| Show us your favorite albums/tracks and let's all enjoy the "nostalgia"! here's mine: Takako Mamiya - Love Trip April 2020 Edit: So two years of listening to city pop and I've curated my own favorite list! Here are some of my favorite artists and my favorite albums of theirs:Lots of youtube links are down now, probably to youtube shitty copyright policy, so it's kinda sad to see some recommendations without details except for the link, so next time when we recommend please include at least the title and the artist! I'll try to collate all the albums and singles that has been recommended already in the thread, according to the order it has been posted. I'm still thinking of a plan of how to make the list more accessible and easy for newcomers in the genre, we could categorize the list according to subgenre or year, idk. Please let me know. |
JomsJun 7, 2021 2:56 AM
| I'm surprised to see a thread about city pop! I just discovered that genre semi-recently and I got obsessed with this album: |
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| Outside "conservative" city pop like taeko ohnuki (and some stuff from her contemporary like mikie matsubara, hiromi iwasaki, mariya takeuchi and junko ohashi) , i like techno kayo which predominantly produced by ex ymo Miharu koshi Susan Chiemi Manabe Akiko Yano I dont really clicked with male singing in city pop, the like esessential Tatsuro yamashita. except i guess his collabs or 'behind the scene" with other, like with his wife mariya takeuchi and his time with taeko (also early in Sugar babe) is a must tho' Most of the mainstream, old jpop from 80s is not really offer much album wise, i guess. more worthy as singles, track wise, like akina nakamori or seiko matsuda |
karambiaOct 13, 2018 3:04 AM
 la critique de l'intention pure |
| A City Pop thread! What a nice surprise. I discovered this genre last year and i'm very addicted to it. Like a good portion of the fans, my first contact with City Pop was through Plastic Love singed by Mariya Takeuchi, it's been a rabbit hole since and it's already my favorite genre. |
DanilloMartinsMay 24, 2019 8:54 AM
 Chiyoko Fujiwara:Look, the full moon... The Man of the Key: It won't appear until tomorrow, but I like this moon better. After the full moon, everything begins to wane. But with this penultimate moon, there is still tomorrow, and so, there is still hope. |
| I absolutely love city pop and would recommend checking out Miki Matsubara, Tomoko Aran and Junko Ohashi. |
Take care of yourself |
| I'm sure you must have found a lot of citypop in the long video or is put together in ta playlist. However, I'd like to recommend some more tracks that I think they haven't been put in any playlists. Below is modern citypop There's also Korean citypop Should you want to discover more of oldies and citypop, feel free to message me :D |
bonauditeurApr 23, 2020 10:19 AM
I feel so blue ... you are my world ... but you are not mine ♫    |
| Anyone can please tell me what's the name of the music that starts at 21:37 in this video? https://archive.org/details/citypopxtheend |
Chiyoko Fujiwara:Look, the full moon... The Man of the Key: It won't appear until tomorrow, but I like this moon better. After the full moon, everything begins to wane. But with this penultimate moon, there is still tomorrow, and so, there is still hope. |
hey_alright said: Came to see if anyone posted Hitomitoi as she's a bit more overlooked due to the general decline of the genre. Glad to see her brought up. A personal favorite of mine from her: I like dive as well. Heer newest album is good too. More than 6 songs from her that i enjoy listening to xD. Glad more people enjoy her music. |
I feel so blue ... you are my world ... but you are not mine ♫ |
| I prefer the remastered version of "Stay With Me", because everything is so clear. DanilloMartins said: Anyone can please tell me what's the name of the music that starts at 21:37 in this video? https://archive.org/details/citypopxtheend Chocolate Lips - Weekend Lover Only found it now, because there's an English lyric and guessed it from there. :P |
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| Thank you @Konradikon. I have to listen Kaoru Akimoto more because she's amazing. I only know her in the collaboration she did in the group Shambara with Yurie Kokubu. |
