Thread 127379482

Listen to City Pop.

>>127379482 (OP)
sure thing

i only have meiko nakahara's stuff though

Ok I will. I've been neglecting it. I always liked Toshiki Kadomatsu Weekend Fly to the Sun.

>>127379482 (OP)
I already do.

Aran is the City Pop goddess:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi0eSB0OY8Y

I've noticed some of these songs are in english, just how cucked are the japanese

But it's algorithmcore

>>127379665
How did Japan do it better than the west. Their 1980s is like how we imagine it was.

>>127379482 (OP)
I'd rather listen to yacht rock and sophistipop

>>127379482 (OP)
I've listened to city pop here and there but nothing even comes close to Piper's "Summer Breeze" album. Any recs on stuff that sounds like that? I tried listening to other Piper albums but nothing scratches that itch.

NINETEEN HUNDRED EIGHTIES JAPANESE POP MUSIC IS HORRID —ALONG WITH VIRTUALLY ALL MUSIC FROM AROUND THE WORLD DURING THE SAME DECADE—, YET, IT IS THE MOST LISTENED TO, AND EVEN FETISHIZED, JAPANESE MUSIC BY PEOPLE OUTSIDE JAPAN...

... INTERESTING.

>>127379482 (OP)
I used to listen to hi-fi vomit like this when I had an 80s town car, it just felt right

>>127379482 (OP)
I've always been peeved that with the eception of Timely!!! City Pop has always been more single-driven than album driven, which sucks because the genre has some great records.
One that always does the trick for me during summer is Carlos Toshiki's Omega Tribe, especially picrel which is one of the most unique City Pop recordings ever. It's a recording of a Hawaiian radio station broadcasting a bloc of Omega Tribe songs from Carlos Toshiki, and it's one of the most immersive summer albums ever. It makes you feel like you're in an episode of Magnum P.I.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUxYC1pD3Lc

>>127379962
>sophistipop
Based
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhQ9_eZ9vBc
>>127379953
>How did Japan do it better than the west.
They let disco and jazz influences from the 70s merge with new wave and yacht rock more organically, which the U.S did not do as much given there was a stronger backlash to disco and horn-driven R&B that made it evolve quicker and less organically with some exceptions like Prince.
Also, they had Yamashita.

>>127380933
Incredible how hard this is for some people to grasp but if "Thing, Japan" makes you fume with rage then I shouldn't be *too* surprised. Either way, being slightly behind the times works to city pop's advantage. There's nowhere near as much digital synth or programmed drums slop, and I ignore those anyway

>>127379482 (OP)
Reddit music

>>127383321
Based!

>>127379665
I love her

City pop is a mandela effect, this shit didn't exist in the 80s and whoever is running the simulation REALLY wants people to ignore that Japan was experiencing a massive real estate bubble back then. When it popped the country was close to third-world tier until "investors" magically resuscitated their economy.

>>127384381
(You)

>>127379953
The Japanese always take what America is doing and make it a caricature.

>>127383321
Reddit is based wtf

>>127384381
It is pretty weird how it came out of nowhere. It might be an AI invention. A lot of them are too conveniently aimed toward the modern day hipster aesthetic.

>>127384596
>It is pretty weird how it came out of nowhere.
It bubbled up on YT and here in the tens before gradually becoming grandfathered into being a huge thing amongst zoomers.

>>127379987
what japanese pop should we be listening to instead?

>>127385123
Anime soundtracks

>>127385123


KAYOUKYOKU, ENKA: BEST MUSIC FROM THE SHOUWA ERA.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xfniGx5sKw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4UI_gGTCGU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPcfJMNiEos

>>127379987
This

I fucking hate the 80s, man. Shit decade all around.

Which ones are the best city pop albums ?, least fillers, best songs ?

>>127385925
Citypop mogs this by A LOT. shoo with your galaxy express 999 ost, I'd rather listen to casiopea.

>>127389426


YOU ARE MORONIC, AND HAVE BAD TASTE.

>>127389369
The Big Wave OST is good entry level because half of it is in english

>>127385925
Sounds mexican

>>127389584


ENKA, AND, ESPECIALLY, KAYOUKYOKU, DREW INSPIRATION FROM HISPANICAL RHYTHMS, PARTICULARLY, MEXICAN; MOSTLY BOLERO.

