Group Sounds

Group Sounds (G.S.) is a genre of Japanese rock music which became popular in the mid to late 1960s and initiated the fusion of Japanese kayōkyoku music and Western rock music. Their music production techniques were regarded as playing a pioneering role in modern Japanese popular music.

Fōku (folk) and New Music became famous in Japan in the 1970s, but new rock bands survived as "New Rock" in Japanese underground music. The origin of modern Japanese rock music was usually regarded as New Rock. Videos of New Rock bands' concerts were very rare.

Notable Group Sounds bands

  • The Tigers (aka The Funnys)
  • The Tempters
  • The Spiders
  • The Wild Ones
  • The Golden Cups
  • The Mops
  • The Carnabeats
  • Notable New Rock bands (1969–1972)

  • Blues Creation
  • Flower Travellin' Band
  • Happy End
  • Power House
  • PYG
  • RC Succession
  • Les Rallizes Dénudés
  • Sadistic Mika Band
  • Speed, Glue & Shinki
  • Taj Mahal Travellers
  • See also

  • Music of Japan
  • J-pop
  • Visual kei
  • Japanese hip hop
  • Japanese jazz
  • Japanese reggae
  • Japanese ska
  • List of Japanese rock bands
  • Group Sounds (album)

    Group Sounds is an album by the San Diego, California rock band Rocket from the Crypt, released in 2001 by Vagrant Records. It was the band's first album for the label and their first with new drummer Ruby Mars.

    After the end of their major-label contract with Interscope Records in 1999 and the departure of longtime drummer Atom the following year, the band spent much of 2000 in search of a new label and drummer. Singer/guitarist John Reis experimented with several other drummers, resulting in the formations of Hot Snakes and Sultans, but did not find a suitable replacement for Willard. When Rocket from the Crypt signed to Vagrant Records later that year they recruited Superchunk drummer Jon Wurster to act as their studio drummer, and he played on a majority of the album's tracks. Partway through the recording process, however, the band discovered local San Diego drummer and professional skateboarder Mario Rubalcaba, who joined as their new full-time drummer under the stage name "Ruby Mars" and played on the remainder of the album.

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    Group Sounds

    by: Rocket From The Crypt

    Say hello to my little friend
    A broken spleen and a heart of gold
    Has a face that the world adores, yeah
    But lives a life that belongs in hell, no
    But we ain't movin' now
    But we ain't movin' now
    But we ain't movin' now
    Buffalo soldier
    Break dance with knives stuck in your back
    Holy water
    Pours out of stretch marks from your past
    A straight American slave
    A straight American slave
    Say hello to my little friend
    A broken spleen and a heart of gold
    Has a face that the world adores, yeah
    But lives a life that belongs in hell, no
    But we ain't movin' now
    But we ain't movin' now
    But we ain't movin' now
    Buffalo soldier
    Break dance with knives stuck in your back
    Holy water
    Pours out of stretch marks from our past
    Buffalo soldier
    Break dance with knives stuck in your back
    A straight American slave
    A straight American slave




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