STUTS & Taeko Ohnuki -- Ohayou（おはよう）

 

Recently, the NHK morning information show "Asaichi"（あさイチ）has been getting cancelled or truncated. That's not a real surprise since there are a couple of phases during the year when this happens but this year, it's a bit more prevalent right now because of a national track-and-field meet, the World Cup and televised government deliberations. We were a bit luckier yesterday though since we did get the full one-hour-and-forty minutes.

Well, I figure that we'll have only a couple of more weeks of this before things get back to normal. The good news is that the theme song for "Asaichi" finally has a full version out on YouTube. A few months ago, when the new theme "Ohayou" (Good Morning) started each show, I couldn't find it on the platform although in my exertions, I was able to find a past collaboration by trackmaker/producer STUTS and legendary singer-songwriter Taeko Ohnuki（大貫妙子）from 2024.

Still, it's nice to find "Ohayou" at last which apparently hit YouTube a little over a month ago. It's a nice breakfast plate of musical nostalgia via fluegelhorn and electric piano. Those two instruments give the song a sunny 70s feeling...in a way, it feels rather Carpenteresque, and it's a friendly way to start off "Asaichi". Maybe it can even get folks up-and-at-'em all on its own.

Mayumi Hara -- Kuro no Clair (黒のクレール)

 

One song by Taeko Ohnuki（大貫妙子）within her long and varied discography that has always stuck with me all these years is her "Kuro no Clair" (Black Clair) which begins her 1982 album "Cliche". It's that lush Fashion Music creation sent up to the max as if the genre had been forced to watch every televised or cinematic version of "Wuthering Heights" or read some of the Gothic plots in a Harlequin romance. 

Over the decades since the introduction of "Kuro no Clair" in the early 1980s, the song has been covered by at least ten artists including Kirinji（キリンジ）and Hiromi Iwasaki（岩崎宏美）. Another one is Ritsuko Kazami（風見律子）who included her more contemporized version of the song within her 1986 album "Aventurier"（アヴァンチュリエ）. It's more like enjoying that glass of wine in a Parisian bar of that decade rather than savoring one in a castle a couple of hundred years prior.

Then we have singer and actress Mayumi Hara's（原真祐美）take on "Kuro no Clair" from her second album "Vert Clair"（ベール・クレール）from February 1984. It starts with a melody that could be a remnant from the previous track or just a whimsical little interlude that fades out 40 seconds later before the familiar strings of "Kuro no Clair" elide in. The way that Ohnuki had woven one of her masterpieces, it would be very difficult to excise the Fashion Music essence, and I think Hara's cover is somewhere between Ohnuki's original and Kazami's more contemporary version. I can get that seaside castle-under-an-overcast-sky vibe from this one.

"City" Songs

 

I heard a rather interesting piece of news last Friday via NHK. Today, June 1st (and indeed, welcome to June 2026!), is the 900th anniversary of the founding of Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture. 1126...what a year! Chiba Station right in the heart of Chiba City was a regular stop for me on Monday afternoons since I had a regular class at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries; I was picked up by the regular company bus at one corner and spent a 20-minute ride to the factories in the suburbs. 

I didn't explore too much of the city outside of the immediate station area, but I do recall having a couple of dinners there and having a quick bite to eat at the station hamburger shop (and no, it wasn't a McDonalds) along with buying a few CDs at the music shop...also in the station. Of course, the monorail was always zipping by above me.

Anyways, in commemoration of Chiba's 900th birthday, I'm bringing in some "city" songs: songs that have the word "city" or "tokai" in them. I would have included Anri's（杏里）"Surf City" here but it had already gotten a shoutout in last week's "HANDS Down!" article. So, without further ado:

(2020) Ai Furihata -- CITY

(1989) TUBE -- Summer City

(1977) Taeko Ohnuki -- Tokai（都会）

(1979) Crystal King -- Dai Tokai (大都会）

(1987) Yoshitaka Minami -- Video City

STUTS & Taeko Ohnuki -- Ii Yu da na（いい湯だな）

 

It won't officially be so until December this year, but Taeko Ohnuki（大貫妙子）will be celebrating an anniversary in 2026 in that it will be 50 years since her first solo album "Grey Skies" was put onto record store shelves. Also, she may be aware that one of her idols, singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Junos (Canada's version of the Grammys) last night directly from Prime Minister Mark Carney last night.

