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j-rock! - reviews

Hi, I know that my site is packed with reviews on something or other, but when it comes to Japanese music, reviews are definitely essential!

NOTE: Please, if you are downloading any of these songs, please support the artists by buying their music! Example, I downloaded 'Beauty & Stupid' by hide - and I end up going to www.japancentre.com for an album with it on! (RIGHT-CLICK TO DOWNLOAD!)

 

MAD CAPSULE MARKETS
OSC-DIS (Oscillator In Distortion)2001

01. Tribe
02. Out/Definition
03. Pulse
04. Multiplies
05. Mob Track
06. All The Time In Sunny Beach
07. Island
08. Restart!
09. Jag
10. Step Into Yourself
11. Good Girl
- Dedicated to bride 20 years after
12. Midi Surf

 

 

The perfect way in which to scramble your brain is to listen to these guys at full blast. Anime fans may recognise 'Step Into Yourself' as the introduction to the Limited Edition 'Street Fighter II' DVD menu screen, and may be amused by the God-moding of the 'Pulse' video. A good, heart-racing album with experimental style and a futuristic fuzz - not for casual listening, however. 

 

THE YELLOW MONKEY
Punch Drunkard1998

01. Punch Drunkard
02. Kyukon
03. Michigane-na
04. Gorgeous
05. Mishite Mishite
06. Kuzushakai no akaibara
07. Sexless desu
08. Every day
09. Sea
10. Burn (Album Version)
11. Amai keiken
12. Hanareruna
13. Love Love Show (Album Version)
14. Sugar Fix

 

I found this CD gazing with boredom at the 'Y' section in HEAVY METAL (yes, in HEAVY METAL) in HMV. I couldn't believe my eyes and bought it before someone just as crazy as myself bought it first. The band is not heavy metal at all, more rock and roll, and rather mellow. The more you listen to the album, the more you wish you understood it.

www.theyellowmonkey.com/eng/index.html

 

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SINGLES - Junk Story2002

01. Eyes For You
02. 50% & 50%
03. Dice
04. Tell Me
05. Misery
06. Beauty & Stupid
07. Hi-Ho
08. Goodbye
09. Rocket Dive
10. (Big Spider? I don't know, this was written in Japanese!)
11. ever free
12. Hurry Go Round
13. Tell Me (hide with Spread Beaver)
14. In Motion
15. Junk Story
16. Comment (Aug 10th, 1995) 

 

Like I said in the note, I downloaded 'Beauty & Stupid' from some random site and bought a hide album with it on. I didn't think much of hide after listening to the album and gave it a rating of 2/5, but the more I listened to him, the higher the rating went (3.5/5). I recommend this to any hide fanatic, although as a newbie, I'm not so sure. The songs follow the same formula and the music doesn't seem to have any solidarity, ie. subtle sing-along. 

 

SINGLE: GO! GO! 7188 - Jet Ninjin

'Jet Ninjin' means 'Jet Carrot' and the video has carrots galore. One of the best 'punk' songs I have heard in a damned good while and I am bent on buying their albums! I saw the video for this song on 'Saiko-Exciting', British anime heaven on Sundays, and not only was 'Jet Ninjin' a damned good song, but it had a damned good video too!

VIDEO?: One of the band members follows a trail of carrots on the pavement and is instantly kidnapped by a couple of suspicious-looking dudes in a limo. A ransom note is sent to her fellow band member and she waits for her rescue, tied to a chair with a bomb on her head. Anyway, she gets rescued half a minute later and blows the joint up. The bomb's still on her head, though, so she throws it to this Japanese businessman or something and he blows up as well.

 

SINGLEKoyasu/Aya Fujimiya- God Hurts The Ones He Loves (Weiss Kreuz)

I found this song on somebody's site (which I haven't been able to locate again!!!) and I fell instantly in love with it. The guitar chugging on the verses was the ultimate high and the vocalist (who is the VA for Aya Fujimiya?) is so quiet it gives the song this strange void. Like you can feel the distance. Atmospheric. Brilliant open/end credit kind of music.

VIDEO?: I don't know if there is one. Probably not.

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