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.
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?!
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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
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 ❤💙💛💜
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!
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
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!!!
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!)
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 was 15 yrs old when I first heard this in the fall of 1979...even though it came out in 1978. They played this song religiously on the radio during that time during fall going into winter of 1979. I been searching for this song for so many years!! 😊❤
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 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 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!!!
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
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
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 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.
Wow! This is one song that I must save to a playlist! This song and others by Kraftwerk caused me to have a great interest in early electronic music. This song in particular displays so much craftsmanship in structure, melody, chord progression and rhythmic expression. Words can't express how much I'm in awe of this tune. I was 40 years younger than today when it first came out. I still rocks!!!
Heard this early 80s on either Chicago's 104.7 fm wbmx or wcyc fm...had it in my head for years...never knew who it was by until recently last year...man i feel complete now. Thx youtube!!!
I love this choon to the max, got my 12" Yellow Vinyl copy - I was blown away by this choon and YMO back in day so ahead of their time, such a classic - memories xo
I have been searching for this song for years!!! Ran across a video featuring "Boogalo Shrimp" from the movie Breaking called Urban Dance Legends and there was a clip with him dancing on a show in Japan that was playing this song and immediately Shazamed it.
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
i first heared this at energy one in westway film studios back in 88 or 89 and it was dropped into an acid house mix up and all the lighting came up and it took everyone by a very pleasant suprise it still gives me goosbumps 34years later
Ì remember having this 12" disco 45 in my sound system collection, one of the 1st records we bought; it takes me right back to my 'care-free' mid-teens. Just love it!
I first heard this at the Roxy roller rink in New York City! When this song came on we all set out to skate our behinds off! Love this tune! Thanks for sharing!
I remember hearing this at MARS, a club that was on the Westside Highway in NYC, before that I use to pop and break to the song...great stuff for late 70's music.
Just looked at a documentary on Netflix that talked specifically about this genre of music in the disco world. The documentary is called The evolution of Hip Hop
I used to try to figure out the laser lights. Mars was tough, what was it four floors and a rooftop? Never made it to the rooftop. I didn't want to become a statistic.
As a kid, I always loved this sing! I never knew the name or the artist. I stumbled across this on RUclips and got so emotional! I love modern technology!!!!!😊😊😊😊
heard this at a very young age..early 80s in a mix along with italo and house music...been searching for it since...I'm happy now...nostalgia of great times in my life thank you martin and 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 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
No one cares
I'm a Pakistani man who bought this record on 12" vinyl in 1979.......I was about 19 now 63.....still got the record.....I had great taste
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
Still sounds good. 2024
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!
Another classic from the same era for you to sample.
ruclips.net/video/7tsfJn8YdwQ/видео.html
Same
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.
If your dad was djing back in the 70s then he has some classics, you should dig deep, what a legacy!
You lucked out on a gem.
R.I.P. Yukihiro Takahashi.
Not only him
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?!
RIP Sakamoto Ryuichi
I’ve been looking for this song for years .
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.
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)
Thx!!
I’ll check them out 🖐🏾🖐🏾🖐🏾🖐🏾
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 :-)
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!
Another blast from the past for you ruclips.net/video/7tsfJn8YdwQ/видео.html
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
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.
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!
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!
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
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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SENDING MAD LOVE FROM NORTH CAROLINA, USA. THIS SONG IS A CERTIFIED CLASSIC
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 ❤💙💛💜
This song reminds me of an imaginary event that never happened in 1989
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Viper did it
🤣🖖🏾
....SimCity arcade game
lmffaooo
1978!!!!!!!......sounds better than most songs on radio today....
One of my all time favorites. Never get tired of hearing it. Lively, fun sounding, beautiful melody
YO, THIS SONG IS ULTRA MAGNETIC!!!
This will ALWAYS be a banger. I never get tired of spinning it. Way, way ahead of their times.
It do go hard. 1978!
JAPAN ahead of the world even in the 1970s WONDERFULL!
Long live the land of the rising sun!❤👍🏼
Memories of me and friends popping to this song back in the day
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 don't know her.
A good reference😂
@@michelangelopravata1376 I dont get it
Liquid Lad ruclips.net/video/-lposG3n5u4/видео.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'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 😀
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
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.
Rolling rocking in skates this song had me breakdancing on skates from 78 to 88 those indeed were the carefree days of just parting
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
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 💯
Rest in Peace Maestro
RIP, Ryuichi Sakamoto. A true genius.
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。
@@田中太郎-w2b4u 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
Grazie di tutto maestro , un saluto da Napoli, italia
Been looking everywhere for this song Omg I remember this back in the 80s when I was a kid wow
They was used a lot on Saudi TV in very early 90's, never knew it was Japanese Till now❤❤❤
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 was 15 yrs old when I first heard this in the fall of 1979...even though it came out in 1978. They played this song religiously on the radio during that time during fall going into winter of 1979. I been searching for this song for so many years!! 😊❤
It was the piano roll at 0:56 that sent the chills down my spine
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!