NHK's "Asaichi"（あさイチ）morning information show did what a lot of Japanese TV shows do at the end of March and the beginning of April, and that is to give things a refresh by swapping out hosts or reporters or changing the set. Two of those were done yesterday; although the hosts remained the same, the regular onsite reporters had a bit of a change and the set was given a redux of sorts. 

As well, the theme song for "Asaichi", TENDRE's "Switch", was retired after a few years and it's now been replaced by "Ohayou"（おはよう...Morning!）which is a collaboration between Ohnuki and trackmaker/producer STUTS. The only thing is that I can't find any evidence of this song on YouTube as of yet. Ah, well. However, I found out that this wasn't the only time that Ohnuki and STUTS have worked together. Apparently, a couple of years ago, the two came up with their own cover version of the kayo chestnut "Ii Yu da na" (Wonderful Bath, Ain't It?), the ode to the onsen that had been recorded all the way back by vocal group Duke Aces（デューク・エイセス）in 1966 and then popularized several years later by the comedy group The Drifters（ザ・ドリフターズ）as the ending theme for their long-running variety show "8-ji Da Yo! Zen'in Shuugo!"（8時だよ！全員集合...It's 8 O'Clock! Everyone Assemble!) .

Although hot springs are warm to hot, Ohnuki and STUTS' "Ii Yu da na" is a pretty chill take with some jazzy samples thrown in. All those samples can get a bit noisy but at least the underlying MPC thrumming accentuates the feelings of relaxation that actor Sosuke Ikematsu（池松壮亮）while lounging around in the onsen. Of course, Ohnuki and her calming voice provide veteran reassurance that it's OK to let the stresses of life melt away once in a while.

The Nagoya-born STUTS has been plying his trade since 2008. Several years later, he moved to New York City and did some busking with his MPC.

Noriyuki Makihara feat. Taeko Ohnuki -- Tokai（都会）

 

Talk about the gift that keeps on giving. "Tokai" (The City) is one of the famous tracks from Taeko Ohnuki's（大貫妙子）1977 album "Sunshower" that has always given me the melodic image of being in the city and enjoying its benefits while at the same time, Ohnuki's lyrics relay the message that it's time to leave the metropolis. Considering the massive breakdown of the Yamanote Line in Tokyo yesterday, I can understand the feeling of commuters there perhaps wanting to flee, but still, I'll go with the hopeful and lighthearted and funky melody.

I'm not sure how many covers of "Tokai" have been done over the years but I do know of the one that the funkster Yasuyuki Okamura（岡村靖幸）and the late Ryuichi Sakamoto（坂本龍一）did on the 2013 album "Tribute to Taeko Ohnuki"（大貫妙子トリビュート・アルバム）which amps up the funk even further. And just a few days ago, I became aware of a new version by singer-songwriter Noriyuki Makihara（槇原敬之）joined by Ms. Ohnuki herself in the final verse. It's been released as the 5th single in a series of cover songs commemorating the 55th anniversary of the Panam record label. Compared to the original and the 2013 cover, this 2026 version feels a little more 80s AOR (funk is still there) with an electric sitar joining in. Yoshiyuki Sahashi（佐橋佳幸）arranged the song. 

To think that "Tokai" is approaching its 49th birthday...quite the timeless tune, and one that I'm happy to incorporate as the first 2026 entry on KKP!

Storm Songs

 

I'd like to interrupt this broadcast of "Kayo Kyoku Plus" for a weather announcement. Toronto is currently being pummeled with a foot of snow with the temperature at around -14 degrees Celsius with a wind chill factor of -25. Autos are skidding off the roads and a lot of institutions are closing due to the weather (including schools; yay, Snow Day!😊). It'll probably be one of the rare days that I don't step out of the house, period.

But hey, it's January in my hometown and this sort of stuff is expected. And I've decided to put up an emergency Author's Picks based on storms.

(1958) Yujiro Ishihara -- Arashi wo Yobu Otoko (嵐を呼ぶ男）

(1979) Tatsuro Yamashita -- Storm

(1982) Taeko Ohnuki -- Tsumuji Kaze （つむじ風）

(1984) Yumi Matsutoya -- Blizzard

(1999) Arashi -- A-RA-SHI

Culture Day

 

Last night, my student reminded me that Monday is a national holiday in Japan known as Culture Day. Every November 3rd, there are festivals, parades and art exhibits to promote culture of all kinds including music throughout the nation. And I believe that museums and art galleries tend to open up their buildings for free access or half-price access on that day.

