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View Poll Results: Which of these do you listen to? Like? Store in your MP3 player? | |||
Anime music | 10 | 13.70% | |
Western music | 8 | 10.96% | |
Anime music > Western music | 11 | 15.07% | |
Western music < Anime music | 1 | 1.37% | |
Anime music = Western music | 11 | 15.07% | |
Other genres | 8 | 10.96% | |
Anime music and a mix of everything | 24 | 32.88% | |
Voters: 73. You may not vote on this poll |
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2010-01-12, 10:34 | Link #1 |
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Anime Music vs Western Music (mainstream music)
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- do you listen to - like - store in an mp3 player - why? Do you listen to game BGMs too? I listen to anime music and game BGMs (they are very catchy) Notes: Anime > Western Music = I have more anime music than western music stored on mp3 player. ...... < ... = More western music than anime music .... = ... = like them both
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2010-01-12, 15:01 | Link #3 |
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I have mostly western music like rock (Zeppelin,Hendrix,RHCP,Nirvana,Pinkfloyd for example)But I also have some BGMs from Shoji Meguro(persona music) Daisuke Ishwatari(Guilty Gear music) I also have some songs from the mongolian chop squad anime,so I pretty much like them equally,but I just think of music as music no matter where it's from
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2010-01-12, 21:09 | Link #8 | |
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I've actually loaded more anime-related music on my PSP than I have Western music. By more, I mean I have no Western and all anime. They just tend to create these really unique and enjoyable pieces that you can listen to repeatedly. That's just the rock and metal and such that I'm talking about. I can't even describe how amazing the orchestral pieces are by comparison. If I went in to detail I'd probably blow the internet up.
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2010-01-12, 22:16 | Link #9 | |
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The location a band is from has little impact on their style, besides, you're trying to convince me that Japanese music is better when you have no western music to use for your point. Furthermore, I know the most common arguments. From a lyrical standpoint, people usually argue (horribly incorrectly) that all western music is about sex, money, drugs and violence while Japanese music is not. Notably, they never go into detail as to what Japanese lyrics are about. I can guarantee that there is just as much Japanese music about sex, money, drugs and violence as there is western music about the same subjects. From a stylistic standpoint, aside from my go-to Galneryus example, I know of plenty of other comparisons to prove my point. If you want to argue quality, you hear a disproportionate amount of bad western music as opposed to bad Japanese music. I'm sure that there are plenty of Japanese music fans that think just the opposite of what many western music fans think in regards to Japanese music. I'm sure that there are Japanese online communities that are thinking "American music is just better" like many American online communities are thinking "Japanese music is just better." My point is that you simply haven't been exposed to the absolute worst work that Japan has to offer and similarly, the Japanese haven't been exposed to the absolute worst work that Western countries have to offer. The terms "j-pop" and "anime music" are absolutely useless. Japanese music isn't some sort of holy grail of musical prowess and, personally, I listen to a very proportional amount of Japanese music to American music, Canadian music, Finnish music, British music, German music and music from other countries. Put simply, a bands nationality does not and never will say anything about their quality and will give almost nothing about style. After all, we don't call British pop "b-pop" or American pop "a-pop", so I ask again, why do we have to have a specific segregation based entirely on nationality? TLDR: Nationality means nothing when it comes to musical prowess. |
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Should have expanded the choice to: - Anime music - Asian music (c-pop, k-pop, j-pop) - Western music (US, Europe, wherever is Western influenced.) - Other music (punk, rock, R&B, hiphop, etc.) - Game BGMs
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2010-01-12, 23:01 | Link #12 |
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You put mainstream at the end of Western Music there.
If I had to choose between the two, I'd choose anime/j-pop. However, I like English sung music quite a bit more than j-pop. About 10% of the 926 I have on my iPod are anime related, but the other 90% is all bands I like. (The Cure, The Police, Duran Duran, KoRn, Faith No More, Sound Garden etc....) But I do not listen to mainstream western music at all, it just does not appeal to me.
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2010-01-13, 00:09 | Link #16 | ||
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Secondly, I can quite easily tell Galneryus is Japanese compared to Stratovarius. It doesn't really help you trying to tell me I don't know what I'm talking about when your example is of a Japanese band with a singer who clearly has an Asian accent. Not to mention that their keyboard parts in the metal song are a big red flag that it's probably not American and more than likely not European. Quote:
It really helps to know what you're talking about if you're going to try and spark an argument, and a good way to spark an argument is to not treat the guy you're trying to correct like he's an idiot. Especially if you're going to do a poor job of it.
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And are you seriously going to tell me that its mostly the Japanese that use keyboards in metal? Seriously? If that is the case, explain Dream Theater (American), Kamelot (American), Between the Buried and Me (American), Lordi (European), Battlelore (European), DragonForce (European), Rammstein (European), Eisbrecher (European), The Protomen (American), Luca Turilli's Dreamquest (European), Nightwish (European), Machinae Supremacy (European), Sonata Arctica (European) and even Black Sabbath (European) at times. The use of a keyboard means nothing more than the band choosing to use said instrument. If you're arguing particularly talented keyboards, a certain Jordan Rudess (solo starts at about 5 minutes) would probably have something to say about that. And to really get into western keyboardists, lets look away from metal for a second and look at progressive rock. Bands such as Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Jethro Tull, Yes and Rush paved the way for keyboards in rock during an era where many rock bands refused to use them as they saw keyboards and synths as cheating. Quote:
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Like I said, the term "j-pop" is absolutely useless. All it does is say "This is different because its Japanese and only because its Japanese." It says nothing about the style of music the artist plays. Now, the orchestral pieces I missed. You're not going to try to convince me that all Japanese composers are flat out better than geniuses such as Mozart, Beethoven and Chopin? Quote:
Anyway, your move. Last edited by Professor Waldorf X; 2010-01-13 at 04:21. |
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