Their song Colour Our of Space hits the horror aspect, of course it's a nod to Lovecraft. It amazes me that these guys have been playing since the 80's and are still throwing out fresh innovative rock.
As your and many others reactions shows: The intro length is just perfect! The moment you think, "how long did I already listen?" It's over. And there's always the "when is it over?" Moment 😂 This song is three really nice songs.
Band's been around since 1987, and everyone seems to be discovering them in the last 3 months. They're probably sitting there going "It's about effing time."
I love that the "lu lu lu lu..." part starts with the greatest horror rock riff since the Munsters TV show theme and resolves on an incredible Studio Ghibli anime happy note
This kind of already happened. This song/video became so popular that they got some gigs in Europe because of it, but they certainly deserve to become even bigger.
It's amazing how much this track reeks of Sabbath, without sounding like a rip off. From the overall structure, which is straight outta the BS play book with it's multiple movements and big temp/time changes, to the double tracked guitar solo at the end. When I first heard this years ago, this song lived in my head for several weeks.
I lurve me some Ningen Isu. Shinji's guitar tone is gorgeous, and I like the 'growly' bass. Small correction, none of them are in their 60s. They're in their late '50s. Shinji Wajima birthday is December 1965, and Ken-ichi Suzuki March 1966, Nobu Nakajima September 1966. Ken-ichi Suzuki has said he was influenced by Kiss, especially Gene Simmons, who inspired Ken-ichi's 'heavy makeup. Best Wishes. ☮ _NINGEN ISU / The Colour out of Space (... / ...)_ th-cam.com/video/1JY89ZxVqEg/w-d-xo.html is a HP Lovecraft scifi horror _NINGEN ISU / Toshishun（with English lyric ver.)_ th-cam.com/video/tKSjWKDSBmo/w-d-xo.html AFAIK, based on Chinese legend (see comment by @joan4p704)
Glad you finally got to check this band out, I found out about them after I started my dive into becoming a Band-Maid fan. I was not disappointed, there's a reason that Marty Friedman and some other musicians love Japan.
Oh and Japan is wild, I went as a fan of the cars and music and I have been every year again since! Absolutely love the place it is truly life changing
Your pronounciation of Ningen Isu was pretty good. I love the old school sound of the band, and as you can imagine for a band that's been playing for 40 years, there's a lot of songs to go through. I would recommend "Namahage" next, with a slight preference for the studio version, where the bassist singing comes through better. Then there is "At the Mountains of Madness" live version, which is quite the trip and shows off how good their live shows are. Also, props to giving the original video a like and subscribe, as well as providing a link. Just for that you get a like and subscribe from me.
There are a lot of extremely high quality female Rock and Metal bands in Japan - Band-Maid, Lovebites, Nemophila and many others - but these 3 guys have been putting out superb music for decades. Their lyrics are usually deep! The drummer is dressed as a 50's to 80's Yakuza member, the bassist is dressed as a monk, possibly a mute one, which the black lipstick might indicate, and the guitarist is dressed as a late 19th century/ early 20th century school teacher. I don't know why. They are as proficient live as their MV's.
Before Black Sabbath there were a few rock songs that multiple sections with different rhythms. From 1966, "Good Vibrations" by the Beach Boys and "Who Are the Brain Police" by The Mothers of Invention. From 1967, "Within You Without You" and "A Day in the Life" by the Beatles
Great as always, Andrew! Miss Moneypenny is awesome! :) As far as I know, Tony Iommi's theory was to take the drama and feel of great classical music and translate it into dramatic heavy modern instrumentation and lyrics/vocals. So the idea of using "movements" is something that I think was developed by him, like so many ither things, (after somewhat originating with the Beatles in "A Day in the Life", (although that song was really literally two songs written by two different people that was stitched together)). But before Iommi, there was nothing to my knowledge that was the same as the multiple tectonic shifts that he incorporated. The most underrated creative genius music writer of the 20th Century. As for Ningen Isu, you see a lot of this kind of change in directions mid song. The most entertaining piece of which I'll give you next time is in their song "Toshishun", which is 90% pure Sabbath style, and which ends with the last 10% being absolute Queen in style, haha! Almost like an inside joke from Shinji on that one, to see if you get it! :) From my understanding, he and the bass player have been friends since high school.
