What's everyone listening to at the moment?

A couple of really cool tracks have been spinning around my head and my playlist.

Yumi Arai - Rouge No Dengon.
If you love Hayao Miyazaki, and a great track from the mid 70's.
https://youtu.be/iH32qCUowew

AKB48 - Heavy Rotation.
The greatest JPop song of all time.
https://youtu.be/lkHlnWFnA0c

Kyary Pamyu Pamyu - PONPONPON.
A nice track from a time long ago, it would seem.
https://youtu.be/yzC4hFK5P3g

Tugging at my heartstrings, ever so tightly.
In the space between a blink and a tear,
Death blooms.

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A couple of really cool tracks have been spinning around my head and my playlist.

Yumi Arai - Rouge No Dengon.
If you love Hayao Miyazaki, and a great track from the mid 70's.
https://youtu.be/iH32qCUowew

AKB48 - Heavy Rotation.
The greatest JPop song of all time.
https://youtu.be/lkHlnWFnA0c

Kyary Pamyu Pamyu - PONPONPON.
A nice track from a time long ago, it would seem.
https://youtu.be/yzC4hFK5P3g

Tugging at my heartstrings, ever so tightly.
In the space between a blink and a tear,
Death blooms.

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A J-Pop connoisseur? Was a fan of Utada Hikaru while I was there. Just loved how she bypassed the system designed to churn out pretty pop stars by making a name for herself in the states and then returning to Japan. Even when she was interviewed she just wouldn't fit the mould they wanted her to. Plus she is a talented young lady. Addicted to you. Wait and see. Soundtrack to my time there (along with Hamasaki Ayumi. God I loved her...)

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A J-Pop connoisseur? Was a fan of Utada Hikaru while I was there. Just loved how she bypassed the system designed to churn out pretty pop stars by making a name for herself in the states and then returning to Japan. Even when she was interviewed she just wouldn't fit the mould they wanted her to. Plus she is a talented young lady. Addicted to you. Wait and see. Soundtrack to my time there (along with Hamasaki Ayumi. God I loved her...)

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By no means a connoisseur my friend.
I was really into Jpop and Cosplay, artists like Yohio were my favs. And early AKB48, I forget some of the others (Harajuku bridge cosplay based on the fashion culture, not the gaming/movie phenomenon it has become). And then, Japan and I had a rather large falling out. For many years. I wouldnt even eat sushi, weird huh?
If you have any suggestions, please send more my way.
Arigato gozaimasu.

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By no means a connoisseur my friend.
I was really into Jpop and Cosplay, artists like Yohio were my favs. And early AKB48, I forget some of the others (Harajuku bridge cosplay based on the fashion culture, not the gaming/movie phenomenon it has become). And then, Japan and I had a rather large falling out. For many years. I wouldnt even eat sushi, weird huh?
If you have any suggestions, please send more my way.
Arigato gozaimasu.

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Will dig through my old collection for a look.

Have you given Babymetal a run?
Metal elitists rag out on them, and they are a bit bubblegum, BUT as much as their first album was a vit of fun (with some good songs), their second musically was in fact very good (employing a full-time band of serious metal musicians helped.) Karate was popular but the song Sis Anger is death metal with a cute Japanese girl singing about how annoying boys are.. Their live shows are utterly insane. https://youtu.be/MNFJR-W05c8
https://youtu.be/P9miB6jKLRw


Yeah I hear you. I used to live there and after a rather messy break up and departure I fell out of love. But soon normality was restored and I fell back in love with it. Wonderful place. Beautiful people. Fantastic girls..

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AKB48 - Heavy Rotation.
The greatest JPop song of all time.
https://youtu.be/lkHlnWFnA0c.

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I can see a lot of guys on here frothing over this video! 🤣🤣🤣

Led Zeppelin 4. Greatest album ever

Hit me with your rhythm stick, hit me, hit me.....

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0WGVgfjnLqc

this kid is the best (less of a kid now but used to do covers when he was like 11 yrs old)
Such a gun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUIFgd8wBBA

Chill Tracks and Nasty Bits Playlist on Spotify, electronic/dance

https://youtu.be/bfTCMjArvOY

Listening while having a quiet beer or two.
Written in the aftermath of September 11th so lyrically it has aged, the riffs on this though are Gary Holt at his monstrous best. Atrocity Exhibition up there as one of their best albums.

