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The Old-School J-Pop Thread! ~80s/90s/00s~
Hey! I know I'm not the only one with an old soul, and since I'm not really fond of the current J-Pop scene, I thought it would be cool to share our love for old-school Japanese music, which means everything that has been made the last three decades. The 80's have a very interesting idol movement with artists like Akina Nakamori, WINK and Jun Togawa (probably the first anti-idol), while the 90s saw the beginning of the music career of J-Pop queens Namie Amuro, hitomi and Ayumi Hamasaki, and also bands like X-JAPAN and L'Arc~en~Ciel were HUGE! Almost gaining an iconic status with many fans worldwide.
So, what are you into at this moment? Right now, I can't stop listening to dream's eternal dream compilation, back when they were just three members. The CD2 is a non-stop megamix that is just as amazing as the first ayu-mi-x megamix albums. I really love it! But I don't think anyone remembers them aside from "My will" from Inuyasha (which is very sad). :no So, your turn now! What are your favorite artists/songs/albums from the good old days, or what was the music you were into when you started listening to Japanese music? :) |
I am a huge fan of Akina Nakamori ! I find her carrier outstanding and her discography very solid and I don't even speak about her vocal abilities ...
I also like Seiko Matsuda but her discography after the 80's is quite uninteresting and boring at least for me excpet some songs ! I quite like DREAMS COME TRUE too I like the voice of the singer and some of their older songs are very catchy |
I like this one song from the 70's...I think it's called Sharp Shooter? I can't remember ugh but it was in a rhythm game for the DS.
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I'm a huge fan of L'Arc~en~Ciel! Too bad they are not as active as in the past, but they are still awesome <3. My favorite album is True (released in 1996).
I used to like Mai Kuraki a lot in the early 00's too. |
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I think you mean this :) I'm a huge fan of Seiko and Akina. I view them as the Ayu and Kuu of the 80s. |
Whoa! Lots of artists and songs to check out in this thread! :luv2
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This may be more actual, but I was on Jpopsuki.tv when I suddenly saw this SweetS song.
I think it's probably the best idol song Avex could pull off the last decade...Too much nostalgia. >_< |
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This is the epitome of 90's J-Pop. :P (Well, sort of... I really like this song. :D)
B'z from the 90's to the mid 00's had some kick-ass hits! :heart It's not quite the same now... But they're still producing some pretty decent stuff. :P (Could only find an AMV for this song) http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xlc...E5%BF%83_music Then there was Rie Miyazawa. (Another example would be DREAM RUSH) |
this is one of my fav, come out on 1989
Wink - Sabishii Nettaigyo (1989) - 淋しい熱帯魚 |
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I love that song! This one's a Kylie Minogue cover and also a classic to me: |
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They're old stuff is timeless for me and, since we're talking about True here, I thought I'd post the live version of my favourite Laruku song of all time. :luv2 This still blows my mind every time~ |
That SweetS song is still among my favorite Jpop songs lol. Granted, that's a long list... but I've always loved that song! So nostalgic for me.
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I'm big fan of 70-90's music! I like various music styles - not only idol pop. I love artists like Akina Nakamori, Carmen Maki, Miharu Koshi, ZELDA, Miyuki Nakajima and Glass but there's a lot more to name.
I bought my first vinyl in 2010 and I've been collecting constantly older j-music since then. |
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One of my favourite artists atm (GILLE) is releasing a cover album of 70s and 80s Jpop soon. This inspired me to dive into Youtube and find some of the original versions. So much good stuff to find! This song rocks. Candies is adorable, this song is amazing, why didn't I know it was theirs! I clearly need to try more older stuff. But since we're also talking about 90s... globe is still one of my favorite Jpop acts. :heart This, FACE, and Departures (especially the ARRIVAL mix) are my favorites from their early career. |
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This thread....
