Great Japanese bands from the 70's, 80's, and 90's?

Question

What are some really good pop/rock singers/bands form the 70's, 80's, and 90's?

Thanks

Answer 1

I will star this so the Yahoo user Smiley sees this and comes to answer your question. He knows a lot about that, and rock in general.

As for me, he just recommended a great Japanese band to me some days ago and I have been fascinated by  YONIN BAYASHI. I love what I have heard in Smiley's juke box he has on his site. I will definitely buy one of their CDs.

Answer 2

Balzac!!!, Aural Vampire, Nightmare ummm and X Japan those are pretty much the ones i know and are good. =)

Answer 3

Loudness

Answer 4

They aren't really pop rock... but they are Alternative Rock. Try the band Shonen Knife: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSqGtOj72...

Answer 5

These are a few of the many cool Japanese bands that I've enjoyed during those decades... most of these video links are from the 70's, my favorite decade for Japanese rock. Initially I did have 30 video links to offer, but it seems that Yahoo has a new rule, which is no more than 10 links per post...so I had to remove 20 of them! Lol

Below my video links you'll find several other great Japanese bands from the 70's 80's and 90's.

Flower Travellin' Band

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDBdMnkcx...

Creation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKAhs1SWH...

Johnny, Louis & Char part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX-LK3plh...

The Mops

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnP5OAeSj...

Yellow Magic Orchestra

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nACfvMh8...

Flied Egg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I70qYS43X...

Far East Family Band

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xejjO3Jxp...

Oz

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7W_zLuoa...

Speed, Glue & Shinki

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqdTMD13M...

Melt-Banana

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAdC2Gtvg...

Several others are;

Taj Mahal Travellers

Geinoh Yamashirogumi

Tokyo Kid Brothers

Murasaki

Ranmadou

Fushitsusha / Keiji Haino

People

Otomo Yoshihide

Ryuichi Sakamoto

Magical Power Mako

Yonin Bayashi

Blues Creation (an earlier version of Creation, late 60s early 70s)

Vow Wow

Renzoku Shasatsuma

Loudness

Kitaro (who was a member of Far East Family Band in the 70's)

Powerhouse

Ningenisu

Ground Zero

Far Out

Lost Aaraaff

Brain Food

East Bionic Symphonia

Brast Burn

Great question...to bad I wasn't allowed to post all of my links!!

Thanks for the kind words Deep Floyd!

I'll see if posting a few more in the source section below might fool Y!A.