Looking for 80s-90s Japanese female artists. Preferably rock & pop, but any genres ok

Hi everyone ! I'll be in Tokyo next week for the first time and only for a few days (Feb 4-9). I've read about live houses and would love to attend a gig while I'm there. I listen to punk, garage and other high energy r&r bands. Including some Japan bands such as The Deadvikings, Michelle Gun Elephant and more.

Any live house recos or bars when I'll be there ?

Thanks

I remember first getting into Shinsei Kamattechan around 2014—they were my top band for a long time. Back then, it was hard to find much media about them online, and their YouTube audio quality was pretty rough, but I absolutely loved the band and Noko’s unique style. My favorite song at the time was probably Shinitai Kisetsu.

In recent years, I was caught off guard when I saw them doing anime opening themes since I hadn’t been keeping up with them as much. But it made me really happy to see them reaching more people. And now, seeing them on The First Take is even more incredible. It’s amazing to watch a band I’ve loved for so long continue to grow and get the recognition they deserve.

Shinsei First Take

Does anyone know where I can find this song? I heard it on a Japanese radio station but I can't find a trace of the artist or song online...

I'm trying to find this song that was popular in Japan maybe 5 or 6 years ago? An exchange student had showed it to me and I loved it but I lost it.

Recently I saw an ad on tiktok with a cover of the song and now it makes me want to find the song even more.

All I remember from the beginning is "Hey good morning [......] Okay!" (From the English version)

It starts with a ringing alarm clock and then we go through the singers life of boarding a train and following the same routine and schedule where he meets the girl but is too scared to approach her. But on a rainy day, she lends him her umbrella and that gives him the opportunity to talk to her finally. (I believe there's a female version of her POV as well)

Look... I'm going to sound really dumb. I was an exchange student when I was 14 in Japan in 2003. There was a song that my host sister listened to over and over again and I don't know the name of it. So here is the sounded out English: Aka Coo Sabita Tsuki-do kobune yo-no-vee

Small translation to of the first part of the song: Red rusty moon night small ship floats?

Help.

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Sorry bad english

- I found it on youtube, but maybe is on other platforms
- It has a girl voice (like vocaloid?).
- In the start of the video the girl has a mask, and then she take it off

I dont know how to describe the type of the song, remembers me of vocaloid but maybe isnt.
A pic made by me of the video cover:

https://preview.redd.it/n84xokza88ge1.png?width=3553&format=png&auto=webp&s=cf8a6f4bfa65687b96da4bc2369a602bdab6014d

Haven't seen this posted yet but One Ok Rock released a new song!

Also, they're on a huge tour!
So go buy your tickets!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVCDC7ukLoM

I found a picture of an album for artists called k-bros, and I couldn’t find any information about them. I want to listen to their songs, but I can’t. Can someone give me a source to listen to them, i can’t buy the cd version because i don’t live in japan

Can you help me find this song I only know just a liitle bit of lyrics, just the chorus "Anata wa tsuyoku wa shitai yawa okushtai waraiwa zetai"

Ps. Sorry I'm not good with English

So my friend was asking me for help trying to find an old memory of a Japanese song that keep bugging his life because he can't find it to this day. He tell me the song is in Youtube platform and quite old type of Youtube platform too. (probably 7+ years or more) Also, the name of the song is in Japanese text (which we can't read or type since we are foreigner).

The music video has a child running or walking on the beach and have a blue tone on the vid. He can't remember what the song sound like but he told me he can point it out if he can listen to it. Also he think it is maybe a J-pop song.
If anyone can find it, it would be very helpful.

Thank you very much in advance.

Hi everyone,

I am struggling as I would love to remember the name of a duo of Japanese composers I used to listen to, but whose name I don't remember anymore.

I just remember I listened to them presumably between 2013 and 2018. They were niche but not that unknown, as they even toured with the late Ryuichi Sakamoto (I also tried to look at his tours for that decade but nothing appeared in this regard).

Would you remember any particularly significant duo making ambient/experimental music from that period? TIA!

So there is this record label called Local Visions that features city pop and future bass type of music. Years ago I remember stumbling upon their website and it was like the most beautiful looking website I have ever seen with all of their beautiful album cover art.

