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CorneredAngel
 Posts: 854 Location: New York, NY |
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So, after watching through Gunslinger Girl, and promptly running out and grabbing the Delgados album, got to thinking. Other than, of course, BoA in Lain and the Delgados in Gunslinger Girl, what other Western bands - if any - have had their songs used in anime?
Before you go ahead and start posting, please, I am *not* interested in either classical music used in anime or in things like the Linkin Park "AMV" |
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Tony K.
 SubscriberModerator  Posts: 11436 Location: Frisco, TX |
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All the FUNimation produced DBZ movies beyond movie 3 have this atorcious trend of using American Heavy Metal and Rock bands to do the soundtracks. I don't remember any in particular since I can't stand them, but I do remember hearing a lot of "Disturbed" songs.
Not that I have anything against these bands, as I do like some Disturbed, Metallica, and System of a Down, but it just seems ridiculous to put something like that in an early to mid 90's Japanese anime. 
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jfrog
 Posts: 925 Location: Seattle |
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Rin Taro does it a lot. Everyone knows the Ray Charles from Metropolis, but Harmagedon had music by Keith Emerson, and I believe the band that did the closing theme for Galaxy Express 999 were American.
Oh yeah, and Whisper of the Heart has John Denver in it. |
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Gauss
 Posts: 519 Location: Finland |
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Western... westerns... country. Couldn't help but think of Miyazaki's Whisper of the Heart where variations of John Denver's Country Road is used to great effect. One of my all-time favorite anime scenes when Seiji and Shizuku hold their impromptu session. Shizuku (voiced by Youku Honna) doesn't have a great voice but it comes out beautiful anyway. Miyazaki-sensei, working magic with something as naff as a country song. 
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tsukebe
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Ending theme to Hellsing. They used one of Mr. Big's song.
And the best one is Backstreet Boys. Their song are used in both OP and ED in an anime called Hanada shounen shi *shrudders* |
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Shinotaku14
Encyclopedia Editor
 Posts: 233 Location: Greenville or Rock Hill, SC |
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Tekken: The motion manga used The Offspring's "The meaning of life" for the ED in the english version. That was an ....... interesting choice of music.
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jsyxx
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LOL, Offspring. Yea, they're a pretty hip band. Why didn't they do "Pretty fly for a white guy." Or better yet "Can't touch this!" by MC Hammer.
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Iron Chef
 Posts: 487 Location: Seattle, WA |
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Yeah, Tekken had a lot of "heavy" bands in the soundtrack. Aside from one Corrosion of Conformity song (off their "Deliverance" album), it pretty much sucked. |
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Cloe
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 Posts: 2728 Location: Los Angeles, CA |
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Steve Conte appears in a good deal of Yoko Kanno's work. His vocals are on the Cowboy Bebop, Wolf's Rain, and Brain Powered soundtracks and he is also on Yoko Kanno's self-produced album Song to Fly.
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NetDiver
 Posts: 65 Location: Northern Europe |
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Manga Entertainments release of Street Fighter the Movie has a number of heavy metal/hard rock bands like Korn in it. I've only seen the UK realese of the movie so don't know about the original Japanese version.
Also US/UK-release of Ghost in the Shell had a different ending song than the Japanese original. I think the new enging song was by some British DJ, but I can't remember who it was. It was also released by Manga Ent. The coming Appleseed movie features a number of "western" artists. Paul Oakenfold and Basement Jaxx just to name a few. More here but in Japanese .
Gunslinger Girl's opening also got me to buy their album "Hate". Very nice .
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Alchemist449
 Posts: 341 Location: LED ZEPPELIN! nuf said |
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The ending theme to EVA was american besides the vocalist.
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FallenEyes
 Posts: 21 Location: The edGe of GoD's mInd |
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I remember in the Street Fighter ll movie they used a few songs by Alice In Chains and Stone Temple Pilots (I don't remember anything by Korn on the soundtrack). Oh, and besides the Offspring in the Tekken movie they also used a Stabbing Westward song too.
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r2drift2
Posts: 4 Location: Daly City, Ca |
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this one rock band here in cali. did the intro for GTO. i think their called 4 out of 5? its that song that went something like "shools in session" its actually not that bad. fits pretty well with the show.
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j1m0ne
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The only one that comes to mind is Louis' Armstrong 'What a Wonderful World' being used in Vandread somewhere.
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bnewhall
 Posts: 110 Location: USA |
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The new anime Samurai Champloo (by the director of Cowboy Bebop) uses a lot of American hip-hop music for its soundtrack (not hip-hop inspired; actual American music by American musicians).
The opening theme to Texhnolyze is by British techno band Juno Reactor. Operatic pieces have also been used in different anime; Yoko Kanno orchestrated a couple of existing operatic songs for Cowboy Bebop and Memories. |
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