Porno Graffitti - PORNOGRAFFITTI 15th Anniversary "ALL TIME SINGLES" (2013)

Greatest hits album from Porno Graffitti includes their hit songs "Music Hour," "Haneuma Rider," "Melissa (used for the anime "Full Metal Alchemist")," and more.
Faithful '80s rock devotees Porno Graffitti (named after an Extreme album) enjoyed bigger success in their native Japan than perhaps could have been expected had they been a Western band, thanks to the unyielding popularity that the music of the hair metal decade has with Japanese listeners, even in the 2000s. The band was formed in 1994 by three Osaka students, Akihito Okano, Haruichi Shindo, and Masami Shiratama, but it took them several years to gain public attention, despite the fact that they managed to land a demo tape in the hands of a Sony representative early in their career -- it was rejected, with the recommendation that they build up experience (which they did, playing local clubs in Osaka and Kobe). In 1998 came proof that the Sony exec really meant it, as Porno Graffitti were invited to a band audition in Tokyo, winning the first prize and getting a record contract.