This thread is filling me with so many happy feelings :love I'm giving a talk/doing a panel on J-Music history at a convention here in Dallas in August... I feel like older Japanese pop is becoming more and more underappreciated, so this thread makes my heart feel all warm & fuzzy! :D I already see a few songs I love here! SO FREAKING COOL, you guys are all awesome. Here are some more! Yaaay! OLD SCHOOL (Up to the late 90s) THE ALFEE -hoshizora no DISTANCE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoeYzq87h1s Imagine a world without this song. A world without the Sailor Moon theme. Without the melody in the verses of Ayu's "GUILTY." This is not a world I'd want to live in. ...."BABY COME BACK! doo-dooooo do-do-do-do-doooo..." Anzen Chitai - WINE RED no kokoro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7Stbxcx_tM A remnant of that period in the 80s when electric guitar was just starting to replace the saxophone as mid-tempo ballad solo instrument of choice. Freaking awesome song. ZOO - Choo Choo Train https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD9hLnLg8W0 This song was covered by EXILE in 2003, and this single was reissued afterwards to remind everyone it's a cover. lol... Two of the dancers in this group are still performing today. One of them is the singer of TRF, Yuki, and the other is Hiro who went on to form... omg! EXILE! :D Yamaguchi Momoe - ii hi tabidachi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCCUWpKuEc8 First off, her voice was freaking gorgeous especially considering her young age. Second, this song is just everything good about J-pop rolled into one package. The sweet melody that goes from dark, mysterious, and minor key to a more uplifting chorus; the nostalgic lyrics that talk about taking your past with you on a journey to find a special person in the future; and it was a Japan Rail commercial tie-in, helping to cement its place as a well-known Japanese pop song for decades afterwards. NOKKO - CRAZY CLOUDS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXYbeyNxXaE The first solo single from the lead singer of 80s rock group Rebecca (original performers of "MOON" and "Raspberry Dream" which Ayu covered on Idol On Stage). GREAT song, and WAY ahead of its time - did NOT sound like it came out a year before Zoo's "Choo Choo Train." Fun fact - Guy Sigsworth is playing keyboards in this song, and he'd go on to become a HUGELY famous producer of western-hemisphere music by Seal, Bjork, Alanis Morissette, Madonna, and Imogen Heap/Frou-Frou a few years after this. Yakushimaru Hiroko - SEERAfuku to kikanjuu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihxc5zSmpmM The theme song for the FREAKING AWESOME movie of the same name, starring Hiroko as a schoolgirl who learns she's now the leader of a yakuza clan. (The whole movie is on youtube w/ english & spanish subs if any of you guys wanna check it out.) EAST END x YURI - MAICCA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtuqQNlHSkk Hey you know that "GM Kaz" who's credited as producer on Ayu's "NOTHING FROM NOTHING" album & single? Guess what else he produced :P Yes, Ayu's rap unit was formed specifically to bank on the success of this group. Ayu was touted as the younger version, basically. ONLY KINDA OLD SCHOOL (After 3" singles died) m-flo loves melody. and Yamamoto Ryohei - miss you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD59LJX2r38 As long as we're talking about stuff that came out in the early '00s... holy crap this song gets me so nostalgic for my second year of college. Do As Infinity - Desire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUoTOzRmKOY This song is about an affair from the POV of the other woman, so Van Tomiko typically performed it without her DAI bandmates when promoting the song on TV in order to avoid gossip :P This was the first DAI song I ever heard, and between this & "fukai mori" from Inuyasha, myself and other J-pop fans int he early 2000s were pretty much hooked. Tomiko's unusually deep voice made them really stand out in a sea of cutesy idols. OLIVIA - Color of your spoon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mRbOWEztNw Most of my friends are still waiting for new mother Olivia to release more music, buying things from the Etsy shop she & her sister run in the meantime. :) This song is weird in the context of the rest of her discography, but it's enchanting and does NOT feel like six minutes despite the fact that it's not very dynamic. Just let it wrap around you. :D LUNA SEA - TONIGHT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n3yqkanP44 Ah, Luna Sea just before they split up. They were so freaking great. This song was catchy as all get out, too. Aikawa Nanase - NO FUTURE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jZ-uo1b8Ew OH MY GOD YOU GUYS WHO REMEMBERS ZOIDS. OH MY GOD YOU GUYS WHO REMEMBERS WHEN NANASE WAS STILL AWESOME. DJ Krush feat. Esthero - Final Home https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b88FnQt-J0U I was listening to a ton of trip-hop before getting into j-pop, and this was like... SQUISH here's both together! DJ Krush's jazzy EDM was pretty groundbreaking back in the day. You guys have probably heard of the late Nujabes - well he wouldn't have had the sound he did without this guy, lemme tell ya. Even Tsutchie (who was another one of the musicians behind the Samurai Champloo soundtrack, along with Nujabes) took the party-rap stuff of Scha Dara Parr & East End and fused it with DJ Krush's more chill, atmospheric style to create the sound of his group Shakkazombie. AND NOW TIME FOR AYU'S BACKING MUSICIANS BECAUSE WHY NOT BARBEE BOYS - banarero yo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCELKMnXhYw Hey, that funny-lookin' dude playing bass at 2:11 looks familiar... THE GOOD-BYE - kimagure One Way Boy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-63jyBQwhHc This Johnny's Entertainment group was put together as a tribute to Group Sounds bands & 80's rock & roll, and the lead singer & guitarist... well, you'll recognize him. :D |
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This thread is really cool. Thanks for making it. I've been kind of feeling like it's time for me to explore some older music. I'm in the mood and kind of done with a lot in the present besides a few favs. So this is really cool. I'd love to explore old old J-pop and even rock.
