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kanashibari
Posts: 2 Location: Britain |
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There sure are, I listen to a lot of trip hop/electronica stuff/neo Jazz, like Portishead, Jaga Jazzist and Skalpel. Pretty much anything on the Ninja tune label. But still occasionally go back to my roots and listen to the likes of Rancid & Alkaline trio
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fighterholic
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Green Day is probably one of the best American rock groups out there. I have the album American Idiot, and the wording is put in perfectly, the songs are well paced, and they really touch your mind.
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jousha
 Posts: 205 Location: the floating world |
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Question . . .
Answer . . .
It's not necessarily the music itself that your interested in, but rather the emotions and memories it pours out from the anime that uses it. There's a few anime soundtracks that I probably wouldn't have gotten into at all unless I saw the series, but then again I don't try to get a hold of every song from all of the anime I've seen. I'm not saying you don't like the music you listen to, but that it's more in what you envision when the music plays than in what you are hearing. Also, there's more to music than the top 40 . . . way more. Hopefully you'll find a niche of independent / unpopular / local music in America that you'll like.
Overall, It's a lot of things from The Beatles to Tool to Ennio Morricone (think The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly). Recently, it's Anathallo, Sufjan Stevens, and mewithoutYou. What I like most about Anathallo is their varied instruments and rhythms. Sufjan Stevens has an amazing voice, and he has a way to orchastrate with the bazillion of instruments he knows how to play. mewithoutYou is just powerful in the sing/scream style with the Pink Floyd-ish music that plays underneath. What attracts me to all of these bands similarly are that they all have superb lyrics, they're own "voice" shining through like three distinct stars in the sky. |
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PantsGoblin
 SubscriberEncyclopedia Editor  Posts: 2969 Location: L.A. |
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The people who only listen to Japanese music and worship the Japanese I find kind of odd since the Japanese themselves often listen to American artists and such. I listen to a lot of Japanese music. Probably 75% of the time I'm listening to Japanese music. For pop/rock I usually listen to Japanese. I like some of the older American rock bands but haven't really found any interest in newer ones. I played in a band in middle school and high school for about 5 years and developed and interest in classical and jazz music too. |
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Bruce Lee
 Posts: 715 Location: Seattle, Washington |
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Right now on my phone:
Chopin - Random Etudes Op 10 (do yourself a favor and get to know Chopin) Gankutsuou Classic Compilation (excellent mix - even some opera) Utada Hikaru - Final distance, Dareka no negai ga kanau koudo, Be my last, Sakura drops (I like the slower stuff) Modest Mouse - Good news for people who like bad news (local band - good stuff) Micheal Jackson - Invincible (HIGHLY underrated - awesome beats) Final Fantasy VII OST (unforgettable) Chris Brown (damn catchy and good beats) Death Cab for Cutie - Plans (Another local band - where are my sox?) Brand New - Deja Entendu (one of my favorite albums) Notorious BIG - Duets (even better the 2nd time around) Jack's Mannequin - Everything in Transit (genius - the next Billy Joel) Straylight Run - Prepare to be wrong (a bit different, but better than TBS is headed) The Strokes - Is this it (so, so good. sox - gone) Thrice - Vheissu (Love Thrice - trying to learn to love this one...) Random other Anime BGM - Suzuka piano tracks, Macross Zero theme, Gravity from Wolf's Rain, Voices of a distant Star (more good slower stuff) I like to mix it up 
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GoodLuckSaturday
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I completely forgot about Modest Mouse until I was listening to Ugly Casanova yesterday. Both are on my to rock list. Deja Entendu caught me off guard upon first hearing it, but in the best way possible. It's got to be one of my favorite albums as well. I hope they can get out a cd this year... |
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Monumension
 Posts: 268 Location: Norway |
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Do I listen to other things than J-pop and J-rock? I hardly listen to J-music at all! I like Japanese bands/artists like Pizzicato Five, Merzbow, Cornelius, Susumu Yokota, but that's not something I refer to as J-pop/rock.
