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