Japanese Music - Recommendations/Discussion

Okay, I have about 397 of them right now - "PV's". But I still don't know what the hell the letters P V stand for :S!!! There's no single tracker / forum that cares to explain abbreviations. Like it also took me a long time to figure out that CM was commercial. Anyway in case you don't know what i mean, I'm talking about the musicvideoclips like those you see on mtv. Please tell me if you know! :bow:

loris wrote:

Damn! That's not much to go on, but Halcali has a song "Hello Hello Alone" that sort of starts out that way. I uploaded it HERE

Thanks alot for taking the trouble to find it / upload it all the way but it's unfortunately not the song I was looking for. I like it though :) I'll download more of this group hehe! ^^

supermidget wrote:Okay, I have about 397 of them right now - "PV's". But I still don't know what the hell the letters P V stand for :S!!!

I think PV stands for "Pop Video".

supermidget wrote:Thanks alot for taking the trouble to find it / upload it all the way but it's unfortunately not the song I was looking for. I like it though :) I'll download more of this group hehe! ^^

Oh, well, I may have been wrong, but at least I helped Halcali get a new fan :)
Their music is fun, sort of poppy hip hop. You can find some of their stuff at jpopsuki and Tokyo Toshokan.

loris wrote:

Oh, well, I may have been wrong, but at least I helped Halcali get a new fan :)
Their music is fun, sort of poppy hip hop. You can find some of their stuff at jpopsuki and Tokyo Toshokan.

^^ Didn't know 'bout that other tracker actually.. I only used JpopSuki before... Yay :) Listening to Tip Taps Tip, it's good. Any recommendations about other groups that do this style of music? I also like m-flo which is hip hop. :victory:

supermidget wrote:Any recommendations about other groups that do this style of music? I also like m-flo which is hip hop. :victory:

I'm not particularly into hip-hop myself, but the musical Svengali behind Halcali is DJ Fumiya who is in the group Rip Slyme, and some of their songs I do like a lot, for example: Dandelion, Galaxy, and Rakuen Baby.

Thanks for your recommendations, I'll check them out :)

By the way, I'm sorry if this is mentioned in a Faq somewhere... but is there a site (Japanese or English) that records the current Japanese top 10 or top 40 or so and also keeps a database of popular songs in the past?

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and if possible one that also has previews of the songs. I found one that has the the top 40 already: Mr. Heartbreaker's Chart Liner

supermidget wrote:Okay, I have about 397 of them right now - "PV's". But I still don't know what the hell the letters P V stand for :S!!!

promotional video! :mrgreen:

eeu halcali's not even part of hiphop, pop/rap maybe

I was wondering if there were any good Japanese metal bands out there?

Thanks for any help.

:) I liked the song of 'hello hello alone' so much I checked out the lyrics and got interested in the translation so I decided to make a full translation of the lyrics. Cause I didn't really find any on the net either... It's sort of my first attempt at translating a song. Here is the url

Halcali - Hello hello alone

If anyone wants to discuss my translation, you're welcome to do so. I hope the translation makes at least as much sense as the lyrics do in Japanese :)

supermidget wrote::) I liked the song of 'hello hello alone' so much I checked out the lyrics and got interested in the translation so I decided to make a full translation of the lyrics.

Cool, thanks. I was wondering what the song was about. Of course, even when I've seen Halcali's songs in translation, I still wonder what they are about :)

A song that i absolutely love is [cage] by Dir en Grey


X japan....................
hide ...........................
Gackt ..........................
l'arc en ciel / hyde...........]These r also really good jrock bands/artists
Nightmare.....................
Penicilin .....................
Luna sea..................

thaoiryu wrote:A song that i absolutely love is [cage] by Dir en Grey

That was my first Diru song! (wow...that was a long time ago)

supermidget wrote:hi every buddy

i'm havnig this song in my head that i've been hearing on the radio in japan last summer (yea it's over already -summer).

i only know word of the lyrics lol, it goes like this:

hello, helloo! hellooo!!!! blah-blah, blah, blah, blaaaah blaaaah blah.

i rather not sing it, but I cannot find annything on google. i mean, i find stuff but it's not related to this song. it's also not the song of minimoni telephone ring ring. Hope you guys can help me :bow:

I found this looking for some music. I don't know if the same song... =T

Original Name: Ring! Ring!! Ring!!!
Artist: Aiko Kayou
Genre: J-Pop
Release Date: Dec 01, 2004
Version: Japanese
Catalog No.: AVCD-30663
http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-80-1-70-g6a.html

She's cute. :)

i have recently been into Teriyaki Boyz and Halcali.

tabana wrote:
I found this looking for some music. I don't know if the same song... =T

Original Name: Ring! Ring!! Ring!!!
Artist: Aiko Kayou
Genre: J-Pop
Release Date: Dec 01, 2004
Version: Japanese
Catalog No.: AVCD-30663
http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-80-1-70-g6a.html

She's cute. :)

Hi thanks for remembering my request from some while ago ^_^ though I said it actually _didn't_ have anything to do with minimoni's ring ring song :P Anyway I decided to do some searching again, and I finally found the song I ment!!! :D :D :D YAY!

The song is ‰‰ÔꣁX by Singer Songer:

http://www.singersonger.com/

Click on release, it's the last one in the first list :D Now have to find it as mp3 :)

Thanks! :)

I was over at Kinokuniya the other day and saw a CD by Yellow Generation. I guess the "J" in J-pop stands for jailbait now :rofl:

I've seen worst. I saw a couple of weeks ago in an import store, a Chinese band with 5 or 7 (I'm not sure how many) 8~9 year old girls dressed like Christina Aguilera. It was very disturbing. :bleh:

What the hell is wrong with this world... :shakehead: :banghead: