So here's a fun story. My brother is an extremely talented musician, he plays guitar, mandolin, banjo and fiddle. If you can't put together what type of music he likes from those instruments, it's bluegrass. He eats, breathes, lives and dies by bluegrass, not the new crap that's full of jammy tendencies or the hyper pretty Berklee music we've seen emerge from the genre over the last decade +. He's a traditionalist, Flatts & Scruggs, Bill Monroe, Vasser Clements, etc. I'm a big fan of the genre but my musical tastes are all over the map. He pretty much just listens to bluegrass with the exception to 70's funk, he loves that too. So to my complete surprise this summer he discovered Yellow Magic Orchestra through youtube, listened to a bunch of albums and liked a handful. Their self titled and Solid State Survivor were the ones he kept going back to and enjoying. I thought for xmas it would be fun to buy him a YMO record because I always buy him funk or bluegrass records.
I purchased a used US pressing for under $20, not a bad deal, had light scuff marks on the record according to the seller. When I received it there were gouges out of it, I won't even put it on my player to test for fear of damaging my needle. I could not find another pressing for under $20 that didn't have issues so I finally pulled the trigger on the MOV version that includes the US pressing and the Japanese pressing (Japanese version has one extra song). I put the brand new record in the OG sleeve and gave that to him for xmas and now I have a copy of the Japanese pressing for my collection. I love the record so it's nice to have finally.
The MOV pressing seems quite nice, although I haven't sat down with headphones yet to really dive into how good it sounds. Jacket is very heavy weight, front is US cover art (which I prefer), back is Japanese cover art.
