There are two of those HASYMO DVDs, can't quite recall where the other gig was filmed
― solfege made me schizophrenic (MaresNest), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 21:47 (thirteen years ago) link
In Spain I think? Gijonymo or something.
― scotstvo, Wednesday, 6 July 2011 22:03 (thirteen years ago) link
When City of Light came out I thought it was really slight, but now I think it's fantastic
My favorite Behind the Mask, from 93
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFdC7A69rDQ
― Brakhage, Thursday, 7 July 2011 15:59 (thirteen years ago) link
From the Warfield SF show, Seoul Music in great sound quality - begins at 1:12. I don't know if this was broadcast in Japan from rehearsal, or if somebody recorded soundboard for later FM broadcast or what.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8QFEEHH6kU
― Brakhage, Thursday, 7 July 2011 16:02 (thirteen years ago) link
keith emerson (?!) with sakamoto backstage at the warfield:
http://twitpic.com/5j8zs5
― geeta, Friday, 8 July 2011 20:24 (thirteen years ago) link
huh, that didn't work--damn you, nu-ilx: http://twitpic.com/5j8zs5
― geeta, Friday, 8 July 2011 20:25 (thirteen years ago) link
YMO in the studio, early 1980s:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgkj7-VCmEw
― geeta, Sunday, 17 July 2011 18:16 (thirteen years ago) link
I wish so hard for an "official" release of the SF show. I remember hearing a boot of Sketch Show playing "Gradated Gray" and it was one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard. Such an underrated tune.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 19:36 (thirteen years ago) link
YMO as covered by... KEANE??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A59Yps4pQq8
― sweetántangó (clouds), Thursday, 6 December 2012 15:31 (eleven years ago) link
Not the weirdest cover when you consider Clapton did "Behind the Mask."
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 8 December 2012 05:33 (eleven years ago) link
idd
― sweetántangó (clouds), Saturday, 8 December 2012 15:01 (eleven years ago) link
weirdest thing to me has gotta be that "behind the mask" almost made it onto thriller
― original bgm, Saturday, 8 December 2012 20:23 (eleven years ago) link
...which got re-recorded by Phil Collins and sung by Eric Clapton. Point: Clapton's version.
― Naive Teen Idol, Sunday, 9 December 2012 13:09 (eleven years ago) link
anyone seen the ridiculous "Kimi Ni Mune Kyun" video? really cheaply made but it's hilarious. i've never seen such miserable dancers!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HTyPPELmY0&feature=player_embedded
― frogbs, Thursday, 17 January 2013 03:39 (eleven years ago) link
ha! that is really endearing.
― original bgm, Thursday, 17 January 2013 20:07 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah I saw that a while ago, one of those clips that sums up exactly why I love a band so much.
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 18 January 2013 05:58 (eleven years ago) link
i love how they apparently didn't even bother to do a second take on any of it, it's just so terribly made (then again, what videos in 1983 weren't?)
― frogbs, Friday, 18 January 2013 14:24 (eleven years ago) link
The Taiso video is pretty funny too.
― MaresNest, Friday, 18 January 2013 16:18 (eleven years ago) link
hahhaa, forgot about this video. even the camera angle is terrible. kind of 3 feet above them, so it feels like you're watching your children doing the worst dance ever
― Z S, Friday, 18 January 2013 16:26 (eleven years ago) link
i guess they were trying to play up the image of being "fun boys"
they should've change their name to fun boy 3
― hypnotiQ tanqueray (clouds), Friday, 18 January 2013 16:37 (eleven years ago) link
possibly a stupid question, but what is the "fun boy" image?
― Z S, Friday, 18 January 2013 16:40 (eleven years ago) link
you know — they are boys, they like to have fun
― hypnotiQ tanqueray (clouds), Friday, 18 January 2013 17:00 (eleven years ago) link
it looks like they are being forced to have fun at gunpoint
― frogbs, Friday, 18 January 2013 17:02 (eleven years ago) link
I prefer YMO as waxy aliens meself.
― MaresNest, Friday, 18 January 2013 17:04 (eleven years ago) link
its really kind of amazing how many radical changes in style these guys went through in the span of only 5 years
― frogbs, Friday, 18 January 2013 17:06 (eleven years ago) link
hahaha, sorry, i didn't know if "fun boys" was a japanese thing in the 80s or something
― Z S, Friday, 18 January 2013 17:06 (eleven years ago) link
mei fun boys
― hypnotiQ tanqueray (clouds), Friday, 18 January 2013 17:12 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3JulFmtvgM
― original bgm, Friday, 18 January 2013 20:40 (eleven years ago) link
the 'wild ambitions' video from the YMO movie is really awesome. just hosono and a kid, hangin, learnin thangs:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeMVSNTogG8
love the archery part!
cool alt. mix of the song too.
― original bgm, Friday, 18 January 2013 20:42 (eleven years ago) link
awesome - that's definitely my favorite tune on Naughty Boys, an album that I think gets underrated in general.
― frogbs, Friday, 18 January 2013 22:29 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, agreed on naughty boys and "wild ambitions". but the album does get a little soggy in the middle imo!
― original bgm, Friday, 18 January 2013 22:51 (eleven years ago) link
also, the 30 sec version of "you've got to help yourself" is hilarious
― original bgm, Friday, 18 January 2013 22:52 (eleven years ago) link
it is but i'd love it if the real version were on there. i'm not too fond of Service. that said it doesn't need it...I don't feel it lags at all
― frogbs, Friday, 18 January 2013 23:06 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, service is easily their weakest.
as for naughty boys, they're not bad or anything, but I feel like "ongaku"/"opened my eyes"/"lotus love" are the low points of the album and bookended by better tracks.