If you want a little homework, go to JROCK news and bring up the Marty Friedman 2 part interview. Marty was a Megadeath guitarist, but today he lives and works in Japan. He explains the difference in working in music in Japan vs the west.
the definitely follow the black sabbath composition style with 4 songs in 1. it was just one of those things with sabbath when listening the first time when an album came where is it going and how do they get from here to there.
I haven't heard their music since the year they debuted 35 years ago, but the quality hasn't changed at all. I was shocked when I first heard their music on a music band audition program that was held in the middle of the night. No one thought of combining Japan horror and rock. Of course, they won.
Been around since the late 80's both the bassist and guitarist are lead singers, the drummer is the third drummer but he's been with the bad for 20 years so its a pretty stable line-up. I've seen them a few times first time in 97 the last time in 2008. I can't tell you if they're still good live but they definitely were fantastic live back then. Their style shifts a lot, there's heavier albums and more progy and psychedelic albums but they're always hard rock. Great band and really happy to see they're more popular now than ever.
Interesting sidebar the guitarist Wajima is an avid camper,traveler and motorcycle enthusiast and has a Youttube channel where he shares some out of doors adventures.
One of my favorite disturbing Japanese horror movies is "Jisatsu Saakuru" or Suicide Circle. It is also often known as "Suicide Club". One of the most disturbing characters in the movie is played by a musician named Rolly. He gives a great haunting performance of "Because the Dead" in the middle of the movie. If you want to see this performance, just look up "Suicide Club - Genesis song" on TH-cam.
Hi Andrew, great reaction. I highly recommend you listen another Japanese band called Unlucky Morpheus. In my opinion the best group of musicians I have heard in a very long time (great drummer). Either listen to Black Pentagram and hear the Japanese Enka vocal technique from Fuki or if you want to see their brilliant violinist play Yngwie Malmteen Far beyond the Sun, I guarantee you will be blown away. Enjoy
In my opinion, if these guys had opened for Sabbath back in the day, they would have blown them off the stage....Plus, they're still around and making great music....All around incredible band
Hint: just switch off youtube's autoplay feature and you won't have to worry about pausing at the end anymore :) And yeah, Ningen Isu are a really cool band! Love em!
These guys have been around forever, pretty much unknown by anyone outside Japan. When the eyes of the metal world were turned to the Japanese music scene by Babymetal, people started discovering these guys. It actually originated from a Reactor who came across them, then other reactors, and suddenly this Japanese Grandfather Metal band gained a second lease on a career, releasing some of the best music they had ever composed, which may be the greatest anomaly of all of this. How many bands do you know who start releasing their best material more than 20 years after they formed?
Did anybody have sudden shifts in their composition before black sabbath? Yes. Lots. Without even leaving their home island or broader musical movement there's... the Beatles, to name but one easy choice.
Yeah, personally I listened to both The Beatles and The Mothers of Inventions. Complex stuff! Beatles is not only "She loves you" it is also a "A day in the life" and "Being in the benefit of Mr Kite". Even the seemingly simple "Yellow Submarine" do not follow normal patterns.
@@RussInCanada Yeah, Cream was one of my favorites. But, as been said, lots and lots of music was like that in the 1960-ies. Telling a story and having parts and movements. I mean, 15 minute songs was not uncommon. In lots of genres. Its today we make all those short songs with a fixed patterns.
You pronounced NINGEN ISU correctly. Don’t listen to anybody who tells you that the /u/ is silent (just say it very softly). They are really a Prog Metal band. Watch a very young NINGEN ISU playing a killer cover of King Crimson's 21st Century Schizoid Man (live) - th-cam.com/video/zaq6fbYYzXI/w-d-xo.html (SUZUKI, on bass, had very long hair back then.)
i hoped you'll never know this song, so you'll never react on that. i know this for quite a time, and...? i feel sorry for session drummer of theirs. drums were programmed. from composition to output o nalbum. i heard this guy from video live. two diff things :D
It's very common to do this. It's harder and time consuming to record live drums in a studio setting because if there's a small mistake it can mean having to record the entire track over again. Typically studio engineers will take samples of each drum on the live kit and use them in the programming software. As long as he can play the songs live, that's all that matters. Also he's not a session drummer he's been in the band for a long time.
@@JudgeLazar yeah... and that's why players are getting worse year by year, and why music is unlistenable more each year. cause it's "easier to program than play". or even, like you've said, cutting nice fragments, and paste them to make whole track. it's unnatural, it's unlistenable. studio engineers nowadays? my gosh... they can ruin good music :x
Ningen Isu, so great, and they've been doing it since the late 80s.