When I was on vacation in Tokyo back in November 2017, my former colleague was kind enough to invite me to a culture festival held at Waseda University where she was working at the time, and as you can see above, it was packed to the gills with students and other visitors as the various campus clubs held performances and campaigns to attract new members.

As such, I decided why not put up a few songs regarding Culture Day. Admittedly, I'm gonna be rather loosey-goosey about how I'm going to go about it. The first three entries are associated with some of the things that I talked about in the first paragraph whereas the final two songs were actually popular ones played at some of the festivals themselves.

(1976) Tatsuro Yamashita/Sugar Babe -- Parade （パレード）

(1984) Taeko Ohnuki -- Metropolitan Museum （メトロポリタン美術館）

(2000) Pornograffitti -- Music Hour （ミュージック・アワー）

(1987) The Blue Hearts -- Linda, Linda

(2016) Gen Hoshino -- Koi （恋）

C'est si bon! Those French titles

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Over the years, I've come to believe that there has been a long love affair between France and Japan, culturally and diplomatically speaking. The French seem to have enjoyed manga, anime and cosplay for decades; some of the first anime I saw back in Canada were in French thanks to CBLFT-25. Meanwhile, the Japanese have often gone ga-ga for all of that haute couture and cuisine. I think even the late French president Francois Mitterand once had a dog named Sumo.

Well, the idea was only percolating in my mind over the last several hours but I was thinking for my next Author's Picks, I would bring over some of that kayo kyoku with French titles. But these songs aren't covers of French originals...just tunes whose singers and songwriters thought that a title in French would be c'est si bon. And so, without further ado:

(1981) Circus -- Petit Dejeuner ~ Nichiyoubi no Choushoku（日曜日の朝食）

(1981) Taeko Ohnuki -- la mer, le ciel

(1982) Yoichi Sugawara & Silvia -- Amant （アマン）

(1983) Miharu Koshi -- Petit Paradis

(1987) Akemi Ishii -- C'est La Rose

Yutaka Kimura Speaks: Taeko Ohnuki（大貫妙子）

 

For people who had mainly listened to music centering on American and British pop and rock, Taeko Ohnuki's European music approach must have sounded oddly fresh. "Romantique", "Aventure", "Cliché", "Signifie" and then "Copine" in 1985 followed the same road, but what is notable here is that most of the songs were created in Tokyo under that quasi-European sound. Some of the songs on "Cliché" were actually recorded in France, but the vast majority of them were made in Japan's capital alongside people such as Ryuichi Sakamoto（坂本龍一）. For that matter, you can say that they really were of the City Pop world. 

People become the most imaginative when they are heads-over-heels in love. They actually head off in the direction of the place of their desire that they only knew via their records, and so creating these songs while in thrall to their imagination everywhere can often take on a charm that is even bigger than recording them. When talking about City Pop, this is an extremely important element. Music of a refined Western taste that retains the scent of Tokyo...wouldn't this be the true essence of City Pop?

Another thing that can't be forgotten is the presence of Sakamoto. From "Romantique" to "Copine", it can be said that with him as the arranger and Ohnuki as the artist, it was a golden time. When he departed with his skill, the singer's European path could no longer move forward. 

After that, Ohnuki created pop masterpieces in the 90s with "Drawing" and "Shooting Star in the Blue Sky", and always kept up the quality and freshness of her works through working with these excellent sound creators of that time. 

The way to enjoy her City Pop is not just by listening to her as an artist, but also by focusing on her amazing behind-the-scenes work as a producer, arranger and musician.

The above comes from "Disc Collection Japanese City Pop Revised" (2020).

Taeko Ohnuki -- Japão

 

The wonderful thing about singer-songwriter Taeko Ohnuki（大貫妙子）is that throughout the decades of her career, she's been able to transition from genre to genre with aplomb. There were her New Music/City Pop years in the late 1970s and then the switch to a more technopop/French sound going into the 1980s. 