― original bgm, Friday, 18 January 2013 23:29 (eleven years ago) link
ongaku! the e-bow!
― hypnotiQ tanqueray (clouds), Friday, 18 January 2013 23:43 (eleven years ago) link
Alright, I'll give you that one!
― original bgm, Saturday, 19 January 2013 06:59 (eleven years ago) link
i like all three of those - "Ongaku" is gorgeous - but I have to say the new version they are doing of that as HASYMO knocks it out of the parkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFs880dNtmM
as for "Lotus Love", it's a real oddity, sort of downtempo in a weird way, as though it's about to fall apart at any time. it's also one I really like but I really dig it any time Hosono tries to write a pop song
― frogbs, Saturday, 19 January 2013 17:00 (eleven years ago) link
"ongaku" is def better than I remembered. so, you guys got me there. but I can't say I prefer the HASYMO version. guess I'm just not really a fan of the smooth, glitched-out, old man YMO rearrangements. they always strike me as pleasant enough but not much more than that. I've never heard one I'd listen to over one of the original tracks
still think "opened my eyes" is not so hot (worst track on the album imo) and "lotus love" is decent and would sound cool if it played while I explored some ancient mine in a dragon quest game.
― original bgm, Saturday, 19 January 2013 22:34 (eleven years ago) link
i like the old man YMO stuff! just not so much when they do actual YMO tunes, outside of "Ongaku" and "Gradated Gray". i will say that the Sketch Show/HASYMO era is so much different than what they did in the 80's that it's not really fair to compare them.
― frogbs, Sunday, 20 January 2013 15:55 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wqshDrNBaU
― MaresNest, Sunday, 16 March 2014 17:13 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0laEwhW2vqw
happy end and 1000 knives sound esp. good in 8-bit mode
― mrs. missus (clouds), Thursday, 4 December 2014 05:50 (nine years ago) link
someone on the excellent kayokyoplus blog translated that weird middle section of "U-T":
Hosono: Hello, I'm your host, Haruomi Hosono. Appearing on the show today are Yellow Magic Orchestra's Yukihiro Takahashi and Ryuichi Sakamoto. Welcome gentlemen.Takahashi: Thank you.Sakamoto: Thank you.Hosono: First, I'd like to ask Mr. Takahashi....do you know about U.T.?Takahashi: Well, I know YT, but this is the first time to hear UT.Hosono: Ah, really? Well, then, Mr. Sakamoto, what is the meaning of UT?Sakamoto: Yes, that refers to super global existence.Hosono: Oh, really? By the way, Mr. Takahashi's drumming on this song is amazing, isn't it?Takahashi: Yes. It is amazing.Hosono: Ohhhh....will you listen to this song on the "BGM"album?Takahashi/Sakamoto: ARE YOU KIDDING?
Takahashi: Thank you.
Sakamoto: Thank you.
Hosono: First, I'd like to ask Mr. Takahashi....do you know about U.T.?
Takahashi: Well, I know YT, but this is the first time to hear UT.
Hosono: Ah, really? Well, then, Mr. Sakamoto, what is the meaning of UT?
Sakamoto: Yes, that refers to super global existence.
Hosono: Oh, really? By the way, Mr. Takahashi's drumming on this song is amazing, isn't it?
Takahashi: Yes. It is amazing.
Hosono: Ohhhh....will you listen to this song on the "BGM"album?
Takahashi/Sakamoto: ARE YOU KIDDING?
― frogbs, Wednesday, 20 January 2016 23:17 (eight years ago) link
one weird fact about this album is that 8 of the 10 tracks are between 4:30-4:40 in length!! and the other two are 5:21 and 5:23 in length. very bizarre consistent total length, despite the tracks being anything but formulaic.
4:35 ballet 4:34 music plans4:33 rap phenomena4:33 happy end5:23 1000 knives4:33 cue4:34 U T4:35 camouflage4:32 mass5:21 loom
(track times via spotify)
both sides begin with 4-minute tracks and conclude with a 5-minute track.
anyway, weird.
― Karl Malone, Monday, 16 July 2018 19:39 (six years ago) link
and really, i'm sure all of those track lengths could be a second or two off in either direction. were they trying to make them all 4'33?
*television voice*next week, on YMO mysteries
― Karl Malone, Monday, 16 July 2018 19:44 (six years ago) link
well spotted!
― Paul, Tuesday, 17 July 2018 02:50 (six years ago) link
yea I noticed that too. pretty cool since a lot of those tunes have pretty rigid structures. feel like this album could really use a 33 1/3 book, it feels like there are so many stories behind it
― frogbs, Tuesday, 17 July 2018 22:00 (six years ago) link
33 1/3 have started a Japan series and there's a YMO one on the way, not stated which rekkid yet though.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/series/33-13-japan/
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 19:49 (six years ago) link
_9. Mass - Great sequencer sounds like Tangerine Dream from around the same time and the melodic line sounds an 80s retro-futurist version of the national anthem of some dictatorial country._yeah, totally. it sounds like they're almost quoting the imperial death march at points. such a great, weird song.
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 20 November 2018 14:41 (five years ago) link
Posted these on the Hosono thread, but a couple of YMO performances from the Hosono TV special that broadcast in Japan on 2nd January have appeared on Youtube. Includes Gen Hoshino guesting on Firecracker!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_EnF3xN3CAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qpf0uehEJlM
― bamboohouses, Wednesday, 16 January 2019 17:35 (five years ago) link
awesome thanks!
― clouds, Thursday, 17 January 2019 17:45 (five years ago) link