Japanese Music Thread

BabyMetal - Catch Me If You Can


BabyMetal - Karate

ザ・クーガーズ - アフロデティ


ザ・スパイダース - 「青春ア・ゴーゴー」

ザ・スパイダース - Furi Furi


ザ・スパイダース - Dynamite

a reply to: Hellmutt

Replacing the dead video + adding one more. Hiromi Uehara - I Got Rhythm

The Blue Comets - Blue Eyes


ファイブ・ガールズ
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中村晃子とザ・ジャガーズ - 虹色の湖

Because I genuinely like this song


:-)

和楽器バンド - 暁ノ糸 (Live)

Some cheesy Hardtek by Japans best .. Tanukichi

妖精帝國 - flamma idola

妖精帝國 - 使徒奏デシ破滅ノ竪琴

Ryo Kawasaki - Hawaiian Caravan

Yousei Teikoku - Senketsu no Chikai

妖精帝國 - 救世Άργυρóϛ

ほぶらきん - ウサギ音頭で大暴れ

はにわちゃん - 隅田川人惨事 (1984)

はにわちゃん - ウェイトレス

はにわちゃん - 続・終わんないの

A very interesting album, Kanashibari by Haniwa-Chan from 1984, that I discovered yesterday. The three previous tracks posted in this thread are from that album. Full album here.

This is one of my favorite albums of all time. Given to me a couple years ago by a friend, I still find new things to like about it.

I was told that this album is the result of the anxiety and excitement felt by Japanese people entering the 1980's. Western Culture and globalization changed Japanese culture rapidly on all fronts. Utilizing both traditional Japanese instrumentation and modern rock music Haniwa-chan blends the feeling of cultural displacement and disassociation. Kanashibari is also the Japanese term for sleep paralysis - when your mind is awake but your body is trapped where it is. A possible allusion to the cultural change felt in Japan in the 1980's.

はにわちゃん - 家

横浜アリーナ - 和楽器バンド 千本桜 (Live 2018)