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* FaceOfTheBand: Music/DavidSylvian. He is the only member who appears on every one of the band's album covers and gets the most screentime in music videos.
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* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: While they were (eventually) successful in their home country, the band was particularly popular among Japanese audiences. This is especially true for their first two albums. Those albums flew under the radar of US and UK audiences, but sold well in Japan. Their fitting name and stylized makeup are among the reasons for their success over there, with their looks in particular helping influence the VisualKei movement.
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** While they were (eventually) successful in their home country, the band was particularly popular among Japanese audiences. This is especially true for their first two albums. Those albums flew under the radar of US and UK audiences, but sold well in Japan. Their fitting name and stylized makeup are among the reasons for their success over there, with their looks in particular helping influence the VisualKeimovement.movement.
** While not commercially successful in the region, with ''Gentlemen Take Polaroids'' being their only album there to crack the Top 40 (and even then it only made No. 39), the band had a substantially large cult following in Canada. In fact, their following was strong enough there that the initial US release of ''Rain Tree Crow'' consisted of re-marked Canadian imports.
** While they were (eventually) successful in their home country, the band was particularly popular among Japanese audiences. This is especially true for their first two albums. Those albums flew under the radar of US and UK audiences, but sold well in Japan. Their fitting name and stylized makeup are among the reasons for their success over there, with their looks in particular helping influence the VisualKei
** While not commercially successful in the region, with ''Gentlemen Take Polaroids'' being their only album there to crack the Top 40 (and even then it only made No. 39), the band had a substantially large cult following in Canada. In fact, their following was strong enough there that the initial US release of ''Rain Tree Crow'' consisted of re-marked Canadian imports.
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* FaceOfTheBand: Music/DavidSylvian. He is depicted on their album covers and gets the most screentime in music videos.
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* FaceOfTheBand: Music/DavidSylvian. He is depicted the only member who appears on their every one of the band's album covers and gets the most screentime in music videos.
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** Thanks to Music/DavidSylvian's collaborations with Music/RobertFripp in his solo work, a large number of Japan fans (and by extent fans of Sylvian's solo output) are also big on Music/KingCrimson. It helps that Richard Barbieri is a member of fellow ProgressiveRock band Music/PorcupineTree.
* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: While they were (eventually) successful in their home country, the band was particularly popular among Japanese audiences. This is especially true for their first two albums. Those albums flew under the radar of US and UK audiences, but sold well in Japan. Their fitting name is one of the reasons for their success over there.
* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: While they were (eventually) successful in their home country, the band was particularly popular among Japanese audiences. This is especially true for their first two albums. Those albums flew under the radar of US and UK audiences, but sold well in Japan. Their fitting name is one of the reasons for their success over there.
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** Thanks to Music/DavidSylvian's collaborations with Music/RobertFripp in his solo work, a large number of Japan fans (and by extent fans of Sylvian's solo output) are also big on Music/KingCrimson. It helps that Richard Barbieri is a member of fellow ProgressiveRock band Music/PorcupineTree.
Music/PorcupineTree, a band closely affiliated with King Crimson.
* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: While they were (eventually) successful in their home country, the band was particularly popular among Japanese audiences. This is especially true for their first two albums. Those albums flew under the radar of US and UK audiences, but sold well in Japan. Their fitting nameis one of and stylized makeup are among the reasons for their success over there.there, with their looks in particular helping influence the VisualKei movement.
* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: While they were (eventually) successful in their home country, the band was particularly popular among Japanese audiences. This is especially true for their first two albums. Those albums flew under the radar of US and UK audiences, but sold well in Japan. Their fitting name
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: Mick Karn's distinctive fretless bass playing has made him a hero to four-string players the world over. He worked extensively with [[{{Music/Ultravox}} Midge Ure]], Music/KateBush, Music/PhilCollins, and [[{{Music/TheWho}} Pete Townshend]] in live shows after Japan's breakup.
* FaceOfTheBand: David Sylvian. He is depicted on their album covers and gets the most screentime in music videos.
* FaceOfTheBand: David Sylvian. He is depicted on their album covers and gets the most screentime in music videos.
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: Mick Karn's distinctive fretless bass playing has made him a hero to four-string players the world over. He worked extensively with [[{{Music/Ultravox}} Midge Ure]], Music/KateBush, Music/PhilCollins, and [[{{Music/TheWho}} Pete Townshend]] in live shows after Japan's breakup.
breakup, and many other artists throughout the '80s attempted to imitate his melodic, glissando-heavy sound on their own work.
