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callmesim · Joined: 27 Oct 2005 Posts: 279 Location: London, UK

What would be the equivalent of:

We Built This City, Karma Kameleon, Wake Me Up Before You Go Go, St Elmo's Fire, Footloose, My Sharona etc.

I'm not after songs that sound the same but instead J-pop songs that are as iconic as those?

I'm just making a video collage of photos from my time in Japan and want Japanese backing music Embarassed

Can anyone help?

markle · Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Posts: 1316 Location: Out of Japan

Sukiyaki?

flyingkiwi · Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 2:20 am Post subject:

I think you have a choice of hundreds. It seems every month produces a quintessential J-pop song.

User N. Ame · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 222 Location: Kanto

There is none. Period.

markle · Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Posts: 1316 Location: Out of Japan

callmesim · Joined: 27 Oct 2005 Posts: 279 Location: London, UK

Peoples peoples!! I'm not after critiques or an analysis of the genre.

Names of songs and artists is all I'm after. All the names of the big name bands have left my brain since leaving. And I'm having no luck trying to find a list on the internet.

User N. Ame · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 222 Location: Kanto

markle · Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Posts: 1316 Location: Out of Japan

It wasn't an ad honinem attack I was stating the obvious.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

User N. Ame · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 222 Location: Kanto

User N. Ame · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 222 Location: Kanto

JaredW · Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 3:31 am Post subject:

To the OP:

It really depends on what era you grew up in. At my high school, if I mentioned anything by George Michael or his group WHAM!, my students would either have glazed eyes or they would comment on how old I was.

My wife who grew up a decade before Ayumi Hamasaki knows different pop songs than people we know who are younger.

I do have to say, though, that some know what the movie Goonies. But, they'd never know who Cyndie Lauper is.

P.S. I wonder how many on this board know what Goonies is.

markle · Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Posts: 1316 Location: Out of Japan

User N. Ame
You're right, you are not an ignoramous, you are just a tiresome snob so enmoured by your own droll attempt at wit that you have very little to say that is positive or helpful.

I stand by the only actually suggestion so far, Sukiyaki is a song both Japanese and Non Japanese would recognise.
Another possibility not exactly J-pop would be the music from "Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence"

gaijinalways · Joined: 29 Nov 2005 Posts: 2279

Back on track, some artists that are big recently are Orange Range (sold the most CDs in 2006 in Japan), Glay, Mr. Children, Hikaru Utada, and Kumi Koda. As to the songs themselves, I couldn't tell you, the J-pop genre is not one of my favorites. I just know some artists that my students listen to and what you hear at the convenience stores around Tokyo.

User N. Ame · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 222 Location: Kanto

callmesim · Joined: 27 Oct 2005 Posts: 279 Location: London, UK

(just going off topic a bit)

Goonies!!

I was amazed the number of students who listed Goonies as a favourite movie! It wasn't 100s but it was more than 5. And that surprised me!

HEY YOOOOU GUYS!

(back we go...)