I don't know as much of her 90s material but from what I've heard from her during the final decade of the 20th century is much more laidback, stripped back and focused on an earthier sound through instruments including exotic percussion. In 1995, Ohnuki released her 17th album "TCHOU", a release that was recorded in Brazil for the first time for her. She and Shigeki Miyata（宮田茂樹）co-produced the project and though a lot of the tracks were created by the former, there are songs on "TCHOU" which were created by Brazilian artists including Gilberto Gil and the late Oscar Castro-Neves.

One of the track is "Japão" which was written by Gil and composed by Joao Donato and it is a Brazilian love letter to Ohnuki's nation. She dreamily sings of mountain-surrounded hometowns, moonlit islands and a most genteel lifestyle there. We can leave Tokyo out of this one...which I'm sure the singer probably loved to do. It's all very comfortable and old-fashioned at the same time.

Hiroshi Takano & Taeko Ohnuki -- Silent Song

 

I gather that for this Xmas season on KKP, we've had a bit of a running theme coursing its way over the past several weeks thanks to Masamichi Sugi's（杉真理）1997 compilation "Winter Gift Pops" album and Scott's podcast "Holly Jolly X'masu". I've already taken care of a couple of tracks there: Caoli Cano & Hiroshi Takano's（かの香織・高野寛）"First Flight" and Miwako Saito's（さいとうみわこ） cover of "Anata dake I Love You"（あなただけ I LOVE YOU）.

Well, it continues here as well with Takano coming back to do another duet...this time with the illustrious singer-songwriter Taeko Ohnuki（大貫妙子）. Together they perform "Silent Song" which is a fairly languid and intimate tune about spending that special night. Another running theme within "Winter Gift Pops" is that Scott himself even mentioned that not all of the tracks on the album (45:26 on the podcast) strictly adhere to a Christmas theme (it's Winter Gift Pops, not Christmas Gift Pops after all), and "Silent Song" can also be considered to be a more general winter tune.

Still, despite there not being any mention of Christmas in "Silent Song", all sorts of romance can happen on Christmas Eve in Japan (hotels are very busy on the 24th) so why not have "Silent Song" be an honorary Yuletide tune? Takano was responsible for everything in the song with Ohnuki in charge of the chorus arrangement. One more point is that I think this might be the first tune that I've ever encountered that has both a euphonium and a didgeridoo being performed in a song.

Aya Katsuragi -- Nijuu-ichi Banme no Kanashimi（21番目の悲しみ）

 

Thanks to the YouTube channel Nameless Songs, I've been able to discover songs by the more obscure singers of all stripes from Japan. If you have a chance, head over there and explore!

I have a feeling that a lot of those selections consist of aidoru from the 1970s and especially the 1980s because the revolving door of teenybopper singers spun so hard that it ended up dislocating itself from its central axis. And here today, I have Aya Katsuragi（桂木文）from Nagoya who had a fairly long run in the geinokai between 1978 and the early 2000s according to her J-Wiki profile, much of it probably due to her time as an actress.

And indeed, her debut in show business happened due to her selection out of 40,000 applicants as Hiromi Go's（郷ひろみ）love interest in the late 1970s in his show "Muu Ichizoku"（ムー一族...The Muu Family）. Katsuragi also had a pretty brief time in the recording booth as an aidoru between 1978 and 1982. She released three singles in the late 1970s with a lone album coming out in November 1982, "Hitoribocchi no Concerto"（ひとりぼっちのコンチェルト...A Concerto All Alone）.

One track from the album is "Nijuu-ichi Banme no Kanashimi" (Lonely for the 21st Time) which was composed by Taeko Ohnuki（大貫妙子）and written by Hiroko Asano（浅野裕子）. The interesting part, aside from the fact that Ohnuki came up with the moderately melancholy melody, is that no fewer than four people participated in its arrangement including Nobuyuki Shimizu（清水信之）. I'm not sure if that is a good sign or not since I've often heard that if the number of writers on a certain TV episode reads like a long Xmas wish list, then it was probably a troubled assignment. Listening to the nearly-four-minute song feels like a trip through different nations with the first port-of-call being a particularly refined aidoru tune and the final one ending up as a truly exotic technopop march of some majesty. However, through it all, I found Katsuragi's vocals to be quite non-aidoru and pure of heart, and even somewhat similar to those of Ohnuki herself.

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Miki Nakatani/Tomoyo Harada -- Natsu ni Koi Suru Onna Tachi（夏に恋する女たち)

 

Welcome to another Hump Day on KKP. Readers might be feeling a tad worn out by this point, so perhaps one of the tunes put up today may apply some aural salve to your ears.

