danz 0 Posted December 14, 2001 Share Posted December 14, 2001 back when I was in the US, I never listned to music while skiing... I enjoyed the peacefullness of my surroundings, the sounds of metal and snow the puff of powder.... but ever since i started skiing in japan, those beautiful sounds i used to enjoy are swamped out by monoral J-pop...so i think i need to bring my own tunes from now on... what do you guys use for auditory supplements on the mtn?? just curious danz ------------------ pray for snow Link to post Share on other sites
Raury 0 Posted December 14, 2001 Share Posted December 14, 2001 I was going to say the edge of my board, but you've mentioned that. Have to admit that I am looking at a MD player so I can listen to some Ministry of sound CDs like Dance Nation (mixed by GT and Peewee). The trancey CD (#2) seems to be at about the right pace for long wide slopes. For quicker slopes, I'd have to go for some MoS Clubber Guide to Summer. Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted December 14, 2001 Share Posted December 14, 2001 The screams of broken and dying skiers is music to my ears. Just joking... Link to post Share on other sites
paint_baller 0 Posted December 14, 2001 Share Posted December 14, 2001 pure techno. something fats, even some hard f^c$ing rock. just to get me pumped up for the immoprtal air up here in tohoku. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted December 15, 2001 Share Posted December 15, 2001 My biggest complaint about Japanese resorts - the incessany JPOP, Wham and 80s AOR. What is it with that_ Link to post Share on other sites
xxx 2 Posted December 15, 2001 Share Posted December 15, 2001 Thats another reason to go backcountry and off the slopes - to avoid the Jpop crass. Are there any resorts that DON'T have that music on the slopes? Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted December 15, 2001 Share Posted December 15, 2001 I don't recall Nozawa onsen playing music. Maybe Hakuba47 doesn't either. It's crazy that anywhere does. I bet most people would be happier without it. Link to post Share on other sites
Kuma 0 Posted December 17, 2001 Share Posted December 17, 2001 At least yesterday in Gala they were going thru their record lists in alphabetical order instead of Jpop-all-the-time; we got full doses of Backstreet Boys as well as Black Sabbath! Rrrrrock! But then again, we also "enjoyed" the Japanese X-mas rap... I almost liked the "silent night, holy night"-part.. (sick me) Oops - almost forgot the most important part, two feet of fresh yesterday! Link to post Share on other sites
NoFakie 45 Posted December 17, 2001 Share Posted December 17, 2001 47 has music on most of the time, as does Goryu. Low points of last season included a day of early Beatles (obscure album tracks included), Koyanagi's album (poor covers of poor English songs) back to back three times, and a daily hour of C+W in the spring. My personal nemesis is whingy love songs. I can handle inane throwaway stuff like MiniMoni no bother. At least it's upbeat. It's "sayonara daisuki na hito" and all that sentimental tosh by women who look and sound like they've never had a bf in their lives that gets me mad. Who wants to listen to that when you're out having a good time ? Of the Hakuba resorts, I think the music is on loudest at Sanosaka, where you get the added pleasure of heavy speaker distortion. The most noise I've encountered though has been when there's a slalom contest on on part of the hill. Come up against one of them and you'll want to go home, believe me. In a vid, I've seen a North American resort (it might even have been Whistler) boasting of having DJs on playing all that Limp Biskit-type stuff that "you can hear all the way up the lifts!" Maybe music at resorts is not just a Japanese thing. Link to post Share on other sites
Davo 1 Posted December 17, 2001 Share Posted December 17, 2001 One big powder Monday at Goryu last season I got to hear The Clash & AC/DC during a coffee break at the top of the gondala. Back in Black is a sweet tune when you're knee deep but soon it's back to oooh...oooh...I love you baby, so why did you dump my sorry arse/shag all those other people...oooo...ooo...ooofff etc etc. Unfortunately bad taste in music is a universal but I'd rather listen to Jpop than Mariah Careys Xmas which has been on constant rotation at one of my work places recently. No wonder she had a mental breakdown. Link to post Share on other sites
