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Any Idea what this LP has on it? Not a track list, but whether it is instrumental or not. There's anothyer part to the title, something about "....Boys" I couldn't read it under the paper banner, and it was sealed in a way that the edge was obscured. If these are indeed instrumental cuts, I'm grabbing this. Thanks up front, Charlie James

Ooooo, if this is the bluish-cover one with them across the bottom edge, from about '84 or so, it is highly NOT RECOMMENDED, NEWSFLASH! ...I just checked some YMO homepages. I once had the "Naughty Boys" vocal version, so I've never heard the instrumental version. I do remember that there were significant reggae-pop influences on this record and quite a bit of new digital sounds (Fairlight..?..that would make sense given that a year later Sakamoto was all over the Fairlight) The vocal record is not very rare as I've seen it before. Check out http://www.tezcat.com/~klee/ymodisk.html for a reference to these lps. If you pull up the vocal version there are links to the horrid lyrics; that should give you some idea where this record was going... The Instrumentals might be ok, but I don't recall this being anywhere near B-2 Unit or Technodelic or X Infinity... David On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Britton-James wrote:

quoted 10 lines Any Idea what this LP has on it? Not a track list, but whether it is

> Any Idea what this LP has on it? Not a track list, but whether it is > instrumental or not. There's anothyer part to the title, something about > "....Boys" I couldn't read it under the paper banner, and it was sealed > in a way that the edge was obscured. If these are indeed instrumental > cuts, I'm grabbing this. > > Thanks up front, > > Charlie James >

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On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Solenoid wrote:

quoted 2 lines Ooooo, if this is the bluish-cover one with them across the bottom edge,

> Ooooo, if this is the bluish-cover one with them across the bottom edge, > from about '84 or so, it is highly NOT RECOMMENDED,

...unless you have good taste. Solenoid's been listening to too much Nurse With Wound...

quoted 6 lines NEWSFLASH! ...I just checked some YMO homepages. I once had the

> NEWSFLASH! ...I just checked some YMO homepages. I once had the > "Naughty Boys" vocal version, so I've never heard the instrumental > version. I do remember that there were significant reggae-pop influences > on this record and quite a bit of new digital sounds (Fairlight..?..that > would make sense given that a year later Sakamoto was all over the > Fairlight)

Ok, you're getting closer - Naughty Boys has Hosono, Takehashi & Sakamoto wearing primary colors & bad makeup on a greenish background, Naughty Boys Instrumentals has 3 flags on a blue background. NBI isn't just NB w/o the vocals - the arrangements are for the most part the same, but the mixes are different, w/ Bill Nelson's guitar more prominent (a good thing, really, he plays mostly Ebo guitar on this album). I think it's a very worthwhile album, and it's a good taste of YMO's music if you don't like vocals. I think every IDMer owes it to her or himself to check out YMO's Technodelic & Sakamoto's B2-Unit. From there, I'd recommend BGM & Naughty Boys. If you're into great techno pop, Takehashi's Neuromantic (it came years before Gibson's book, BTW), is a wonderful record with appearances by Bill Nelson & Andy McKaye (sp? - sax player for Roxy Music). Finally, there's the Hi Tech/NO Crime YMO remixe album which has excellent IDM updates of their classics, and their reunion album, Technodon, parts of which classify as IDM, others as weird modern technopop. Che