Brought to you by insomnia!
I thought that I would just abandon this journal because I haven't updated it in so long, but screw that! I might as well keep it running as long as there are one or two people interested in the music. I am still heavily into Japanese music (yeah living in Japan helps) and I still love to share it. However I am no longer taking requests unless it's a repost because of time issues.
Bonnie Pink: Just a Girl (Chamber Funk Remix) - (jpop) Recently picked up the re*PINK CD which has remixes of some of Bonnie Pink's most popular songs. It's an okay CD with some remixes being really interesting and others falling sadly flat. This is one of my favorite BP songs and I really like the groovy classical instrument track laid underneath her plaintive voice.
Love Psychedelico: Last Smile - (jpop) Have only gotten into Love Psychedelico recently, but she has quite the nice back catalogue of albums. Her sound is very similar to Tuesday Night Music Club era Sheryl Crow, but better (in my humble opinion). She sings in a lot of English and most of the time it doesn't make sense, but I think that's more of her lyrical style and not a matter of misunderstanding the language.
(関ジャニ∞) Kanjani8: Oh! ENKA - (jpop) Kanjani8 are my secret boy band pleasure of the moment. The group is named thusly because it was orignally 8 boys from the Kansai (Osaka) area of Japan. The group is now sporting 6 or 7 members (one was thrown out for drinking problems I believe). Anyways onto the song! It's the current ending theme for the popular and long running anime Nintama Rantaro. Of course every Kanjani8 song is peppered with the Kansai dialect. Not much to say...it's fairly typical boy band fair, meaning it's catchy, but perhaps not particularly quality music. Enjoy it without guilt! You deserve it!
Maybe I can actually fall asleep now...
Bonnie Pink: Just a Girl (Chamber Funk Remix) - (jpop) Recently picked up the re*PINK CD which has remixes of some of Bonnie Pink's most popular songs. It's an okay CD with some remixes being really interesting and others falling sadly flat. This is one of my favorite BP songs and I really like the groovy classical instrument track laid underneath her plaintive voice.
Love Psychedelico: Last Smile - (jpop) Have only gotten into Love Psychedelico recently, but she has quite the nice back catalogue of albums. Her sound is very similar to Tuesday Night Music Club era Sheryl Crow, but better (in my humble opinion). She sings in a lot of English and most of the time it doesn't make sense, but I think that's more of her lyrical style and not a matter of misunderstanding the language.
(関ジャニ∞) Kanjani8: Oh! ENKA - (jpop) Kanjani8 are my secret boy band pleasure of the moment. The group is named thusly because it was orignally 8 boys from the Kansai (Osaka) area of Japan. The group is now sporting 6 or 7 members (one was thrown out for drinking problems I believe). Anyways onto the song! It's the current ending theme for the popular and long running anime Nintama Rantaro. Of course every Kanjani8 song is peppered with the Kansai dialect. Not much to say...it's fairly typical boy band fair, meaning it's catchy, but perhaps not particularly quality music. Enjoy it without guilt! You deserve it!
Maybe I can actually fall asleep now...