I have been listening to the band FLOW since they did their first Naruto opening,GO!!!. Does anyone else have any tight J-Rock bands?

 

Not a big fan of most Japanese music, especially from anime but try The Polysics.
Electric Surfing Go Go
New Wave Jacket

 

Thanks man!

 

Animetal is the most obvious band I can think of to mention, especially considering just how awesome their remixes of anime tracks are. Their Neon Genesis Evangelion Intro cover is fucking immense. They've done about 50 billion other ones as well, so if you can think of a theme song to an anime, they've probably covered it.

Ishii Yasushi is the guy who did the Hellsing anime soundtrack and I've been pimping that for a while now. Adds a great jazzy theme to the whole thing which is just music to my ears, no pun intended. Double Crossed Fool is my personal favourite.

 

I wish I in some way liked that music. Apparently, I'm not as musically open as I thought.

For some reason, it absolutely killed my head.

Edit:

That I liked. I know the Hellsing one (never watched Evangelion), and that one was great as well.

 

I haven't really been following actual anime music for a rather long time, but The Pillows are absolutely fantastic and absolutely need to be mentioned. They did the OPs and ED for FLCL, but I think that their work is really fantastic dreamy popish rock even without that. Sample below;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBpg0GKj2CU

 

You'd be surprised at how it grows on you. I've been listening to their stuff for years now.

Edit: Also if you're interested in jazzy anime music try Yoko Kanno/Seatbelts. Does alot of anime stuff but you gotta love Tank!

 

darn, I was hoping this was J-Rock from trailer park boys

 

Mr. Children is very popular right now. Also try out Dir en Gray, Greeeen and B'z.

Edit:
There is also Every little thing. They make mostly J-pop music but sometimes also rock. You've probably heard of Orange Range, they sing O2 for Code geass. Yui is awesome but she sings pop rock (Jrock). You probably also know about L'Arc~en~Ciel (Fullmetal Alchemist) and VAMPS.

Seeing that you are a FLOW fan I would recommend Flumpool.

...
and then there are the Johnnys... stay away from them.
Joking, but KAT-TUN seems to have a similar style to FLOW.

 

/is Japanese and lives in Japan.

Lemme browse through my iTunes and see...


I'll just list through what artists and bands that either I like a lot or are pretty big over here right now. The names will also be in Japanese where appropriate. If you can't see them properly, it's probably your text encoding that's wonky.

These aren't a completely fair representation of what's popular in Japan right now (as they're either big names I can remember or just groups I like to listen to), or in any particular order. I put asterisks on the artists I'm particularly fond of in the list. Most of these artists are on Youtube whether officially or not, so check out whatever peaks your interest.

Mikuni Shimokawa* (下川みくに)
Hikaru Utada* (宇多田ヒカル)
Ayumi Hamasaki (浜崎あゆみ)
Hitomi Yaida (矢井田瞳)
Hitomi Takahashi* (高橋瞳)
UVERworld*
day after tomorrow*
V6
FLOW*
T.M. Revolution
Asian Kung-fu Generation*
BUMP OF CHICKEN*
Base Ball Bear*
Yuna Itou (伊藤由奈)
Kana Nishino (西野カナ)
Ikimonogakari (いきものがかり)
Tokyo Incident* (Also Tokyo Jihen - 東京事変)
Spitz
Wulfulz (Not sure if that's the right romanization. ウルフルズ)
DOES*
B'z*
GLAY
Dragon Ash*
access
Denki GROOVE* (電気GROOVE)
BOOM BOOM SATELLITES*
Pornograffiti*
HIGH and MIGHTY COLOR*
Perfume*
BEAT CRUSADERS*
GreeeeN
Rie fu*
L'Arc-an-Ciel
stereopony*
NICO Touches the Walls*
Remio Romen (レミオロメン)
Sukima Switch* (スキマスイッチ)
Mr. Children*
Micro
THE BACK HORN*
Suga Shikao* (スガシカオ)
9mm Parabellum Bullet
Chemistry
ORANGE RANGE



That's about all I care to list out of my Library. Hope that helps.

 

I guess this is J-Rock?

Toe.
Special Others.

 

I listen to Orange Range and The Pillows already. All of the other stuff is new though. Haha so much music! I just creamed my panties.

 

Gackt was pretty darn famous a coupla years back, he's not bad iirc.

 

Is Gackt the guy who always covers his nose with a band in Gazette?

 

Wasn't he the guy from Malice Mizer?

I used to listen to j-pop and j-rock a few years ago. A good singer is Kou Shibasaki, I loved a couple of her songs. X-Japan had some pretty and beautiful stuff - you may want to check Yoshiki since he did most of their music. L'Arc~en~ciel, good stuff. Utada Hikaru, good stuff. Ayumi Hamasaki, some crap and some jewels. Tokyo Jihen, good stuff. Nothing else comes to my mind.

I dislike most visual kei bands, though there were a few good songs from Moi Dix Mois or Malice Mizer.

 

I see a lack of Girugamesh in this thread. I highly recommend them.

 

This.

Real My Place - Girugamesh

 

Not technically J-rock but I just discovered the awesomeness that is Cornelius.

 

Some of L'Arc's older stuff is simply weird... it's tolerable though.

From time to time I've liked Uver's stuff, but in the end I get sick of most JROCK - if you like the song at first, you'll hate it after a few dozen listens. The only artists that I can still endear after listening to their discography are:

Sambomasta (サンボマスター)
Akiboshi (明星嘉男)

But both of their music is kind of wonky, Sambo is kind of SCREAMAN and Akiboshi has too many ENGRISH songs

edit: Some of their songs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frQhKaDMfXU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQO8XQiVymY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPtIivzu4JQ&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u24jDUKJVQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOtZfnWMCTg&feature=related