even though I hate American oldies...

[tsukikage]

Proof that I enjoy Japanese music I wouldn't stand in English:
Japanese oldies.
I don't know what it is. Maybe it's just that I lower my standards for Japanese music. Maybe it's that I like the sound of Japanese better. Who knows.
Anyways, this song is fun. (Reminds me of that song they play in the Japanese language track of Kiki's Delivery Service.)

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[EDIT: "Wouldn't stand" is far too strong language, now that I think of it. More like "would get tired of extremely quickly".]

Comments

[carve037.livejournal.com]

I think you just like a lot of Japanese stuff because it's Japanese, to be honest. Which is kinda lame. :S I wish that didn't sound so harsh, but it kinda is I suppose.

[tsukikage85.livejournal.com]

The same thought has crossed my own mind... I guess that's sorta what I meant by "I lower my standards for Japanese music". But I do think there's something more to it than "OMGZ I LOVEZ JAPAN!!", because I don't really have that sort of personality, I don't think. Maybe I just (intentionally but somewhat sub-consciously) identify with it more?

[hampster-cowboy.livejournal.com]

I hope by english oldies you mean those really poppy songs from the late fifties and sixties. Because if you're gonna diss on the classic rock...
I found a Japanese song from the billboard top 100 of '62 or '63, called "sukiyaki". It was kinda cutesy, but I liked it. Which is interesting because I'm generally losing interest these days in J-Pop and really all asian pop music (too much k-pop for my brain to handle?). I think I'm going back to some of the music from my youth (*cough* country *coughcough*) and developing quite a fondness for the great american songbook, as well as finally figuring out the titles and artists of so many of the seventies/late sixties/early eighties songs I've liked for a while.
But as far as lowering your standards for Japanese music, I used to be the same way. I bought/listened to music from genres I wouldn't have even considered had the artists been american (like pop and hip-hop). Crazy what "wanting to practice a language" will do to you[r mind].

[tsukikage85.livejournal.com]

"This is your mind. This is your mind in J-Pop."
I heard a Cubic U version of Sukiyaki once... Don't remember what I thought of it.
I have to say, I like modern country, and I like folkier (?) country (Gilian Welch, Lyle Lovett), but I've never really liked "classic country": you know, Patsy Cline and that kind of stuff.

[hampster-cowboy.livejournal.com]

See, modern country (ie 2000s) is what I like the least. There are a few good ones still out there, but it's gotten too poppy for my tastes. I like the stuff from the late eighties/early nineties (aka the stuff i grew up with) and so-called "outlaw country" (waylon jennings, willie nelson, etc.) the best, although other old country has been growing on me.... I really like Patsy Cline! Also Charlie Pride, Merle Haggard, Glen Campbell, etc. But somehow I think my favourite is always going to be Garth Brooks, it was one of his songs that I memorized all the words to for the first time (or so I've been told).