General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: GScholz on September 05, 2016, 07:54:59 AM
Title: BABYMETAL - Never change Japan...
Post by: GScholz on September 05, 2016, 07:54:59 AM
Teenage J-Pop meets metal... And for some weird inexplicable reason it works! Never change Japan. The world needs your kind of crazy!
:confused: :rock :cheers:
Title: Re: BABYMETAL - Never change Japan...
Post by: WEZEL on September 05, 2016, 09:00:30 AM
Seen the vid about a year ago, they rock just with I could understand them
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Post by: LCADolby on September 05, 2016, 12:12:32 PM
The beginning reminded me of KoRn. so I love it
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Post by: Copprhed on September 06, 2016, 02:21:23 PM
Give me Chocolate!!!!!
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Post by: bustr on September 06, 2016, 05:37:44 PM
You gotta love Japanese anime when they combine music like this either as the theme, ending, or personal theme for a character or character group. Many of these groups music is used in the anime industry.
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Post by: EskimoJoe on September 07, 2016, 03:43:24 PM
Japan is such a weird place, but then again so is America..
This one has become a deployment favorite.
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Post by: icepac on December 23, 2017, 08:52:33 PM
A couple years later, and Judging by the size of the crowd, they have become legit by selling out wembley and setting the sales record of merchandise for a concert there.
I couldn't get past the bubblegum of earlier stuff but they seem to be growing into the role.
Japan, or asia for that matter, have been exploiting the lack of overseas rock and metal acts and laying down some very good quality live performances.
Genki Sudo has stayed busy after his UFC, pancrase, and K1 career.
Gacharic Spin was on the verge of super stardom when the singer suddenly got ill and quit the band.
She later started another band and suddenly died.
They were left without a singer and had an obligation for a big tour so they made posters advertising for singers to volunteer at various concert stops and, by the end of the tour, they had 3 new members.
They liked this blonde so much that they split off a separate band with her fronting.
China is at it as well.........theme song from terminator genesys.
Korean metal dudes doing a respectable "hear-n-aid" cover of the song "Stars".
Norway is busy, as well.
There is an extended jam after the song ends that is totally tasty.
Title: Re: BABYMETAL - Never change Japan...
Post by: wil3ur on December 27, 2017, 10:12:12 AM
Not really my style -- but Rob Zombie said they have more talent and energy than most of the American bands out there.
For me, I like my Scandanavian symphonic black/folk metal.
Ensiferum, Korpiklaani, Finntroll, Trollfest, Wintersun, Turisas, CoB is more my style.
Title: Re: BABYMETAL - Never change Japan...
Post by: Wiley on December 27, 2017, 10:20:56 AM
For some reason, lyrics in another language short circuit my brain and take me out of enjoying music. I wish it wasn't so, as there seems to be plenty of good non-English music out there, but I just don't seem to be able to get past it.
Wiley.
Title: Re: BABYMETAL - Never change Japan...
Post by: Bizman on December 27, 2017, 10:27:08 AM
For some reason, lyrics in another language short circuit my brain and take me out of enjoying music. I wish it wasn't so, as there seems to be plenty of good non-English music out there, but I just don't seem to be able to get past it.
Wiley.
If we all were like that, music sung in English would not dominate the world. We'd all listen and, what's even more important, make music in our own languages. The Beatles would have been a local British group having some fans in the USA, ABBA would have been popular in Scandinavia only, Scorpions would be the star of Octoberfest and Nightwish would be a hobby band performing once a month in some local pub.
Not knowing the words doesn't necessarily mean you couldn't enjoy the music. Remember the Gipsy Kings who stormed the world in the eighties? Listening to their cover versions of oldies quickly reveals that they really don't know the words at all!
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Post by: wil3ur on December 27, 2017, 10:53:46 AM
Speaking of great cover bands you can't understand, Elakelaiset is friggen awesome!!! Absolutely love those guys. I showed them to my nephew when he was about 5. My sister was quite upset having to listen to all the best songs done by some drunken Finns as a Humppa.
