R.I.P. Ryuichi Sakamoto. This song helped to influence modern hip hop trends, and his career transcended even further with his solo, and soundtrack albums, as well as the work he did with YMO. I’m so disappointed because I told myself I was going to buy tickets to his virtual show in December of 2022, but said “I’ll just see the next one he does.” I missed out on seeing a true legend. May his soul Rest In Peace.
Yeah, you have to see these great artist when you can bc many are older and either will die or stop performing especially if you loved their music, you gotta see them once in a lifetime and also pay your respect and appreciation to them. I think he worked with David Silvian (sp) on that other great song called “Forbidden Colors”. Check it if you don’t know about it and came out in the 80’s.
Ahem.... they offered it as a techno-homage to its creator, MARTIN DENNY, and it is SOOOOO "LAYERED", you need today's tech to really enjoy all the magic these guys "squeezed" into this. They are literally dancing through this weaving of percussion and synth punctuation. This is top-drawer stuff (and it helps to know a bit about musical composition). A tip of the hat to FRANZ LIZST at 3:35 (artistic inside joke). These guys were WAY AHEAD of their time, and this labor of love still rocks even today. Tell the kids to put COWBOY BEEBOP on hold and meditate on this!
If you like this song, you should also listen to Tong Poo (1978), La Femme Chinoise (1978), Technopolis (1979), Rydeen (1979), Behind The Mask (1979), etc. You will love them.
Just found this banger in my dad's record collection, he was a DJ back in late 70s early 80s. I found this yellow 12 inch record just chilling at back of the shelf.
Genius ahead of its time. I listened to all of this for the first time when it came out and I was 15. Later I went to live in Japan and discovered so many more great Japanese musicians. I learned that the whole world had talent and we were missing a lot of it in North America.
@@mgg7756 Interesting how you assume all caucasians are American. I am not American. Don’t you have something better to do than make racial assumptions?!
This song has been a hidden treasure in my heart for many years. It was attached to a very sad emotion for me. When I was a young boy my father played it for the first time the day I first met my older half brother in 1982. When he was leaving after a brief introduction the song was playing. I cried so hard. My dad never played it again as it caused me to immediately cry again. A beautiful/painful melody. I'm am so glad to have found it again.
It's such an exquisite piece of music! A hidden treasure in the heart describes it perfectly. It's a very powerful piece of music to be attached to such a profound time in your life - for a sensitive child that would have been extremely difficult. I hope that when you listen to this now the emotion shifts to something softer. It's always been a very special piece of music for me too ❤💙💛💜
For those who are from Detroit, this was first played on the radio by none other than The Electrifying Mojo, whose favorite saying was, "If you find yourself at the end of your rope, tie a knot and keep hanging; 'cause there's nobody bad like you!!" I loved that saying!! Those were the days!!! Peace!!!
It certainly was 1977-1982 the greatest period in UK music imo. So much talent, invention, diverse sounds and even Foreign language lyrics, mainly French in songs made in the UK. I was too young to appreciate the other great period 1965-1970. The period 1987- 1992 was also excellent.
RIP Ryuichi Sakamato. Another colossal talent sadly departed. My OH said earlier imagine Ryuichi, David Bowie and Mick Karn getting together on the other side what brilliance they would come up with...
A few days ago I heard about another founding member of Yello Magic Orchestra passing away. I remember hearing this song on the radio as a kid and it still sounds fresh. R.I.P. Ryuichi Sakamoto and his bandmate Yukihiro Takahashi who preceded him in death a couple months earlier.
I have the 12" single, bought in the early 80s after my mate and I by chance walked past our local theatre one evening and were given free tickets to see them play live that nite!
And one of the members was from another band that were the asian version of the Beatles, kinda the greatest band of all time in Japan, they had kinda the greatest album of all time in Japan
Back in 1988, during the birth of House music, The Trip in London's Astoria was a pioneering venue. Every Saturday night, droves of converse-clad, bandana-wearing kids would travel from all over the capital to visit the mecca of Acid house, witness the birth of a new era in music, and as high AF, dance for hours, as Nicky Hollaway spun magic memory making sounds on a 20ft high podium. This is common now, but back then it was so rebellious, it turned all the London tribes in to one heaving mass of love. We were home! There was one tune that would drive people wild. It had a fresh, easy beat with a pumping bassline and was showered with Asian-influenced chords and sounds as well as spots of dramatic tension as if it was telling you a really important story. It stood out and would often get a full play. Little did we know, it was made 10 years earlier and not in Chicago, but by the Japanese electronic music maestro Ryuichi Sakamoto and his band, Yellow Magic Orchestra. I later found out they were producing most electronic genres that we hear today before they even had a name. Their influence on me was profound but on the world of electronic music it was outstanding. I drove to many raves with this tune blasting in my car stereo, from a cassette my rave date gave me. Scrawled on it was just two words “Chinese Chimes”. That’s what we thought it was called. RIP!
