General Music Discussion (Non-Japanese)

sephy1024 wrote:
*takes Mayumi outside and shoots them :evil:

LOL sephy that killed this topic REALLY fast! :nut:

arashinokoto wrote:i usually don't listen to western acts actually.. usually only japanese music and stuff from the region.. but western music is very much around here in the region also.. mtv keeps playing linkin park stuff and stacie orrico and stuff from britain like gareth gates and robbie williams.. so actually here in asia we get a BIG BIG variety of music.. japanese, korean, malay, chinese, cantonese, american, british... blah blah blah... :hehe:

agree with that!

currently listening avril lavigne, some punk music, and utada hikaru.

:chatter: Me, more on pure J-Rock! L'arc en ciel is my one of the faves!1 :applaud:

being in a japanese household, we listen to a lot of JPOP. I used to listen to ols rap (run dmc, beastie boys, LL cool j) and since i thought i've grown out of that....until I ran into this kid last week. He's Jin tha MC, the first asian rapper (my fellow cantonese) to go into BET's hall of fame, who are mainly black artists. 7 weeks in a row, winning freestyle rapping against fellow freestylist, until he rapped himself onto a recording contract. Dude has got talent, no denying. It's tough to go up on stage no knowing who your opponent is and then just dishing out rhyme after rhyme, out battling the other guy.

He's also in a movie recently called 2 fast 2 furious. He plays a car mechanic called 'jimmy'.

Another reason that I think he'll go all the way is...he went to the same high school as me!! Small world huh? :applaud:

Anyways his site is here:
http://www.holla-front.com/
And be sure to click 'audio/video' to download his "freestyle friday" battles.
Once he comes out with an album, support our fellow asian artist!!

man niko u sound like u have a cool life :hehe:

um do we really need to ask this kinda question?? sorry the question just sounds like we're limited and stick into one category.
anyway, to me i listen to not only asian music (such as: jpop, kpop, cpop, flip-pop, etc.)
i also like slowjams, underground music, rap, triphop, trance, electronic, bossa nova, classic and modern jazz, alternative rock, gospel.. practically almost anythng but i cant stand country though :sweat:

oh yeh im also picky to mainstream hiphop now idk, i just hate about that 'all about the bling bling and sex thing'. if im gonna listen to a good hiphop the lyrics should have a deeper meaning to it, otherwise the song is a piece of trash.

Mostly Japanese singer are my fav ie :

Sadao Watanabe, Kitaro, Tatsuro Yamashita, Casiope, etc ....

For our local : Jamrud, Padi, Previous Dewa 19.

For western : Bread, Beatles, Georges Duke, Stephen Bishop, John Denver, Beeges

Oh, I forgot to include Taiko... They had some great taiko demonstrations in Little Tokyo during the Nisei Week Festival...

There's this great Japanese taiko group named Kodo, who are supposed to be the absolute best in the world: http://www.kodo.or.jp/

Yep I like different music from different part of the world.....
Japan,,[ Nowadays I listen to ] Kick the can crew,Liv,Nakashima Mika,Tetsu 69 and deinetly Masu Takako

Chinese Music...Jay Chou,Jordan Chan,Karen Mok,Sammy Cheng,Andy Lau.

Russian...TATU

Spanish...Alejandro sanz,Cristian Castro,Jaci Velasquez

Italy [ Pop+Classic ] Romantic song like Eros Ramazotti,Andrea Bocelli, Laura Pausini

Western...SLow music like Limp Bizkits,Linkin park,Guano Apes, Dave Matthews band and Josh groban

Listening to those different country music even I don't understand a single word make me realise Music is a global language of Human. :sweat:

lovelessemotion wrote:man niko u sound like u have a cool life :hehe:

I'm sure all of us have a cool life in some shape or form. Look at you dude, I wish I can say "Today is my day off. Well, let me bust out my stick, because the weather report says thst the waves are good today." like you. I gotta drive 3 hr for the beach here in virginia, and the waves here aren't nearly as good as SoCal.

MixxDreamer wrote:um do we really need to ask this kinda question?? sorry the question just sounds like we're limited and stick into one category.
anyway, to me i listen to not only asian music (such as: jpop, kpop, cpop, flip-pop, etc.)
i also like slowjams, underground music, rap, triphop, trance, electronic, bossa nova, classic and modern jazz, alternative rock, gospel.. practically almost anythng but i cant stand country though :sweat:

oh yeh im also picky to mainstream hiphop now idk, i just hate about that 'all about the bling bling and sex thing'. if im gonna listen to a good hiphop the lyrics should have a deeper meaning to it, otherwise the song is a piece of trash.

:say_yes: couldn't of said it better myself.....(except for the gosple/ rap part...i hate rap!!!!...and i don't listen to gospel music)

BTW have ya listened to acid jazz? :sweat:

niko2x wrote:
I'm sure all of us have a cool life in some shape or form. Look at you dude, I wish I can say "Today is my day off. Well, let me bust out my stick, because the weather report says thst the waves are good today." like you. I gotta drive 3 hr for the beach here in virginia, and the waves here aren't nearly as good as SoCal.

hahhah actualy today is not my day off :sweat: ....i'm going after work......hahaha

thats alright hehe i dont listen to a hardcore gospel like the one in church, im interested in gospel r&b and sometimes rap like kirk franklin :sweat:

oooh i forgot about acid jazz.. how can i forget that?! and um.. i listen a lil bit of goa too, reggae and hawaiian music.. cant forget that! :mrgreen:

That is cool man i too listen to many type of music sometime i can't really understand a words they say but the sweet sound and the voice of the performer really convey their emotion. They says music is the universal language. Anyone here like country music? :D

Mostly J-pop and some K-pop. I get to hear an awful lot of Chinese and Western music owing to the factor of where I live, but not much of a fan. I do enjoy listening to Eminem and Linkin Park though.

who wants to listen to eminem when you've got rip slyme and dragon ash..? :hehe:

Well I can't arugue with that, but I very much prefer Eminem. He's got more style than any of the rappers alive.

Personally, I myself like to listen variety of music from all over the world. I also got quite a lot collection of Jpop which I consider nice, especially SMAP, Ken Hirai, V6, Chage&Aska, Mr. Children, D.A.I and Rena Shiingo(btw she got the chance to be on the Cover of TIME magazine which currently exposed how Japanese culture has rock the world!)

As for western music, I stick to Aerosmith, Alanis Morissette, radiohead, manic street preachers etc (that sort of music) :mrgreen:

O, I also like classical music i.e chopin, Rachmaninoff, Baroque music :D
So basically I listen to almost anything. I guess that asians are more receptive in accepting music from all over the world. :applaud:

Akakage wrote:Personally, I myself like to listen variety of music from all over the world. I also got quite a lot collection of Jpop which I consider nice, especially SMAP, Ken Hirai, V6, Chage&Aska, Mr. Children, D.A.I and Rena Shiingo(btw she got the chance to be on the Cover of TIME magazine which currently exposed how Japanese culture has rock the world!)

O, I also like classical music i.e chopin, Rachmaninoff, Baroque music :D
So basically I listen to almost anything. I guess that asians are more receptive in accepting music from all over the world. :applaud:

I think that europeans and asians tend to be more in touch globally than most americans. Not to say that most americans are ignorant about global views.