Good Jrock Us Westerners have never heard?

I'm rocking the L' arc en Ciel right now.

Plus Dir En Gray and the Pillows are in my rock folder.

But I remember like 10/12 years ago I heard this really awesome Japanese band named Smile they were signed to Sony Japan and I have not been able to find ANYTHING by them anywhere.

Anywho that said I'm expanding my Jrock Horizons beyond that of what the silly Weeaboos love.

Anything I should keep an eye out for and bend over backwords to find?

Or is L'arc as good as it gets...

 

I like Bomb Factory...they were on DOA2 Hardcore...but I liked them. Dunno if they count as Jrock though.

 

Most anything Japanese sucks, Weeaboos tend to not realize this

 

Mainstream bands like Ann Cafe and similar sucks, but they play really well. I listen to many japanese noise bands, like Zeni Geva, Boredoms or Melt Banana; also like Guitar Wolf among many others.

 

Hmm I'll have to check them out.

Right now I have L'arc, Dir En Gray, The Pillows, X Japan and Gazette in my rock folder and a few assorted Jrock Albums I got in a really nice torrent

 

Two bands that I like are.

Shonen Knife and Penpals

 

I like Shonen Knife too; Penpals, not too much.

 

the Shonen Knife torrent I found was taking FOREVER to Download

I'll try again in the morning

 

why don't you use soulseek?

 

Well I ended up not liking Shounen Knife anyway.
But I'll try Soulseek for other bands.
Right now I got some Shiina Ringo DLing and they are taking FOREVER

 

Bomb Factory!

I like Sigh from Japan...dunno if there your bag though.

 

Another vote for Sigh (サイ) from me. They're fantastic if you like the genre.
J-Rock related, I'd say Jun Togawa (戸川純) is pretty good. Not always though, but I like a lot of her songs. Some songs are inspired by classical maîtres like Pachelbel's Canon.

Another good one is Tokyo Jihen (東京事変), here one of my favourite songs (Ringo no Uta/林檎の唄/Apple Song):
http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/qUzfpsOa2Ao/

=D

 

Yeah Tokyo Jihen is Shiina Ringo's Band.

She's awesome.

 

If you liked Devo at all, give Polysics a try. They're kind of goofy, but their songs are always fun to listen to.

They're all over Youtube, so check that out before you bother downloading anything in case you don't like them.

 

Polysics are cool, I saw them some years ago

 

Detroit7, Bugy Craxone, great female singers.

Plus te' [great instrumental band]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPIzvJ3N8dU&feature=related

 

Probably wouldn't call it JROCK but I heard some Tica last night and she's a pretty good singer. Nice and chill music.

 

Acid Black Cherry

 

Very messy list but its all there from hardcore, to rock to death/black metal

Coaltar of the deepers
∀NTI FEMINISM
Art School
Acid Android
Aushvitz*hard to find so if you can't find much PM me i have it all*
Backlash
Blood
Boris
Creature Creature
D
Deadman
Envy
Fact
Hybrid Zombiez
Kagrra
Loudness
Melt Bannana
Mono
Onmyo-za
Penicillin
PE'z
Sex Machineguns
SunShip
Tokyo jihen
Girugamesh
MUCC
Nightmare
Merry
Naiad
Miyavi
Maximum the Hormone
GNz-Word
Loyal To the grave
Metal Safari
Edge of Spirit
Fate in Spiral
Sugizo
luna Sea
X
Immortality
At one stroke
GunDog
abingdon boys school
Buck Tick
Gallhammer
Hizaki Grace Project*hit and miss sometimes but the instrumental part is top notch*
Kurt
Porno Graffiti
Psycho le Cemu
Galneryus
Center Wrong Unit
North Crimson Cemetery
that should keep you busy for a few years*all courtesy of the smallest of my music folders*