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YAAY!! The thread I've been looking for  (｡^ ω ^｡)

I just asked a (japanese) collegue, if he could recommend any japanese music, but he didnt't really know what, since he seems not to be 'to much into music' ...
Anyway, his recommendations were (if anyone's interested):
- B'z (agreed!)
- Greeeen (...?)
- Southern All Stars (...?)
and on the 'femine side'
- Momoiro clover z (.. pretty ... 'plastic')
- nishino kana

what I can add from my own music (mostly soundtracks) is:
- move
- TM Revolution (as also mentioned above ^^)
- Pizzicato Five
- Music from Nobue Uematsu (;P)
- Kaji Meiko (most likely known by most -> Kill Bill OST)

and entire OSTs which are great:
- Escaflowne (-> Hajime Mizoguchi & Yoko Kanno)
- Wolfs Rain
- Hellsing

just by writing this post I realised that my japanese music library isn't extremly tiny -- but still definitely too small (^-^)b

I'll definitely keep on listening through this thread and hope someone might get 'inspired' by my suggestions ^^

cheers
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oh there's a song I love by Greeeen - きせき - it's great at a karaoke party

Yep, everyone knows that song. That and ヘビーローテーション were like the top 2 karaoke songs for a couple years. I think the AKB48 one is still up there, crazy.

hey all,
(re)found something new (the positive side of UTube-assossiation-video-clicking):
Yoshida Brothers e.g. Kodo and Rising
traditional (?) shamisen music kind of adapted to the 'modern' times.

Let me know what you think of it (^-^)b

oh Monkey Majik does an AWESOME song with them - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc4AkEC_UWU (I highly recommend Monkey Majik as well - they're 2 Canadian brothers and 2 Japanese guys from the Sendai area and they're fabulous <3) Ironically I thing the above song, Change, is one of the few that is actually totally in English, so here are some of my other favorites (that are in Japanese)
大丈夫　－　http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHiMVVISJ0w
Fly - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN_utGk0oGU
Together - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIPuRdJv2-w
ただ、ありがとう - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ic10h9TzHuU

oh, awesome thread.
I like:
9mm Parabellum Bullet
amazarashi
deadman
an cafe
screw
oz
one ok rock
stereopony
deluhi
ai aso
kagerou
bespa kumamero
nisennenmondai
and a whole lot more but this was on the top of my mind and I believe not yet named here

I don't really listen to any Japanese music with vocals, but I love the instrumental music composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto.