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I love the first three. 'Solid State Survivor' and 'xxo multiplies' in particular.
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Japan is number one. Some good things on the later records too, though they bland out a bit.
'BGM' has it's moments. Sakamoto's '1000 Knives' is very close to the YMO sound, more jazz less kitsch though. 'B-2 Unit' and 'Esperanto' I love to tiny bits. The new Sketch Show record has disorientingly modern production; it's glitch-o-clock. But it's really growing on me.
It's currently a hyper-expensive import, I wouldn't say it's $28 worth of brilliant but if you're a YMO fanatic, you definitely want this. If it ever comes out domestically, people will be talking about it. ―, Wednesday, 11 February 2004 01:56 (thirteen years ago). The best news about YMO is that they've just reissued all of the albums, some of them as doubles with different versions on different discs. The first self-titled one has the Japanese/US version split into two, and Naughty Boys is split into regular and instrumental versions. I just got the Naughty Boys the other day so still not sure how it stacks up for me overall, but the self-titled and Solid State Survivor are both fantastic, and am still enjoying most of Technodelic, BGM and Service. I'm unclear on Xoo Multiples.is it just a compilation of the first two, or are the versions of the songs on that one somehow different?
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―, Wednesday, 11 February 2004 02:28 (thirteen years ago). The japanese issue of xxo multiplies was a 100% new album. With extremely odd 'comedy skits' capable of frying the mind of anyone trying to come to terms with what the band was really about. The us edition replaces the skits with several tracks from 'solid state survivor'. Hopefully any new reissue will just feature the japanese edition. Early copies of the us edition of 'B-2 Unit' replaced the dissonant 'Participation Mystique' with the amazing 'Warhead', from the a-side of a. If the song you're thinking about has a one-beat slapback delay on all the human vocals and insane vocoder vocals for the chorus, that's 'Warhead'.
They're both incredible songs. ―, Wednesday, 11 February 2004 02:51 (thirteen years ago). Of the reissues, is there one that towers above all others that I should obviously definitely get first, as flavoursome sampler? 'Solid State Survivor' seconded, no contest.
Then 'XXO Multiplies'. Comparing this band with late 70's/early 80's synth pop from other countries; everywhere else, the synth sounds seemed to inevitably lead to concept pop bands focusing on either amped up irony (M's 'Pop Musik') or dehumanized alienation (Ultravox / Numan / Human League, even Moroder etc.) YMO's a bizarrely happy, kitsch party band throwing out references to video games, sleazy lounge music, happy party fun. If it's dehumanizing, they seem very happy about it. Maybe because the same technology in Japan signified unprecedented financial prosperity? I can't know. Seriously, if anyone can knowledgeably fill me in on how YMO was received in their home land, please post to this thread. Obviously a big part of the group's concept was throwing up a funhouse mirror to the west's asian stereotypes (the Martin Denny cover, the Snakeman Show skits, the unbelievable 'Tighten Up' single: 'We Don't Sightsee, WE DANCE You Understand, Yahdee!'
), but they don't seem. They seem happy? Or is it actually intensely focused rage? For perspective, the only other group doing Martin Denny tributes in the late 70's was Throbbing Gristle (certainly coming from an entirely different place). The last reissue wave was the early 90's, still one decade too soon.
Hopefully they'll catch on this time. ―, Wednesday, 11 February 2004 19:16 (thirteen years ago). 'Solid State Survivor' isn't as unique as YMO's last three albums.
'Technodelic' is pretty subtle, but a great album nonetheless. 'Service' has amazing songs, but each track is broken up by skits in Japanese, that are bothersome as they interupt the flow. It would have been nice if the reissue had the songs all in a row (and perhaps a few bonus tracks to make up for only 7 songs). The live album 'After Service' is really great as well. 'Naughty Boys' is extremely catch.
And Bill Nelson does guitar work on it. Milton's description of the band really only holds true for their first couple albums.
Both periods are good though. ―, Thursday, 12 February 2004 04:57 (thirteen years ago). How did I miss this? When I'm a millionaire I plan to open a bar in manhattan called 'RYDEEN' that plays nothing but YMO, Telex and Kraftwerk all day and night.
Like that bar that plays nothing but Turbonegro, but less leather, more pomade and robots. My YMO 10 right now 1. Firecracker 4.
Tighten up 5. Tighten up (I can do this!) 6.
You've got to help yourself 7. Light in darkness 8.
Nice Age (perverse!!!!) 9. Day Tripper 10. Absolute Ego Dance B-2 Unit is indeed an excellent record. I'll have to check out 1000 Knives. I've been tetchy with Sakamoto solo releases as he's rather.inconsistent.
Haruomi Hosono's Monad Box isn't really worth it either. I have still not ponied up for any Sketch Show releases!.forehead slap. Ally's mom in the car when Tighten Up came on the stereo: 'They sound like they're making fun of japanese people!' ―, Thursday, 13 May 2004 13:43 (thirteen years ago). Ok, so I've gone YMO bonkers these last few weeks and held off reviving this thread as long as I could.
Solid State Survivor's so outstanding I can't believe I didn't happen upon it earlier, the perfect synthesis of their pop orientalism and mastery of electronic texture - the 'Japanese Kraftwerk' thing really plays here, with 'Behind the Mask' (bizarre history notwithstanding) something of an antidote to 'The Model' (there's an absolutely hideous YouTube clip of Sakamoto playing this in the 90s that makes me shivver to even think about). 'Insomnia,' too, with the noirish vocoder melody that appears in the last third. I'm only digging into BGM now, but Technodelic seems to get seriously short shrift - the sound develops by leaps and bounds here, with 'Taiso' birthing Nick Rhodes perhaps even more than Richard Barbieri ever could.
Transitional, but not the worse for it. Shades of the Beatles, which would show up later on with 'Lotus Love.'
With Service and Naughty Boys, the music becomes extremely. Digital, more symphonic. Some great stuff - 'Limbo,' 'Wild Ambitions' (featuring Bill Nelson's eBow pretty prominently), 'Kai-Koh.' These records almost sound like a different band, featuring little of the wit or bounce that kind of defines early YMO songs like 'Absolute Ego Dance' and 'Firecracker,' with much more of an opaque Ippu-Do thing going on. Still digging in, but with such a diverse profile, it's hard to believe these guys were left with such a niche reputation.
―, Thursday, 2 November 2006 05:54 (eleven years ago). Zachary, you should check out 'Insomnia' off Solid State Survivor.
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Patrick's right in that by Naughty Boys (and Service before it), the band doesn't really have the Japanese Kraftwerk thing going on at all, though I'm not sure with his belief that it's their 'best' era or where they found their sound. It's just different, more overtly pop. With 'Taiso' birthing Nick Rhodes perhaps even more than Richard Barbieri ever could Clearly I meant 'Light in Darkness' here. ―, Thursday, 2 November 2006 13:20 (eleven years ago). I'm thinking that Nick Kent (the guy who runs technopop.info) could probably do something like that.
YMO are interesting enough to warrant their own book but Japan is such a small country that all that stuff really ran into each other at some point. Like there's 3 degrees of seperation between pretty much every one of those bands. Most of it is probably through Harry Hosono, who seemingly appeared on everything that came out of Japan from 1976 to 1990 or so. ―, Monday, 1 April 2013 17:42 (four years ago).
Somebody really needs to write me a good, thorough examination on YMO and the Japanese New Wave (400 pages at least). I like the process of rooting around and finding out little bits and pieces of information but I need some cultural CONTEXT dammit! ― Late night with Amazing Bo (MaresNest), Monday, April 1, 2013 5:42 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink I've not felt the urge to write about music much over the last few years, but I.really really. want to write a longform piece on Jun Togawa.
Never going to happen without a rudimentary knowledge of Japanese, though. ―, Monday, 1 April 2013 19:42 (four years ago). Done, it's really good!
― MaresNest, Tuesday, December 23, 2014 1:05 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink thanks, dude! Btw anyone else heard sakamoto's first LP. From before YMO and his proper solo work, it's a collaboration with Toshiyuki Tsuchitori, basically a free-improv thing (very 'difficult listening') with some japanese folk inflections.
Not a side of sakamoto that really showed up again, even though this guy has some of the widest /range/ of any musician of the last 50 years. Anyway the album is called 'Disappointment-Hateruma' and it can be found on certain websites that will remain nameless.
―, Wednesday, 24 December 2014 01:35 (three years ago). Haven't heard that particular record (yet) but the seemingly endless amount of records that have some kinda ymo connection + the variety of styles you mentioned really does make it all feel more than a scene and more like another universe. So rewarding to get caught up in. This b-2 unit bootleg is actually a great example too. The live arrangements of these familiar tracks feel very RIO prog at times, which I never heard much of on other ymo-affiliated records. ―, Wednesday, 24 December 2014 06:27 (three years ago). If you ask me Solid State Survivor is the best starting point, it's got some of their best-known material and it's the closest to the 'Japanese Kraftwerk' tag that they always seem to get.
They don't really have an LP that represents them as a whole, they changed directions so fast that they were different nearly every time out. The first five in the list that MaresNest posted are all absolute essentials.
