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denom said:
Jake E Lee on Ultimate Sin
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Jake E Lee it was! Great guy.


denom said:
As for loudness, glad you found them, been hearing Loudness since my friend bought a metal compilation tape in 1988!

What a fantastic band, with killer lead guitarist Akira Takasaki.
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I also used to listen to them around the same time. I remembered them last night after nearly two decades:)


denom said:
Japanese Metal is pretty damn good :)
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Nowadays the Japanese music I am into are small ensemble jazz like Isao Suzuki Trio/Quartet and Tsushoyi Yamamoto Trio from the Three Blind Mice label. I would love to discover more of Three Blind Mice label offerings. I also used to be quite into Venus Record jazz re-masters, and I used to be quite partial to their "breathy sax" sub-genre:)
 
KDM said:
BTW did you notice Skeletor playing the drums? :lol:
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Popular Japanese music or art never lacked weirdness:lol:

Have you noticed that in the last decade or so the Japanese have lost their Asian "prima donna" position to the South Koreans in pop music, fashion, television soap operas, and as general harbingers of new styles? For example, Chinese kids ape Korean stars. As does most kids across the ASEAN nations.
 
KDM said:
:lol: Their moves! :lol:

BTW did you notice Skeletor playing the drums? :lol:
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Just too much going on in the vids & you can't just get your eyes off what the girls are doing in the first place :p

jls001 said:
Nowadays the Japanese music I am into are small ensemble jazz like Isao Suzuki Trio/Quartet and Tsushoyi Yamamoto Trio from the Three Blind Mice label. I would love to discover more of Three Blind Mice label offerings. I also used to be quite into Venus Record jazz re-masters, and I used to be quite partial to their "breathy sax" sub-genre:)
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Have you heard of Yuji Ohno?
I love his work especially the soundtrack for the Manga Movie Lupin III

Lupin III Original Soundtrack 3
Soundtrack album by Yuji Ohno, Noboru Kimura, Bobbi
Released December 10, 1979 (Vinyl), November 21, 1994 (CD)
Length 41:16
Label Columbia

In 1979, Columbia released a vinyl album titled Lupin III Original Soundtrack 3, which contained several pieces from the second TV series as well as The Castle of Cagliostro. It was later re-released to CD in 1994.
LP

Side A

LUPIN III '80 - 3:40
YOU ARE LIKE BREEZE - 2:48
VICIOUS GLORY - 2:27
LOVE IS EVERYTHING - 3:58
C-DAG ~ TOWARD THE PATROL LINE - 3:04
A MONMARTRE - 5:06

Side B

MYSTERIOUS JOURNEY - 3:11
PASSART - 3:47
FIRE TREASURE - 3:07
TROPICAL WAVE - 2:47
LEAVE YOU - 4:20
SAMBA TEMPERADO ~ C-DAG - 2:55

I bet the LP sounds amazing, get your hands on it of possible :D

I love this track a lot, very catchy
#03 Vicious Glory (Lupin the 3rd Original Soundtrack 3) - YouTube

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Elvis Costello with Burt Bacharach - Painted From Memory. This is a two-CD affair, with all songs jointly composed by the two. It will take me some more listenings to absorb the nuances of the songs. What makes it harder is the fact that Costello reverts very often to the upper registers of his (limited) vocal range. The strain he exerts in singing the tracks gets to the listener. It is no relaxed affair. It took me quite a few sessions to absorb and appreciate Ronan Keating's Ronan Meets Burt too (great album, btw, especially the track Something Big).

A recommendation of Bacharach covers: Trintje Oosterhuis. Instantly likeable!
 
Courtesy of Hydrovac's kindness...

Listening to, and watching... The Doors Live in Europe 1968.

Wow.

I have often heard The Doors, but seen very little of them, and none in the real-life flesh.

The impact is almost as great today, as it might have been had I been lucky enough to see them back then, when I was 16. Although, sadly, today I watch them and turn real life back on. Back then, I would probably have grown my hair long and been catapulted into a life of strange substances and strange things --- an experience that had to wait for a few more years.

I was always intrigued by the sparsity of their sound. It's only four people. Morrison, one guitar, a modest drum kit, and that hallmark keyboard. And yet it is so full. Each musician contributes so much. And Morrison's performance, especially considering that he was probably completely out of his head... well, he doesn't actually seem to perform: he just is himself. With perfect timing, precision, theatre...
 
jls001 said:
Popular Japanese music or art never lacked weirdness:lol:
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:lol: Yeah, like this: Hatsune Miku Live Party in Sapporo 2011 - YouTube

(Caution, once you've seen that you cannot unsee it! :lol:)

jls001 said:
Have you noticed that in the last decade or so the Japanese have lost their Asian "prima donna" position to the South Koreans in pop music, fashion, television soap operas, and as general harbingers of new styles? For example, Chinese kids ape Korean stars. As does most kids across the ASEAN nations.
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Yes, I did. I also remember reading somewhere that South Korea's "prima donna" position was more due to the Japan's relationship with some of those SE Asian countries during WWII. That is, they held "pole position" until another alternative (the South Korean wave) came along.

The problem is that the South Koreans are largely copycats. Their K-Pop scene has largely been derived from the J-Pop Idol scene and has received huge backing from the South Korean government who sees it as a form of soft power. There's nothing quite as wonderfully weird or as creative as the Japanese Vocaloids and their presentation and well, yes, even Babymetal in South Korea.
 
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