that rules
might have to start such a thread
― frogbs, Saturday, 1 February 2020 03:34 (four years ago) link
Brilliant tune/video!
― bamboohouses, Saturday, 1 February 2020 09:49 (four years ago) link
She's so great and deserving of a dedicated thread, for sure.
― Maresn3st, Saturday, 1 February 2020 14:45 (four years ago) link
Nice to see We Want Sounds reissuing her albums. I just picked up Gohan ga Dekita yo.
― kitchen person, Saturday, 1 February 2020 16:11 (four years ago) link
yeah, awesome video! the domestic bliss follow-up to bjork's video for All is Full of Love
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Saturday, 1 February 2020 16:56 (four years ago) link
Great video and co-sign the need for a dedicated thread!
― Le Bateau Ivre, Saturday, 1 February 2020 17:01 (four years ago) link
Here 'tis - Akiko Yano
― Maresn3st, Saturday, 1 February 2020 19:37 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Lvjq1COo9E
how old is this girl??? god damn
― frogbs, Saturday, 11 July 2020 22:03 (three years ago) link
"Chaos Panic" on the Naughty Boys Instrumental album is so good, the synthfiddle is such a trip
― frogbs, Saturday, 8 August 2020 03:34 (three years ago) link
this is like the happiest music I've ever heard
― frogbs, Saturday, 8 August 2020 03:35 (three years ago) link
just listened to naughty boys + the instrumental album again for the first time in a while and Wild Ambitions/Chaos Panic back to back is amazing. Its a remnant of my religious upbringing but I suffered thru many lame lectures about what is happiness vs. joy and none of those lectures explained the range of emotions in happiness/joy that exist as well as this shit.
― Will (kruezer2), Thursday, 1 October 2020 14:32 (three years ago) link
I mean, the instrumental "You've Got to Help Yourself" alone is like the giddiest thing on the planet
― frogbs, Thursday, 1 October 2020 15:59 (three years ago) link
I've also come to realize that once you listen to the instrumental version a few times you don't really want to hear the original again. you really miss those goofy synths
― frogbs, Thursday, 8 October 2020 03:42 (three years ago) link
the giddiest thing on the planet
this is how i feel about "firecracker"... it's so exuberant.
― visiting, Thursday, 8 October 2020 03:48 (three years ago) link
Do you know about me?My name is
https://i.imgur.com/5qZLFJ2.jpg
― frogbs, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 05:15 (three years ago) link
someone unearthed a 1978 performance of YMO, to my knowledge the earliest available live performance by them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiRdITBKRv8
has covers of "Come On" and "Satisfaction" (!!!) plus "Mad Pierrot" which they never did live after this
― frogbs, Monday, 11 January 2021 17:53 (three years ago) link
finally someone made this gif
https://i.imgur.com/MWs0bBf.mp4
― frogbs, Friday, 7 May 2021 19:23 (three years ago) link
'Kyun!'
― Maresn3st, Friday, 7 May 2021 19:25 (three years ago) link
Friday mood
https://i.imgur.com/YEalIZK.mp4
― frogbs, Friday, 28 May 2021 18:49 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/gKNfvFv.jpg
― frogbs, Monday, 28 June 2021 14:26 (two years ago) link
i'm sure this one has been here sometime before...
https://i.redd.it/y8j84eep98541.jpg
― visiting, Monday, 28 June 2021 17:34 (two years ago) link
so fkn cool, love all those people (yes, sting too)
― clouds, Thursday, 22 July 2021 21:23 (two years ago) link
everyone looking so dapper in that pic
it'd be funny to see like, a meat puppet in that photo too
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Thursday, 22 July 2021 21:38 (two years ago) link
inside all of us there are 3 ppl: a police, a orchestra, and a meat puppet
― class project pat (m bison), Thursday, 22 July 2021 22:19 (two years ago) link
3.5 million views on this...wonder if it's another oddity of the YT algorithm. its such a cool performance, particularly on the part of Watanabe and Hosono (and yes Akiko too) but the real fun is just watching Takahashi play, he makes the drums seem like so much fun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzSIwivBWJc
― frogbs, Friday, 23 July 2021 15:34 (two years ago) link
also have been altered to the presence of an HD version of the "Kimi Ni Mune Kyun" video which might be the best low-effort music video ever made
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24bRSUeITXc
― frogbs, Friday, 23 July 2021 15:39 (two years ago) link
XP - Whenever I see the footage of them playing in the US or Europe from that era I always wonder who their crowd was at that time. They seemed to be playing decent theatres, was it like your Talking Heads/B52s/Police fans maybe?
― Maresn3st, Friday, 23 July 2021 15:41 (two years ago) link
from that same greek theater performance, the GOAT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z5sJJgX3GM
― class project pat (m bison), Friday, 23 July 2021 15:45 (two years ago) link
amazing how utterly transformed that tune was on BGM
― frogbs, Friday, 23 July 2021 15:53 (two years ago) link
Yeah that Tong Poo performance is constantly in my recommendations, must be another algorithm quirk.
