Yutaka Kimura Speaks ~ Japanese City Pop Masterpieces 100: Bread & Butter -- Monday Morning

 

Number: 080

Lyricist: Michio Yamagami

Composer: Tatsuya Iwasawa

Arranger: Michio Yamagami

From Bread & Butter's 1980 album: "Monday Morning"

"Monday Morning" is a masterful ballad, reminiscent of Jimmy Webb's "By the Time I Get to Phoenix", illustrating the passage of hours in a day through the protagonist who is somewhere between the city where he works and the ocean where his girl is waiting. I don't think there is any other song that so skillfully depicts the unbridgeable distance between the city and the sea. And because Bread & Butter is especially suited to this kind of content, the song becomes even more flavorful.

The above comes from "Disc Collection Japanese City Pop Revised" (2020).