There are some 00s and late 90s artists that I do recognize and like and being reminded of them is cool. And I'm enjoying watching the stuff from earlier decades. Classic artists who I should have listened to long ago lol. So I know what I'll be doing this weekend lol :p For the stuff that I know, I miss it a lot. I also miss old visual key stuff. J-rock had a lot. Just thinking of old MUCC ♡ |
90s and early 00s VK was the best. It's so homogenized now, barring few exceptions :(
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^So very true. It was weird becoming a fan starting around 2007. It was already transitioning to it's current place. I was obsessed enough at the time to listen to the older stuff while also waiting for new stuff. And it was great. Still is great. And honestly, I still have crushes on a lot of those men haha~
It used to be so magical to me when I was younger. And it is now to me still. I just feel like all of the beauty of it will be forgotten. Same with j-pop |
I do feel like J-Pop was at its "best" - in an objective sense - between 1999 and 2003, because in there, the melodies still had the nostalgia of older J-Pop, but thanks to more globalized attitudes, production was finally advancing beyond what TK learned when he went to London in '88. (I just wish we'd had more low, soulful voices on the charts at the time than just Van Tomiko and Utada Hikaru, and, at the tail-end of this, Asuca Hayashi. Vocals were still pretty weak in general).
It was when that globalized attitude started affecting J-Pop melodies in about '04-'05 that J-pop started to go seriously downhill for me. When I got into J-pop I feel like it was the best possible blend of what was great about western AND asian pop, and now it's just outdated western pop in another language. :( The INSANE run of cover albums that have been released lately - that for once are covers of Japanese songs rather than Western ones - are signaling a backlash coming, hopefully the nostalgic sorts of melodies will make a comeback soon. I think a bunch of singers are dissatisfied with how J-music sounds these days too. |
Had -never- heard this song prior to yesterday.
What a gem! |
Tanpopo 's theme for Orphen ♥
a lot of old jpop songs I listen to are used as anime's theme. Maaya Sakamoto: TWO-MiX: T.M. Revolution Tokuyama Hidenori (more rock than pop) Okazaki Ritsuko Okuda Miwako others I listen to a lot of others songs that are used for animes. It's a just a first sample. |
Yutaka Ozaki - I LOVE YOU
I know this song because of Mika Nakashima's cover though, I didn't know any old school J-pop :( probably some X-Japan songs because my brother is a huge fan. |
^This was probably one of the finest Japanese love songs ever written! Ozaki Yutaka was a legend!
"Toki no nagare ni mi wo makase" by Teresa Teng was one of the first J-pop songs I've heard and fell in love with Japanese music since then. And that was when I was about to attend kindergarten. The 2nd song is "Wakare no Yokan". "Ai no hizashi ~amore mio~" - Teresa Teng. LOve Love this song! "Anata wo kanjiteitai" - ZARD. So nostalgic! "LOVE SONG" - TUBE. This band is one of the best Japanese band I've ever heard in my opinion. They have so many summer songs and beautiful ballads too! OFF TOPIC: How can I put a video directly that I don't have to link with a new tab? I already forgot how to do it. Please.... |
^Put the code that is after the v= between [ youtube] code [/youtube]
ZARD is just soooo good! One of my favourite! :luv2 |
Luckily I used to watch Music update Tokyo on channel V so I heard alot of J music. These are the first songs I really liked.
