Yumi Murata -- Roman Express no Shuuchaku Eki（ロマンエクスプレスの終着駅）

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I have to admit that seeing singer-songwriter Yumi Murata（村田有美）in that get-up, she looks like the most attractive Borg that I have ever seen this side of the Alpha Quadrant. Yeah, I know about Seven of Nine.

But all joking aside, this is the cover of Murata's December 1986 album "Hysteric Glamour" and it's on the YouTube channel of Island Fantasia who goes by his HRLE92 handle here on "Kayo Kyoku Plus". According to him, the lone noteworthy track on this album is the song of the article, "Roman Express no Shuuchaku Eki" (Terminus of the Roman Express).

The music by Masatoshi Nishimura（西村昌敏）has those City Pop elements but it also feels like the sinewy melody of a mid-1980s action movie soundtrack R&B with the funk and the clanging electric guitar. Murata was responsible for the lyrics. The overall feeling of "Roman Express no Shuuchaku Eki" seems to straddle between that type of movie that I just described above and one of those prime-time soap operas that used to be so popular on American TV (but not really "Dallas" or "Knots Landing", though). I do wonder about how the rest of "Hysteric Glamour" sounds like.