NSP -- Mizu to Taiyou（水と太陽）

 

I've already got a number of NSP articles up already but perhaps I should have already started a running gag based on the fact that the band members never really came up with an explanation for what NSP actually stood for. For today's posting, I'll just say that it stands for No Socks, Please.👣

Moving forward, this NSP song hails from their April 1985 16th album "Mizu to Taiyou" (Water and Sun), and sure enough, it happens to be the title track. Written and composed by the late NSP vocalist Shigeru Amano（天野滋）, it's quite the wistful song and with this one at least, I get some Bread & Butter（ブレッド＆バッター）in Amano's singing and even Off-Course's（オフコース）1980s arrangements in the execution. I especially like the addition of the synthesizer in the intro and outro. I can say that it's quite the 80s tune.