Make It As Bad As Possible! What The Hell!
One of two things happening here: Either you've only heard the crap bands or you're just a blind racist nationalist who refuses to see anything good from outside the US. I suspect the latter.