[27th Ave TubHead]

I don't like youtube for music, unless it is a specific video of a specific thing, but in general I listen to music without any corresponding visuals. I don't doubt that there is some excellent music which happens to be in japanese, but I personally don't have any particular interest to draw me from my mother tongue. At any rate even if I listen to and like some music in another language I remain limited in my understanding of it. While lyrics aren't everything, they're certainly something, especially in the music I most strongly favor. The thing which first drew me to loving Green Day and which coontinues to reaffirm that love. That isn't to say that Billie Joe is necessarily the greatest poet of his age, but his lyrics have reached me personally in a multitude of ways.