Murdered by the Music

Murdered by the Music
Studio album by Yukihiro Takahashi
Released June 21, 1980 (1980-06-21)
Recorded CBS/Sony Roppongi Studio
Genre Pop music, Synthpop, Technopop
Label Seven Seas (King Records)
Producer Yukihiro Takahashi
Yukihiro Takahashi chronology
Saravah!
(1978)String Module Error: Match not found1978
Murdered by the Music
(1980)
Neuromantic
(1981)Neuromantic1981

Murdered by the Music is Yukihiro Takahashi's second solo album, released when he was a member of YMO. As well as his YMO bandmates Ryuichi Sakamoto and Haruomi Hosono, and longtime YMO collaborator Hideki Matsutake this album also features contributions from Sandii and Makoto Arukawa of Sheena & the Rokkets.

In Japan this album reached No 12 on the general Oricon chart, and No. 14 on the Oricon LP chart.[1]

Track listing

All tracks written by Yukihiro Takahashi and all lyrics by Chris Mosdell except where noted..

No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."School of Thought" Ryuichi Sakamoto4:12
2."Murdered By The Music" Makoto Arukawa4:40
3."Kid-Nap, The Dreamer"  3:00
4."I-Kasu!"instrumental 1:12
5."Radioactivist"  3:14
6."Numbers From A Calculated Conversation"  4:36
7."Bijin-Kyoshi At The Swimming School"instrumental 4:08
8."Blue Colour Worker" Haruomi Hosono4:28
9."Stop In The Name Of Love"Holland Dozier HollandHolland Dozier Holland3:19
10."Mirrormanic"  3:33
11."The Core of Eden"  6:25

Personnel

  • Haruomi Hosono - Acoustic Guitar, Bass Guitar
  • Mitsuru Torii - Art Direction
  • Sandii - Backing Vocals
  • Hideki Matsutake - Computer Operator
  • Kenji Omura - Electric Guitar
  • Makoto Ayukawa - Electric Guitar
  • "Teppei" Kasai - Engineer
  • Toshiro Itoh - Engineer
  • Seiichi Chiba - Recording Engineer
  • Chris Mosdell - Lyrics, Quasimutanic voice
  • "Bricks" - Costume
  • Equipment Co-ordinator - "Donbay" Nagata
  • Mikio Honda - Hair & Make Up
  • Hiroshi Okura - Management
  • Yoichi Itoh - Production Co-ordinator
  • Kenji Ando - Recording Director
  • Masayoshi Sukita - Photography
  • Yukihiro Takahashi - Producer, Arranger, Lead Vocals, Vocoder, Drums, Percussion
  • Ryuichi Sakamoto - Synthesizers, Synthesizer Programming, Electric & Acoustic Piano, Vocoder.

References

  1. Orikon chāto bukku. LP. Tōkyō: Orijinarukonfidensu. 1990. p. 193. ISBN 4871310256. OCLC 674130691.

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