A Japanese supergroup, every member a star in his own right, with an early influence on house and electro/hip hop, similar to Kraftwerk.. classic tune to robot to!
This was my senior yr high school jam back in 78 -1979 and still is💯 When they performed this song on Soul Train, they became honorary R&B stars! This song sounds fricking awesome on big bass club sound systems. That funky bass beat makes you move and groove❣️
I remember one male dancer was staring at the female member because he saw her as just ringing a triangle! (I can't remember her name but she's famous!)
1978?! My ears can't believe it - The Asian community was definitely way ahead of their time during this era of music! My father showed me this gem a few years back and haven't forgotten it since!
I can remember being a kid in the 80’s and practicing popping and locking and breaking to this, this was one of my favorite ones to practice to, hearing it today brought back some great childhood memories
Da Wolf I know exactly what you're talking about!!! Those were the days when you can have clean fun and not worry about getting hurt or shot over unnecessary bs!!!
My Aunt Curreen died last year, she kept all her old records. as her godson ive now got them and they have helped bring back happy memories since my stroke. this was amongst them. this music was way ahead of its time
Inhave been looking for this instrumental for 41 years and I found it scrolling IG and saw Boogaloo Shrimp pop locking to it back in 1983 from Japan. Great memories. I 1st heard it from DJ Kid Capri on WBLS 107.5 in New York
Met YMO in 2008 in London and saw Harry Hosono in 2018 too. Love them so much. Now 54 but loved them since late 70s. Have autographs and photos too :()
I clocked Martin Denny's version at 143 bpm-------- there is no such thing as electro played at that speed------- there is nothing about the production of the song that relates to techno so your conclusion is wrong
They used to play this song on the old skool hip hop station back in the early 80s a lot. The Bboys used to pop and lock and break dance to this. When this came on, it was battle time.
I had to come back to this joint. I had heard it on Soul Train a decade and a half ago, and went into a culture shock. So I scrambled to find whatever unfinished VHS that I could grab so I could record their performance the next go-around... And I eventually saved this song to my mp3 playlist. RIP to Yukihiro Takahashi, Ryūichi Sakamoto, and Don Cornelius (who hipped me to YMO 😊)
Wonderful. sarcastic cover of an american trying to sound authentically japanese. YMO were not only very talented but also very funny. Ryuichi Sakamoto has gone on to produce some of the most beautiful music I have ever heard.
Tim Vaughan I was 15 yrs old when I heard this in California visiting from Louisiana and radio station didn't say who made it for 38 yrs I didn't know what the name was are what band till I hummed it in sound hound and it came up! Its without a doubt one of my favorite songs of all time
A big club smash from 1978, originally released under the name of Computer game, The Yellow Magic orchestra were only a handful of artists & groups flooding the Soul/jazz scene here in the UK with great fusion tracks
This song has been in the background of my mind for over 30yrs. Search many times to find it over the years. BMF helped me find it. Overjoyed with hearing it after so long.
In the beginning it feels like a parody and a mockery of Americans trying to immolate and sometimes even make fun of Japanese music but then as it progresses it sort of turns into something unique and something totally different from its counterpart. Its like ymo was trying to show us how real music making was done. Its like ymo was almost bragging as they bask in their glory and show us what we aren’t capable of musically. This song separates the real from the fake! THIS SONG IS A MASTERPIECE! THIS SONG IS A FIRECRACKER!
It’s actually spot-on, clearly if they were trying to bring this to the United States, that’s what they would do. It’s obvious damn it! And they slap the sh*t out of the u.s. with their talent
feel free to fact check this but apparently early video game composers were inspired by these guys, like some would use straight up covers for their games. so i guess vg music has it's roots with ymo
As a kid, I always loved this sing! I never knew the name or the artist. I stumbled across this on UA-cam and got so emotional! I love modern technology!!!!!😊😊😊😊
A black woman from MIAMI FLORIDA’S Liberty City still loving this jam from my childhood.