Their song Colour Our of Space hits the horror aspect, of course it's a nod to Lovecraft. It amazes me that these guys have been playing since the 80's and are still throwing out fresh innovative rock.
Been a fan of this song for several years! The lyrics are pure poetry, the music is excellent!
日本の文化全般と音楽界もその時代の音楽の良さを愛する国民性=ジャズ、ブルース、フランスのシャンソン（アメリカのカントリーソング）ポルトガルのファドなどが、未だにその国の音楽を愛する日本の国民性で、その時代の音楽が日本では存続出来て、もともとの発生国では絶滅した音楽が日本では残っているのです。
I saw this video in January 2020, bought a ticket for a concert in Bochum, Germany, for February the same night and loved it really really much!!!
As your and many others reactions shows: The intro length is just perfect! The moment you think, "how long did I already listen?" It's over.
And there's always the "when is it over?" Moment 😂
This song is three really nice songs.
Ningen Isu is the one band knocked off my feet, these guys are awesome
I came across these guys about a year and a half ago. I really liked them but I did not write the name down and could not find them again. Thank you
Band's been around since 1987, and everyone seems to be discovering them in the last 3 months. They're probably sitting there going "It's about effing time."
I love that the "lu lu lu lu..." part starts with the greatest horror rock riff since the Munsters TV show theme and resolves on an incredible Studio Ghibli anime happy note
These guys are doing great in reactions, hope it makes them a bit more famous outside of Japan, cause they deserve it :)
This kind of already happened. This song/video became so popular that they got some gigs in Europe because of it, but they certainly deserve to become even bigger.
It's amazing how much this track reeks of Sabbath, without sounding like a rip off. From the overall structure, which is straight outta the BS play book with it's multiple movements and big temp/time changes, to the double tracked guitar solo at the end.
When I first heard this years ago, this song lived in my head for several weeks.
I love that opening riff.
I lurve me some Ningen Isu. Shinji's guitar tone is gorgeous, and I like the 'growly' bass. Small correction, none of them are in their 60s. They're in their late '50s. Shinji Wajima birthday is December 1965, and Ken-ichi Suzuki March 1966, Nobu Nakajima September 1966. Ken-ichi Suzuki has said he was influenced by Kiss, especially Gene Simmons, who inspired Ken-ichi's 'heavy makeup.
Best Wishes. ☮
_NINGEN ISU / The Colour out of Space (... / ...)_ th-cam.com/video/1JY89ZxVqEg/w-d-xo.html is a HP Lovecraft scifi horror
_NINGEN ISU / Toshishun（with English lyric ver.)_ th-cam.com/video/tKSjWKDSBmo/w-d-xo.html AFAIK, based on Chinese legend (see comment by @joan4p704)
Glad you finally got to check this band out, I found out about them after I started my dive into becoming a Band-Maid fan. I was not disappointed, there's a reason that Marty Friedman and some other musicians love Japan.
Love these guys, went on a binge years ago found there first tv appearance etc.
love that they found some success
Oh and Japan is wild, I went as a fan of the cars and music and I have been every year again since! Absolutely love the place it is truly life changing
Gotta find the live song where the guitarist plays a theremin solo, absolutely insane
Your pronounciation of Ningen Isu was pretty good. I love the old school sound of the band, and as you can imagine for a band that's been playing for 40 years, there's a lot of songs to go through. I would recommend "Namahage" next, with a slight preference for the studio version, where the bassist singing comes through better. Then there is "At the Mountains of Madness" live version, which is quite the trip and shows off how good their live shows are.
Also, props to giving the original video a like and subscribe, as well as providing a link. Just for that you get a like and subscribe from me.
Stand by (as Andrew mentioned) for Namahage with concert video with studio audio. The best of both worlds.
Forgot how good these guys were, killer sounding band. Those huge riffs would make Iommi proud.
There are a lot of extremely high quality female Rock and Metal bands in Japan - Band-Maid, Lovebites, Nemophila and many others - but these 3 guys have been putting out superb music for decades. Their lyrics are usually deep! The drummer is dressed as a 50's to 80's Yakuza member, the bassist is dressed as a monk, possibly a mute one, which the black lipstick might indicate, and the guitarist is dressed as a late 19th century/ early 20th century school teacher. I don't know why. They are as proficient live as their MV's.