Cascade And who can forget Vivian Hsu and the black biscuits? Maaya Sakamoto and Masami Okui had some fantastic songs in the 90s. I still have Kiseki no umi on my phone. Quote:
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I love J-pop/J-rock from the 80s and 90s! Especially The Alfee. I absolutely love their song Marie-Anne. Lucky for this thread, they've got plenty of videos on Youtube:
Marie-Anne Byaku-ya Manatsu no Stranger |
I've been listening to Miyuki Nakajima's Singles 2000 compilation a lot in the past few weeks. I'm so happy I decided to try this album, she's so good! Tabibito no Uta is epic! Headlight Taillight is perfectly calming! Sora to Kimi no Aida ni sweeps me away! Fight is such a weird yet amazing song! I think I need to hear more of her.
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2 of my favorite classics!
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I'm not into old school jpop too much, but I just discovered this song
Her voice :luv2:luv2:luv2 |
Time to revive our inner old school selves!
Been obsessed of listening to Miho Nakayama's music for a week already and now I'm quite curious about Akina Nakamori! Her voice is indeed amazing and she's pretty too. She looks like Chinese actress Gong Li. |
This thread is pure magic <3 I loooove J-Pop from the 80s, so many amazing songs and artists!
I have a playlist on Youtube with my favorite J-80s songs: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...7Er2ncKwnFv6SD I'll leave this two amazing lives for you guys. Love the stage <3 |
I've been getting into Miyuki Nakajima and she's really awesome. Her lyrics and vocals were something totally else compared to other Jpop artists active in 70s and 80s. Recently I've been obsessed with the song Oikakete Yokohama that she wrote for another idol back in 1979, racked up 150+ plays on last.fm over just about two weeks. And I only really like Miyuki's version because the music is a lot catchier - it's just an insanely catchy song. Yet it's totally different from anything Miyuki writes in her own discography.
Anyway, I also love Seiko Matsuda's album Citron - there are only a few songs that I don't like. But songs like Blue, Marrakech, Daite..., You Can't Find Me and We Never Get To It are amazing. I tried listening to some other of her albums but they didn't catch my attention as much as Citron did. I'm planning to listen to some Akina Nakamori, too. Also, I freaking LOVE Miho Nakayama's Ougon Kaigan from the album EXOTIQUE. For now it's maybe my favorite song I've ever heard from that era in general. My only problem is that I tend to dislike most of the idol ballads they made in the 80s - they just sound bland and not captivating (not all, but most). But the upbeat disco songs seem to be really great. |
I have been listening to Seiko Matsuda again after taking a break for a while. I really need to grow my collection more! I only have We are love and Was It the Future?.
Lately I have been in love with this song from Supreme. One of her most beautiful songs. |
I'm in love with this thread.
Akina Nakamori is my favourite 80s J-Pop artist, however I have been obsessed with Junko Tokumaru, Wink, Matsuda Seiko and the one and only Yamaguchi Momoe. |
Well, I've had this amazing bop stuck in my head all morning~ |
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I used to not like this song that much but lately my opinion is changing. I'm starting to like tohko.;)
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two of my favorite songs
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Oh this thread brings back memories! Old school jpop is still the best! ♡
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God, I forgot Ami Suzuki existed. :o I need to revisit Dolce again.
Anyone remember the girl band ZONE? I was in love with the song Akashi I was also into Aya Matsuura, and all her crazy songs. |
This video looks back to the great TK hits of the 90s. I wish hitomi got a bit more coverage though. They only included Candy Girl. |
^that was so nice to watch
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^ Wow, I'd never heard this song before but it's AMAZING! Does Mariya Takeuchi have more great 80s material like this?
--- I wanna talk a little about one of my favourite old j-pop songs: Yes, it's originally a Kylie Minogue song, but Wink's version is completely different and so much better! The Japanese lyrics transform the song from a sweet, friendly thing into a story of passion, conflict, cheating?, and unstoppable attraction. I can't get over the line "My fingers tremble as I turn off the lights in the room"; it sounds so charged and suggestive. Wink's subdued delivery fits the lyrics so well, it gives off the feeling that the speaker of the lyrics has stopped trying to resist and has given herself over to her feelings despite knowing it will probably get people hurt. And the production is just perfect late-80s cheese, I love it. |
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I discovered these gems. <3
Then there's Spitz. :) And my favorite MOON CHILD song :heart I'll throw some Nana Katase in here, too. :) And a song that most ayu fans would recognize. :) |
Since Namie's retirement has re-introduced some people to the fantastic Super Monkey's music, I figured I'd add something here with the other forgotten about spin-off - MAX! This is my absolute favorite MAX song.
And for good measure, another bop: |
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