OldSkuleNerd REACTION to NINGEN ISU / Heartless Scat 

"Is this the Japanese Black Sabboth?" Yes... yes it is. And I'm so glad you did the video with subtitles.

The scat part of this song is scat singing like in jazz, the shabadadia Babababa bit.

These guys are pros. They struggled in the90's and took day jobs to support themselves. They kept pumping out music though. Then they finally got an overseas tour in 2019 for 2020 and along came coronavirus and I think most if not all the dates were canceled. Glad you found them. These guys never gave up.

The best way i have seen to describe this band is, "You tell your Japanese Grandfather (the guitarist/vocals) they know nothing of modern music, so he gathers your Father (the drumer) and the ghost of his Father (the bassist) and they teach you the way of the samurai".

I have never in my life had a metal song touch my heart the way the song has, they nailed it full force IMHO.

素晴らしいリアクションありがとう。 バンド30年の重みを感じてくれて嬉しいです。

The Hidden Gem of Japan, this is like Sabbath, Rush or King Crimson of japan, absolute Legends

Old? Guitarist is born 1965.. well age is just a number! Playing for 30 years... this "prayer" for success went viral and they did a small tour to Europe, 2 gigs in Germany, 1 in London UK. Was heading for the US but then the Corona shit happened! Next Life for Sale with Ningen Isu.. hit CC on that to!

I've been listening to these guys since I was stationed in Iwakuni in '96. It's about time they get some eyeballs on them. Nobody in Japan really knows them but I could not get enough of their music.

It's a truly relentless song! Some real gems in their back catalogue

Amazing threesome! Been playing together for about 30 years. Their 'characters' are a 19th century teacher (lead guitar), a mute monk (bass) and a member of the Yakuza (drums). As good as Rush as far as musical threesomes go. The music for the 21st century is all Japanese - Band-Maid, Babymetal, Wagakki Band and Ningen Isu especially.

By the way, the song Heartless Scatt is a Buddhist prayer. Basically it's about a lonely and destitute man who has worked his ass off, but struck out at both love and worldly success. He is praying to have just a single taste of victory before the end.

They are not old. They are in their mid 50's.

They have been playing for more than 30 years, and they are still rocking. Band Maid, Unlucky Morpheus, Love Bites, Baby Metal...and Asterism did not emerge out of nowhere. Ningen Isu has always been in the scene inspiring the young generations to follow. Never underestimate the old dudes in Japan...lol

i just recently discovered this band. i was shocked. i didn’t know how to react to this band. they are bad ass. 2 bands i love now. this band and Lovebites.

I love this guys. I have 29 albums from them. Pure prog metal. 😁👍

Fun fact. The guitarist for this band took on Kanami and beat her in a head to head battle on a childrens game show. Basicly a riff off shredfest.

I am so happy you finally did this! Ningen Isu is one of the best things I have ever heard! So freaking talent and so damn powerful! This song has it all! Also loved to watch your face on your journey to this! I think almost all of us goes through the same range of emotions with this so. And your pure happiness is just golden!

February last year I travelled to London from Spain, before all the covid crap went uncontrolled, and saw Ningen Isu at the Canden Underground in a friday and Babymetal at the Apollo next sunday. Best weekend ever in my life. PD: And the British Museum and Imperial War Museum were great too.

Watching videos of their live performace is crazy they have more stamina than young people! Love them!

I am a proud fan of this band. I'm just starting to complete the entire discography. I want all their records.

A teacher, a monk, and a yakuza walk in to a karaoke bar.....

Must check Namahage and and Colour Out of Space by them next.

Ningen Isu are amazing, discovered them late last year, they have an incredible discography going back 3 decades, well worth checking out

These gentlemen have lots of recent, really good stuff. Love and respect these legends.

The masters of japan.

Asterism and Ningen Isu together - it could be a super jam session.

I dont even know what i was expecting, but what i got was great!

Maybe you aren't quite old school enough to recognize "scat" as a musical term? Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald were famous singers of scat vocals. In this song, I think it was the "shabadabadia shabadabadia babababa" part that was the scat (the singing of nonsense sounds).

This group was my introduction to Japanese rock back in '90 or '91. My great grand daughter calls them 'pa-pa rock' when we listen to it. Give a listen to 'Hell's mountain of needles' live from the early '90s.

Now I have a new band to follow! That was AWESOME!!! Thanks OSN!

They are an awesome band, you should give Namahage a chance. They been doing it 30 years. The base players favorite band was KISS.

Freaking loved that. Makes me wonder what other great stuff I've never seen.