人間いすや日本のロック界、音楽界の説明ありがとうございます。私も久しぶりに彼らのロックを聞いt快い衝撃でした。日本はいろいろの音楽が並行して存続食べてける文化を大事にする国民性が誇りであり、日本文化の多様性と厚みです。
@@フルーツぶどう-h8q 日本は21世紀の最高のメタルとロック音楽を世界に提供しています。人間椅子は長年活動してきましたが、2010年以降、BABYMETAL、BAND-MAID、LOVEBITES、Asterism、ネモフィラ、ハナビエなど、多くの新しいバンドが登場しました。ほとんどが女性、または女性主導で構成されており、全員が非常に才能があります。 。メキシコからの警告を除けば、過去 15 年間、私のロックとメタルの音楽はすべて日本から来ました。
Before Black Sabbath there were a few rock songs that multiple sections with different rhythms. From 1966, "Good Vibrations" by the Beach Boys and "Who Are the Brain Police" by The Mothers of Invention. From 1967, "Within You Without You" and "A Day in the Life" by the Beatles
Welcome to the rabbit hole, hope you're not busy for the next year.
Great as always, Andrew! Miss Moneypenny is awesome! :) As far as I know, Tony Iommi's theory was to take the drama and feel of great classical music and translate it into dramatic heavy modern instrumentation and lyrics/vocals. So the idea of using "movements" is something that I think was developed by him, like so many ither things, (after somewhat originating with the Beatles in "A Day in the Life", (although that song was really literally two songs written by two different people that was stitched together)). But before Iommi, there was nothing to my knowledge that was the same as the multiple tectonic shifts that he incorporated. The most underrated creative genius music writer of the 20th Century. As for Ningen Isu, you see a lot of this kind of change in directions mid song. The most entertaining piece of which I'll give you next time is in their song "Toshishun", which is 90% pure Sabbath style, and which ends with the last 10% being absolute Queen in style, haha! Almost like an inside joke from Shinji on that one, to see if you get it! :) From my understanding, he and the bass player have been friends since high school.
I love these guys.
Epic reaction, Andrew! I love this song. Thanks a bunch, man.
love it.
If you want a little homework, go to JROCK news and bring up the Marty Friedman 2 part interview. Marty was a Megadeath guitarist, but today he lives and works in Japan. He explains the difference in working in music in Japan vs the west.
def one of my fav bands🤘
Killer video and band Andrew! Loved it! Loved it!🥰🤘
Tetsuo 1 and 2, got them on the good old VHS. Scat is a reference to a Jazz term. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scat_singing
the definitely follow the black sabbath composition style with 4 songs in 1. it was just one of those things with sabbath when listening the first time when an album came where is it going and how do they get from here to there.
i used to go to the japenese theatre in the 60s/ try illusion of blood/ tatsuya nakadai stars.
I haven't heard their music since the year they debuted 35 years ago, but the quality hasn't changed at all. I was shocked when I first heard their music on a music band audition program that was held in the middle of the night. No one thought of combining Japan horror and rock. Of course, they won.
What is the back story on these Kings, awesome I am sure? Has anyone seen them live, do they shred? Thank you!
Been around since the late 80's both the bassist and guitarist are lead singers, the drummer is the third drummer but he's been with the bad for 20 years so its a pretty stable line-up.
I've seen them a few times first time in 97 the last time in 2008. I can't tell you if they're still good live but they definitely were fantastic live back then. Their style shifts a lot, there's heavier albums and more progy and psychedelic albums but they're always hard rock. Great band and really happy to see they're more popular now than ever.
@@thewheezingdead Thank you for that, I appreciate you!
歌詞見てるリアクションはいいね。人間椅子の重要な部分だからね
Yes.
Ningen Isu, such an amazing band. When is 2 guitar solos not enough in 1 song, you clearly need 7
Sounds like something I might have been into during the late 70s - mid 80s. Cool.
Super cool band.
The guitar solo is divine❗️❤🎸😆👍🇯🇵
I mean....it's strange, but I love it!! I wish I could send you band recommendations! I have a Japanese band that will blow your mind!
Interesting sidebar the guitarist Wajima is an avid camper,traveler and motorcycle enthusiast and has a Youttube channel where he shares some out of doors adventures.
deep purple did a lot of switch style in some song
NGL...Im gonna be walking around humming yabbadabbado all day after this earworm. \m/
Onya Fred!! 😂
emence, the bass is just sick
so, a librarian, a kami and a yakuza went into a recording studio.....
