Have to keep reminding myself that Youtube is pretty crummy for finding new J-Pop, especially if you don’t know Japanese.
春・ミルキーウェイ CoCo 無敵の Only You & 横浜 Boy Style CoCo Having a search for CoCo songs (prompted by the neat blog JPop80ss) hasn’t turned up much, but this first song is pretty good, and I like the bad singing. The chorus of Yokohama Boy Style is okay, too.
B~r~e~a~k~~~t~i~m~e
Don't Touch This Yutaka Ozaki Quite the introduction. I was hoping his songs would get worse and tragicer, and here ya go.
Driving All Night Yutaka Ozaki I liked this song quite a bit at the start, and less so as it went on. Mostly I just don’t buy his persona.
Even though just being here is aggravating
is an interesting lyric translation.One Night in Heaven Wink Hand dancing in a bubble.
愛が止まらない (Turn It Into Love) Wink A Kylie Minogue cover.
According to the Youtube comments this was their last TV performance, that’s why one of them is upset.
2019 edit: Again, the video’s been taken down, so I’ve had to replace it with one I just kinda liked.
2020 edit: And gone again, so I’ve found what I think is the original one and uploaded it. I’ve also learnt the tears are because they were moved by their song becoming number one in Japan.
淋しい熱帯魚 Wink ノ・レ・な・いTeen-age Noriko Sakai Another great video. I already like 80s J-Pop a lot, but I’m trying to avoid posting videos I’ve seen before. So no Dancing Hero, for example.
2019 edit: The old video’s been taken down, but this one’s something neat too. Also, it has a lot of watches.
2024 edit: Video’s down again. I just watched it yesterday—
1億のスマイル-Please Your Smile- Noriko Sakai A new J-Pop adventure—
B~r~e~a~k~~~t~i~m~e