Yellow Magic Orchestra "YMO"
Here's yet another greatest hits album from Yellow Magic Orchestra selected by the 3 members. Worth of mention are the inclusions of HASYMO's "Tokyo Town Pages" (2008) and some tracks from live albums (tracks 4, 5 from "Faker Holic" and 15 from "Complete Service").
While planned to be released in some other countries at the same time, only this Japanese edition comes as a high quality Blu-spec CD (plays in normal CD players) and in a cardboard sleeve.
Yellow Magic Orchestra "YMO"
1. Firecracker
2. Cosmic Surfin'
3. La Femme Chinoise
4. Tong Poo
5. Day Tripper
6. Behind the Mask
7. Rydeen
8. Tighten Up (Japanese Gentlemen Stand Up Please!)
9. U.T.
10. 1000 Knives
11. Mass
12. Camouf lage
13. Light in Darkness
14. Epilogue
15. Key
16. Nanga Def?
17. Tokyo Town Pages
GT music MHCL-20123
Out 6/15, ¥2000 (excl. 10% tax)
Order: CDJapan, YesAsia, Amazon, HMV, Tower Records (Japan only) †, 
† Tower Records ships directly within Japan only. International orders are available via WorldShopping.
Posted on June 4, 2011 at 01:16
| Released on June 15, 2011
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At their U.S. shows they were selling HK pressings of the album. So I guess either availability or price (US$22?) outweighed the specialness of Blu-Spec. They were also selling the "YMO x Sukia" book for US$40 and giving away "post YMO London" buttons for buying both. The book seemed print-on-demand or something rapid, not bad but definitely below typical Japanese photo book quality. The pictures of course are quite special and span YMOs whole career.
Posted by nick on July 10, 2011 at 01:22