I'm glad this thread got bumped. I don't think I would have searched for it. Anyways, thanks guys for sharing. It's my turn to share some of the bands I love, that haven't been mentioned yet (at least I don't think so).

Afrirampo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMZOXTONMcs&feature=related


OOIOO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJ1FLn7T448


Scha Dara Parr: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78p_LEyGb0I


World's End Girlfriend: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtNntFUcar0


Nagisa Ni Te: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udOqkvkNExE&feature=related


Kazuki Tomokawa: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvBKuCysJjY


Tenniscoats: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2rtqVma_Ww


Green Milk From Planet Orange: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m13HzGn0W4&feature=related

i'm quite fond of SCANDAL for some reason

Good choices Mike Like Bike. Nagisa, Tenniscoats and World's End GF also rock my world. Made me think of Cinq, which are on the same label and made what was my favorite album for a short while...

@ core4pro: iseewatudidthar

@ Mike Like Bike : maybe stating the obvious,
but just to point out that OOIOO are a Boredoms offshoot,
and that WEGF are technically one guy's solo project,
although maybe 'they' could be classed as a collective?

Also, I first heard of Green Milk from the Planet Orange a couple of years ago,
but then got them confuzed with the pop group Greeen & consequently lost intrest ...
THANK YOU for putting me back on the right track!

Well, Yoshimi is in both bands, but the other OOIOO members would be offended to be called an "offshoot".

Coupla 'bonus' tracks from Perfume for the Unbelievers.
To quote one YouTube poster, they are a "Japanese techno pop unit, not an idol group"!


"Electro World": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9JqmZJbiy8&hd=1

People say they have to lip-sync live because they use too much computers on their records.
I dunno bout that, but this version of "Edge", live at the Budokan, is killer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2_nxA9TyUY

Anyway, they're not just another record-company manufactured group.
They've been friends since school, and they've been together about 10yrs now.
It took them 8 to get to the top.

You might wanna watch this "Introduction To Perfume",
not just to learn more about them,
but as an interesting insight into the machinations of the J-pop world too:
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDBWdL9qrBM
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBXKZvdc-O8&NR=1
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOabnwPyrU4&NR=1

FACT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfHVBEgkQsc

Battle Gargoyle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sidFoVARAUc

Dir En Grey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-VwKeNtsBA

Gackt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6O4Uonf ... re=channel

... And, in case anyone was wondering, sum stuff from Capsule:


5iVESTAR ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeIpAnovW9g
Sugarless Girl ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXvpqSCPl9c
Jumper ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaAWEAHxhQ4
Glider rmx ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTkxNweWH78

for those unfamiliar with SCANDAL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1rND210lQ4

saw them perform a few years back when the Japan Nite tour came through SF..these girls kick ass...the school girl outfits are just a bonus

^ That's a great video!

The 5.6.7.8's.
Originally one of several Japanese Ramones-clone bands,
these girls developed a style more in common with the Cramps.
Quentin Tarantino came across them, so the story goes,
while he was in Japan shooting "Kill Bill Vol.1" :

"I Walk Like Jayne Mansfield" & "I'm Blue" ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6bcZtX5zQ0
"Woo Hoo" ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIKORxPeFq8

"Barracuda" ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLh7g-dpVv8
was featured in "The Fast & the Furious: Tokyo Drift".

SHONEN KNIFE


Where to begin?
These girls were really kinda IMPORTANT in the 80's indie music scene,
both in the US and the UK.
They were loved by other musicians including Sonic Youth, Redd Kross,
and the young Kurt Cobain.
And let's face it, who COULD resist 3 cute Japanese girls in home-made dresses
singing three-chord songs almost, though not entirely, exclusively about food!

"Kappa Ex" ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_x_X-2Pyi8
"Redd Kross" ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvugnxiV6p8
"Banana Chips" ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wa95CvhESQ
"Riding On The Rocket" ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KT8bTRN73E
"Daydream Believer" ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9RAbi2xEvo
"It's A New find" ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=astKY3mmDVI
"Gravity Zero Gravity" ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6oKepBo-PY
"Super Group" ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSveOVUdkPI
"Top Of The World" ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ba360Dz1sQ

"Theoretically, any band that writes songs with lyrics such as:
Banana chips for you! Banana chips for me!
In the afternoon, banana chips and tea
should have a life span no longer than that of a grasshopper.
But something oddly spellbinding occurs when deceptively silly lyrics
are sandwiched between a buoyant guitar and a rapid-fire, pop-punk drum kit.
Which perhaps explains why the Japanese female rock trio Shonen Knife
is still singing songs about cookies, sushi, jelly beans, and of course banana chips,
nearly 25 (make that 30 now) years after its inception."
~ Christopher Murther, The Boston Globe.

