RADWIMPS

Posted on 30. Jan, 2011 @ 11:55 pm by in Media, Music Views: 1,359

Some J-Rock for ya. RADWIMPS.

My brother-in-law introduced me to this band, so I guess it’s the kind of music that 20-something Japanese guys are into these days!

RADWIMPS are a four-member rock band with record label EMI Music Japan. Japanese who are in the know shorten their name to RADdo (ラッド). I’m getting this from RADWIMPS Japanese Wikipedia entry, check it out for more details.

In case you’re wondering, RADWIMPS really did mean for their name to be like, “rad. wimps.” The wikipedia entry gives some meanings of their band name in Japanese, and they used words like…

「かっこいい弱虫」kakkoii jyakumushi cool weak bug.
「見事な意気地なし」migotona ikujinashi spineless wonder.
「非常に怖がり」hijyouni kowagari extremely chicken.
「マジスゲーびびり野郎」Freakin’ amazingly chicken sh*t.

That was fun to translate…

Here’s another one of their songs.

Lyrics for the same song here:

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- Harvey

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  • http://www.jadij.com Blue Shoe

    Some of my high school students are also into them. Not a big fan myself, but to each his own.

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