Chiyoko Fujiwara:Look, the full moon... The Man of the Key: It won't appear until tomorrow, but I like this moon better. After the full moon, everything begins to wane. But with this penultimate moon, there is still tomorrow, and so, there is still hope. |
| wow this suddenly got revived lol, yeah since i've posted this thread I've stumbled good city pop albums! As of posting this I'm listening to Imitation Lonely by Tomoko Aran this one in particular ThatRazorGuy said: I absolutely love city pop and would recommend checking out Miki Matsubara, Tomoko Aran and Junko Ohashi. Fukukukan is one of my favs! Especially the album cover, one of the best. |
JomsMay 27, 2019 9:19 AM
| More Tomoko Aran: |
Chiyoko Fujiwara:Look, the full moon... The Man of the Key: It won't appear until tomorrow, but I like this moon better. After the full moon, everything begins to wane. But with this penultimate moon, there is still tomorrow, and so, there is still hope. |
| Pure Gold |
Chiyoko Fujiwara:Look, the full moon... The Man of the Key: It won't appear until tomorrow, but I like this moon better. After the full moon, everything begins to wane. But with this penultimate moon, there is still tomorrow, and so, there is still hope. |
| boy, I've got a few 泰葉 (Yasuha) — ショート・ストーリー （短編小説）, ブルーナイト・ブルー & ポール・ポーリー・ポーラ 杏里 (Anri) — Cat's Eye (New Take) & 悲しみがとまらない E.P.O. — あなたを奪えない 八神純子 (Junko Yagami) — Communication & カシミヤのほほえみ 大江千里 (Senri Oe) — Rain 高橋幸宏 (Yukihiro Takahashi) — Drip Dry Eyes, Something in the Air & Connection BaBe — Give Me Up 中原めいこ (Meiko Nakahara) — Fantasy & 鏡の中のアクトレス 細野晴臣 (Haruomi Hosono) — Sports Men & Yellow Magic Orchestra — Cue and some proto-city pop from the band SUGAR BABE (of which Taeko Ohnuki and Tatsuro Yamashita were members) — 今日はなんだか & Down Town |
onchyophoranJun 6, 2019 8:59 PM
| I highly recommend this one: |
Chiyoko Fujiwara:Look, the full moon... The Man of the Key: It won't appear until tomorrow, but I like this moon better. After the full moon, everything begins to wane. But with this penultimate moon, there is still tomorrow, and so, there is still hope. |
| I'll go ahead and throw in my two cents. These may not fit the genre but it's as close as it gets. Perfect stuff for a night-drive. Also, Yukika's "Neon" is cool as hell but it has already been mentioned! c: |
| Love city pop. Love it. These guys, but it's hard to find their albums anywhere (they are 90s too sry) |
It's annoying that she only made one album. It's a mini masterpiece |
| Some Miki (rip) Not exactly city pop but Kikuchu Momoko Some Naoko Kawaii performing live Sum English city pop Nobody posted "Telephone Number (56709)! What's wrong with you! |
FahtahSenseiJul 2, 2019 5:20 AM
| Absolutely love city pop. It's amazing. Toshiki Kadomatsu is one of my favorite city pop artists |
| 中原理恵 (Rie Nakahara) — 東京ららばい (Tokyo Lullaby) jam |
| Put this together for me, but I figure some of you might enjoy hearing it too "クリスマス・タイム！"—a holiday mix of 1980s/90s J-Pop & City pop |
| It's been a while and there's so many albums/singles listed there since I left and I'm loving it! I'm planning to edit my first post to make a combined list of all city pop albums and singles here, maybe I'm gonna start tomorrow. It has been almost 2 yrs since my first encounter woth city pop, I made this thread because I was new to the genre. Now it's one of my favorite genres and listened to quite many of them! Here are some of my current favorite albums btw Noriko Miyamoto - Push (1978) Jadoes - Free Drink https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaWj9RPnn3gywT-Tb81E6SzI75rwOc3aN |
JomsApr 12, 2020 8:55 AM
| Maybe... bump this thread? It's been years since I've been in the city pop rabbit hole.... 2020 was peak, and now currently I'm stuck to my favorites. Looking for new ones though, so if you please, just post your recs! Here's one of my favs atm... a track from Yuming's VOYAGER Also, in case you haven't heard Yukika "City Pop Queen of KPOP" during her first debut album SOUL LADY, go listen to her new EP, which I'd say has better tracks (Neon is still the best though) |
JomsJun 7, 2021 2:53 AM
| Junko Yagami - Bay City |
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