Yukihiro Takahashi -- Walking to the Beat

 

Yeah, I gotta say that the music video for Yukihiro Takahashi's（高橋幸宏）"Walking to the Beat" is properly oddball 1980s. It's got the intriguing semi-computer graphics animation from that decade, and a large-stage setting reminiscent of the one used for Styx's famous "Mr. Roboto". Additionally, I was getting hit with "Doctor Who" vibes thanks to Takahashi's makeup for his alien priest getting ready for an uprising. The whole feeling is that the video would have been a prime candidate for inclusion in that "City Limits" midnight series of offbeat videos that I used to watch Canada's MTV equivalent of MuchMusic.

"Walking to the Beat" was the final track of Takahashi's November 1984 6th studio album "Wild & Moody". Takahashi and Australian singer-songwriter Iva Davies wrote and composed the song as this baroque New Wave number that indeed sounds so 1980s. Davies would later create the soundtrack for the 2003 film "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World" starring Russell Crowe. As for "Wild & Moody", that hit No. 13 on Oricon.

This is my fifth article for the blog today, a bit unusual since my maximum is usually four but seeing that my Kalafina article was No. 89 for July and we are on the final day of the month, I just had to make that extra push to make 90 articles for the third time this year.