Analysing Japanese Rock

The other day, Nonaka sensei explained the players in 90's Japanese rock that I had to know. All of this was done in under 10 minutes and with a piece of scrap paper.



Forget about your Mr Children, your B'z, your X-Japan and Glay; Number Girl (and it's various off-springs), Supercar and Qururi is where it's at! And you gotta mention a band with the name "Blood Thirsty Butchers". I'm not sure if I will be tested on it.

On the other side of this seemingly ordinary piece of paper but which would soon be filled with musical history and wisdom, he outlined how the songs of his current band, johndickheadhunter3 can be placed into 3 categories:



In between this, he had me "correct" some new lyrics that he had written. I loathed the idea to change his style and I was even more reluctant to "correct" the lyrics for one of his old songs "Snow" which he had recorded and released with his old band, "Love Love Straw". The temptation was there to change a piece of 90's Japanese rock history with the words "your dong is not so long/Chan Cheung Lee Choi Wong" but I restrained myself.

Only just.

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