Generally speaking for me, covers of songs have been fine but they rarely outdo the originals. I think that would also apply to Miki Nakatani's（中谷美紀）version of "Natsu ni Koi Suru Onna Tachi"（The Women Who Love In Summer), a cover of singer-songwriter Taeko Ohnuki's（大貫妙子）original from her October 1983 album "Signifie". As I mentioned in the article for the album many years ago, there was a grand Gallic flair with this summery pop song as if these women in the title were having the time of their lives in the south of France.

Nakatani's version can be found in her 1999 album "Shiseikatsu"（私生活...Private Life） with original arranger Ryuichi Sakamoto（坂本龍一）, fellow technopop composer Kazuhiko Maeda（前田和彦）and Hidekazu Hoshino（星野英和）helping out on this new arrangement. This new take on "Natsu ni Koi Suru Onna Tachi" goes slightly further into the technopop with enhanced loopiness and a faster tempo. Maybe the protagonists here are female holograms.

Interestingly enough, I only found out by scrolling through the J-Wiki article for "Natsu ni Koi Suru Onna Tachi" earlier today that there was another cover done much later by Tomoyo Harada（原田知世）for her May 2016 album of covers, "Ren'ai Shosetsu 2 -- Wakaba no Koro"（恋愛小説2 -若葉のころ...Novels of Love 2 -- During Our Salad Days）. And this time, the cover version goes into the other direction...that is, without any synthesizers or other overtly blippy electronic equipment involved and brings in the tenderhearted strings for a much slower and contemplative Fashion Music take. Guitarist and music producer Goro Ito（伊藤ゴロー）arranged things here.

Just for Fun...The J-C AI Gallery -- Ichiro, Masao & Taeko

 

Ichiro Fujiyama -- Tokyo Rhapsody （東京ラプソディ）

Masao Sen -- Hoshikage no Waltz （星影のワルツ）

Taeko Ohnuki -- 4AM

Yutaka Kimura Speaks ~ Japanese City Pop Masterpieces 100: Yoshitaka Minami -- Hizuke Henkosen（日付変更線）

 

Number: 067

Lyricist: Yumi Matsutoya

Composer: Yoshitaka Minami

Arranger: Ryuichi Sakamoto

From Minami's 1978 album: "South of the Border"

According to Minami（南佳孝）himself, "Hizuke Henkosen" (International Date Line) was a complete song once the chorus was changed from a minor to a major key. With a percussion that wraps around a bossa nova rhythm, the song has the sound of traveling to tropical climes from Tokyo and crossing the International Date Line. The addition of a synthesizer is also splendid, and even among the arrangements of Ryuichi Sakamoto（坂本龍一）in his pre-YMO days, I'd say that this is one of his best. The refreshing female background chorus belongs to none other than Taeko Ohnuki（大貫妙子）.

The above comes from "Disc Collection Japanese City Pop Revised" (2020).

Time Travel Songs

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After I put up Kana Hanazawa's（花澤香菜）"Time Machine wa Totsuzen ni"（タイムマシーンは突然に）onto "Kayo Kyoku Plus" the other day, I came to the realization that there were quite a few songs in Japan regarding time travel or at least there was some mention of it in the title. In fact, I found a few that I hadn't covered but perhaps I will in a future article. But in the meantime, here are a few that we did cover over the years.

(1978) Shinji Harada -- Time Travel

(1984) Taeko Ohnuki -- Metropolitan Museum （メトロポリタン美術館）

(1986) Mariya Takeuchi -- Toki no Tabibito（時空の旅人）

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(1986) Mariya Takeuchi -- Time Stranger ~ Teco no Tehma（タイムストレンジャー 〜テコのテーマ〜）(check link for "Toki no Tabibito")

(1986) Seiko Matsuda -- Jikan Ryokou （時間旅行）

(2024) Kana Hanazawa -- Time Machine wa Totsuzen ni（タイムマシーンは突然に）

Taeko Ohnuki -- Koibito-tachi no Jikoku（恋人たちの時刻）

 

It was a couple of years ago when YouTuber Marty McFlies v2 posted the soundtrack to a 1987 movie called "Koibito-tachi no Jikoku" (Lovers' Time). He quickly made it clear that he wasn't a fan of the album whose music was mostly created by Joe Hisaishi（久石譲）, and for me as well, I found it a little too languid for my tastes. Generally, I don't really listen to soundtracks all that frequently now and that even includes the ones by John Williams.

