90s and early 00s VK was the best. It's so homogenized now, barring few exceptions :(

^So very true. It was weird becoming a fan starting around 2007. It was already transitioning to it's current place. I was obsessed enough at the time to listen to the older stuff while also waiting for new stuff. And it was great. Still is great. And honestly, I still have crushes on a lot of those men haha~

It used to be so magical to me when I was younger. And it is now to me still. I just feel like all of the beauty of it will be forgotten.

Same with j-pop

I do feel like J-Pop was at its "best" - in an objective sense - between 1999 and 2003, because in there, the melodies still had the nostalgia of older J-Pop, but thanks to more globalized attitudes, production was finally advancing beyond what TK learned when he went to London in '88. (I just wish we'd had more low, soulful voices on the charts at the time than just Van Tomiko and Utada Hikaru, and, at the tail-end of this, Asuca Hayashi. Vocals were still pretty weak in general).

It was when that globalized attitude started affecting J-Pop melodies in about '04-'05 that J-pop started to go seriously downhill for me. When I got into J-pop I feel like it was the best possible blend of what was great about western AND asian pop, and now it's just outdated western pop in another language. :(

The INSANE run of cover albums that have been released lately - that for once are covers of Japanese songs rather than Western ones - are signaling a backlash coming, hopefully the nostalgic sorts of melodies will make a comeback soon. I think a bunch of singers are dissatisfied with how J-music sounds these days too.

Had -never- heard this song prior to yesterday.



What a gem!

Tanpopo 's theme for Orphen ♥

a lot of old jpop songs I listen to are used as anime's theme.

Maaya Sakamoto:




TWO-MiX:



T.M. Revolution


Tokuyama Hidenori (more rock than pop)



Okazaki Ritsuko


Okuda Miwako


others







I listen to a lot of others songs that are used for animes. It's a just a first sample.

Yutaka Ozaki - I LOVE YOU



I know this song because of Mika Nakashima's cover though, I didn't know any old school J-pop :( probably some X-Japan songs because my brother is a huge fan.

^This was probably one of the finest Japanese love songs ever written! Ozaki Yutaka was a legend!


"Toki no nagare ni mi wo makase" by Teresa Teng was one of the first J-pop songs I've heard and fell in love with Japanese music since then. And that was when I was about to attend kindergarten.
The 2nd song is "Wakare no Yokan".


"Ai no hizashi ~amore mio~" - Teresa Teng. LOve Love this song!


"Anata wo kanjiteitai" - ZARD. So nostalgic!


"LOVE SONG" - TUBE.
This band is one of the best Japanese band I've ever heard in my opinion. They have so many summer songs and beautiful ballads too!


OFF TOPIC: How can I put a video directly that I don't have to link with a new tab? I already forgot how to do it. Please....

^Put the code that is after the v= between [ youtube] code [/youtube]

ZARD is just soooo good! One of my favourite! :luv2

Luckily I used to watch Music update Tokyo on channel V so I heard alot of J music. These are the first songs I really liked.

Cascade




And who can forget Vivian Hsu and the black biscuits?


Maaya Sakamoto and Masami Okui had some fantastic songs in the 90s. I still have Kiseki no umi on my phone.

You and me both! But 'Water' off their last single was awesome enough for me to forget all the garbage they've been releasing lately.

I love J-pop/J-rock from the 80s and 90s! Especially The Alfee. I absolutely love their song Marie-Anne. Lucky for this thread, they've got plenty of videos on Youtube:

Marie-Anne


Byaku-ya


Manatsu no Stranger

I've been listening to Miyuki Nakajima's Singles 2000 compilation a lot in the past few weeks. I'm so happy I decided to try this album, she's so good! Tabibito no Uta is epic! Headlight Taillight is perfectly calming! Sora to Kimi no Aida ni sweeps me away! Fight is such a weird yet amazing song! I think I need to hear more of her.

Thank you so much for your help! :love

I love "Timing"! But sadly it's the only single CD I have from them :-( If anyone is interested I can upload them for you! ^_^

2 of my favorite classics!

I'm not into old school jpop too much, but I just discovered this song



Her voice :luv2:luv2:luv2

Time to revive our inner old school selves!

Been obsessed of listening to Miho Nakayama's music for a week already and now I'm quite curious about Akina Nakamori! Her voice is indeed amazing and she's pretty too. She looks like Chinese actress Gong Li.

This thread is pure magic <3 I loooove J-Pop from the 80s, so many amazing songs and artists!

I have a playlist on Youtube with my favorite J-80s songs: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...7Er2ncKwnFv6SD

I'll leave this two amazing lives for you guys. Love the stage <3

I've been getting into Miyuki Nakajima and she's really awesome. Her lyrics and vocals were something totally else compared to other Jpop artists active in 70s and 80s. Recently I've been obsessed with the song Oikakete Yokohama that she wrote for another idol back in 1979, racked up 150+ plays on last.fm over just about two weeks. And I only really like Miyuki's version because the music is a lot catchier - it's just an insanely catchy song. Yet it's totally different from anything Miyuki writes in her own discography.

Anyway, I also love Seiko Matsuda's album Citron - there are only a few songs that I don't like. But songs like Blue, Marrakech, Daite..., You Can't Find Me and We Never Get To It are amazing. I tried listening to some other of her albums but they didn't catch my attention as much as Citron did.

I'm planning to listen to some Akina Nakamori, too. Also, I freaking LOVE Miho Nakayama's Ougon Kaigan from the album EXOTIQUE. For now it's maybe my favorite song I've ever heard from that era in general.

My only problem is that I tend to dislike most of the idol ballads they made in the 80s - they just sound bland and not captivating (not all, but most). But the upbeat disco songs seem to be really great.

I have been listening to Seiko Matsuda again after taking a break for a while. I really need to grow my collection more! I only have We are love and Was It the Future?.
Lately I have been in love with this song from Supreme. One of her most beautiful songs.

I'm in love with this thread.
Akina Nakamori is my favourite 80s J-Pop artist, however I have been obsessed with Junko Tokumaru, Wink, Matsuda Seiko and the one and only Yamaguchi Momoe.

Well, I've had this amazing bop stuck in my head all morning~