I remember the black girls on the GB&NI junior athletics team playing this, I fell in love with it then!
💯🩷🩷🩷🩷
Keep boppin babe it’s good for yer ❤❤!
a white one, form France, living in Costa Rica, still loving this generational electro pop mood
R.I.P. Ryuichi Sakamoto. This song helped to influence modern hip hop trends, and his career transcended even further with his solo, and soundtrack albums, as well as the work he did with YMO. I’m so disappointed because I told myself I was going to buy tickets to his virtual show in December of 2022, but said “I’ll just see the next one he does.” I missed out on seeing a true legend. May his soul Rest In Peace.
Jennifer Lopez used a sample for her I'm Real song.
Yeah, you have to see these great artist when you can bc many are older and either will die or stop performing especially if you loved their music, you gotta see them once in a lifetime and also pay your respect and appreciation to them.
I think he worked with David Silvian (sp) on that other great song called “Forbidden Colors”. Check it if you don’t know about it and came out in the 80’s.
I grew up to this song; it was amazing then and still is in 2023!🎉😊 Good music is good music.
@marisaharris6748 right on ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽
Oh no Arrest in Peace
Never knew that it was a Japanese group that made this song, I always loved this song 🎵 ❤️
they played this song on the radio station where I grew up at, it was jamming at the house parties too
Ahem.... they offered it as a techno-homage to its creator, MARTIN DENNY, and it is SOOOOO "LAYERED", you need today's tech to really enjoy all the magic these guys "squeezed" into this. They are literally dancing through this weaving of percussion and synth punctuation. This is top-drawer stuff (and it helps to know a bit about musical composition).
A tip of the hat to FRANZ LIZST at 3:35 (artistic inside joke). These guys were WAY AHEAD of their time, and this labor of love still rocks even today.
Tell the kids to put COWBOY BEEBOP on hold and meditate on this!
R.I.P. Yukihiro Takahashi.
Not only him
If you like this song, you should also listen to Tong Poo (1978), La Femme Chinoise (1978), Technopolis (1979), Rydeen (1979), Behind The Mask (1979), etc. You will love them.
And Cosmic Surfin' (1979)
To think I would've discovered YMO through a shitpost rap called "China ain't do Tienanmen Square, I did." is unreal. Thank you Viper-san.
same
not a shitpost
Children
「Obamium」 aren’t they from Japan?
Facts!
Just found this banger in my dad's record collection, he was a DJ back in late 70s early 80s. I found this yellow 12 inch record just chilling at back of the shelf.
japan's 70s and 80s music are gold
"Hunt Up Wind" a great example.
city pop never fails to be good
i used to listen to this kind of thing while working at a tuna canning factory in okinawa.
@@randythomastheinsecures5404 that’s cool man but maybe don’t advertise in comment sections :-)
This song reminds me of an imaginary event that never happened in 1989
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Viper did it
🤣🖖🏾
....SimCity arcade game
lmffaooo
Genius ahead of its time. I listened to all of this for the first time when it came out and I was 15. Later I went to live in Japan and discovered so many more great Japanese musicians. I learned that the whole world had talent and we were missing a lot of it in North America.
Interesting that you imply the default position of a regular US person is to believe there's no culture beyond the US
@@mgg7756 Interesting how you assume all caucasians are American. I am not American. Don’t you have something better to do than make racial assumptions?!
Took many years but I finally found it. A true classic.❤
Ikr. Heard it on a Dj mix on Pitbull SiriusXm and been looking for it ever since.
Same!😂
Same!
me and the boys blasting this at full volume to celebrate nothing happening on june 4th
this comment is pure gold
Anyone tell me What does this have to do with Tiananmen actually?
@@onwun4292 Viper - The Chinese Aint Do Tiananmen Square, I Did
Infact Nothing happened in Tianamen
@@bullracing1 yes
RIP Sakamoto Ryuichi
This song has been a hidden treasure in my heart for many years. It was attached to a very sad emotion for me. When I was a young boy my father played it for the first time the day I first met my older half brother in 1982. When he was leaving after a brief introduction the song was playing. I cried so hard. My dad never played it again as it caused me to immediately cry again. A beautiful/painful melody. I'm am so glad to have found it again.
Mine too!
Hopefully your tears have dried up. Enjoy the yellow magic!!!!
