During my years of growing up from a curious little girl to conscience adult I was always find a way to listen to music. Listening on my stero while at home, at school with my cd player, on the road and listen to the radio or my burn cds, anything! And when it comes categories, I will listen to anything that sounds good to me; case in point: J-Music
Back in 2003, I went driving with my dad to do some stuff during the weekend and he went to his Glove compartment to get a plank cd with writing that said:"Music Playlist-Anime", and once he put it in player in his car the first song was the first opening of ghost in the shell stand alone complex: Inner Universe by Origa and completely blew me away, from from this Russian singer and futuristic instruments playing in the background, it changed my life; once that was over it hit after hit:
It's gonna rain! by Bonnie Pink
Heart of Sword -Yoakemae-by T.M.Revolution
HIT IN THE USA by BEAT CRUSADERS
Ride on Shooting Star by The Pillows
key of the twilight by Yuki Kajiura
Cloud Age Symphony by Shuntaro Okino
And ending it with The Light Before We Land by The Delgado
It was just breathtaking.
From around 2004 it was trying to find some more music to on my own burned cd or trying to find the songs on my dad burned cd and put it on my own, it was rough.
Until on 2005 I decided to go to YouTube and find more Japanese music and this time I hit the jackpot!
From finding the Princess, Queens of pop singers/bands like
Crystal Kay: Ex-boyfriend, Girl's night, Gonna ni chi kakumei de, Nice and Slow
Namie Amuro: Mister U.S.A/ Body feels exit/ Something 'bout the kiss and Love 2000
Ayumi Hamasaki: Boys & Girls, Duty, Monochrome, Evolution and "M"
Koda Kumi: Real emotion, Promise, Crazy4 U, Star, The meaning of peace ft BoA and Cutie Honey
Mika Nakashima: Stars, Crescent moon, Will, Seven, yuki no hana and Heaven On Earth
MISIA:Tsutsumikomu..,Chiisana koi, Into the Light, Sweetness, Believe, and Everything
Double:"U", Who's that girl, Strange things and Shake
BoA: NO.1, My Sweetie, Tragic, Milky Way, My name and key of heart
Utada Hikaru: Automatic, First love, Wait & see, Can you keep a secret?, Sakura drops, Traveling, Deep river, Final distance, Hikari-Simple and Clean and Sanctuary
Sheena Ringo+Tokyo Jihen: Marunouchi Sadistic, Honnou -Instinct, Stem, Gamble, Religion/ Sounan -A Distress- and Shuraba -The Rat's-Nest
To finding iconic male bands/singers like
L'Arc-en-Ciel: Floods of tears, Vivid Colors, flower, Lies and Truth, The Fourth Avenue Cafe, Niji, Pieces, Driver's High, Honey, Kasou, Love Flies, Neo Universe, Stay Away, Finale, Spirit Dreams Inside, Ready Steady Go and Hitomi no Juunin
Unchain: Light your shadow, Make it glow, Movin' my soul, Let Me Be The One, Precious, Across The Sky, Brighter Days, Stillness in the wind
M-flo: Come back to me L.O.T (Love or Truth), Been so Long, Rewind!, The love Bug, Now or Never Ft. Chemistry, Tripod baby
Malice Mizer: Gekka no Yasoukyoku, APRES MIDI ～, Gardenia, Ma cherie, Au Revoir, Let Ciel, Verte Aile+Bel-air, Kyomu no naka de yuugi
Gackt: Mizerable, Fragrance, Vanilla, Oasis, Tsuki no Uta, Redemption, Mind Forest, Marmalade, Missing, Another World
Hyde: Evergreen, Unexpected, The cape of Stroms, White Song, Hello, Horizon, Shining over you
Miyavi: Coo Quack Cluck, Selfish Love, What a Wonderful World, Ashita, Genki ni naare
Mr.children: Kimi ga ita natsu, Innocent World, Love Connection, Tomorrow never knows, Theme of ES, I'll Be, kuchibue, Youthful Days, Kimi ga Suki, Any, Hero, Tenohira(palm), Future, And I love you, Worlds End, Fake, GIFT, Esora
Buck Tick: Gessekai, Dress, jupiter, just one more kiss, Die, Love Me, Gensou no Hana, kagerou, and ROMANCE
Luna Sea: Believe, Rosier, True Blue, End of Sorrow, Mother, In Silence, Storm, Shine, Breath, Providence, I for You, Tonight, Gravity
B'z: Love Phantom, Love me'I love you, Bad Communication, Alone, Easy come' Easy Go!, Lady Navigation, Motel, Ulta Soul, It's Show time!
Chemistry: Aishi Sugite, PIECES OF A DREAM, Point of No Return, You Go Your Way, now or never ft. Mflo
Bump of Chicken: Tentaikansoku, Snow, Sailing Days, Sharin no Uta, Planetarium, Karma, RIP, Happy
Kirinji: Don't look down on the rain, Good day Goodbye, Kuruma To Onna, Siren No Uta, Juuyoku No Kagerou, Arcadia
I was stuffed with Japanese music , ive also found some really good girl groups too; which was weird, I was going through a "I'm not like other girls" phase because I saw other" fans" not liking the girl pop idols and was listening to "real" music (whatever that means) but to my surprise, ive found a good amount of iconic girl groups that captured my liking; even from Korea like:
Morning Musume: LOVE Machine, I WISH, Ren'ai Revolution 21, Morning Coffee, Lonely days
Speed: White Love, ALL MY TRUE LOVE, STEADY, My Graduation
Girls Generation: Into the New World, Perfect for You and Gee
Wonder Girls: So Hot, Tell me, and Nobody
Perfume: Polyrhythm, Chocolate Disco, GAME, Baby Cruising Love, Macaroni, Butterfly, NIGHT FLIGHT, Love the World, Speed Of Sound, and The Best Thing
And even though with all these great artists I've found online and some Anime magazines, it was torture!, cause you had to be lucky to find a non-low or high pitched, no Auto-Tune, no cover, no remix, music box, or even a piano cover of the songs; these were very hard to find.
But right now some of the artists I've drop down now re-released these songs on YouTube to see the music videos for the whole world to see.
Now Anime soundtracks are another beast; some are either stuck in the "copyright" jail or also hard to find OR if your lucky found a whole playlist of the series soundtrack, and I found my all time favorites during the 2000s:
Ghost in the shell series
Fullmetal Alchemist + Brotherhood
Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva
Bakemonogatari series
And Neon Genesis Evangelion + Movies All Three
And as of right now listening to more new jpop, jrock, kpop, krock, Anime soundtracks plus Anime openings and Endings to this day!
So as of right now: listen what you like, keep on Jam'in and Stay Golden 💛
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