Imagine if you will, Weird Al meets a half gallon of Vodka... It's quite good. :rock
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Post by: Lusche on December 27, 2017, 11:05:50 AM
Not knowing the words doesn't necessarily mean you couldn't enjoy the music.
Sometimes it even helps a lot, when the music is good but has some really cheesy lyrics. In English I can just choose to ignore it, I can not do that with German lyrics at all :old:
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Post by: Bizman on December 27, 2017, 12:58:50 PM
Sometimes it even helps a lot, when the music is good but has some really cheesy lyrics. In English I can just choose to ignore it, I can not do that with German lyrics at all :old:
Exactly. Foreign lyrics can mostly be omitted. Or they just work no matter what which probably is why most budding rock songwriters want to sing in English. "She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah" instead of "Sie liebt Dick (http://www.songtexte.com/songtext/the-beatles/sie-liebt-dich-4bd28f3e.html)..." als gesang bei die Taktlose. But sometimes you might know the lyrics in the language they're sung and if they sing it wrong. You find yourself singing along and then all of the sudden the band just sing gibberish... Arrrgh!
Wil3ur, I've yet to see Eläkeläiset despite the fact that they live in this very same town, or at least most of them do/did. I've even met one of them during my previous job, he shared his working space with a friend of mine. Small world...
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Post by: wil3ur on December 27, 2017, 01:13:29 PM
Wil3ur, I've yet to see Eläkeläiset despite the fact that they live in this very same town, or at least most of them do/did. I've even met one of them during my previous job, he shared his working space with a friend of mine. Small world...
I'd love to see them. I need to plan a trip to Finland one of these days. Definitely on the short list of places I need to travel.
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Post by: zack1234 on December 28, 2017, 07:02:15 AM
The Japanese are odd :old:
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Post by: icepac on December 29, 2017, 09:23:06 PM
This is the "lead singer" of babymetal's graduation from that school program where the rest of the girls think that she will be rotated out of the babymetal lineup and be gone.
Title: Re: BABYMETAL - Never change Japan...
Post by: icepac on January 06, 2018, 10:17:14 PM
Title: Re: BABYMETAL - Never change Japan...
Post by: icepac on January 09, 2018, 07:09:09 PM
Mikio Fujioka, guitarist of BabyMetal and well known teacher died yesterday from injuries sustained during a fall from an astronomy observation deck on dec. 30.
His idol was Allan Holdsworth.
(http://pbs.twimg.com/media/DTGgNK5W4AEqvdi.jpg)
Title: Re: BABYMETAL - Never change Japan...
Post by: icepac on January 13, 2018, 01:20:31 PM
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Post by: 100Coogn on January 13, 2018, 01:35:46 PM
One of Japan's earliest metal groups still playing.
EZO was also around back when Loudness hit the states / 80s. Hard to find any videos of them though. Flashback Heartattack was probably their biggest hit. MTV used to use the guitar lick from House of 1000 Pleasures for breaking in to their news segment. (I think it was the news segment)
In the GGC video... looks like they have endorsements from almost everyone. Was only a few names I saw missing between the guitars and the backline. Too bad the ESP was fake and they butchered Night Ranger.
-edit- Added MTV trivia.
Title: Re: BABYMETAL - Never change Japan...
Post by: icepac on May 23, 2018, 07:53:26 PM
That is a custom ESP who has a bunch of students at their "guitar craft academy" work with musicians to break bizarre ideas.....Hence the chains and holes. Both the guitarist and bassist of Gacharic Spin have a few ESP customs while the drummer prefers a Gretsch White Falcon.
ESP has what amounts to a college for music from stage design, to musical instrument design and repair, and into the talent end of things.
It's much bigger than I expected.
https://www.esp.ac.jp/language/en/
The girl with the blue guitar is actually playing in disguise as her "metallic spin" persona and she has an interesting pedalboard. You can't see her digitech whammy, or a few other effects but she does have at least two "signature pedals".