Friday Music Day

FMD: Japanese Guitars

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So I finally grabbed most of the intro/outro music from the Anime programs I'm obsessing over. There's a quality to the guitars in the rock songs that I don't really hear in any domestic or Brit music but that I remember hearing from even in the 90s from Boom Boom Satellites (also Japanese). Like even if I heard one of these songs entirely in perfect, native-sounding English, I could still ID it as coming from Japan (or possibly Korea).

15 thoughts on “FMD: Japanese Guitars”

  1. 1. Arvo Pärt “Magnificat (AMR Mix 11)”* Magnificat (AMR Remixes)
    2. Vessel “Punish, Honey” Punish, Honey
    3. Annie “Invisible” The A&R EP
    4. Dolfish “Your Love Is Bummin' Me Out” Your Love Is Bummin' Me Out
    5. Autechre “Slip” Amber

    6. Roy Orbison “Leah” The All-time Greatest Hits of Roy Orbison*
        a. Yellow Warbler “Song”* (Cornell Master Set)
        b. Yellow-headed Blackbird “Check Calls and Some Song” (Cornell Master Set)
    7. Dolfish “Must Be Something Wrong With These Shoes” I'd Rather Disappear Than Stay the Same
    8. Beyoncé “Why Don't You Love Me” I Am... Sasha Fierce (Platinum Edition)
    9. Plastikman “Ekko” Consumed
        c. Marsh Wren (Eastern) “Scold Calls” (Cornell Master Set)
    T. Tori Amos “Spark” From the Choirgirl Hotel

    *Notes:
    1. Similar to this.
    6. "All-time" or "All-Time"?
    a. "Sweet Sweet Sweet, Little More Sweet"

      1. IIRC, Bird-name capitalization follows the simplified practice mentioned.
        Yellow-billed Cuckoo
        Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
        Northern Saw-whet Owl
        Great Horned Owl
        Eastern Screech-owl

        Unless the hyphenated is a compound bird-name
        Helmeted Cuckoo-Shrike

  2. I was a little bummed when the Attack on Titan intro de-metallized after the second episode.

    01. Ensiferum - "Star Queen (Celestial Bond Part II)", Unsung Heroes
    02. Ensiferum - "Ad Victoriam", Victory Songs
    03. Equillibrium - "Heiderauche", Sagas
    04. Ensiferum - "Token of Time", Ensiferum
    05. Turisas - "Prologue for R.R.R", Battle Metal
    06. Korpiklaani - "Väkirauta", Tales Along This Road
    07. Turisas - "Cursed Be Iron", The Varangian Way
    08. Tyr - "Fields of the Fallen", The Lay of Thrym
    09. Korpiklaani - "Spirit of the Forest", Voice of Wilderness
    10. Heidevolk - "Deemstering", Uit Oude Grond

    I wish Google Play's "I'm Feeling Lucky" button when you have full access would mix up the musical styles instead of giving you a list all from one type of music.

    2. I don't recall the first episode's intro. It wasn't "Feuerroter Pfeil und Bogen"?
      I love the translated lyrics:
      "Livestock complancency, false prosperity?
      Give us the freedom of dying starving wolves!"
      Sounds like something from your music.

      1. It was the same song as episodes after it, but the music was heavier with more distorted guitars.

  3. 01. “Come Get To This” – Marvin Gaye – Let’s Get It On
    02. “Vernie” – Blind Melon – Soup
    03. “Chronology” – Ornette Coleman – The Shape Of Jazz To Come
    04. “Ancient Egypt” – The Orwells – Remember When
    05. “American Weekend” – Waxahatchee – American Weekend
    06. “The Soldiering Life” – The Decemberists – Her Majesty
    07. “Railroad Of Sin” – Sturgill Simpson – High Top Mountain
    08. “Cigarettes And Chocolate Milk” – Rufus Wainwright – Poses
    09. “Joan Of Arc” – Arcade Fire – Reflektor
    10. “The Man Who Couldn’t Cry” – Johnny Cash – American Recordings

  4. Traveling. So I've only got my small iPod (my most recent Father's Day gift). As such the following random 10 isn't very diverse, consisting only of music I've added in the last six months..

    * Vitberget - Varg - Ursviken
    * Mirrored Walls - Yvette - Process
    * Raising the Skate - Speedy Ortiz - Foil Deer
    * So Blonde - EMA - The Future's Void
    * Tristessa - Heartless Bastards - Restless Ones
    * Faith in Strangers - Andy Stott - Faith in Strangers
    * Solace - EMA - The Future's Void
    * Web - Thee Oh Sees - Mutilator Defeated At Last
    * An Illustration of Loneliness (Sleepless in New York) - Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, Sometimes I Just Sit
    * No Below - Speedy Ortiz - Major Arcana

  5. I guess it's A ghost is born day...

    1. The New Pornographers - "Wide Eyes" - Bill Bruisers
    2. Wilco - "The late greats" - A ghost is born
    3. Beck - "Computer Rock" - Odelay
    4. Wilco - "Company in my back" - A ghost is born
    5. Ha Ha Tonka - "Lonely Fortunes" - Death of a Decade

    6. Daft Punk - "Lose Yourself to Dance" - Random Access Memories*
    7. Queens of the Stone Age - "These Aren't the Droids You're Looking For" - Queens of the Stone Age
    8. The Black Keys - "Unknown Brother" - Brothers
    9. Arcade Fire - "Reflektor" - Reflektor
    10. The Avett Brothers - "Paranoia in B Major" - Emotionalism

    6. - Huh, don't remember saving Daft Punk in Spotify...

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