But now their website is just another cookie cutter music artist website. What happened to the old one? Anybody has a screenshot or something of the old website?

This is kinda a long story, but I just rediscovered MGA's music and am feeling really emotional now. I kinda just wanna ,,, happy vent is the word I guess. And I wanna know if Mrs. Green Apple's music has affected anyone else like how they did for me 🥹🥹

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Mrs. Green Apple got me through senior year of high school, which for me was 2017-18. They were the first Japanese act i ever was a fan of, really the first international artists too. Honestly they were my first rock band too 😭😭😭. I used to be in the TRENCHES looking for their lyrics so I could feed them into Google just to get a sense of what they were saying.

Their music impacted me so much that I wanted to learn Japanese just so I could understand them. Come next year, I decided to try Japanese 101 at college and keep going with it if I did well. Lo and behold I aced it and wound up adding Japanese as a minor on top of my Journalism major.

I probably spent more time on my Japanese studies than I did my journalism classes lmao😭the community at my school was everything, so supportive and an amazing group to be a part of. I had fully planned to study abroad to Fukui during my senior year. And all along I was keeping track of MGA's new releases. Tomoshibii, Folktale, Romanticism, Tsuki to Anemone, they were killin it in 2019 all the way till they dropped Attitude during fall of my sophomore year. I sorta fell off with them as COVID hit, but I really just stopped being a superfan. Even if I wasn't in love with them, they never fully LEFT my rotation.

Senior year was rough though. I wound up having to abandon my study abroad plans because of how COVID panned out. Because Japan's semester starts later than America's, we had to decide what we were doing BEFORE Japan announced if they were opening or not, and we had to commit then and there. If I chose to study abroad and Japan didn't open, I'd essentially be SOL and graduate a semester late, and I couldn't afford to do that. So i chose to stay at home,,, and japan fuckin opened 😐😐😐😐😐

That semester was also pretty taxing mentally for reasons I won't get into. I graduated in 2022 without much to show for myself and struggled for a long time. And I didn't have MGA's music to keep my head up. It got so bad I almost took myself out the game permanently. Thank god I'm in a better place now. I'm still stuck at my mama's house but I got a part-time job and am working towards finding something full-time. But at the same time I feel a lot of shame at the fact that I missed out on my chance to get to study Japan, plus I haven't gotten my finances quite in order yet to stay for any amount of time that'd be worthwhile :(

That's until today. I was at the library working on some projects and my music shuffled to Mrs. Green Apple again after so many years of not hearing from them. I decided to check out one of their new releases, "Soranji." And if you guys have heard this one, you'll know what I'm talking about. MGA's music was always so UPLIFTING bro :,) they make the type of shit to bring u out of one of ur lowest moments and make u wanna keep trying. If you don't know what im talking about just go watch the video and turn on captions. Also THEY HAVE ENGLISH CAPTIONS NOW!!!! Little 17-year old me who had to hunt down their translations is so fucking happy inside, it's almost like a full circle feeling.

I'm working on photography and also trying to apply for a marketing job. I've gotten a lot of music industry experience since graduating from school—the music industry was always my main goal. I've always hoped to somehow get a job in or just support Japan's music industry. I thought I'd have had it by now, and the fact that I don't has led me to feeling a lot of shame. I'm honestly losing my Japanese. I don't think in the language as much as I did when I was actively studying it ,, and that kinda scares me :( But I wanna try picking it up again. Something about bumping into MGA's music again, especially that Soranji song just has me feeling like everything is gonna be okay. Apparently the reason I didn't hear from MGA a ton after 2019 is because they lost their bassist and drummer and had to reform. I feel like if they can come back from that, I can come back from my study abroad getting screwed. And even if where I wind up isn't Japan, Imma still be happy that I found my way. Hopefully one day I'll make it there and get to see what I missed out on even if I don't wind up living there.

I'm just feeling appreciative right now. Seeing that MGA is still doing well AND they're more popular overseas is insane to me, and my inner self is really happy and at peace right now. Their music reminded me to just take everything step by step and not give up if it looks rough ,, so that's what imma do :)

i miss them so hard :(