Listen to anything but Metal is my primary.

I used to play drums and guitar in metal/punk bands in my youthful days, ive even opened for aussie punk band One Dollar Short in the north side event Shoreshocked in like... 2001 or something haha.

Too many to name but some big ones which I loved no particular order

Pantera
Fear Factory
Kill Switch Engage
Lamb of God
Sevendust
As I lay dying
Tool/A perfect circle
Static X
Parkway Drive
Old Korn
Old Slipknot
Mudvayne
Soilwork

Guitar virtuosos
Vai
Satriani
Paul gilbert
Yngwie malmsteen

Im sure there are a ton more but cant think of them right now

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https://youtu.be/bfTCMjArvOY

Listening while having a quiet beer or two.
Written in the aftermath of September 11th so lyrically it has aged, the riffs on this though are Gary Holt at his monstrous best. Atrocity Exhibition up there as one of their best albums.

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What a classic, it's been a while without listening anything from them.

A very political Taiwanese band.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m1uF16BwGJQ

Good taste mate, a bit of everything there. Soilwork, tool and fear factory will be my top picks there for sure.

Worked 30 hours straight on the weekend. Jamiroquai helped me a lot.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1hHSH9sJUEo

Squawking magpies!
Those feathered cunts have been squawking in a tree outside my window for 6 fucking weeks now!
They are doing my head in.
Are they a protected species? or can I fire a shot gun and finish off the noisy fuckers!

And now I'm back down the rabbit hole of Band Maid again

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

Youtube is also dropping Maximum de Hormone back into my recomendations, which I'm not complaining about.

got girls talking about love songs. Sure they are nice and make you feel gooey inside, bit I tried to find one with a bit of edge, yet still feminine.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-GY9DWIfpwc

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Squawking magpies!
Those feathered cunts have been squawking in a tree outside my window for 6 fucking weeks now!
They are doing my head in.
Are they a protected species? or can I fire a shot gun and finish off the noisy fuckers!

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Record and remix it into the finest Thrash Screamo Dubstep Country Trance Pop mix in existence.

Share none of the profits with them.

That'll show em' who the superior mammal is.

emo country music dubstep remix vol.32

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uwyvvxNvqQ

Another great aussie band. Fuck we have good music down under.

Pink Floyd and U2.

Bill Withers probably got more pussy than us combined. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bEeaS6fuUoA

https://youtu.be/YkADj0TPrJA
Apparently this song is based on a true story.
Some dude drowning, and another bloke not giving a fuck.

https://youtu.be/eH3giaIzONA
Seeing my Viking of a boss dancing to this Whitney Houston banger was the highlight of my year so far.
Crank this tune on a decent set of speakers, and if you dont bust a dance move, you have no soul

https://youtu.be/TvnYmWpD_T8
Ah Prince..

https://youtu.be/eFTLKWw542g
William Joel.
Classic.

Plus a whole bunch of UB40, Mariah Carey, The Police.... it's an 80's week in my head.
Which is ironic as fuck, coz I am a black clad scary looking motherfucker.
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Gorgeous Korean ML put me onto Alone in Toyko - Lianne La Havas. Posted it on her Insta stories. So now we play it in the room. Nice. cool vibe.
Also Billie Eilish - same ML.
With a polish ML who spotifys or youtube from our phones - we've played russian folk songs (shes got a masters in languages russian, czech, polish, english), Seekers - Carnival is Over which steals the riff from a russian song , New years day - u2 about Polish solidarity movement and Holy Grail by H&C - Napoleons failed attempt at Russia. ML claims that the Polish were the only ones to capture Moscow. Not sure thats true and it was a Polish-Lithuanian force anyway.
Still the music adds so much to the sessions imo.

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She must be a big fan of the Polish Winged Hussars.
Those guys were fearsome warriors.
One of the best cavalries of all time. They won numerous battles, perhaps most notably they turned the tide in the Battle of Vienna (1683) and thus stopped the Ottoman/Muslim conquest of Western Europe.