easy and nice songs

Hello,
I'm learning Japanese for a while and like to get better by singing along with easy slow (and nice) Japanese songs, I could download from youtube. I love "hajimete no chu" from Kimura Takuya. But I have difficulty finding more nice songs. Of course it's a question of taste.. Slow songs are often with orchestra/violins, which makes it cheap and bombastic I think, prefer just piano or guitar with it.
Any-one a suggestion?
Would be grate!!!

theres a song by Monkey Majik called yakusoku. its slow tempo and has eng in it 2 so i rkn its easy 2 sing

Some of CUTT's music is very nice (his own tends to be slower than the covers he does) and his YouTube stuff is just him and a guitar, mostly.

His channel is here: http://www.youtube.com/user/cuttube01?feature=watch

You might also like some of BUCK-TICK's slower songs - like Jupiter, Coyote, Long Distance Call or Cosmos etc.

Thank you both for the suggestions!
Chose 3 songs by Monkey Majik, only is the pronounciation right?
Maybe there are more suggestions?
Maybe songs from anime?
Thanks again!
Jantje

Some of BUCK-TICK's songs have been used in anime :)

However, BLEACH has had a nice selection of songs as its opening and closing title music over the years. Some have been more rock-ish, but others have been slower or jazzier pop tunes.

Some you might like are THANK YOU by Home Made Kazoku, STAY BEAUTIFUL by Diggy Mo, TONIGHT TONIGHT TONIGHT by Beat Crusaders, VELONICA by Beat Crusaders, HOUKIBOSHI by Younha, MY PACE and SAKURABITO by Sunset Swish, SKY CHORD by Shion Tsuji, LIFE IS LIKE A BOAT by Rie Fu and HAPPY PEOPLE by Skoop on Somebody.

BLEACH THE BEST and BLEACH BERRY BEST are the two collections to look at, basically.

"Dakishimetai" by Mr. Children.

"Michiyuki" by Kaori Hikita and "Nanairo no Kaze" by Eri Kawai are rather easy to sing along to, in my opinion, as they are quite slow and the singers enunciate the syllables clearly. I find that in neither of them do the instruments detract from the vocals, but they may be too slow for you.

Poison from GTO anime is also a very nice and easy song to sing to ^^.

i recommend you some of my favorite songs by Nakashima Mika, all of which i'm sure are full of good and beautifull Nihongo.

Will,
Sakurairo Mau koro,
Yukinohana,
Orion,
Dear,
Always
etc.

Songs by Teshima Aoi are recommended as well.

Sayonara No Natsu,
Teru No Uta

from Studio Ghibli movies.

Minnasan arigatou!

You helped me a lot in finding easy and nice songs. And I feel that rehearsing them helps me with learning Japanese.

Apart from the ones mentionened I also found:
Bonnie Pink songs especially Nemurenai Yoru
Ikimono Gakari - Sakura
Makino Yui - You are my love
Fiction Junction songs (nice to watch too)
Yui Horie Ai no sora
Maybe that is useful to others.

Yours,

Jantje