When I first saw this band.....I swear I was terrified by the bass player.....I would not want to run into him in a dark ally on a night of the full moon! However, he is a fabulous bass player and great singer too! Rumour has it that he is a kind person.....maybe! Never judge a book by its "old cover"!

This is the most incredible music ever! You think its done then they come back with more! 🤘😎🤘

I'm surprised how much I liked this song

Now Wajima vs Kanami guitar battle reaction, that would be fun /,,/

You should also check out Namahage, The Colour Out of Space, Life for Sale, At the Mountains of Madness (live) and Caterpillar from these guys (at the very least). All excellent songs, and a couple are directly related to Lovecraft.

The Uncle Fester comment isn't the first time that's been uttered in reactions, lol. 🤣👍👍🤘🤘🤘

That was fun. It's good seeing a genuine blind reaction. You had no idea what was coming. 👍

This was so good. Thank you for turning me on to yet another Japanese rock/metal group. Still waiting for some Merging Moon “Greyen” reaction from you. Japanese metal meets Jinjer essentially

Been waiting for this one! Love it!

Love these guys. They are loads of fun. They're kind of the Jurassic park of Japanese metal. A throwback to 70s metal and prog rock. Their sound has changed and morphed through the years.

Rumor has it he bought that SG new in '62.

Scat in this context is not poop thankfully..... And yes they are the Japanese Black Sabbath. The lyrics on this song are really really deep, love the second verse. The costumes are Scholar, Noh Actor, Gangster. Another great song by them is Namahage, they are seriously talented, but then 40 years of practice will do that.

'Scat' is a jazz music term - the 'shabadabba dabba diya' bit is 'scat'. Nothing to do with poop. These guys are legendary.

They are awesome.

Ningen Isu: Ning ngen isu... ngen as in good, get, game, etc... Ningen means Human.... Isu means Chair... so it's Human Chair in English....

I'm just glad you turned on the CC.

It took about 2 songs after discovering this band for them to shoot up to easily my top 5, fucking love NINGEN ISU

A Rock metal masterpiece..🤘🏾⚡️👀

They're good, heavy drumming there!!🥁🥁🥁

Oh Yes! You did it! :D (and I haven't even watched it yet!)

About time, lol, awesome, now you understand stand they are old school cool. Cheers

I was so excited to see your reaction to this song. :) I discovered them for myself only a year or so ago and was floored by the experience; I was grinning like an idiot watching you loose it as well.

Nice video! First I've heard of the "Gongnam style" HAHAHA that cracked me up😅. This song reflects their whole journey as a band. They've been around for about 30 years but they only got recognized in the past decade when BABYMETAL spread Japanese metal outside Japan. Shinji Wajima (vocals and guitar) just turned 57 [?] this December 25. His attire resembles a buddhist. Ken-ichi Suzuki (bass) resembles a black monk. Nobu Nakajima's (drums) attire resembles a Yakuza (or a punk). Their band name "Ningen Isu" translates to "Human Chair". If you want to dig their songs, you might want to hear suzuki's (bassist) voice. If so, I recommend you their song "The Color Out of Space". You'll also love it.

Nice reaction!!!! yeah, these guys are the real deal, and here's the thing....I've been listening almost exclusively to Japanese bands for a couple of years and what I know is that you have to leave your western preconceptions of how things should look and sound behind you....This is a very different culture that has unique appreciation for melody and rhythm...and their lyrics tend to be much deeper and more insightful as well....plus, you'll probably find yourself singing Shabadabadia for a week.....Cheers!.....

These guys rock. Definitely no joke ;)

Ok.... after this reaction... you can react to their next song titled "Love Nirvana" ... that song is an absolute banger....

The moment I saw you reacted to this, I dropped everything to witness the event.

Maximum the hormone - yoshu fukushu Maximum The Hormone - Bu ikikaesu!! or anything else by them really they are awesome, even though i don't understand any japanese it's one of my favourite Bands or Diablo swing Orchestra - Voodoo mon amour Diablo swing Orchestra - Black Box Messiah

Scat is an old school Jazz singing styke rhyming nonsense syllables. Shabadabadia is classic 1940s scatting. Scat Artists include Cab Calloway and Mel Torme. This influenced the Doo Wop Rock of the 1950s.

Ningen Isu is fantastic!!! Please check more! See you next!!! And my sugestion is another fantastic band. Crystal Lake, " Into The Great Beyond"

that "shabadabadia" is quite literally the heartless scat.

