What are your top 10 "non-visual" J-rock bands?

[CAT5 9075]

Making this as a sister-thread to nero's thread.

 

 

According to my last.fm:

• 凛として時雨 (rin toshite shigure)
• 9mm Parabellum Bullet - most of their new music is MEH AS FUCK, but I still jam to a lot of their earlier work
• 八十八ヶ所巡礼 (88kasyo Junrei)
• LOSTAGE
• 緋と陽 (hitohi)
• ATATA
• ハイスイノナサ (haisuinonasa)
• mudy on the 昨晩
• オワリカラ (owarikara)
• THE NOVEMBERS

[Zeus 7997]

After consulting with the charts this is what I got:

• Boris
• 夢中夢
• Thousand Leaves
• 陰陽座
• 黒夜葬
• Demetori
• 埼玉最終兵器
• school food punishment
• マキシマム ザ ホルモン
• Mono

[Jigsaw9 6783]

Hmmm probably these ones (again, not in order, just alphabetically).

 

88kasyo Junrei

Asai Kenichi

Church of Misery

Crossfaith

Fear, and Loathing in Las Vegas

HER NAME IN BLOOD

Kinocohotel

Lillies and Remains

lloy

SHERBETS

[lichtlune 915]

1: X Japan

2: Galneryus

3: Dir en Grey

4: Luna Sea

5: Kuroyume

 

I could only find five   most of these are ex-visual kei too lol though most of my non-vkei is classical artists and anime stuff.

[ronluna 17]

according to how many times i played on my mobile: (top 6 excluding the visual and western music)

ANTHEM

CRAZE

LOUDNESS

L'Arc~en~Ciel

GRANRODEO

Galla

 

not in my chart but played many times (7 - 10)

SABER TIGER

SHOW-YA

SIAM SHADE

WAG

 

*WAG are the only ones who are disbanded but i still listen to them, total = 9

[jduv86 224]

Could only think of 8. No particular order

 

1. YUI (though she's on hiatus from solo activity)

2. Vamps

3. L' arc en Ciel

4. UVERworld

5. Fear, and Loathing in Las Vegas

6. Code Rebirth

7. Asian Kung fu Generation

8. Dazzle Vision

[evilcoconut 109]

Hah, this is much harder than the visual one.  To the charts!

 

1. SPYAIR
2. UVERworld
3. FoZZtone
4. Flumpool
5. B'z
6. The Sketchbook
7. Straightener
8. DOES
9. Base Ball Bear
10. NICO Touches the Walls

Honorable mentions for bands that have a vaguely VK history but don't seem to be now? Idk lol

• GLAY
• L'arc
• SID
• The god and death stars

[Raburr7 1268]

   1. UVERworld

   2. UVERworld

   3. UVERworld

   4. UVERworld

   5. UVERworld

   6. UVERworld

   7. UVERworld

   8. UVERworld

   9. UVERworld

 10. UVERworld

[Peace Heavy mk II 7200]

omg cat why you do dis to me

 

1. 9mm Parabellum Bullet

2. Vermillion-D Alice Syndrome

3. 黒夜葬

4. 女王蜂

5. TM Revolution (Not exactly a rock band though)

6. Polysics

7. Hystoic Vein

8. 星屑スキャット

9. YAMAGEN'S DEVILELIET

10. I really like 1 song by Concerto Moon, does that count? Else, Waterweed.

[saishuu 3220]

Counting active bands only:

 

1. B'z

2. サカナクション

3. tacica

4. cinema staff

5. 凛として時雨

6. FoZZtone

7. andymori

8. Base Ball Bear

9. STRAIGHTENER

10. アルカラ

[Number Girl 48]

We're really doing this? okaaaayyyy

 

According to nothing except my feelings right now . . . 

 

1. Number Girl

2. Bo Ningen

3. cinema staff

4. Boris

5. 88kasyo

6. andymori

7. Anthem

8. Melt-Banana

9. Suiseinoboaz

10. Grand Slam 

 

Honorable mentions:

 

1. B'z

2. The Stalin

3. The Yellow Monkey 

[Slsr 207]

My list for now, didn't care if they are rock/metal/pop whatever as more comfortable to me just list everything , not like I listen idol pop, jazz etc that much anyway, so all is somewhat close to rock at least :

 

aquarifa

Cö Shu Nie

カサネイロ

ホロ

イツエ

Gallneryus

レクレンズ

或る感覚

惑星アブノーマル

アネモネ (they were kinda angura though but not so sure what they think about it now, don't really like to list them as vkei band so...)

