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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
I went through a Japanese metal and rock phase a while ago. I still have stuff like OOIOO and Buffalo Daughter (more alt-rock) on my rotation.
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Buffalo Daughter is cool. I saw them play at The Republik in 1998. They opened for Girls Against Boys. This was at a time when there was lots of buzz around the music scene in Tokyo and there was talk Tokyo would be rock's next big scene. Bands like Buffalo Daughter, Shonen Knife, Cibo Matto, Pizzicato Five, Cornelius, Towa Tei and Polysics were all touring Europe and US and Canada to get the word out and American indie labels were releasing their latest albums or greatest hits retrospectives. Tokyo never became the next big scene (looking back, I think the next big scene turned out to be NYC with The Strokes and Yeah Yeah Yeahs and LCD Soundsystem leading the charge). Anyway, there are so many great female (or mostly female) bands in Tokyo today that were clearly influenced by Buffalo Daughter and Shonen Knife and Cibo Matto. Too many to mention but some of my favourites are:
Go!Go!7188!
That's a No No
She Talks Silence (New album in July!)
The Suzan