No idea who their US/European audience were! Kraftwerk fans maybe?
― a cad, a bounder, a rotter, a really bad sort (Matt #2), Friday, 23 July 2021 16:16 (two years ago) link
At the end of the tong poo video above, the emcee says that the Tubes are up next, so maybe their audience for that show was accidentally seeing the greatest opening band of all time
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Friday, 23 July 2021 16:49 (two years ago) link
right, and I think if you listen closely to Public Pressure you can tell that they were the opening act. right after their last song on Side A you can immediately hear the opening of "TVC15" played over the PA, usually the house music doesn't come in that fact for the headliner
either way they did seem to get a lot of press in the Western world, at least until 1980 or so - the debut, the Xoo Multiplies comp, and BGM are all records I've seen in shops here. everything else is much harder to find. there was definitely a fascination with electronic music in general back then, after all this was when Jean-Michel Jarre was selling millions of copies of goofy synth music. There were also a few Japanese artists breaking through, at least in minor ways...Plastics did a tour here and apparently were fairly well-known in NYC, P-Model opened for XTC (at least Partridge claimed they did?)....feel like Xoo Multiplies (the Japanese version) was sort of a reaction to how these bands were being received overseas
― frogbs, Friday, 23 July 2021 17:09 (two years ago) link
I have a recollection of The Plastics doing Copy on some US Punk documentary film? I think they lived in NYC for a while.
― Maresn3st, Friday, 23 July 2021 17:45 (two years ago) link
*sorry Plastics, no The
― Maresn3st, Friday, 23 July 2021 17:48 (two years ago) link
Whenever I see the footage of them playing in the US or Europe from that era I always wonder who their crowd was at that time.
"firecracker" was a hit in black communities iirc & a big influence on early hip hop etc.
― ufo, Friday, 23 July 2021 17:55 (two years ago) link
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Friday, 23 July 2021 18:25 (two years ago) link
Yes! Thanks
― Maresn3st, Friday, 23 July 2021 18:48 (two years ago) link
iirc Grandmaster Flash always had "Firecracker" in his DJ set. and the group *somehow* wound up on Soul Train
― frogbs, Friday, 23 July 2021 20:17 (two years ago) link
These snaps are so great they give me goosebumps -
An homage to the lost days of the Shinkansen dining car~time to relax transiting between cities after a rushed early hotel departure~as hangover gives way to appetite and the option to enjoy a tasty spaghetti meat sauce, Japanese curry or failing the constitution a simple omrice pic.twitter.com/ZTejyQjaj6— Steve Jansen (@istevejansen) August 15, 2021
― Maresn3st, Sunday, 15 August 2021 19:59 (two years ago) link
cool to hear "tong poo" and "firecracker" soundtrack junya watanabe's ss22 show, the former seems to be a newly arranged version by sakamoto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t0r0kuC5ts
― missingNO, Wednesday, 20 October 2021 01:21 (two years ago) link
holy shit how did i not know that akiko yano did an album with (the band) japan?
― diamonddave85​​ (diamonddave85), Thursday, 21 October 2021 20:46 (two years ago) link
Fun Fact: Kazemachi Roman by Happy End and Technodelic were released 10 years apart. That is the same amount of time from when "Party Rock Anthem" was released to now.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 23 November 2021 22:41 (two years ago) link
awesome photo, looks like something out of the Beastie Boys Book
https://i.imgur.com/wVBP6Kp.jpg
― frogbs, Monday, 31 January 2022 16:52 (two years ago) link
Sakamoto was a judge on Iron Chef Japan!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR76FyJdCmo
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 16 April 2022 04:09 (two years ago) link
so was akiko yano!
― visiting, Saturday, 16 April 2022 04:16 (two years ago) link
“Of the three dishes for today, I like this one the best. But you know, the relationship between the prawn and the shark fins in this dish, well you know, it’s a little…dissonant.“
- ryuichi sakamoto
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 16 April 2022 04:44 (two years ago) link
With Throbbing Gristle
https://64.media.tumblr.com/eb0f480d76c4e8645eb977a84c1cff2b/af11579342429de0-4d/s1280x1920/458e25075e57fb5ed9d299dbd4903a314f740689.jpg
― Kim Kimberly, Sunday, 1 May 2022 20:13 (two years ago) link
Woah! Lucky Gen got a YMO shirt too. Maybe they made him a special GPO one?
― stirmonster, Sunday, 1 May 2022 20:43 (two years ago) link
I wonder if this was backstage after the Hammersmith Odeon gig in 1980
― Maresn3st, Sunday, 1 May 2022 20:49 (two years ago) link
I'd seen a photo of Gen in the YMO shirt before and had always wondered about it.
― visiting, Sunday, 1 May 2022 23:20 (two years ago) link