In this thread we will discuss Japanese alternative rock.
>>128889672>we will discuss Japanese alternative rockNO THANK YOUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK_6I0OkCfs
>>128889672>alt rock :|>alt rock, japan :O
>>128889699>alt rock: :O>alt rock, japan: :O
>>128889699something being japanese unironically makes it betterit's like magic
yapparihttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUxYHFWl-wk
>>128889758bass has one string out of tune
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foHopvPfBn0>>128889774oops
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2yiBuoYcHw
Oh, i bet this time it will make to 20 replies!>>128889758I'm still mad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUYACnZNkvM>>128889823#valid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYNwZYqGQvo
>>128889779loving this
>>128889672Way better than Gesse:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmp6oB-CqEk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cmm9VNtTV4>>128889917<3>>128889926wrong link, brotha
+2020 feels like Japan are the only ones making good music. Such a sad state of affairs for the West but it is what it is.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5158QzU8Qk8https://youtu.be/e1pZIfretEshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmp6oB-CqEkhttps://youtu.be/ViZbpnZmQ_Qhttps://buzzheavier.com/blc7kbdbowfbhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bmNBBK3S-Qhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6W0OVb8qis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xW1OYhg7-oQ
>>128889967yeah that last vid gave me yellow feverhow do i cope
>>128889985you donthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsWU_WgOqmghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLsludyIgDc
>>128889985>how do i copehard drugs
whats that album that the cover looks like this, its jap shoegze of course
>>128889758>playing Mass of the Fermenting Dregs on YouTube Music>this song literally plays as I look at the threadWtf bros...
>>128890016did it literally have that ball like in katamari damacy, or do you just remember bright colors, a rainbow, etc.?
>>128890090the rainbow and grass, yeah its an AI like hallucination of mine, it got that vibe. its not even obscure but japs insist on naming their bands with the most forgettable names ever.
Not Japanese Alt Rock but it's a song from Masashi Hamauzu's band and I love his compositional style and sus chord mastery:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnxxtkIkGAk
To me, the Japanese are honorary Aryans.
>>128890139They are the only ones being patrons of the real arts and its not even close.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3EhK9MgCnc
>>128890102I feel like I've seen such a cover from a japanese shoegaze/alt-rock band, but I can't think of it either. maybe you're being mandela affected by the government and you're just thinking of The Rainbow Goblins. perhaps not though. it's also not rock, but at the very least perhaps an anon here would still appreciate it (given that we're talking about Japanese music).https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaPT0dQgS9E
>>128890179no, its a 2001 circa jap shoegaze. id remember if i got hypno'd. its for me also the closest someone got to the Loveless sound, but i forgot the name lol.
>>128890116Hamauzu is a godhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7yrkuNPHIQ
>>128890220https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIxcAljJmNU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6pZMzH2Sm8
>>1288903441.34k subs criminally underrated
>>128889672anyone got something like hyakkei? ive really been fucking with them lately
>>128890344>>128890416are they? i dont see theyre making anything groundbreaking or never seen before
>>128890723i posted it because the cover is cool, its not bad but not amazing
>>128889672I saw them live in October. Was a great performance and felt really cool to finally experience this after being introduced to them all the way back when I first started browsing /mu/ in like 2010 or so
>>128889985get a yellow gf>>128889985
>>128889842Great song of course, but I always choose this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmNJbZs4wPg
No point listening to number girl unless it's live.And both Hisako and Mukai made way better stuff after the band broke up.
Rin Toshite Shigure / Ling Tosite Sigure whatever, becoming some bullshit anime opening band hurt. Like I was legit hurt. I understand wanting money, but it still sucked.
>>128890975Their guitarist is so badass. How did they sound live?
>>128889672Japan just mogs
>>128891594>island smaller than California >produces tons of kino shitHow do they do it?
>>128891693They are more interested with studying Western Instrumental music than Lyrical, so they actually git gud.
>>128891422incredible.I'm not an expert on this because I don't go to a lot of live shows but to me the sound was in no way far off from the recordings. Especially impressed by her singing still sounding so similar.
>>128891693They're not smaller than California and they're an archipelago with thousands of islands.
>>128891942Those pics Yelyah uploaded are suspicious btw hint that she possibly recorded a full MV for her channel I suspect the Team Zissou song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teCJ0RQy9HA
>>128892221lol nice symbology. The mirror with the bow. Venus.
>>128889967I agree with the point, but all the good shit you posted is ancient in relative terms and much more popular globally than domestically in Japan. It took until the First Take video for a ton of JP to even find out who toe is>kinoku teikoku - 2012>toe - 2006>boredoms - 1999>coaltar of the deepes - 2000There's so much overproduced Japanese crap that doesn't come close to what you posted. Most of the good artists are much older, younger 2015+ tends to be too superficial, polished, and larpy for me. Like they learned a "punk" or math rock attitude in a textbook way and don't actually feel or live that life, it's a performance.2010-2012 is the dividing point for me of the West completely falling when it comes to interesting rock music being made by more than a few token good bands.
>>128889672bump
>>128893111You're right. There's a reason why most of these bands mentioned are more popular overseas than in Japan. They are have shit taste tbqh. The majority of Modern alternative Jrock is too melodramatic, too polished and formulaic, it feels like these songs were made for a shonen anime in mind.
>>128895642>They are have shit taste tbqh.SAAAR PLS DO NOOT REDEEEMOPEN BOB AND VEGANA COME BANGLADESH I RECEIVE YOU I KISS YOU FULL BODY YES? YOU YES?
>>128890975Felt similarly when I saw them in 2024. Never thought I'd have a chance to see them since I became a fan right around the time they originally broke up.That said it was pretty funny to see how the entire venue felt electrified and moved like crazy when they played their old stuff but their newer songs only really hit with the younger people in the audience.
