Yukihiro Takahashi: S & D

I always end up listening to a lot of YMO this time of year.

Just been going through some of Takahashi's early 80s albums and they are blowing me away all over again. I think I've been sleeping on how brilliant What Me Worry is. I need more albums like this.

Also, Murdered By The Music! That album is a ridiculous amount of fun.

picked up Neuromantic on vinyl in a tiny second hand store recently and its reaaaaally great stuff. love it.

That's a good find. Possibly my favourite of his.

That is a good find! Is it the Alfa or the Epic lp? And how much did you pay? (expecting an unassumed 0.50 price tag here)

Also, Murdered By The Music! That album is a ridiculous amount of fun.

― kitchen person, Tuesday, November 26, 2019 12:12 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

"School Of Thought" is amazing

"disposable love" off what me worry is a gem too

but you all know this <3

so many great songs on Murdered by the Music - really love "Kid-Nap the Dreamer" (and the weird ass ska coda), "Blue Colour Worker", and "Radioactivist"

that last one was even on one of the Metafive live albums

those 3 LPs he did concurrent with YMO are excellent of course, anyone who digs the poppier side of YMO will love those three. I also like some of his later discs, particularly The Dearest Fool from '99 which has some really choice tunes on it

they actually had 2 copies. it was about £4 and average condition, plays totally fine. not sure of the pressing/label as dont have it to hand.

i'm guessing a lot of YMO connected records had fairly good western distribution compared to most other Japanese artists in the 70s/80s... in the UK at least

Didn't Yen have distribution in Europe?

At least anecdotally, Takahashi's solo LPs seem pretty easy to get hold of over here, way more than Hosono and Sakamoto.

I got my copy of Wild & Moody in a tiny shop in Bruges, of all places.

(Here = London)

yeah, I see copies of them fairly regularly at record fairs and shops round here (uk south coast)

BLESSED IMAGE

https://i.imgur.com/PhbxbBX.jpg

wow!!

is there a picture of Ron Mael breaking character?

brain tumor :(

http://amass.jp/138576/

fortunately he seems to be doing okay, hope all is well with the guy

That's sad news. Hope he pulls through. I was just listening to What Me Worry yesterday. It's such a masterpiece.

Damn :(

Fuck that shit :(

oof, hang in there, mr. yt. it's gonna work out.

by chance, i just purchased a copy of Wild & Moody yesterday, haven't even listened to it yet. bad news about takahashi - wishing the best for him.

:(

:(

sounds like a good update (according to translate)

This morning, the result of the MRI test that I was thinking that I was going to go to the future of the very important future, and the night I was worried about it, the doctor's teacher rushed to the other person's surgery, and I heard the results." It's going well. No problem, no brain swelling, and finally, you saw the lights at the exit of the tunnel ′′
My tears were overflowing, and I gently hid it.
For the next week and a half, the treatment continues, and even after the discharge, the anti-cancer agents will continue, so I will attend regularly.
I'll do my best,,,
Everything is to heal,,,

Phew! Clicking on this thread is stressful

in other news...a copy of Murdered by the Music arrived today. what happened to the cover? the one I got (an '82 UK version) has this weird clip art cover, like something you'd use for a promo image if the actual cover wasn't finished. and where is "I-Kasu"? how do you delete that part?? but man, I forgot how much I loved this album. its got all these goofy elements to it that other YT albums don't have. "Radioactivist" is such a great tune...I love his phrasing "a rah-dee-ohh-act-ivv-eeest?"

Bloody hell, I missed this news. Hang in there yukihiro!

I have a boring admin day today. So, while I'm tied to my laptop, I shall dig out some Yuki.

released from the hospital today

YT otm

https://i.imgur.com/3cjiDGr.png

What's this from?

it's a HASYMO interview from about a decade ago. whoever translated it was clearly having a good time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzXwYjL4DZ4

Ah I think I've got the DVD of this somewhere... Thanks!

finally got a copy of Neuromantic and am giving it a close lesson and I'm amazed how great it is. I always knew it was good but for some reason its greatness eluded me until now. the rhythms on this thing are sick - its got that Numan/Ultravox sound to it but the fact that it's written by a drummer makes it unlike anything else. like who else could pull off something like "Connection" back then (also makes me wonder if he's responsible for that bonkers rhythm on Akiko Yano's "VET"? I mean it is unlike anything else she's ever done). also I hadn't noticed but "Charge" is basically "Rydeen 2". for so long I had thought of this as little more than "Drip Dry Eyes" and "Something in the Air" but I was dead wrong.

Neuromantic is the fucking bomb

lol just slowed down "Extra-Ordinary" by 10% and it does sound like something off Replicas

New METAFIVE and it's good!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRQMwFS0ZU0

lmao this is one of my favorite Twitter interactions

https://i.imgur.com/VHJ7xQN.jpg

it's how it should be

I can't stop listening to Disposable Love.

I wonder how his health is these days.

he's posting pics of himself with his dog again, so I guess that's good

still do get a bit nervous when this thread gets bumped

a bunch of his catalogue is getting reissued. that's cool but unlike Hosono idk how necessary it is, his 80s records aren't really that hard to find. a lot of the good ones got a UK pressing so copies are definitely out there.

his 80s records aren't really that hard to find.

oh god, seeing this and the obituary thread bumped at the same time caused my heart to skip

may be a good time to revisit some of those post-What Me Worry 80s records. I recall not digging them much but each has one song I really loved. some of his 90s albums are really nice though.

thanks for the spotify head's up! i'm listening to the GRAND ESPOIR comp that Light in the Attic put out last year (https://lightintheattic.net/releases/8520-grand-espoir). 1980-85 tracks on Disc 1, assorted tracks he produced or had a hand in on the second

Yuki in the 90s is a real blank spot for me, I need to do something about that.

my go-to for 90s YT is the live CD Run After You, which is really well recorded and contains most of the great tunes he wrote around this time (many of which were just on EPs). "Iron Man" in particular is a favorite, but I can't find it on YouTube. I really love this song from one of his EPs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LPGsYpsEIg

his '95 album Fate of Gold is pretty good. can't help but wonder what the "explicit lyrics" on the cover is alluding to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyiGhXYCGuc

The Dearest Fool from 1999 is where he really jumped into making electronic music again. Parts sound kinda dated now but I think the songwriting is pretty good on this one. Keiichi Suzuki & Steve Jansen appear, so it's kind of like a continuation of his 80s stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4vBXABbsFE