Kimi no Station: The Home of City Pop's video: Ryuichi Sakamoto The Kakutougi Session - Summer Nerves 1979 Full Album

Album: Summer Nerves [サマー・ナーヴス] Artist(s): Ryuichi Sakamoto & The Kakutougi Session [坂本龍一 & カクトウギ・セッション] Release date: June 21, 1979 Label: CBS/Sony Genre(s): Electronic, Reggae, Funk/Soul --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summer Nerves is a collaboration album between Ryuichi Sakamoto and reggae band The Kakutougi Session. The album features many guest musicians, including as Tatsuro Yamashita, Minako Yoshida, Yukihiro Takahashi, and Akiko Yano (Sakamoto's wife at the time). Haruomi Hosono composed the last track of the album, "Neuronian Network," making it one of the few times all three members of Yellow Magic Orchestra (or YMO) collaborated on a non-YMO album. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tracklist: 1. Summer Nerves [0:00] 2. You're Friend To Me [4:13] 3. Sleep On My Baby [9:16] 4. Theme For "Kakutougi" [14:27] 5. Gonna Go To I Colony [20:48] 6. Time Trip [25:30] 7. Sweet Illusion [29:47] 8. Neuronian Network [36:20] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: "You're Friend To Me" is a cover song of Sister Sledge's "You're A Friend To Me," and Akiko Yano would release her own version of "Sleep On My Baby" as part of her 1982 album Ai ga Nakuchane. [愛がなくちゃね。] Also, this is personally one of my favorite albums. :) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 君のSTATION (pronounced Kimi-no-Station, or "Your Station") is the showcase for music of the "city pop" genre. Unlike other channels, however, relatively obscure albums, albums currently existing in low quality, and albums that haven't been uploaded in full, will be seen here on this channel. DISCLAIMER: I do not own anything in this video at all; all content belongs to their respective owners. Fair use, that's all.