>>127389627
Interesting who else is good

>>127389670


YUKARI ITOU, YUKO OKA, RITSUKO ABE.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwZ5h9_EfDQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFLXjbJGU9I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOhjjoclpi4


BY THE LAST DECADE OF THE SHOUWA ERA, JAPANESE POP MUSIC BECAME MONOPOLIZED BY ANGLO INFLUENCE, WHICH IS WHY THERE WAS SUCH ANODYNE, KITSCHY, KAWAII DRIVEL SUCH AS «CITY POP», AND THE STATE OF JAPANESE MUSIC, IN GENERAL, WORSENED IN THE HEISEI ERA.

IN THE REIWA ERA, JAPANESE MUSIC IS STARTING TO HEAL.

>>127385123
I like Shibuya-Kei and its aftermath

>>127389894
>IN THE REIWA ERA, JAPANESE MUSIC IS STARTING TO HEAL.
It all sounds like the usual overproduced Asian crap to me, they fell off hard in the 00s like they did with every other medium in their society

>>127389894
YOU ARE AN ABSOLUTE RETARD.

Citypop beta male versus enka and kayoukyoku sigma male

>>127379482 (OP)
I like City Pop but Japan has so much better music. Like its nice but are there any like ground-breaking masterpiece albums in the City Pop genre? Genuine question.
Idk maybe I'm just a pretentious tool but even an easy-listening genre like bossa nova has albums I can point to as genre-pushing. Please educate my ignorant ass.

>>127390160
Bossa nova SUCKS, boring music much more tasteless than citypop ever was.

>>127390186
Pic related is literally you

>>127390210
False, there are genres of japanese music I don't care for, or even dislike, bossa nova is a bad as those. I know the genre is somewhat popular in Japan, so thats really no surprise.

>>127390246


NOT LIKING SOMETHING DOES NOT ENTAIL THAT ONE IS BLIND TO ITS QUALITIES, WHICH ARE OBJECTIVE; ONE MAY NOT LIKE SOMETHING, YET BE ABLE TO RECOGNIZE THAT IT IS GOOD: IF YOU CANNOT DO THAT, NOT ONLY DO YOU HAVE BAD TASTE, BUT ARE ALSO MORONIC.

>>127390186
>>127390210
>>127390246
Have none of you guys ever listened to Takanaka, or any Japanese jazz fusion from the 70s for that matter? It's Brazilian-influenced Japanese music that hugely influenced City Pop.

>>127390274
A little bit. I liked Brasilian Skies and Casiopea. Not sure if I'd call them masterpieces though. Kind of embarrassing of that anon to trash on bossa while praising city pop like bro they're the same shit, different asshole (said with kindness)

>>127390372
>I liked Brasilian Skies and Casiopea.
His first six albums are really great stuff. You can tell where city pop pioneers like Onuki or Yamashita got a lot of early influence from given they took New Wave and Yacht Rock influences and merged it with that laid-back Jazz fusion sound he ushered into the zeitgeist in the mid to late 70s.
But yeah people console warring over Brazilian v. Japanese music are retarded given how uniquely symbiotic the relationship is between the two, often literally in the case of people like Takanaka or Toshiki.

>japanese jazz
it’s jazz without the soul
>city pop
it’s disco without the soul

>>127390671
>JAPANESE PEEPO DON SEASON DEY MUSIC

>>127390686
i’m glad we agree

>>127390671
The "sovl" Kek, if it sounds beautiful and touches people, as it obviously has by how it came back from the dead to popularity, then it has "soul" more than enough.

>>127390900
My uncle touches people, does he have "soul"? He actually introduced me to City Pop as a kid, we'd listen to his record collection during our sleepovers.

>>127390955
>My uncle touches people, does he have "soul"?
An evil one, but yes.

>>127390900
it’s aesthetically pleasing and there’s no depth to it

shitty poop

>>127379482 (OP)
so many shitposts
so few posts with actual music links
the absolute state of /mu/

>>127393611
No one clicks those. I don't even bother anymore

A classic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sOKkON_UnQ

They deleted a live version of this off YT.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IflIM-4woV0

>>127393756
And will continue to do so. I'm grateful to whoever uploaded his full discography in FLAC to the Internet Archive and that I found it in time

city pop is basically just: japan discovers funky music

>>127393807
Yeah. I think he doesn't like his music being on online on streaming services.
The live version was from the 80s, I liked it better than the studio version.

>>127379482 (OP)
i need a little more edge even to my background music, just a tiny bit of complexity does wonders to harness the adhd. this music is jazz inspired but at the same time its just too chronically risk adverse for the most part for me too really enjoy it