[Tsuruneru]

I listen to j-rock 100% almost nothing else (almost) My friends are ok with it two out of three do as well. When i tell people i listen to Japanese music they just think its fascinating how i listen to music outside of my own country. The only thing that annoys me is how people only get into a Japanese band only because they herd it from some anime or because how they like the singer and wants to marry them, thats how most people in this town see fans of Japanese music so when I'm listening to a band others think hey yeah that must be the song from naruto (and they pronounce it wrong) Or ベルトパンチ with there song crawl. I tell them this band has nothing to do with naruto or ベルトパンチ let alone anime. Listen to bands that have nothing to do with anime like ストレイテナー,椿屋四重奏,Sunsgrind,When the leaf seared, acidman, fact, northern19, and many more. They are really great and should be appreciated more than a one time song from an anime. But back in 2003 i didn't have an interest in any us bands, they just seemed boring so i didn't listen to music for a while. But then i found a channel on TV that had a show pop-japan TV witch had a lot of bands and thats where i found L'arc en ciel talking about there music and there lives, then i found another show called bento beat box thats where i found nami tamaki, asian kung fu generation, TM Revolution, and Guitar wolf, They were all great and was a start in my quest for awesome music. As time passed i looked up the bands i kept only finding one song from each one like Laruku's ready steady go, Akfg's haruka kanata, and so on. It was really annoying so i did the next best thing and bought Cd's and DVDs of them and bands that they were close friends with, soon after my list of favorite bands grew every day so i may know or at least heard of almost all jrock bands. Whats funny is that i only know about three to eight us bands and people go crazy when i tell them I've never heard of like the most popular us singer's or musicians.