Muliplies is great too (and hilarious!) but you have to be careful to not get the US version (which has 5 songs from SSS). Service I never warmed to, even without the comedy bits. Technodon is kind of a dud though I do like the live album they came out with after. Even though it's not a YMO reunion proper, Sketch Show with Hosono and Takahashi is really good too, particularly Loophole which I still listen to a lot. By the way, just to add to the above conversation, even more incredible about these guys is that they were putting out great solo albums even as YMO was running at an album-a-year pace. Sakamoto did B-2 Unit, Left Handed Dream, and the Merry Christmas, Mr.
Lawrence soundtrack, and Takahashi was a pop star in his own right with the Murdered by the Music, Neuromantic, and What, Me Worry? Hosono only has the (great) Philharmony album but he also was producing an insane amount of material for other artists and running the YEN label with Takahashi.
Not to mention how much these three guys were touring, I really don't know how they did it all ―, Monday, 19 January 2015 14:16 (three years ago). Great summary, frogbs. My favorite YMO started with SSS, then BGM, then Naughty Boys, currently Technodelic. 'They don't really have an LP that represents them as a whole, they changed directions so fast that they were different nearly every time out.' Is really true. The first thing I heard by them was Naughty Boys and it gave me a very false impression of what they were all about. Later on I heard the S/T and was astonished.
Neuromantic and What, Me Worry? Are just as good as the top handful of YMO records. ―, Monday, 19 January 2015 16:36 (three years ago). 'I dunno how accurate this is but I see YMO as sort of a Japanese Beatles, nearly everything I've heard from Japan seems to be influenced by them in some way.' Not just japan. Modern music.
They were fundamental influences for everything from early techno to early hip-hop to early videogame music (a lot of which they composed). Ask bambaataa, or anyone who went to detroit club nights in the late '80s. Their influence is everywhere. @clouds that's surprising. Young and old, every japanese person i've met and talked about music with has laughed at me for asking if they know/like YMO.
I have to imagine if you played them rydeen they'd at least recognize the theme. ―, Friday, 8 May 2015 09:42 (two years ago). Not so much the 'Japanese Kraftwerk' as the 'Japanese answer to Kraftwerk.' I read that they were inspired by what was happening in Germany but didn't want to be seen as derivative of it, so they decided they were going to take a similar electronic approach but go in the opposite (maximalist) direction. Seems like we'd all agree that they were successful in that, and personally i'd agree that yeah, the places they took it went beyond the pale of what Kraftwerk could or cared to do. Especially if you expand that to include their solo works, productions, the greater 'YMO universe' ―, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 01:44 (two years ago). Also i feel like i maybe asked this question somewhere on ilx before, but i read in an amazon review that philharmony (1982) 'represents the first time digital sampling was ever used to construct an entire musical album.'
This can't be right, can it? First of all philharmony doesn't sound entirely sample-based to my ears (though i need to relisten again.it could be??), but more broadly speaking.in thinking about early sampling landmarks my mind goes to my life in the bush of ghosts from the year prior, but eno byrne and co did play a lot on that album so i guess it doesn't count. Frustrating that, like so much of the YMO crew's work, very little is written in english about the album, at least as far as the internet is concerned. Also, in doing a little searching, i turned up a few vague reporrts (RA, Fact) that Hosono's Yen Records would be reissuing Philharmony 'soon.' Those posts are from two months ago, but i can't find anything else about it. Anyone know if this really happened, or is about to? ―, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 16:35 (two years ago).
Folks, some friends an I have a little internet radio show called Japan Alternative Sessions where we play lots of our favourite Japanese music going back through the decades. Next Friday and Sunday at 8pm UK Time for two hours we are broadcasting our modest little tribute to YMO, choosing our favourite tracks and talking a little bit about the band but we also snagged 20 mins with the broadcaster Peter Barakan who worked with the band and individual members as a translator and then a lyric co-writer, it's a really interesting interview and worth hearing if, like me, you get frustrated at the lack of detailed info about the band available in English. Www.animeradio.uk www.facebook.com/JapanAlternativeSessions/ www.mixcloud.com/JapanAlternativeSessions/ 8pm UK Time BST (that's 3pm EST, or 4am the next day JST) ―, Saturday, 6 August 2016 08:04 (one year ago). In general I like the earlier sets, more jamming and more interesting tracklisting, with stuff like 'Radio Junk' and Akiko Yano's 'Rocket Factory' making appearances. Public Pressure is great, containing the definitive performance of 'Tong Poo', with an awesome bass solo by Hosono. I believe Faker Holic is the same material, but without the overdubs (I believe a contract dispute led to Wantanabe's guitar parts being removed, and I think some of the vocals were redone as well), so maybe grab that one instead. I remember liking Winter Live 1981 a lot but don't remember much about it.
After Service is nice but it's more a traditional pop-superstar type live album. I actually liked their 2008 sets a lot, though it's a lot different than what you might expect. ―, Tuesday, 8 November 2016 16:09 (one year ago).