Chiba Yusuke Rare Discography

Chiba's work in the period between TMGE dissolvement and the kick start of The Birthday. This stuff become slightly rare outside Japan maybe because the facts that these bands are shortlived (1 album each) and lack of commercial succes i guess, so most people opt to post his more high profile band like Rosso and The Birthday instead. Most of this stuff sound very different from his TMGE, Rosso, The Birthday-more like an experimental phase, so consider yourself warned..

1. Raven

-Not much that I can find about this band other than it is actually a solo project of Terui Toshiyuki (ex-BJC) in which Chiba sung in all but 2 song.

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Raven-限り無く赤に近い黒(kagiri naku aka ni chikai kuro)

Single-Cherry Bon Bon PV




2. Midnight Bankrobbers


-Straight to my top 10 most awesome band name! After disbanding Rosso, Chiba and Imai Akinobu join forces and create 'Midnight Bankrobbers' duo in 2006. Most of the songs are instrumental and my personal favorite tracks are Shoplifter Runaway to Hell and Shoplifter Runaway from Hell, purely from the awesomeness of the titles. Just kidding, these tracks are great and would be the perfect theme for any midnight bankrobbing..

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Midnight Bankrobbers-Pinocchio in the winter

Himalaya PV





3. The Midwest Viking


Midwest Viking are: Lacoste, Arnold, Toroy and Hang Ten. In no particular order.

-Well this project is just for fun. All the members true identity never revealed, everyone wear shades, sombreros and hide their faces with bandana. And they wear footbal jersey. Their only output, a maxi-single 'Vamos Tokyo' is written in support of their favorite football team FC Tokyo. An ad from Tower Record reveal that it is "sang by original TMGE Chiba and Kuhara".

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Vamos Tokyo!

Vamos Tokyo-Audio only






Ah..what the hell. Lets get this out of my system. Since we're already here lets just have some Chiba-Yusuke-featuring-orgy.

You can convert the youtube video to .mp3, just use google.

1. Chiba Yusuke with Murder-All Day and All Night(The Kinks cover)


2. Rock n Roll Gypsies featuring Chiba Yusuke-Do The Boogie(The Rooster cover)


3. Katteni Shiyagare featuring Chiba Yusuke-Romeo single

4. Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra:
a) Kanariya naku sora(Canary crying sky)-hands down Chiba's best hairdo.



b) Rosie(the Rooster cover)



5. Star Casino-Stroll Around the World

-This one track is made solely for the ost of Lumines II videogame. And it is Chiba+ electro music, kinda strangely trippy too.



Now that is one long ass post. If anyone want to request anything J-Rock related, just ask and I'll try my best to find it or at least point ya to the right direction. And Visual Kei stuff is NOT in my definition of J-Rock, so all you squealing fangirls can get the hell outta my page. Peace out, hombre.