YESSSSSS!!!! I hoped you would react to these guys!

"Boh's dad " ...Exactly! I love that! lol

Great song. So refreshing to see great musicians not try to show off every tool in the tool bag and just play well. Great riffs, cool solo that’s not overdone.

I feel you. Makes me weep watching this also.

When reacting to them turn the captions on cause they really had good lyrics. 👍👍👍

Just as u thought they re done (end the song), they aint done yet , keep on coming !

Try them live too... Saw the pedal and effect setup of the guitarist. Oldies but goldies, just saying... 🤘🦊❤ Stay safe!

Awesome reaction! These guys are great. I think it'd be really cool if you checked out Maximum the Hormone. They're another Japanese metal band that does things differently. Don't try to understand the lyrics though, I'm Japanese and I can't understand what they're saying.

a good musician has an open mind without frills and not criticizing just for the title of the song

Yes!!!

Thank you. One of my favorite bands lately. I haven't seen anybody react to their song The Caterpillar and that's one of my favorites please react to it next.

Yes! Now check out "Namahage" (pronounced nah-mah-ha-gay)

Awesome!

Thanks, I love this band. I think I've been around long enough to know cool shit when it comes around. Ok here's some major talent Heilung - Norupo historical Viking folk/tribal. Wardruna - Kvitravn indescribable, beautiful former Gorgoroth drummer led band. The Re-Stoned - Chromagnetic Stomp Power trio from Russia Just pure gold.

ありがとう！！

They have plenty of really good some but also some odd ones :) Can recommend "Caterpillar", "Baptism", "Voice of nothing", "Life for sale" and "Namaghe".

Woot!

Everyone in Iron Maiden is older then these guys.

1. error: trusting the internet! 2. error: not beliving it's setting you up for later if it works, for now!!! But still, a nice song, issn't it?

There's a video out there from a Japanese TV show that has this singer, Shinji Wajima, vs Kanami from Band-Maid in a guitar battle 🤘😊🤘

thanks for peaple lake you ar the best react ever .

Even though they disbanded, check out Gonin-Ish

You should see the "Sound Battle" between Sinji (lead guitar here) and Kanami (yes from Band Maid)!! They have plastic cups with little paper doll cutouts taped to them on a thin plastic surface used as the ring with an amp speaker underneath and each takes turns riffing trying to make their opponents cup fall over!! It Is Completely and Utterly Awsomeness! LoL!! All the RU-vid links I had are now dead (probably because it was when BM was with that Other Managment company)...but its still out there on Facebook pages and on other media sites!!

I think what you wanted to say at the end, those guys ROCKS

The drummer is dressed as Yakuza- the Japanese Mafia. The bassist is dressed as a traditional monk (forgot the exact aera). The singer is also some traditional (priest) dress- I forgot which it was though :( Pretty sure someone else has more detailed info on this :)

The nonsensical sounds (scatting) comes from a long musical tradition, and is often used to represent emotions so deep you can’t put them to true words.

Props to this band for staying power. The drummer looks like he should be in a rock-a-billy band

” They are older than me.I know that’s hard to believe but older than me“😆lol Oh,excuse me,sir🤣 For me,you look like close to their age🤭 I like you😂 I like 人間椅子(ningenisu/Nin-Guen-Iss/), I love BABYMETAL, I like Maximum the hormon. Thank you for your fun reaction. I enjoyed that pretty much. I hope you’ll listen to Namahage(Nah-Mah-Hah-Gueh)from them,too. I’ve already Subscribed during BABYMETAL reactions,but it’s first time for me writing on your channel to say hello. greeting from a Japanese woman😉

OSN has discovered ningen isu. looks can deceive ... they really are something else.. and a great reaction. trust us.

Maybe you should react to some Maximum the Hormone next, any song by them, they are all great. Perhaps A.L.I.E.N.

You don't find this song; this song finds you.

the whole shababaa thing is scat In scat singing, the singer improvises melodies and rhythms using the voice as an instrument rather than a speaking medium.

I already see some requests for Namahage. Go for Namahage live - 25th anniversary tour (DVD released 2015) The music video version is all black & white. The live version has red stage lighting. The Namahage are ogre like demons that come into the village at night to get bad children. In far northern Hanshu, there is a namahage festival. Wikipedia has some nice namahage pictures.

These are ace and its about time you did Nemophila !!! better than love bites new last year.

It’s been mentioned a few times already, and here’s one more: NEMOPHILA. In particular, their song OIRAN.

scat is a way of singing, like scabbadabbadia bababababa, and not only p**p.