CD's/song titles suggestions

[Strawberry]

This thread is to post CD's, artists and/or song titles which you will recommend to people.

Here are my recommendations;

Ayumi Hamasaki; She is one of the most biggest femala artist in Japan. I think she started in the early 90's and still releasing albums today. The album which I will recommend is My story, though people say that her best album is probably Duty

HAL; If you like Ayumi Hamasaki, then you will love HAL ^^, she writes somgs for various artist on AVEX and she sings the ending theme to Angelic Layer. The limited edition Singles Collection is my favourite CD of HAL's

Namie Amuro; I think Namie is half Christain/white and Japanese? Her songs are abit of a mixture of the Eastern and Western culture and like Ayumi Hamasaki, she started in the early 90's and still popular today ^_^. I got her album Love Enchanted singles collection and love it very much ^_^

Gackt; Probably the most popular male artist in Japan (and very sexy too ~lol) My brother has got their best singles collection called The sixth day and it came with a calendar and phone charm.

Kagrra; They are a famous boyband with 4 members, though I must admit I'm not a massive fan, but my brother likes them though. I can't specify an album or song title of this artist though.

TM Revolution; This is a cool male artist and I love his songs very much ^^, not too sure if he sings the Gundam songs though..... OK the best song title I can think of is Ignited

Ringo Shiina; I love her songs and the music is very catchy, but one thing which annoys me is her high pitched voice ><, but either way I will still recommend you listen to her music because its great and Shouso strip is her best album.

Tokyo Jihen; They are my favourite artist and its Ringo shiina's new band. Although I missed Ringo being a solo artist ~ I think Tokyo Jihen is much better and they are fairly new too. Kiyoko is their first and only album so far.

Mayaa Sakamoto; She is the most famous artist outside of Japan and you may have heard some of her songs because she sings opening and ending themes to anime's such as Tsubasa, Cardcaptor Sakura etc... Cloud 9 is my favourite album of Mayaa's

And thats is all of Strawberry's suggestions, more coming soon!

[Tsuchinoko]

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Vic Mignogna: Not Japanese but anime related, as he is a well-known American voice actor, best known for voicing characters such as Edward Elric ( Fullmetal Alchemist ), Kurtz Webber ( Full Metal Panic ), and Dark ( D.N Angel ). I highly recommend the album Metafiction, which includes a mixture of beautiful ballads like Hello Beautiful, fun religion-inspired songs like Far From Home, energetic songs like Nothing I Won't Give, which he wrote especially for his character in FMA, and a couple of comedy songs; The Legend of Middle Tennessee, which tells about a dodge-ball game between the Risembool Rangers and the Mini-skirt Army, and Soldier A, which pokes fun at all the miscellaneous and unimportant anime characters in a series.

He also writes piano music as well, and has been song-writing and singing for over 25 years, which came as a surprise to me since I had only heard a couple of his songs before and really wanted to hear some more.


Angela Aki: Has an amazingly beautiful voice and sang the song Kiss Me Goodbye for Final Fantasy XII. She has also sung a version of the Final Fantasy VIII song, Eyes on Me. Other Angela Aki songs I recommend are Rain and Love is Over Now. Definitely my favourite female artist. Everything I've heard her sing is just beautiful.