Yeah, I actually went out and bought that album when I noticed that I'd downloaded about 80% of the tracks already. That and the City of Soundsville album, which is actually closer to what I'm looking for - incidental music from the show expanded into full-on tracks. Some of it's not so hot (the Amoeba Boys track is very slow) but others are just fantastic (Hearts and Stars, which weaves the girls' individual themes into a single track).
Mmm, power-tech-bubblegum-j-pop... I don't know about bubblegum, but power-tech sounds about right. It's definitely got to have an energy to it. J-pop ... well, I object to the genre. Not because I don't like the music (I haven't heard enough to judge) but I think it's an inaccurate term. The "J" stands for Japan, but does all pop music that comes from Japan really fall into the J-pop category?
I've heard some J-pop that I really liked (there's one called "Angel", which probably doesn't narrow it down, and another which I think is the theme tune to an anime called Gravitation?). I've heard some others that I don't like at all - actually I think that stuff was too frenetic. It was just full-on, 240bpm musical diarrhoea (sp?).
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Date: 2003-09-12 06:55 am (UTC)Mmm, power-tech-bubblegum-j-pop... I don't know about bubblegum, but power-tech sounds about right. It's definitely got to have an energy to it. J-pop ... well, I object to the genre. Not because I don't like the music (I haven't heard enough to judge) but I think it's an inaccurate term. The "J" stands for Japan, but does all pop music that comes from Japan really fall into the J-pop category?
I've heard some J-pop that I really liked (there's one called "Angel", which probably doesn't narrow it down, and another which I think is the theme tune to an anime called Gravitation?). I've heard some others that I don't like at all - actually I think that stuff was too frenetic. It was just full-on, 240bpm musical diarrhoea (sp?).