Hahahahahaha
im sure this song has been ruined for you at this point lmfaoooo
It's such an exquisite piece of music! A hidden treasure in the heart describes it perfectly. It's a very powerful piece of music to be attached to such a profound time in your life - for a sensitive child that would have been extremely difficult. I hope that when you listen to this now the emotion shifts to something softer. It's always been a very special piece of music for me too ❤💙💛💜
For those who are from Detroit, this was first played on the radio by none other than The Electrifying Mojo, whose favorite saying was, "If you find yourself at the end of your rope, tie a knot and keep hanging; 'cause there's nobody bad like you!!" I loved that saying!! Those were the days!!! Peace!!!
mojo introduced me to so much music across a wide spectrum. everything from j. geils to kraftwerk to david bowie to prince to art of noise.
I wasnt from Detroit but from Toledo and i listened to Mojo every night while i was a teenager!
Radio Stations: Detroit MI-WGPR FM 107.5 and WJLB AM 1400 Inkster MI-WCHB AM 1440. 1978 to 1982. East Side Van Dyke Avenue and Harper 48213.
@@marcusjustice6165 48213 all day conners and Harper
“...there’s nobody bad like you!”
Long Live The Electrifying Mojo!
DeeTroit Techno City
45 years on and I'm still playing this. School in the late 1970's was rife with superb music, no way you could miss this.
I got into these guys in the early 80s. Great stuff ❤️❤️
Yes indeed 😂❤❤
It certainly was 1977-1982 the greatest period in UK music imo. So much talent, invention, diverse sounds and even Foreign language lyrics, mainly French in songs made in the UK. I was too young to appreciate the other great period 1965-1970. The period 1987- 1992 was also excellent.
RIP, Ryuichi Sakamoto. A true genius.
I could not remember the song name, so I "sang" it to Sound Hound. I can't believe it worked.
does sound hound really work?
LaKeisha Robinson never worked for me, i always sang stuff more known than this song too.
MarzNet256 lol I was using sound hound and this isn’t what I was looking for 😂
How did you sing it there are no words? Or did you hum?
How do you sing this track 🤣🤣🤣awesome 💯
全てはこの曲から始まった❗️最高です。
My mom found this song and told me it use to be played at her 6th grade dances in Philly! Such a dope song!
Mom is correct. Lol. Very true. John Wanamaker Jr High School 6th grade dances. Used to play Firecracker & Numbers, amongst others. Great memories.
Exactly!!! I was in 5th grade in Philly when I first heard this song and never knew who it was. I was looking for this song FOREVER！
Samezeez Camden new jerz
RIP Ryuichi Sakamato. Another colossal talent sadly departed. My OH said earlier imagine Ryuichi, David Bowie and Mick Karn getting together on the other side what brilliance they would come up with...
A few days ago I heard about another founding member of Yello Magic Orchestra passing away. I remember hearing this song on the radio as a kid and it still sounds fresh. R.I.P. Ryuichi Sakamoto and his bandmate Yukihiro Takahashi who preceded him in death a couple months earlier.
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I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS SONG FOR YEARS!!!!
Last time I heard this song I was a child!
Me too!! I was excited my son was like mom really!!?? 😂😂😂
Me too! I was 13. I always thought this was such a cool song.
I have the 12" single, bought in the early 80s after my mate and I by chance walked past our local theatre one evening and were given free tickets to see them play live that nite!
空から日本を見てみようの何かを見つけた時のBGMだ
I googled this thinkin abt the jlo mariah beef.....this is 🔥🔥🔥🔥
JAPAN ahead of the world even in the 1970s WONDERFULL!
Long live the land of the rising sun!❤👍🏼
Can't believe how this is still a 'tune' after so many years.....just goes to show, good music does not age. What a classic!
Love it
DJ step you're game up. Hip hop rappers you don't know a Jem. Zeey west please big fan make it happen
It blew me away when i saw them on soul train they were the aisan version of kraftwerk
Evan Marion I cannot agree with ya more🥰
And one of the members was from another band that were the asian version of the Beatles, kinda the greatest band of all time in Japan, they had kinda the greatest album of all time in Japan
@Evan Marion They were themselves???
please .... those guys are much better than kraftwerk, jesus christ, stop comparing
I have tried kraftwerks's tracks. Sounds good but YMO's are way more interesting and exciting
Rest in Peace Maestro
Back in 1988, during the birth of House music, The Trip in London's Astoria was a pioneering venue. Every Saturday night, droves of converse-clad, bandana-wearing kids would travel from all over the capital to visit the mecca of Acid house, witness the birth of a new era in music, and as high AF, dance for hours, as Nicky Hollaway spun magic memory making sounds on a 20ft high podium. This is common now, but back then it was so rebellious, it turned all the London tribes in to one heaving mass of love. We were home!
