Way back when, when I actually treated Friday nights as the night to be out with friends, it was a toss-up between the discos in downtown Toronto or our karaoke hangout of Kuri in the tony district of Yorkville. That was simply the case for a few years in the latter half of my university time. Never got tired of it although it did become a routine, reflecting on the old days.
Looks like the good folks of JADOES may have been wondering whether their romances out on the town were becoming a little humdrum just from that title "Simply Another Love" from their March 1989 4th album "Dumpo" (I have to admit that I'm left in askance about how the guys managed to get that sort of title). The track by lyricist and bassist/vocalist Hideki Fujisawa（藤沢秀樹）, the future Dance Man（ダンス☆マン）, and composer and percussionist Kensaku Saito（斎藤謙策）isn't humdrum at all with that slow-burning R&B beat but it does sound rather contemplative. It's more of a feeling of nursing that drink by the bar rather than hitting the dance floor. Of course, Fujisawa was having a lot of fun on his bass.
As of this writing, all of the Friday fun in Tokyo ended for another week (or maybe not) a few hours ago. Considering all of the construction going on over the past few years, there is probably a whole lot of new venues to explore and enjoy.
This R&B track would have fit in pretty well with the music scene in the US at the same era.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I think as much as K-Pop has been following American R&B trends, there was that segment of Japanese City Pop in the late 1980s that was influenced by genres such as New Jack Swing.
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