But Marty and I also agree that the Taeko Ohnuki（大貫妙子）-created theme song for the movie which shares the same title is a lovely one. "Koibito-tachi no Jikoku" indeed plays into the early 1980s atmosphere of the singer-songwriter when she was lovingly embracing some of that wonderful French sound as she collaborated with the late Ryuichi Sakamoto（坂本龍一）. As arranged by Kazuhiko Kato（加藤和彦）and saxophonist Yasuaki Shimizu（清水靖晃）, "Koibito-tachi no Jikoku" waltzes grandly from sadness to hope while Ohnuki has that characteristic soft lilt to her vocals. Of course, for the coolness factor, Shimizu comes in with that solo saxophone which sounds like he was busking on the busy streets of Paris. The song was also a track on Ohnuki's 12th studio album "A Slice of Life" from October 1987. In fact, I gave my own paragraph on the song when I looked at the album back in 2020.

Yutaka Kimura Speaks ~ Japanese City Pop Masterpieces 100: Taeko Ohnuki -- Tokai（都会）

 

Number: 053

Lyricist: Taeko Ohnuki

Composer: Taeko Ohnuki

Arranger: Ryuichi Sakamoto

From Ohnuki's 1977 album: "Sunshower"

"Tokai" comes from the music that I was really into back then which was the crossover material from bands such as Stuff and The Brecker Brothers. The ensemble that included drummer Chris Parker is absolutely splendid, but Ryuichi Sakamoto's（坂本龍一）keyboard work was also starting to blossom. Taeko Ohnuki's（大貫妙子）clear-as-a-bell vocals and the seamless performance skillfully brought the cool ambiance of the city to the fore.

The above comes from "Disc Collection Japanese City Pop Revised" (2020).

Ruiko Kurahashi -- Sayonara no Hohoemi（さよならの微笑）

 

For those who are celebrating the Easter long weekend, I hope you are having a good time. Perhaps some of you may be searching for a fish n' chip shop somewhere. 

I have a rather interesting song here to start off KKP on the final Saturday of March 2024. "Sayonara no Hohoemi" (The Goodbye Smile) is a track on Ruiko Kurahashi's（倉橋ルイ子）3rd album "Heartbreak Theater" from September 1982 and it's about as quintessentially Fashion Music as a Ruiko song can get. With all of the drama and existential uncertainty in the strings and the piano, this could have been inserted into the Japanese production of "Les Misérables" without anyone noticing. The singer herself sounds like she was about to succumb to some major tears.

"Sayonara no Hohoemi" was written and composed by Taeko Ohnuki（大貫妙子）with the arrangement by Mitsuo Hagita（萩田光雄）. Now, the interesting part was that the following year, Ohnuki herself would release her 7th album "Signifie" with one of the tracks being a cover of Ruiko's song. However, it would have a different title: "Genwaku"（幻感....Fascination） and instead of the heartbreaking atmosphere in a French castle for "Sayonara no Hohoemi", Ohnuki's own version adopts her style of the time of appealingly quirky technopop Frenchness which might suggest a modern-day Jean Valjean trying to escape the intrepid Javert while on a moped in Paris. I'll be honest when I say that although I have listened to both songs in the past, I didn't make the connection between them until relatively recently...the arrangements are that different.

Slip Some Disco?

 

Not that I ever was a John Travolta on the disco floor myself, but Kayo Grace, I'm not sure if that is a disco move you're making there. But hey, who am I to criticize? You're enjoying yourself...that's the important thing.

Anyways, just out of a sense of whimsy...and "Kayo Kyoku Plus" has shown plenty of that over the past twelve years, I'm putting up some of my favourite disco-tinged tunes. Good times!

(1978) Taeko Ohnuki -- Iidasenakute （言いだせなくて）

(1978) Ryuichi Sakamoto -- Elastic Dummy

(1978) Hiromi Iwasaki -- Cinderella Honeymoon (シンデレラ・ハネムーン)

(1980) Mariya Takeuchi -- Sweetest Music

(1982) EPO -- Girl In Me

(1997) Ulfuls -- Sore ga Kotae da! （それが答えだ！）