First JRock song

[ken]

If you can remember, what was the first JRock song you heard?

Mine was Dir en grey's "Cage" a few years ago and I've been pretty much hooked ever since.

 

[Formless]

- looks back into a distant 9 years ago - I can almost make it out...

BUCK-TICK's Aku no Hana! That day started a glorious adventure.. and an extensive B-T collection. o___O;;

 

[Sumire_hitsugi]

Err.....>__0........

Pretty sure it started out with anime or something.....
Either: L'arc~en~Ciel- Spirit Dreams Inside (FF:Spirits Within)
L'arc~en~Ciel- Driver's High (GTO anime)

Although, at the time I didn't know L'arc~en~Ciel was J-rock, so I didn't pay attention.

What really got me into the J-rock world was: Dir en grey- Cage. That was about 4 years ago. o.o

 

[Formless]

Everyone always hears Cage and gets all "OMFG" over it. I think all of that drove me to dislike it, and people saying the bass solo was "soooooo amazing!" when it's sooooooo not. :\

 

[ken]

Everyone always hears Cage and gets all "OMFG" over it. I think all of that drove me to dislike it, and people saying the bass solo was "soooooo amazing!" when it's sooooooo not. :\

lol Yeah, I can see what you mean but at the time (about 5/6-ish years ago) the song was relatively big, and I personally think it's a really good song. Up until then pretty much all the rock I heard was American or British, so of course to me this was something completely new and captured my interest.
I think that bass solos are so rare that when you hear one done well you could think it was "soooooo amazing" because there's not a whole lot out there with which to compare it.

 

[navate]

I...think it was Gackt's "Freesia op. 1." Was definitely a Gackt song.

Loved his voice but didn't like the poppish sound to his music, so I investigated Malice Mizer after researching gackt and coming across their name a lot. The rest is history. :}


I agree about Cage... the bass is groovy and all, and I do love the song, and the melody is very catchy, but I feel it's overrated.

 

[nekoi]

I actually heard Cage, first. ._.;;

It is lovely, & I do like it... but Dir en grey has done better.

 

[rizumu]

Ehh, about Cage being overrated, sometimes things get undue praise and attention, and sometimes that praise is just spot on. I think Cage is a really good song and the fact that it's hooked so many people shows that.
It's not the most amazing song or bass solo ever, of course, but it's a good place to start. If you're sick of just hearing people talk about it though...I can understand.

That said, I heard Cage and Syuunikiss at about the same time, and was thoroughly impressed by both (although I liked Syuunikiss best). Technically the first J-rock song I heard was Kurenai and a bunch of other songs by X Japan but...that was a long-ass time ago and I didn't even know it was "J-rock" or "VK" or anything, and it never really led anywhere.

 

[Soreyle]

My first j-rock song that I can remember specifically was Wasurenai Kara. I had already known who Gackt was, but all I've heard of him at that point was all negative things, so I was a little ://// before I listened to it. But I liked it, and it opened the doors to j-rock for me. :3

 

[Priss]

Translyvania.

Malice Mizer.

Years ago.


Priss

 

[Dix Princesse]

I think it was Gackt's Vanilla, ironically enough. XD

 

[Izumi]

Mine was Malice Mizer - Beast of Blood

 

[Monophobia]

My first jrock song was 'Forever Love' by X Japan. Though, the song that got me "hooked" was 'Beast of Blood' by Malice Mizer.

 

[Elec]

I was given a disc with Utada on one half and X on the second; so my first Utada song was Automatic, and first X song was "Crucify my Love", and I really dug them both, which is why I'm still kinda half-into-pop and half-into-rock. From there someone recommended Deg, and I heard Zan and hated it and told him so, so he recommended Cage, and that got me hooked. And it gets all the praise it deserves... and perhaps a bit much more. And while the bass solo isn't fucking the best thing ever, that disc still has some of the most interesting basslines on it. :-/

Then my first MM songs were Syunikiss and Baroque and Chimerareta Kajitsu, thanks to jikan-no-hizumi.

 

[rizumu]

Then my first MM songs were Syunikiss and Baroque and Chimerareta Kajitsu, thanks to jikan-no-hizumi.

Chinurareta Kajitsu, dude. You're slipping. :-* And is is jikan-no-hizumi a person or a site?

 

[CrimsonSin]

L`arc~en~ciel - Spirit Dreams Inside fro the FF: Spirits Within CD

 

[Formless]

Me and navate have the most uncommon first j-rock songs. XD How random for us.

 

[eMiNaTiC]

my first "jrock" song was heart of sword by TMR and my first MM song was Bois De Merveilles

 

[Miz]

I'm lame. Mine was Night In Girl by Miyavi.

About a year ago.

 

[Elec]

Then my first MM songs were Syunikiss and Baroque and Chimerareta Kajitsu, thanks to jikan-no-hizumi.

Chinurareta Kajitsu, dude. You're slipping. :-* And is is jikan-no-hizumi a person or a site?

Yeah, wtf was I thinking. Jesus! >_< I'm gonna blame Chang this time because it's convenient. :-*

And jikan-no-hizumi was a reaaaaaally comprehensive site I ran across briefly around my senior year of high school/freshman year of college, and shortly thereafter went offline.