released from the hospital today
― frogbs, Friday, 23 October 2020 14:45 (three years ago) link
YT otm
https://i.imgur.com/3cjiDGr.png
― frogbs, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 03:07 (three years ago) link
What's this from?
― bamboohouses, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 14:58 (three years ago) link
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
― frogbs, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 15:08 (three years ago) link
Ah I think I've got the DVD of this somewhere... Thanks!
― bamboohouses, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 16:53 (three years ago) link
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.
― frogbs, Monday, 5 April 2021 02:29 (three years ago) link
Neuromantic is the fucking bomb
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Monday, 5 April 2021 02:31 (three years ago) link
lol just slowed down "Extra-Ordinary" by 10% and it does sound like something off Replicas
― frogbs, Monday, 5 April 2021 02:34 (three years ago) link
New METAFIVE and it's good!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRQMwFS0ZU0
― Maresn3st, Friday, 25 June 2021 14:21 (two years ago) link
lmao this is one of my favorite Twitter interactions
https://i.imgur.com/VHJ7xQN.jpg
― frogbs, Monday, 12 July 2021 03:23 (two years ago) link
it's how it should be
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Monday, 12 July 2021 03:45 (two years ago) link
I can't stop listening to Disposable Love.
― kitchen person, Monday, 14 March 2022 03:00 (two years ago) link
I wonder how his health is these days.
― Maresn3st, Monday, 14 March 2022 08:32 (two years ago) link
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.
― frogbs, Monday, 14 March 2022 13:18 (two years ago) link
his 80s records aren't really that hard to find.
― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 19:25 (one year ago) link
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.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 19:34 (one year ago) link
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
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 19:39 (one year ago) link
Yuki in the 90s is a real blank spot for me, I need to do something about that.
― MaresNest, Thursday, 6 October 2022 12:14 (one year ago) link
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
― frogbs, Thursday, 6 October 2022 13:21 (one year ago) link
Aw thanks Frogbs, this is a great pointer.
― MaresNest, Thursday, 6 October 2022 13:35 (one year ago) link
ahh yeah "Ray of Hope" from 1998 is another good one. though I think it's actually more of a compilation. I think this and Fate of Gold contain some of his best songwriting, if you combined the best songs from the two you'd have a real killer album
― frogbs, Thursday, 6 October 2022 13:41 (one year ago) link
I had a dreamYou gave me a signAnd put me in a new truck
― frogbs, Friday, 7 October 2022 02:23 (one year ago) link
Started with The Dearest Fool, and it is excellent!
― MaresNest, Friday, 7 October 2022 10:58 (one year ago) link
People posting RIP messages on Takahashi's Facebook profile :-(
― Stop the tape I got spittle all over my moustache. (Talcum Mucker), Saturday, 14 January 2023 18:45 (one year ago) link
Noooooooooooo
― MaresNest, Saturday, 14 January 2023 18:57 (one year ago) link
ah fuck.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 14 January 2023 19:05 (one year ago) link
Oh lord, I am going to be so eternally bummed out about this......fuck
― MaresNest, Saturday, 14 January 2023 19:08 (one year ago) link
Seems it's true.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 14 January 2023 19:11 (one year ago) link
aww no way :(((
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Saturday, 14 January 2023 19:20 (one year ago) link
One of the absolute pillars of Japanese modern musical culture.
Thinking about the thousands of late middle-aged, natsukashi salarymen crying into their whisky over this.
― MaresNest, Saturday, 14 January 2023 19:21 (one year ago) link
RIP :(
― Wyverns and gulls rule my world (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 14 January 2023 19:21 (one year ago) link
Noooo! RIP Yuki... what a legend.
― Kim Kimberly, Saturday, 14 January 2023 19:23 (one year ago) link
Amazing work and then some. Sad to hear it!