Nat 0 Posted December 18, 2001 Share Posted December 18, 2001 Quote: Originally posted by Kuma: At least yesterday in Gala they were going thru their record lists in alphabetical order instead of Jpop-all-the-time; we got full doses of Backstreet Boys as well as Black Sabbath! Rrrrrock! But then again, we also "enjoyed" the Japanese X-mas rap... I almost liked the "silent night, holy night"-part.. (sick me) Oops - almost forgot the most important part, two feet of fresh yesterday! Yeah. We enjoyed MUSIC in Gala, didn't we? (Goodness, Ayumi Hamazaki & BackStreet Boys' songs are still going on in my head ... Well... JAPANESE RAP X-mas song was cool.) Personally, I think the slopes should hire proper 'DJ', if they want to play music loudly. Anyway, we were enjoyed Fresh snow in Gala, that's main thing! Kuma - Sorry I send an e-mail regarding January AGAIN! Ahhh.....I broke my promise again myself! (Why I keep sending message!?!? And why I never shush!?) [This message has been edited by Nat (edited 17 December 2001).] Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted December 18, 2001 Share Posted December 18, 2001 I had some bizarre self-inflicted music on my trip to Nozawa on Sunday. As I was turning cartwheels in the powder, I had 'Frosty the Snowman' playing in my head, you know, that awful one with probably a young Michael Jackson or someone screaming "Frooosty tha snow---man, dabadadubaba". It's on that one Xmas tape that all the chain restaurants seem to be playing this year. At least with J Pop you get a number of different songs. I was stuck with just the chorus of Frosty the Snowman, all day. Link to post Share on other sites
ii 0 Posted December 18, 2001 Share Posted December 18, 2001 Kinki Kids! They are the best, arent they? Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted February 2, 2002 Share Posted February 2, 2002 Jpop - got no choice. Anyone know of resorts that DON'T blast you with JPOP all day? Link to post Share on other sites
barok 0 Posted February 2, 2002 Share Posted February 2, 2002 yeah I listen to my own tracks. yeah It's a little known fact that I'm one out of five members of the latest smash hit boy band. we're called Tuesday's Child. We're going to rock the American Billboard Charts, and then it's over to Europe for the "European Invasion" and then on to Japan, where we'll have busloads of Japanese girls screaming our names. It's going to be great. I'm the bad-boy of the group. You can just talk to my agent. werd. Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted February 3, 2002 Share Posted February 3, 2002 Morning Musko the up n' coming all boy Japanese band. Link to post Share on other sites
sore wa 0 Posted February 11, 2002 Share Posted February 11, 2002 sore wa - 80s rock (joking!) Link to post Share on other sites
shika 0 Posted February 12, 2002 Share Posted February 12, 2002 Unfortunately JPOP - don't have much choice in the matter seeing as though all the resorts blurt it out all over the place. My least fave thing about boarding in Japan. Link to post Share on other sites
yogi 0 Posted February 12, 2002 Share Posted February 12, 2002 All that JPOP crap is the best reason to buy an MD for the slopes. Canrock rules...listen to the hip, big sugar, 54-40, nickleback.... Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted February 14, 2002 Share Posted February 14, 2002 Looks like we are going to have to listed to: "The End of Shite" by Yuki. How lovely. Link to post Share on other sites
berg 0 Posted February 14, 2002 Share Posted February 14, 2002 Rammstein, German metal, great for skiing and shopping! Link to post Share on other sites
ollie 0 Posted February 14, 2002 Share Posted February 14, 2002 HIP HOP Link to post Share on other sites
the black adder 0 Posted April 24, 2002 Share Posted April 24, 2002 JPOP Link to post Share on other sites
Mudguts 0 Posted April 25, 2002 Share Posted April 25, 2002 METAL! Nothing better than charging down a mountain with Limp, Korn, The Step Kings, Lit etc inspiring you onto better things. Link to post Share on other sites
brilliant 0 Posted October 13, 2002 Share Posted October 13, 2002 Jpop man, it rocks! brilliant Link to post Share on other sites
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