Minako Ito -- Yuu Gyotou（誘魚灯）

Friday night so perhaps folks may be letting their hair down a bit more than usual just before the weekend. They may be hitting the bars or even firing up the BBQ one more time before things really start cooling down.

Or they may be looking at aquaria. The reason I say this is because of the subject of this article which is the title track for Minako Ito's（伊藤美奈子）2nd album "Sasoi Gyotou" or "Yuu Gyotou"（誘魚灯...Inviting Fish Lights） from March 1984. Still not sure how to pronounce it although I've chosen the latter for the title line at the top.

The album also has a couple of tracks that have gotten their due on the blog: "Derringer"（デリンジャー）and "Sayonara wa Iwazu ni"（さよならは言わずに）, and compared to those two, "Yuu Gyotou" seems to head for more of a straight pop sound although there is enough in the arrangement and instrumentation that I've kept the City Pop label. Lyricist Shun Taguchi（田口俊）and composer Jin Kirigaya（桐ケ谷仁）created this story of a young lady who's looking at the various fish in her favourite aquarium as a form of comfort while thinking about the fact that after graduation, all of her friends will most likely be going on their separate paths.

"Yuu Gyotou" also became Ito's 3rd single from July 1984. Masataka Matsutoya（松任谷正隆）was handling the keyboards, and I mention this because I think that despite the songwriters involved, there is something about the song that reminds me of the works of Yumi Matsutoya（松任谷由実）at around the same time. Perhaps it's that particular keyboard sound.