I know its a long shot, but does anyone listen to JPOP or JROCK in Hexus?

[sawyen]

so thats it? thats everyone?

[Rave]

I went through a phase of listening to a lot of Every Little Thing, and I like the cheesier tunes from DDR like Butterfly and Dub-I-Dub. In general, if it's cheesy pod/dance, I like it.

[sawyen]

What do you guys think of the JRock links I posted?

[digit]

I like a bit of Jpop and Jrock now and again. I've seen Polysics in London about 5 or 6 times now. Pretty damm crazy it was and I throughly enjoyed it everytime I'm quite keen on the music featured in the DDR games and being an avid fan with approx 2000 DDR step files I have heard a fair bit of J POP. I'll have to have a look at the links from you tube at another time. By the way is Intial D the movie any good? The game if its related in any way completly sucks.

[sawyen]

Initial D the movie is probably the best one yet.. but perhaps a little rushed.. nonetheless still legendary..

Only complaint is that it rehashed a little too much music from 1st stage..

[digit]

I'll have to get hold of it then, I swear I have seen it up for grabs for a tenner and in multibuy offers

[charleski]

I heard a song by Yoko Kano that I quite liked, and got the CD - wow, genres all over the place, hip-hop, electro, pop, every song was different. This was a bit of a shock.

[sawyen]

most jap song writers are pretty well rounded.. most of their music can be very different..

[BEANFro Elite]

What about Gackt, Orange Range, Uverworld (the latter two bands did the intro music to Bleach), Plus Tech Squeeze Box, Glay and theres a band that performed the F-Zero songs who are amazing to say the least.

I'd like to point out that I like these bands but in general J-Rock I've heard is too cheerful and upbeat for me, I prefer the darker, gritty, subverse, undertones of Cradle Of Filth, Marilyn Manson, Misfits, Slipknot and other bands.

[sawyen]

ehehe.. true, jap rock bands are in general a little less of a misfit..

Gackt is alright IMO, but Glay has just gone far too cheesy.. they were pretty good over the 1st album, but then it just went downhill from there.