The Tube -- O.Ne.Ga.I Radio（オ・ネ・ガ・イ RADIO）

 

Well, if summer is indeed just around the corner, then that must mean it's time for another TUBE song. It just wouldn't feel like a KKP summer without a song from Nobuteru Maeda（前田亘輝）and the guys. 

As I did last year with putting up the B-side, "Namida no Harbour Light"（涙のハーバーライト）, to TUBE's debut single (when they were known as The Tube), "Best Seller Summer"（ベストセラー・サマー）from June 1985, I'm putting up the B-side here of their sophomore effort, "Sentimental ni Kubittake" (センチメンタルに首ったけ) which came out later in October. If you're wondering about the odd appearance of the title on the byline, that's how it looks on the official TUBE YouTube channel, so I'm just going with that.

Written and composed by Maeda and arranged by the band, "O.Ne.Ga.I Radio", being an early TUBE song, sounds a bit different from the usual good-time pop/rock that we've gotten used to by the guys. Instead, it has more of a straight-ahead 50s or 60s rock n' roll vibe as the vocalist sings about the old communications device being the heart of any beach blanket party. According to the J-Wiki article, although an album version of the song exists on The Tube's 2nd original album, "Off Shore Dreamin'" from December 1985, the single version has apparently never made it onto CD.

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