I'm a music-junkie. Music is to me even more important than manga/anime. It's been with me since I started listening to radio during the 80's and it will definitely be with me for the rest of my life. When I started buying manga some years ago it was in an attempt to cut down on my music-investments. I was at that time buying 3-4 records per week! Just like with manga I listen to just about everything; from Britney to Cannibal Corpse and so on (Nashville-country ain't my style though). I started out as a rock-fanatic - thinking all music that weren't rock was crap - but luckily, as I was introduced to other stuff I discovered these artists/bands had their own special appeal. House-music can explore musical soundscapes Punk can't and visa verca. Over the last years I've been mostly into Industrial/synth-oriented bands like Skinny Puppy, Wumpscut, VNV Nation, Covenant, Dismantled, Assemblage 23, De/Vision, Hocico, Mind.In.A.Box, Front Line Assembly, Droom, Psyche, Apoptygma Berzerk, Juno Reactor, In Strict Confidence, Clan of Xymox, Depeche Mode, Icon of Coil etc... These bands appeal to me for many reasons: They've got some of the same confronting nature some metal bands have got, some of the gloomy/pessimistic energy from Goth, and most importantly; they're still not very well known which means I can have them for myself  . I also enjoy other electronic stuff like Daft Punk, Air, Cassius, Motorbass, Alec Gopher, Etienne D'Crecy, Superfunk, Orbital, Les Rhytmes Digitales, Mylo, Orbital, Underworld, Aphex Twin, Autechre, Boards of Canada, Leftfield etc. etc. etc.
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TwinSkies
Posts: 49 Location: Philippines |
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Well, there's John Williams, the classical guitarist.
He's got a wide selection of playing styles, and I've been listening to his Spanish tracks and Bach guitar transcripts - he relplaces the lead violin with an accoustic guitar. The man has fast hands! I also listen to Celtic-themed music. Other than that, techno annoys me, and I'm still looking for a rock band to my liking. I usually prefer instrumentals, no singing. |
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Monumension
Posts: 268 Location: Norway |
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I like singing, but I don't care much for lyrics! People could sing "na-na-na-na" trough a song and I'd probably be satisfied. This is why I can't fully apreciate hip-hop artists and Bob Dylan, Cohen etc. I love artists like Pixies and Pavement since their lyrics are almost nonsenscial. |
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TwinSkies
Posts: 49 Location: Philippines |
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I've always thought that if a song's emotions are pure enough, that if the interplay between instruments and the song's rhythm were that well executed, it doesn't need lyrics to draw the picture that it's trying to narrate to you...
Just a personal thought... |
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littlegreenwolf
 Posts: 4796 Location: Seattle, WA |
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Heck yeah. That's why so many industrial fans can listen to stuff like Rammstein, and I can adore Dir en Grey when I don't even know what the heck they're going on about. Gaelic/celtic singing is gorgeous, and I have no clue what they're singing about either. Maybe sometime I'll bother looking up translations. |
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jousha
Posts: 205 Location: the floating world |
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Then there's Sigur Ros ... I've heard that the vocals were either jibberish or Icelandic, but I can't tell either way (and could care less due to how amazing their stuff is).
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TwinSkies
Posts: 49 Location: Philippines |
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You could say here, the voice of the singer is used more as an instrument part of a large orchestra, rather than having it take the front line, with the music as just a condiment.
A lot of singers seem guilty of this "diva" mentality, where that may have a beautiful, overpowering voice that they flaunt to the point it either drowns out the music, or just doesn't seem to fit into the instrumentals. |
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Kruszer
 Posts: 7995 Location: Minnesota, USA |
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I have fairly broad musical tastes myself as well. I can find something that's apealing in just about any genre, though rock and heavy metal dominate my CD collection. I also listen to classical, techno and trance, jazz, swing, and movie scores. The genres I listen to the least are rap and country, they just don't appeal to me offen though there are a few here and there.
I'm on an industrial metal kick at the moment with Rammstein, Stabbing Westward, Gravity Kills, and NIN as well as a lot of trance music courtesy of SERIOUS satelite radio's Area 33 which I'm listening to right now. |
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DemonEyesLeo
 Posts: 844 Location: Japan |
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I'm definitely into anything and everything metal. Always have been, but recently I've been discovering more "underground" bands, like Iced Earth, Blind Guardian, and DragonForce, to go along with other metal bands I like, such as Disturbed, Trivium, and Sevendust. I'm also into punk rock like Green Day and The Used (though I'm not really sure they could be considered punk, but whatever).
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