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 14 January 2023 19:32 (one year ago) link
ah, goddamnit
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Saturday, 14 January 2023 19:37 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYGjl9gp4kA
the best
― ufo, Saturday, 14 January 2023 19:42 (one year ago) link
I’m devastated. Not only a fantastic musician and songwriter but also a fashion icon and by all accounts a very nice guy. He felt like such a kind soul. He left behind so much music but it still felt like he had more left to give. For now the song that feels appropriate was this one. Such an absolute legend.
― frogbs, Saturday, 14 January 2023 19:52 (one year ago) link
Love both the photo and the opening bit from this piece from 2018:
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2018/11/23/music/ymos-yukihiro-takahashi-celebrates-pair-40th-anniversaries/
The past few years have been a boom time for Japanese reissues, as labels dredge up everything from ambient obscurities to glossy disco-pop for the benefit of listeners who missed them first time around. For Yukihiro Takahashi, it’s all a bit confusing.“Do you understand that?” the 66-year-old musician and style guru asks, pondering the current appetite for vintage Japanese sounds. “I don’t get it. It was all just copies of music from overseas, wasn’t it?”
“Do you understand that?” the 66-year-old musician and style guru asks, pondering the current appetite for vintage Japanese sounds. “I don’t get it. It was all just copies of music from overseas, wasn’t it?”
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 14 January 2023 19:55 (one year ago) link
That is a bummer! I've only barely dipped into his solo work so I have little sense of what he was doing at present... but I think I imagined I would "catch up" before he passed. RIP.
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Saturday, 14 January 2023 19:58 (one year ago) link
one of my fave yuki productions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxSkKWQBNjQ
rip
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Saturday, 14 January 2023 20:02 (one year ago) link
Gutted. I listened to the What Me Worry album obsessively during the first year of the pandemic. This song and performance in particular helped me a lot during some really hard times. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUmG1SlR8fs
― kitchen person, Saturday, 14 January 2023 20:10 (one year ago) link
I posted the wrong clip (as much as I also love that video). I meant to post It's Gonna Work Out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBFpX2e3thQ
― kitchen person, Saturday, 14 January 2023 20:22 (one year ago) link
Love that video so much, especially the degree to which YT is enjoying himself compared to the other two. The song is credited to all three but I love the implication that it’s Takahashi’s song and the other two fucking hate it
― frogbs, Saturday, 14 January 2023 20:22 (one year ago) link
RIP handsome genius
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gZLXah5HXY
― donna rouge, Saturday, 14 January 2023 20:25 (one year ago) link
Oh yeah that one rules too. I gif’d part of the intro to use on my music blog. I think Barakan wrote the lyrics but I am pretty sure he was half-translating something YT wrote. And when he sings it he’s kind of emphasizing the wrong parts. It’s really cool because the lyrics are so good. And the tune itself, it’s kind of the quintessential Takahashi techno pop song. The first few seconds always give me such a rush.
― frogbs, Saturday, 14 January 2023 20:26 (one year ago) link
Some really amazing lyrics in that one too
"There are things beyond the controlAin't no point in worrying about themSo get older take a look aroundCan't you find a little joy in something?"
Also
"People say fate is what you make itBut people say anything that suits themWhatever it was took me by surpriseBy bring you crashing into my life"
― kitchen person, Saturday, 14 January 2023 20:29 (one year ago) link
I’m sure I’ve posted this before but it’s utterly insane to me that he was front and center on 3 incredible YMO solo albums, plus 3 great solo albums of his own, that incredible first Beatniks album, plus countless productions and songwriting credits for other YEN records artists, all within the span of about three years. One of the most incredible runs in pop music history and it’s even more impressive since I think all of that music really holds up today.
― frogbs, Saturday, 14 January 2023 20:30 (one year ago) link
i'm just hearing about this. RIP to an absolute legend and an easy top 3 choice for "best singing drummer of all time"
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 14 January 2023 20:31 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMxAWP1xUfI
― MaresNest, Saturday, 14 January 2023 20:37 (one year ago) link
Vocals in this are so lush.