There was one tune that would drive people wild. It had a fresh, easy beat with a pumping bassline and was showered with Asian-influenced chords and sounds as well as spots of dramatic tension as if it was telling you a really important story. It stood out and would often get a full play.
Little did we know, it was made 10 years earlier and not in Chicago, but by the Japanese electronic music maestro Ryuichi Sakamoto and his band, Yellow Magic Orchestra. I later found out they were producing most electronic genres that we hear today before they even had a name. Their influence on me was profound but on the world of electronic music it was outstanding. I drove to many raves with this tune blasting in my car stereo, from a cassette my rave date gave me. Scrawled on it was just two words “Chinese Chimes”. That’s what we thought it was called. RIP!
I lived in Japan for a year in early 1980s when I was a teen, and this was my favorite CASSETTE TAPE! I played YMO every day.
アレンジが重厚で凄くいい！
横浜の中華街を歩く時にはこの曲が一番！
A Japanese supergroup, every member a star in his own right, with an early influence on house and electro/hip hop, similar to Kraftwerk.. classic tune to robot to!
I don't know her.
A good reference😂
@@michelangelopravata1376 I dont get it
Liquid Lad ua-cam.com/video/-lposG3n5u4/v-deo.html
Its a feud that started between Mariah an Jlo (Jlo copied a song of Mariah)
@@liquidladdy Mariah was supposed to use this sample but JLO, witht help of Mariah's ex, went ahead and stole the rights to it.
Yesssssssssssss
I automatically pop lock when I hear this.❤️
sad
Laura P5 🔥🔥
I think it's a legal requirement in some countries.
Boogaloo Shrimp rocking it here: Watch "Boogaloo Shrimp in Japan 1985" on UA-cam
ua-cam.com/video/9TVG71rhNmM/v-deo.html
One of my all time favorites. Never get tired of hearing it. Lively, fun sounding, beautiful melody
This will ALWAYS be a banger. I never get tired of spinning it. Way, way ahead of their times.
It do go hard. 1978!
This was my senior yr high school jam back in 78 -1979 and still is💯 When they performed this song on Soul Train, they became honorary R&B stars! This song sounds fricking awesome on big bass club sound systems. That funky bass beat makes you move and groove❣️
I remember one male dancer was staring at the female member because he saw her as just ringing a triangle! (I can't remember her name but she's famous!)
興味深いを投稿ありがとう😊日本から感謝を送ります。
@@user-cm2vk5iq8g 私たちアメリカ国民は、YMOという恵みを与えてくれたことに感謝します。音楽とソウルトレインが人々や文化を結びつけるのは素晴らしいことです
It was the piano roll at 0:56 that sent the chills down my spine
Rest in peace, the GREAT Ryuichi Sakamoto.
1978?! My ears can't believe it - The Asian community was definitely way ahead of their time during this era of music! My father showed me this gem a few years back and haven't forgotten it since!
They was used a lot on Saudi TV in very early 90's, never knew it was Japanese Till now❤❤❤
YO, THIS SONG IS ULTRA MAGNETIC!!!
1978!!!!!!!......sounds better than most songs on radio today....
R I P Great composer😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
I can remember being a kid in the 80’s and practicing popping and locking and breaking to this, this was one of my favorite ones to practice to, hearing it today brought back some great childhood memories
Here for Mariah Carey's creative genius and Jlo's plagiarism, staying for the fact its a great song
Caeda Lowell I’m real-ly bad at singing and steal other people’s work lol
@Caeda Lowell It's "I Steal"
@None None no honey!
Blame T. Mottola not J.Lo !
@@guilhermerls2272 The muppet stole not just from Mariah, she's to be blamed, too
memories of my youth running around Bklyn and this playing out of every car, boombox and various block parties with everyone popping & locking
Da Wolf I know exactly what you're talking about!!! Those were the days when you can have clean fun and not worry about getting hurt or shot over unnecessary bs!!!