* FaceOfTheBand:David Sylvian.Music/DavidSylvian. He is depicted on their album covers and gets the most screentime in music videos.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: "...Rhodesia" is about the Rhodesian Bush War, fought between the racist white government and the Black majority population. Just one year after the song's release, however, the war ended, the white government was deposed, and the nation was renamed UsefulNotes/{{Zimbabwe}}. Despite this, the group continued to play it live. The lyrics, written from the perspective of the Rhodesian government, uses the n-word -- it would be impossible for a white man to get away with using it in a song nowadays.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: "...Rhodesia" is about the Rhodesian Bush War, fought between the racist white government and the Black majority population. Just one year after the song's release, however, the war ended, the white government was deposed, and the nation was renamed UsefulNotes/{{Zimbabwe}}. Despite this, the group continued to play it live. The lyrics, written from the perspective of the Rhodesian government, uses the n-word -- it would be impossible for a white man to get away with using it in a song nowadays.nowadays, and many modern fans cringe at it.
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* FandomRivalry: With Music/DuranDuran, who are often the butt of jokes on Japan Facebook groups, due to being perceived as copying the band's sound and image for commercial gain but without the substance. This is mostly friendly, however, as a lot of people like both bands.
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** While it dissipated with time, in the band's heyday, their fans frequently clashed with those of Music/DavidBowie due to accusations of them copying Bowie's style.
** With Music/DuranDuran, who are often the butt of jokes on Japan Facebook groups, due to being perceived as copying the band's sound and image for commercial gain but without the substance. This is mostly friendly, however, as a lot of people like both bands.
** While it dissipated with time, in the band's heyday, their fans frequently clashed with those of Music/DavidBowie due to accusations of them copying Bowie's style.
** With Music/DuranDuran, who are often the butt of jokes on Japan Facebook groups, due to being perceived as copying the band's sound and image for commercial gain but without the substance. This is mostly friendly, however, as a lot of people like both bands.
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* HarsherInHindsight: One of Mick Karn's last recorded works is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKWfg5NiGI8 a cover]] of [[{{Music/DavidBowie}} David Bowie's]] [[{{Music/ScaryMonstersAndSuperCreeps}} "Ashes to Ashes"]] for the tribute album ''We Were So Turned On'' released in September 2010. Karn would die of terminal cancer the following January 4. Bowie would follow Karn five years and a week later, also of cancer.
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* HarsherInHindsight: One of Mick Karn's last recorded works is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKWfg5NiGI8 a cover]] of [[{{Music/DavidBowie}} David Bowie's]] [[{{Music/ScaryMonstersAndSuperCreeps}} Music/DavidBowie's [[Music/ScaryMonstersAndSuperCreeps "Ashes to Ashes"]] for the tribute album ''We Were So Turned On'' released in September 2010. Karn would die of terminal cancer the following January 4. Bowie would follow Karn five years and a week later, also of cancer.
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** Thanks to Music/DavidSylvian's collaborations with Robert Fripp in his solo work, a large number of Japan fans (and by extent fans of Sylvian's solo output) are also big on Music/KingCrimson. It helps that Richard Barbieri is a member of fellow ProgressiveRock band Music/PorcupineTree.
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** Thanks to Music/DavidSylvian's collaborations with Robert Fripp Music/RobertFripp in his solo work, a large number of Japan fans (and by extent fans of Sylvian's solo output) are also big on Music/KingCrimson. It helps that Richard Barbieri is a member of fellow ProgressiveRock band Music/PorcupineTree.
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: Mick Karn's distinctive fretless bass playing has made him a hero to four-string players the world over.
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: Mick Karn's distinctive fretless bass playing has made him a hero to four-string players the world over. He worked extensively with [[{{Music/Ultravox}} Midge Ure]], Music/KateBush, Music/PhilCollins, and [[{{Music/TheWho}} Pete Townshend]] in live shows after Japan's breakup.
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* HarsherInHindsight: One of Mick Karn's last recorded works is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKWfg5NiGI8 a cover]] of [[{{Music/DavidBowie}} David Bowie's]] [[{{Music/ScaryMonstersAndSuperCreeps}} "Ashes to Ashes"]] for the tribute album ''We Were So Turned On'' released in September 2010. Karn would die of terminal cancer the following January 4. Bowie would follow Karn five years and a week later, also of cancer.
