OR, this being public radio, it could have been some 90s neo-tiki-lounge act doing a retro-ist cover of it...
XPOST that must be it! thx!
― geoff (gcannon), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 April 2007 02:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 April 2007 03:05 (seventeen years ago) link
Solid State Survivor, Live '79 Technopolis >>>best music video ever? = Rydeen
When I finally got over my YMO obsession, my girlfriend got doubly obsessed, and drew me back into it.
YMO FOREVER
― Z S, Saturday, 14 July 2007 03:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Hey, has there been no discussion about YMO appearing at the Massive Attack curated Meltdown Festival in June?
I am completely overwhelmed with excitement about this..!
― MaresNest, Monday, 28 April 2008 08:51 (fifteen years ago) link
I finally managed to break through the Meltdown ticketing defences and actually buy tickets for this, excited but with a hint of trepidation - will it be all 90's? Ambient? Guitar solos? Ya never know when a band reforms.
― Matt #2, Monday, 28 April 2008 09:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Watching an episode of WKRP in Cincinnati and there was a poster of the first YMO album up in the DJ booth.
― timellison, Monday, 24 December 2012 02:34 (eleven years ago) link
in heaven, YMO plays every night with pfunk and Steve reich
― Todd Terragh - "It's the Harps" (m bison), Monday, 24 December 2012 02:41 (eleven years ago) link
http://neojaponisme.com/2008/11/21/multiplies-skit-translation/
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 26 December 2012 17:18 (eleven years ago) link
"kagekina shukujyo" might be my favorite of their later period pop singles. insanely catchy and bittersweet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdqe2hxtbHc
― lute bro (brimstead), Thursday, 28 January 2016 09:53 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2ZLjrySQQA
found a vinyl copy of the Yellow Magic Orchestra album. i really love it! it is very classic sounding. some of the synths have this nice brass sound to them or something, maybe sort of reminiscent of an old 78 or pre war pop. kind of similar to Kraftwerk in that way. but definitely doing their own thing. my favorite bit is the end of side 2, the noisey electronic Bridge Over Troubled Music on into Mad Pierrot. this whole album rules. i also have the Martin Denny original of Firecracker. YMO really makes it sound like it was made for this band.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 12 July 2017 21:38 (six years ago) link
so I just found out that the original Japanese version of the debut has a totally different mix than every version since? I knew about "Acrobat" but damn, it's like a different album. Hosono's bass is so much thicker.
― frogbs, Thursday, 21 January 2021 02:54 (three years ago) link
oh Alex you're spoiling us now...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l79HgXvxP8
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Thursday, 21 March 2024 19:36 (four weeks ago) link