Anjeanette Harris ABSOLUTELY miss those days
My Aunt Curreen died last year, she kept all her old records. as her godson ive now got them and they have helped bring back happy memories since my stroke. this was amongst them. this music was way ahead of its time
Rolling rocking in skates this song had me breakdancing on skates from 78 to 88 those indeed were the carefree days of just parting
YMO's leader Haruomi Hosono should be appreciated more. He seems unknown to the world.
I was jamming to him and his boys way back in 1980.
He's gaining a lot of popularity. Mac Demarco cites him as his biggest influence and you can definitely hear it in his work.
He is a god amongst men
Digital remastered releases are getting attention
I've been trying to find this song for decades! I love this piece! It's still off the chain!
Me too! Came out the year before I graduated...now I'm turning 57 in 2 weeks. Jeeeezzzz.....
I forgot the name,A guy at the record store told me today 😀
One of my favorite songs ever ❤❤❤😊😊😊
Inhave been looking for this instrumental for 41 years and I found it scrolling IG and saw Boogaloo Shrimp pop locking to it back in 1983 from Japan. Great memories. I 1st heard it from DJ Kid Capri on WBLS 107.5 in New York
When I was young I thought this was a Kraftwerk joint. Impressive. Props to Yellow Magic on this one. Love it 👍🏿
“I GOT MYSELF A LOVER WHO LOVES WHAT I LIIIIIIKE”.
"When he invites me over, I come everytiiiiiime"
@@carolinafernandes8685 AND WHEN MY SUGAR DADDEH! Take me for a riiiiiiiide~ whatever way we go it’s delirium time.
@@arregull "He's all mine when his loving makes high, like ecstasy, all I need is him to be my loverboy"
Loverboy come on and love me give me more touch me and touch me I love the way you rock me all night long 🎶
First hearded on Swiss radio, never hearded on Dutch radio( like so many music) butt bought the album( in Japan 😘)
This song was a massive hit when it came out back in the day especially when re released in 82-83 🎶🕺🏽
82-83 is when I first heard it and it’s been in my life ever since ❤
Met YMO in 2008 in London and saw Harry Hosono in 2018 too. Love them so much. Now 54 but loved them since late 70s. Have autographs and photos too :()
This song opened up the door to techno in Detroit :) :) :)
+Whitney Slade (DJ ASA) Martin Denny had already done that (rip)
+Seanhousehead YMO's was more of a hit
Seanhousehead we get exposed to the music when we do..... either way :) the rework I made for this tune is hot!! :)
Fifthcell correct :) :)
I clocked Martin Denny's version at 143 bpm-------- there is no such thing as electro played at that speed------- there is nothing about the production of the song that relates to techno so your conclusion is wrong
My people where were you when this came out??, high school babyyy. 45 years later, still slaps!! What you know about it?? 💃🏽🎵🎼🌡🔥🔥💯💛💛💖💖
Was a true Breakdance classic in the 80s! B-boy official
I definitely remember this music as a kid been searching for it for Years.And I heard it on Top of the Tops July 9 1980.
They used to play this song on the old skool hip hop station back in the early 80s a lot. The Bboys used to pop and lock and break dance to this. When this came on, it was battle time.
I had to come back to this joint. I had heard it on Soul Train a decade and a half ago, and went into a culture shock. So I scrambled to find whatever unfinished VHS that I could grab so I could record their performance the next go-around... And I eventually saved this song to my mp3 playlist.
RIP to Yukihiro Takahashi, Ryūichi Sakamoto, and Don Cornelius (who hipped me to YMO 😊)
Abel (The Weeknd) vibing to this classic!! At his birthday 2022
As a kid I remember them performing this song and Tighten Up (Archie Bell and The Drells) on Soul Train!!!! Great Memories!!!!
Wonderful. sarcastic cover of an american trying to sound authentically japanese. YMO were not only very talented but also very funny. Ryuichi Sakamoto has gone on to produce some of the most beautiful music I have ever heard.
Tim Vaughan I was 15 yrs old when I heard this in California visiting from Louisiana and radio station didn't say who made it for 38 yrs I didn't know what the name was are what band till I hummed it in sound hound and it came up! Its without a doubt one of my favorite songs of all time
ONE OF THE GREATNESS JAMS IMPORTED FROM JAPAN IN THE LATE 70S EVER WRITTEN I JAM THIS EVEN TODAY!!!!!!!!! BRAVO YMO!!!!!!!!
What you talking about, they are 100% Japanese
He didn't say they weren't? An American originally wrote this and YMO made a cover of it.
