Cool Western music bands. Recommended overseas bands that will get you pumped just by listening.
There are foreign bands with irresistibly captivating sounds you can hardly hear in Japan! From powerful, energetic vocals and satisfyingly heavy sound production to dynamic stage performances—there’s no way to sum it all up in a single phrase.
This time, based on reliable feedback from music fans submitted to our site, we researched popular Western bands.
Among them, we carefully selected especially well-regarded rock bands—both classic and contemporary—along with their staple songs.
If that’s your thing, be sure to check it out!
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Cool Western music bands. Recommended overseas bands that will boost your mood just by listening (101–110)
SusiStormbringer
A Swiss B-grade hard rock band featuring the virtuoso guitarist Angi Schilirò.
Their melodies are marked by European lyricism and wistful melancholy.
They drew modest attention in Japan at the time, and have since become a little-known, almost mythical band among those in the know.
Since YesterdayStrawberry Switchblade
Strawberry Switchblade is something I really want today’s young girls dressed in Gothic Lolita fashion to know about and see.
There were already cool girls in the ’80s dressing like this.
Even back then, many girls admired them.
Their style was stunningly, mind-blowingly cool.
Runaway BoysStray cats
It reached No.
9 in the UK in 1981.
The Japanese title is “Namida no Runaway Boy.” They’re a three-piece American neo-rockabilly band.
Released in February 1981, it’s included on their debut album “Namida no Runaway Boy (Stray Cats).” “Rock This Town” and “Stray Cat Strut” were hits in the US, but this one wasn’t released as a single there.
Brian Setzer, who was something of a troublemaker, went on to lead a big band and is now a major figure.
In any case, his guitar playing is outstanding.
AlrightSupergrass
Supergrass is one of the quintessential rock bands of the British Britpop movement, represented by groups like Oasis in the 1990s.
For fans of ’90s rock bands, they’re simply unavoidable.
Their songs embody alternative rock and capture the atmosphere of the ’90s.
The track “Alright,” built on a simple eighth-note piano pattern layered with a satisfying rock sound, is an incredibly feel-good song that also carries a hint of surf rock.
Hold The LineTOTO
In 1979, their debut album “Toto” and debut single “Hold the Line” quickly climbed the charts, with the album reaching No.
9 and the single hitting No.
5 in the U.S.
Formed primarily by keyboardist David Paich and drummer Jeff Porcaro, the group’s core duo had participated in the recording and tour for Boz Scaggs’ landmark AOR classic “Silk Degrees,” released in 1976.
After this song, fans would have to wait until “Rosanna” for their next Top 10 hit.