I woke up to them last week.

I wrote them a fan letter once -
Sent them sum crappy pics I'd taken at a gig in Oxford.
It was '91 maybe, same time as this appearance on "The Word":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDcZTBJGsXw

Anyway, I kinda forgot about it, then maybe six months later I got a letter back from them!
Can't find the letter at the mo,
but I do still have this bandana/snotrag thing which they also sent:

I love Scandal.

Lest we forget:


ZONE ~ "Secret Base" : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFCHNgkfU10

That's enough of that.
This thread needs more


I Don't Know (from the movie 害虫, Gaichu - Harmful Insect) ~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzDC-F41psI
Toumei Shoujo ~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ_zAuxaDRc
Urban Guitar Sayonara ~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iigHbNW_WsU
Num-Ami-Dabutz ~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=511XG_l36bM
Omoide In My Head ~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4xGjxtQhRw
Tattoo (Hisako rapes her guitar ... again and again and again ) ~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b19osIs4wUQ
Inazawa Chainsaw (live, great drumming) ~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uxFT-RaAl0
Space Girl (Audio only; from their self-released first demo "Atari Shock") ~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLXvMA4pXtA

Singer & main songwriter Mukai went on to form Zazen Boys, initially with drummer Inazawa.
Inazawa left in 2005 to form his own band, Vola and the Oriental Machine.
Diminutive yet scary guitarist Hisako has played with Bloodthirsty Butchers and Shiina Ringo,
and has her own band, Toddle.
Bassist is currently with a band called Crypt City.

I love Number Girl. I also like Zazen Boys. Too bad they didn't play in L.A. when they came to the states in October.

love Pizzicato Five, suprised the hell out of me when Futurama used their song "Baby Love Child" in an episode

oh and more recently, Perfume's "Monochrome Effect" popped up in a recent ep of American Dad

Rich already posted
DENKI GROOVE's "Mononoke Dance"* here: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=33370
and yup, they've been around for over 20 years now.

All their videos are pure madness.
(But, a word to the wise, often feature different mixes to the album cuts -
They don't use guitars much on their albums for instance.)

Cafe De Oni* ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnukMUenUQk
Mr. Empty + Middle-aged Punk* - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsw25bywwIA
Play The Guitar You Can't Play* ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geJthfw049k
Nothing's gonna Change* ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx0AI315Mb4
Flashback Disco ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK9FkutYTAI
Shangri-La ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8Qa4e-9Y8c
Fake It! ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JnjMaRM3g8
Shonen Young ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtasrAl8OBU
Niji (Rainbow)** ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0p88ksYTCg

*= animations
**= AMV from the studio that made "Eureka Seven"


"We are little children used to be."

And, on the subject of weird animations, I don't know anything about this band
(except that they're a "breakbeat duo from Japan")
but this is a WICKED video, and not a bad tune to boot:



HIFANA "WAMONO" ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY6iyZzpamg

Hoahio: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKs4S-BgrUc


Kawaguchi Masami's New Rock Syndicate: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myiEPnxLtW4&feature=related


2up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UV86trt_R3I


My Pal Foot Foot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnO0zCDwqAA

I discovered Japanese music in 1985.Kalv (Heresy) and Dig (pre Earache records) put out a flexi that had Lip Cream and Execute on it called "Anglican Scrape Attic".I got it from them before a gig in Nottingham.It cost 40p and it skipped like fuck.I was hooked.The same year I bought the GISM LP.



http://7inchcrust.blogspot.com/2008/05/ ... flexi.html



The flexi said to play it at 2000MPH

This ... sorry, LAST year's Christmas No.1
I kid you not:



"Toilet no Kamisamma" (Goddess of the Toilet):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2VoEN1iooE

(If anyone remembers Clive Dunn's "Grandad" ...
Well it's kinda like that ... only longer )

flower travellin' band
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDBdMnkcx0E

f*ck on the beach
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCQcHMJr ... re=related

syphilitic vaginas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggzl1eHiE_8

sigh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpd4PM1L ... re=related

corrupted
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GzhEYG73PY