nvm of course the full album is on youtube (bless youtube)
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 1 May 2018 20:23 (six years ago) link
one of the greatest album covers of all time, of course
track 5, "Ike Yanagida" is excellent. a real favorite of mine. the rest is not quite so good. to be fair I think a lot of the songs were written when she was 19, before the songs on Japanese Girl. so it's sort of a "second album debut album" sort of thing. Tokimeki (the follow-up) is really good though, always felt that one was a bit underrated (to the extent that Akiko Yano albums get rated here at all)
― frogbs, Tuesday, 1 May 2018 20:49 (six years ago) link
Miharu Koshi's cover of Telex's "L'Amour Toujours" is perfect
― brimstead, Tuesday, 1 May 2018 21:16 (six years ago) link
i scored the first two Sadistic Mika Band LPs from ebay. really love this stuff, it's an eclectic mix of glam rock and prog and 70s funk. they were discovered by Roxy Music and produced by Roxy's Chris Thomas. it totally slipped my mind that Yukihiro Takahashi drummed for the band! there are some sick grooves (that massive beat that opens "Silver Child") and hyperactive 50s rock revivals ("Picnic Boogie", "Time Machine").
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 4 May 2018 20:16 (six years ago) link
Akiko Yano's "Gohan Ga Deki Tayo" is a sprawling epic of nearly proggy awesomeness. It's a must listen and, if you see it around, buy on sight.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 4 May 2018 20:42 (six years ago) link
sorry -- Dekitayo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl_gnMoeKpw
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 4 May 2018 20:43 (six years ago) link
Ok froggie, I gave Technodelic and BGM a spin and they're ace. Technodelic jumped out at me as a particularly cool and weird combination of Japan, Thomas Dolby and Kraftwerk. BGM is a shade less compelling but still full of interesting stuff. Will review the rest soon!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 12 May 2018 21:37 (five years ago) link
I ride for Sakamoto’s soundtrack to Wings of Honneamise, specifically the piano shit with all the big octave intervals etc
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 12 May 2018 22:24 (five years ago) link
Oh huh turns out that’s the theme. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=83VoWltZdusI’ve always sought out Sakamoto’s stuff. He’s profilic but very hit or miss, as has probably been noted. I should probably spend more time hunting down the better stuff from Hosono & Takahashi, but
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 12 May 2018 22:44 (five years ago) link
It's hard to choose between the three but Hosono has such fascinatingly deep roots and he was doing brilliant shit like this in the mid-seventies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFXJNCVRDrU
― MaresNest, Sunday, 13 May 2018 10:02 (five years ago) link
Someone on the dedicated "BGM" thread made a comment that everything YMO and their members did between 1981 and 1983 is "pure gold". I made a quick list - damn they were prolific! Given that I'm really enjoying "BGM" and "Technodelic", which of these are recommended next?
Ryuichi Sakamoto – Left Handed Dream (1981)Yukihiro Takahashi – Neuromantic (1981)Riuichi Sakamoto & Danceries – The End Of Asia (1982)Tokiko Kato With Riuichi Sakamoto – Miłości Wszystko Wybaczy (1982)Haruomi Hosono – Philharmony (1982)Yukihiro Takahashi – What, Me Worry? (1982)Yellow Magic Orchestra - Naughty Boys (1983)Ryuichi Sakamoto – Coda (1983)Ryuichi Sakamoto – Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983)Danceries With Ryuichi Sakamoto – Chanconette Tedesche (1983)Yukihiro Takahashi – Tomorrow's Just Another Day (1983)
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 17 May 2018 18:57 (five years ago) link
takahashi was never as good as this era: i'm a huge fan of both neuromantic and what, me worry in particular. if i had to pick between a ymo album and neuromantic on a desert island, i would instantly grab neuromantic.
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Thursday, 17 May 2018 19:02 (five years ago) link
one reason for the high quality across the board is that they were all playing and contributing songs on each other's albums, even the solo ones.
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Thursday, 17 May 2018 19:40 (five years ago) link
Naughty Boys is basically a perfect pop album
of the rest, I'd say Left Handed Dream, Philharmony, and Neuromantic. those Sakamoto albums are all over the map though. the Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence OST is great but it may not be what you're expecting. it sounds like the Link to the Past soundtrack.
― frogbs, Thursday, 17 May 2018 19:47 (five years ago) link
I still haven't heard Left Handed Dream! But Philharmony rules. "Luminescent-Hotaru" is maybe the best single song out of albums from the ones i've heard out of the list above.
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Thursday, 17 May 2018 19:53 (five years ago) link
er...sorry i mangled that, but you know what i mean. i am having a nice ymo & friends afternoon, thanks thread
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Thursday, 17 May 2018 19:55 (five years ago) link
in light of recent discush on the hosono thread i'd be interested in knowing how people feel about this 10 years on. i suspect that the scales will tip even further in hosono and takahashi's favour? for me it's unequivocally sakamoto, i can't even consider the question rationally tbh, his post-debussian harmonic sensibility appeals to me on such a deeply visceral level
― missingNO, Tuesday, 19 October 2021 07:20 (two years ago) link
also his capacity for "rigorous" (lol) experimentation outside the formal strictures of conventional pop music, especially in the latter part of his career, for me sets him apart from the other two (who i also love ofc but for different reasons)
this is probably kind of a boring convo actually now that i think about it haha
― missingNO, Tuesday, 19 October 2021 07:30 (two years ago) link