Pretty sure the song was a big influence on Hosono, and inspired him to start YMO. I don't think it's necessarily sarcastic.
RIP, maestro Ryuichi. I grew up listening to this song, it's been with me almost all my life.
Without Yellow Magic, we may never have had Mantronix. These dudes were off the scale ahead of their time. ✊🏾🔥
preach bruh and kraftwerk
@@nocturnalp
Facts. Now I gotta see Turbo popping to Kraftwerk in Breakdance. Memories. ✊🏾
This is like a Japanese Kraftwerk. I love it.
Exactly
A big club smash from 1978, originally released under the name of Computer game, The Yellow Magic orchestra were only a handful of artists & groups flooding the Soul/jazz scene here in the UK with great fusion tracks
Always authortive on the subject.
むかしから周りにJpop聞く人はそれなりにいたけど、YMOやカシオペア聞く人はいなくてさみしかった。今も一緒だけど。。。日本で渋谷Kやエレクトロニカがこれまで発展し世界的にもジャンルとして認められたのもこの時代に電子音楽、ジャズ、ファンク、テクノ、ヒュージョンなどに没頭して名曲を作ってきたアーティストがいるからでしょうね！幅広い日本の音楽市場がうらやましい。
I finally found this song. I've been searching for years. LOVE IT!
Bought this album when it came out and played the hell out of it. Sakamoto and the YMO were geniuses
Its so fun and energizing from beginning to end.
I heard this track on BBC Radio 6 yesterday morning. Hooked.
Better late than never!
Took me decades to fimd this song...this was the BOMB when I was a kid..
雰囲気がいいです。ゆったりしてる
OMG I finally found this song couldn't remember till I said the word yellow 😎great song
Classic and will always be...
This song has been in the background of my mind for over 30yrs. Search many times to find it over the years. BMF helped me find it. Overjoyed with hearing it after so long.
Love this music❤❤❤
They would play this on WBLS in New York when I was a teenager...I am glad to hear this music again...
In the beginning it feels like a parody and a mockery of Americans trying to immolate and sometimes even make fun of Japanese music but then as it progresses it sort of turns into something unique and something totally different from its counterpart. Its like ymo was trying to show us how real music making was done. Its like ymo was almost bragging as they bask in their glory and show us what we aren’t capable of musically. This song separates the real from the fake! THIS SONG IS A MASTERPIECE!
THIS SONG IS A FIRECRACKER!
You’re reading too much into it, as is typical of these UA-cam comment sections.
emulate. immolate means to kill by fire.
rydeen does that
that’s because allot of what you view as ‘making fun of’ is actually appreciation!
take a load off
It’s actually spot-on,
clearly if they were trying to bring this to the United States, that’s what they would do. It’s obvious damn it! And they slap the sh*t out of the u.s. with their talent
Sounds like a Street Fighter stage theme
feel free to fact check this but apparently early video game composers were inspired by these guys, like some would use straight up covers for their games. so i guess vg music has it's roots with ymo
Definitely Tekken. I believe her name is JUN and its Tekken 2.
Chun-Li's stage for sure.
some people have said YMO’s tong poo shaped sonic’s entire musical aesthetic: so you may not be wrong at all
this shit is indeed vidya game
Just beautiful ❤️❤🎉😊😊😊😊
Echoes of those beautiful sunlit days in 1978 still burning in my soul listening to this classic
I just hear my mom play this song all the time and even though I'm gen-z I still love it
なんか空から日本を見たくなる曲だな
It BLEW MY MIND when it 1th came out
I never knew the name of this song until recently. But I must say it's a Hip Hop Classic... When people were Popping and Breaking... Old Schoollll...
reminds me of my happy childhood.. :D
This was the little secret RAVE tune and we danced like crazy teapots to it!! That's all.
This pentatonic scale instantly screams : " It's an Asian track". Love it
I was in The Corps when this came out Thanks for the memories
WOW...WOW...WOW...when i was a teenager this tune was massive back in the 80's....Long live YMO and Firecracker still listening in 2019
As a kid, I always loved this sing! I never knew the name or the artist. I stumbled across this on UA-cam and got so emotional! I love modern technology!!!!!😊😊😊😊
❤ I heard this cut for the first time in 1981 when I was in Germany. Very nice I said to myself. It is still very nice today to have . Thank you ymo.
I wish this had gone to no. 1 back then. YMO changed the landscape forever. Love that debut album!