Maybe I'm a little late at 25 years putting this one up onto the blog. "Nijuu Seiki no Owari ni" (At the End of the 20th Century) is the debut single for rock and technopop band Hikashu（ヒカシュー）. Released in October 1979, it's quite the jangly New Wave number by leader Koichi Makigami（巻上公一）. According to his lyrics, apparently love demanded quite a lot at the end of 1999. Luckily, we were all consumed with Y2K to worry about that one.
There is a fellow Blogspot blog titled "Hikashu Appreciation Society" which has a post dedicated to "Nijuu Seiki no Owari ni", and it has the English translation of the lyrics along with a very brief excerpt of an interview done by singer-songwriter and producer Haruo Chikada（近田春夫）who contributed his expertise to the production of the early Hikashu material. From it, I gleaned that the band was trying for something quite different from other outfits such as Yellow Magic Orchestra, and I would say that Makigami and company succeeded.
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