Day 45: the pillows

My absolute favorite song ever is today's feature. It's taken me forever to post it, and I don't really have a good reason for why it's taken so long. But I love it, so I need to post it now. [:

The song is 'Last Dinosaur' by the pillows. If you're familiar with anime, you my recognize it as the song played during the previews for the next episodes on Fooly Cooly. The whole soundtrack is done by The Pillows, and it's amazing. Even if you don't like anime, I HIGHLY reccomend checking out the soundtrack.

Sorry for posting two songs from the same country in a row, I've just kinda stopped worrying about that, lol.

Day 44: Start Of The Day

I first discovered Japanese music through a podcast my freshman year. (2007) The podcast was called 'All Rock, No Talk: Music From Japan' and it was an awesome introduction to j-rock. I found so many amazing bands through there. Perfume, Aural Vampire, Gollbetty, Chirinuruwowaka, Chatmonchy, Last Alliance, Bleach, Mika Nakashima, die!!die!!color!!!!, Mihimaru GT, SNoW, Start Of The Day, etc. I seriously wish I could find the person who did this podcast and give them a massive hug, because they majorly influenced my music tastes for the better.

Anyway, nostalgia aside, today's band is one that I discovered through that podcast: Start Of The Day. I love them dearly! I really dig unique voices, and Atsuko Watanabe definitely has one. The band has gone through a lot of changes since this song came out, (i.e: new drummer and bassist) but they're still awesome, and they'll have a new album out in Japan this September! The song is 'Hero of the Starry Night' the first song I ever heard of theirs, and my absolute favorite.



(p.s They were Start of the Day, then StartOfTheDay, and now they're Start of the Day again, right? This is confusing, lol)

Day 20: Plastic Tree

As promised, here is your Japanese song! It's not one of the bands I had planned on featuring, though. The band is Plastic Tree, and they are from Chiba Prefecture, Japan. Choosing a song was really difficult, because I love all of their stuff! I ended up going with 'Kuuchuu Buranko' (Trapeze), but Ghost and Sanbika came really close! I HIGHLY reccomend you check out the other two songs, they're great!

Well, here you go! [:

Day 16: Dir En Grey

There's a good reason behind why I picked today's song! [:

When I had swine flu, all I did was lay in bed and listen to Dir En Grey. Nothing but Dir En Grey for four days, and I got over H1N1 and was back to normal. But I ended up giving it to my aunt, and then she had it for a week and a half! I am fully convinced that I recovered so quickly because of this band, lol. And maybe the fact that I ate nothing but chicken, couscous and cheesecake while I was sick had something to do with it.

Anyway, the reason I picked them is because I'm home sick today, so I figured I'd feature the band who got me through my last big illness. The funny thing about this band though, is that I absolutley adore their Gauze album. It's one of my favorites of all time. But I absolutley loathe their new music. It's just not my thing. It makes me sad, because their old stuff was SO good. ;__;

okay, whatever. I'm talking to much. Here's a great song from their first album, Gauze, released in 1999. It's called 'Yokan'.

Day six: UVERworld

I listen to a lot of j-rock, but I haven't included any of it yet, until now. This is also the first song that isn't in English! Fun!

Today's song is Hakanaku mo Towa no Kanashi by UVERworld, from Kusatsu, Shiga Prefecture, Japan. Any anime fans out there might recognize this as the opening of the second season of Mobile Suit Gundam 00. Their songs have also been in Blood+, D. Gray-Man and Bleach. Enjoy!