 

[JukaForever 758]

1. Galneryus

ANTHEM

Cyntia

Light Bringer

SCANDAL

Gacharic Spin

AREA51

FLiP

DESTROSE

X

[DeithX252 1266]

not depend on last fm chart, but this is the list that currently repeated everyday

1. Translations

2. A Ghost of Flare

3. FEAR FROM THE HATE

4. 凛として時雨

5. BIGMAMA

6. ナノ (not a band though)

7. Crossfaith

8. aquarifa

9. Her Name In Blood

10. FACT

[Shmilly 519]

1. GACKT

2. ONE OK ROCK

3. 雅-MIYAVI-

4. abingdon boys school

5. UNDIVIDE

6. 快進のICHIGEKI

7. VAMPS

8. LOKA

9. MY FIRST STORY

10. Crossfaith

 

Good idea.

[freundin 58]

1.  Number girl

2.  うさぎさんの片耳ちょんぎったろか

3.  The Stalin

4.  あざらし

5.  ぐしゃ人間

6.  浅川マキ

7.  ミドリ

8.  J・A・シーザー

9.  Dakuu 堕空

10.Auto-mod (sometimes)

[AlienX 1]

I'll keep it to 5 to be more concise.

 

1. FACT

2. 9mm Parabellum Bullet

3. Fear, and Loathing in Las Vegas

4. Dazzle Vision

5. Crossfaith

[saltofstones 136]

1. Rin Toshite Shigure

2. ART-SCHOOL

3. DIR EN GREY

4. Straightener

5. Coaltar of the Deepers

6. Lillies and Remains

7. PLASTICZOOMS

8. Arukara

9. THE NOVEMBERS

10. 88kasyo Junrei

 

I had to kick some bands I was really fond of from the top 10, it was painful.

[bonsaijodelfisch 328]

scrolling through ipod...

in no particular order

1. Boris

2. Knellt/Kill My Bleeding Smile

3. Radwimps

4. Mono

5. 101A

6. Church of Misery

7. Demetori

8. 88kasyo Junrei

9. té

10. Heaven in her Arms

also there's some band that might have to be included, but i'm not too sure how the VK-Jury sits with them if they still count (DEG obviously, also Miyavi and Sex Machineguns)

plus i think i need to mention

TokyoJihen and

World End's Girlfriend,

but i'm not sure if they really count as J-Rock (or even "Rock" actually...)

[chewi 54]

according to my last.fm:

 

01 チャットモンチー

02 POLYSICS

03 凛として時雨

04 神聖かまってちゃん

05 ミドリ

06 夢中夢

07 the pillows

08 385

09 スピッツ

10 me-al art

 

others not listed because i don't listen to them much: ART-SCHOOL, THE NOVEMBERS, mudy on the 昨晩, きのこ帝国, REDЯUM, noodles

Edit: school food punishment, ELLEGARDEN, ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION..

so much for just 10 lmao X(

[sai 868]

Ehh, in random order:

 

1. Boris

2. ESNO

3. lynch. (they count in my book. I mean they still play a lot with other VK bands but I'm not sure if that's because they're friends or if they actually still consider themselves VK)

4. M-Koda

5. nego

6. number0

7. ONE OK ROCK

8. アルカラ

9. トクマルシューゴ

10. 凛として時雨

 

トクマルシューゴ, M-Koda and ESNO are solo-artists though, if those count.

[sugoge 11]

Not in order, but

 

01. Silhouette from the Skylit

02. EACH OF THE DAYS

03. A GHOST OF FLARE

04. Ashley Scared the Sky

05. ARTEMA

06. Crossfaith

07. Fear, and Loathing in Las Vegas

08. coldrain

09. SiM

10. er does BABYMETAL count?

 

The first five I've seen live and plan to keep doing so because they are all awesome.

[orangetarts 249]

1. ELLEGARDEN (god rest their awesome music T__T)
2. ONE OK ROCK
3. SPYAIR
4. [Champagne]
5. SiM
6. Monkey Majik (tbh, idk if this is technically jrock or not....)
7. ROACH
8. flumpool
9. Acid Black Cherry (theyre not really ~visual~ right? idk i dont pay attention but i like them a lot XD)
10. My First Story

Not really in any particular order.

[orangetarts 249]

Ehh, in random order:

 

1. Boris

2. ESNO

3. lynch. (they count in my book. I mean they still play a lot with other VK bands but I'm not sure if that's because they're friends or if they actually still consider themselves VK)

4. M-Koda

5. nego

6. number0

7. ONE OK ROCK

8. アルカラ

9. トクマルシューゴ

10. 凛として時雨

 

トクマルシューゴ, M-Koda and ESNO are solo-artists though, if those count.

I WAS GONNA SAY LYNCH FOR THE SAME REASON????

but yes. lynch too for me. holla.

[Mind of the sun 71]

Last.fm order

1.ROACH

2.HARVEST

3.DIR EN GREY

4.Fear, and loathing in las vegas

5.Crossfaith

6.HER NAME IN BLOOD

7.Pay money to my pain

8.2Side1Brain

9.POLYSICS

10.ARTEMA