One of my favorite disturbing Japanese horror movies is "Jisatsu Saakuru" or Suicide Circle. It is also often known as "Suicide Club".
One of the most disturbing characters in the movie is played by a musician named Rolly. He gives a great haunting performance of "Because the Dead" in the middle of the movie. If you want to see this performance, just look up "Suicide Club - Genesis song" on TH-cam.
Hi Andrew, great reaction. I highly recommend you listen another Japanese band called Unlucky Morpheus. In my opinion the best group of musicians I have heard in a very long time (great drummer). Either listen to Black Pentagram and hear the Japanese Enka vocal technique from Fuki or if you want to see their brilliant violinist play Yngwie Malmteen Far beyond the Sun, I guarantee you will be blown away. Enjoy
In my opinion, if these guys had opened for Sabbath back in the day, they would have blown them off the stage....Plus, they're still around and making great music....All around incredible band
Hint: just switch off youtube's autoplay feature and you won't have to worry about pausing at the end anymore :)
And yeah, Ningen Isu are a really cool band! Love em!
These guys have been around forever, pretty much unknown by anyone outside Japan. When the eyes of the metal world were turned to the Japanese music scene by Babymetal, people started discovering these guys. It actually originated from a Reactor who came across them, then other reactors, and suddenly this Japanese Grandfather Metal band gained a second lease on a career, releasing some of the best music they had ever composed, which may be the greatest anomaly of all of this. How many bands do you know who start releasing their best material more than 20 years after they formed?
Hear me out... There needs to be a collab between Ningen Isu and Baby Metal!
Did anybody have sudden shifts in their composition before black sabbath?
Yes. Lots. Without even leaving their home island or broader musical movement there's... the Beatles, to name but one easy choice.
The Who. Doors. Cream. Zappa.
Yeah, personally I listened to both The Beatles and The Mothers of Inventions. Complex stuff!
Beatles is not only "She loves you" it is also a "A day in the life" and "Being in the benefit of Mr Kite". Even the seemingly simple "Yellow Submarine" do not follow normal patterns.
@@RussInCanada Yeah, Cream was one of my favorites. But, as been said, lots and lots of music was like that in the 1960-ies. Telling a story and having parts and movements. I mean, 15 minute songs was not uncommon. In lots of genres. Its today we make all those short songs with a fixed patterns.
React to Jamie St Merat(Ulcerate) and Abe Cunningham(Deftones)
If you like horror, you should check out a few of Necronomidol's videos.
Sounds good!
The U is silent. Dont make me angry!
You pronounced NINGEN ISU correctly. Don’t listen to anybody who tells you that the /u/ is silent (just say it very softly).
They are really a Prog Metal band. Watch a very young NINGEN ISU playing a killer cover of King Crimson's 21st Century Schizoid Man (live) - th-cam.com/video/zaq6fbYYzXI/w-d-xo.html (SUZUKI, on bass, had very long hair back then.)
Asterism. You need to check out Asterism.
Rising Moon.
Gunfire.
Dawn.
Church.
🤘🤘🤘👹👺👹🔥🔥🔥
i hoped you'll never know this song, so you'll never react on that. i know this for quite a time, and...? i feel sorry for session drummer of theirs. drums were programmed. from composition to output o nalbum. i heard this guy from video live. two diff things :D
It's very common to do this. It's harder and time consuming to record live drums in a studio setting because if there's a small mistake it can mean having to record the entire track over again. Typically studio engineers will take samples of each drum on the live kit and use them in the programming software. As long as he can play the songs live, that's all that matters. Also he's not a session drummer he's been in the band for a long time.
@@JudgeLazar yeah... and that's why players are getting worse year by year, and why music is unlistenable more each year. cause it's "easier to program than play". or even, like you've said, cutting nice fragments, and paste them to make whole track. it's unnatural, it's unlistenable. studio engineers nowadays? my gosh... they can ruin good music :x
@@riesabass
Japanese drummers are amazing.
They perform this live, and the drummer crushes it.
Top drawer 🥁👌
人間いすなどハードロックや、ベビーメタル、1980年代シティーポップ、初音ミクボカロイド、アニメソングLIVE、ヨアソビ、ADOや、数千年からの雅楽、筝曲、日本の楽曲民謡、長唄、演歌などが並行して活動出来る、日本の音楽業界のすそ野は広大なのです。