# Help me identify two Japanese songs from vague descriptions of the music videos

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**Created:** [December 18, 2009, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-two-japanese-songs-from-vague-descriptions-of-the-music-videos/521724 "2009-12-18T08:48:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Leiko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Leiko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leiko)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2009, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-two-japanese-songs-from-vague-descriptions-of-the-music-videos/521724/1 "2009-12-18T08:48:25Z")

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When I was taking Japanese in high school, we sometimes watched anime or music videos.

Now I want to find two of the music videos to watch again. All of the music videos were on a home video tape recorded from a Japanese music channel countdown or programming block, sometime in the late 1990s or early 2000s. Definitely no later than 2003; likely no later than winter 2002.

One of the songs used traditional Japanese instruments combined with an otherwise rock (maybe metal?) sound. I think there was a female vocalist, but honestly I was paying a lot more attention to the visuals than the vocals. The video was awesomely trippy, with animation of a fancy goldfish using a katana and a girl standing on the shoulder of a giant Buddha statue that flew across the sky.

I don’t remember much about the other video: It was rap, with several performers. The real stand-out is the spoken line, “Yo! Cheese!”

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**Author:** ![Leiko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Leiko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leiko)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2009, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-two-japanese-songs-from-vague-descriptions-of-the-music-videos/521724/2 "2009-12-19T09:11:42Z")

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I think according to Cafe Society rules we’re allowed one bump, and I don’t mind if this post counts as that bump, but it is also a question:

Know any good websites for Japanese music videos in general? Between Google language tools and what little I’ve retained from high school, I can navigate a Japanese website fairly well. YouTube is a bit too full of fan-vids to be entirely useful; I had a few promising leads of song titles/artist names from Wikipedia today but wasn’t album to find much beyond anime opening themes and in-concert performances of those songs.

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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2009, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-two-japanese-songs-from-vague-descriptions-of-the-music-videos/521724/3 "2009-12-19T09:41:35Z")

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[Yatta Yatta](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAi2xqpQgNM)

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**Author:** ![Leiko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Leiko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leiko)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2009, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-two-japanese-songs-from-vague-descriptions-of-the-music-videos/521724/4 "2009-12-19T10:03:08Z")

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That was super hilarious, so thanks for the link, even though it’s not either video I am trying to find.