No, no...don't let the title fool you. This has nothing to do with the Morning Musume（モーニング娘。）disco hit from 1999. Even the title is displayed a little differently here.
Mind you, there is disco in Junko Ohashi's（大橋純子）"Love Machine" as well although it's woven into Ken Sato's（佐藤健）melody and arrangement somewhat more subtly. The song was placed as the B-side to her August 1978 hit number "Tasogare My Love"（たそがれマイ・ラブ）. Now, unlike that A-side which has more of that wistful kayo pop feeling thanks to Kyohei Tsutsumi's（筒美京平）work (and it's just Ohashi's name attached to that one), "Love Machine" has the official singing act as Junko Ohashi & Minoya Central Station so it's definitely on her familiar side of City Pop including the fluttering disco flute. Takashi Matsumoto（松本隆）was the lyricist here.
Not sure if the sentiment still exists in 2024, but I remember when the whole Japanese City Pop boom was on a few years back, listeners were swooning about wanting to see what the time and place were like in Tokyo of the late 1970s and early 1980s. I was actually there in the early 1980s so perhaps any swooning on my part has been more blunted, but listening to "Love Machine", I can sympathize with my fellow City Pop fans. This would be an ideal accompanying tune while walking among the skyscrapers of Shinjuku at night.
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