There is the Ruiko Kurahashi（倉橋ルイ子）song "Gas Tou"（ガス燈）, a jazz torch song from her "Main Course" album of 1986 which has had me envisioning a romantic couple experiencing a magical night walk down a street lit up with gas lights.
It was just about five years ago when I first heard and noted the eclectic duo Flat Face featuring Yoshiko Takatori（高取淑子）and Mitsutoshi Takesue（武末充敏）as they handled music and technology to come up with their own European pop sound. And from their lone album, also from 1986, "Face", is "Gas Tou no Shita de" (Under the Gaslights), but it's far and away from anything old-style jazz. Instead, true to Flat Face's nature, this particular track has got a pretty busy synthpop and Europop rhythm which does sound like it could have been a candidate for a Eurovision contest. Also, unlike that couple strolling in the romantically lit evening that I mentioned in Ruiko's "Gas Tou", "Gas Tou no Shita de" has me imagining a couple of punky teens running all over the street escaping from some sort of trouble elsewhere.
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