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
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.
アレンジが重厚で凄くいい！
I finally found this song. I've been searching for years. LOVE IT!
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
❤ 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.
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
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 RUclips
ruclips.net/video/9TVG71rhNmM/видео.html
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
This needs to be out NOW, it was before its time ❤❤❤
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 ❤
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
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 was in The Corps when this came out Thanks for the memories
As a kid I remember them performing this song and Tighten Up (Archie Bell and The Drells) on Soul Train!!!! Great Memories!!!!
I heard this track on BBC Radio 6 yesterday morning. Hooked.
Better late than never!
RIP, maestro Ryuichi. I grew up listening to this song, it's been with me almost all my life.
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
Took me decades to fimd this song...this was the BOMB when I was a kid..
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.
Wow! This is one song that I must save to a playlist! This song and others by Kraftwerk caused me to have a great interest in early electronic music. This song in particular displays so much craftsmanship in structure, melody, chord progression and rhythmic expression. Words can't express how much I'm in awe of this tune. I was 40 years younger than today when it first came out. I still rocks!!!
Heard this early 80s on either Chicago's 104.7 fm wbmx or wcyc fm...had it in my head for years...never knew who it was by until recently last year...man i feel complete now. Thx youtube!!!
I love this choon to the max, got my 12" Yellow Vinyl copy - I was blown away by this choon and YMO back in day so ahead of their time, such a classic - memories xo
I have been searching for this song for years!!! Ran across a video featuring "Boogalo Shrimp" from the movie Breaking called Urban Dance Legends and there was a clip with him dancing on a show in Japan that was playing this song and immediately Shazamed it.
Landed here after going through my old records and found a copy of this ! Used to love this back in the day lol
They would play this on WBLS in New York when I was a teenager...I am glad to hear this music again...
Classic and will always be...
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 RUclips 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
i first heared this at energy one in westway film studios back in 88 or 89 and it was dropped into an acid house mix up and all the lighting came up and it took everyone by a very pleasant suprise it still gives me goosbumps 34years later
I remember this song when it came out in the late 1970s. It was a huge hit and the radio stations in Wash DC played it all the time. WKYS
Finally I found this music clip. Been looking for it for many years !!!!
RIGHT!!! I NEVER NEW WHO PUT IT OUT. WELL, WHEN YOU ARE 8 YEARS OLD THAT IS HOW IT WAS.
空から日本を見てみようの何かを見つけた時のBGMだ
I was 12 and this track popped up into one of my radio stations in Italy. I was mesmerized> R.I.P Maestro!!
Anche strasuonata in discoteca, bei ricordi 💫
Ì remember having this 12" disco 45 in my sound system collection, one of the 1st records we bought; it takes me right back to my 'care-free' mid-teens. Just love it!
When I found this on RUclips a few years ago, I wanted to throw some skates on immediately….. one of the baddest songs ever….
I first heard this at the Roxy roller rink in New York City! When this song came on we all set out to skate our behinds off! Love this tune! Thanks for sharing!
横浜の中華街を歩く時にはこの曲が一番！
I remember hearing this at the roller skating rink back in the day. Perfect song to skate to.
I remember hearing this at MARS, a club that was on the Westside Highway in NYC, before that I use to pop and break to the song...great stuff for late 70's music.
Just looked at a documentary on Netflix that talked specifically about this genre of music in the disco world. The documentary is called The evolution of Hip Hop
I remember going to MARS! Those were the days!
I used to try to figure out the laser lights. Mars was tough, what was it four floors and a rooftop? Never made it to the rooftop. I didn't want to become a statistic.
One of my all time jams! Played all the time here in Philly. I was rocking to this way back in the day.
Such a big part of my childhood samantha's Disco on a Saturday morning at silver blades 70s thank you 😊
reminds me of my happy childhood.. :D
Echoes of those beautiful sunlit days in 1978 still burning in my soul listening to this classic
Childhood memories. I have been searching for this instrumental for years.
As a kid, I always loved this sing! I never knew the name or the artist. I stumbled across this on RUclips and got so emotional! I love modern technology!!!!!😊😊😊😊
A great song during my youth. It stills sounds good!
This song brings back so many memories of my childhood. Watching the boys in school breakdance during lunch period. Fun times
I remember this from many many years ago.....still sounds absolutely superb. Renewed my interest in YMO! Thank you.
This was the jam when I was kid man this brings back memories 9/20/2020 still sounds good
Rest in peace, the GREAT Ryuichi Sakamoto.
heard this at a very young age..early 80s in a mix along with italo and house music...been searching for it since...I'm happy now...nostalgia of great times in my life thank you martin and 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
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.