[Bezulsqy]

@inskb
I have no idea what those records are but packages from Japan are always a good thing :-)

They are all City Pop records. From top left to bottom right
Akina Nakamori - Fushigi
Junko Yagami - Mr Metropolis
Akiko Yano - Iroha Ni Konpeitou
Kikuchi Momoko - Ocean Side

I'm not actually sure if you would categorize Akiko's album as City Pop as it's from '77 and doesn't really follow the formula, she's a bit weirder and more experimental. It's still a pop album just not by the exact standards of City Pop.

city pop... is this pop music with japanese vocals? if so I can understand that those can be a very fun listen

[inksb]

city pop... is this pop music with japanese vocals? if so I can understand that those can be a very fun listen

Yeah it's Japanese pop from the late 70's through 80s. Usually mixing elements of funk, r&b, disco, sythnpop, rock. It's a lot of fun. Future Funk & Vaporwave sample a lot from City Pop albums.

Check out Tatsuro Yamashita - For You it's one of the genre's classics.



or

Taeko Ohnuki - Sunshower

[ChrisMcQueen007]

Sparkle (first song on For You) is such a great song, if that doesn‘t put one in a good mood mood I don‘t know what does.

I quite like listening to City Pop, it‘s music from a time when the Japanese economy was growing and growing so everybody was happy and had a good time, I think that comes across pretty well.

Personally there‘s only so much I can ‚take‘ of that style of music at once though, I usually prefer to listen to one side of a City Pop album and then something else. It‘s like with a good dessert for me - one is enough. :)

[inksb]

Personally there‘s only so much I can ‚take‘ of that style of music at once though, I usually prefer to listen to one side of a City Pop album and then something else. It‘s like with a good dessert for me - one is enough. :)

I totally get this sentiment. I got through phases of music with this mentality at times. I'll want to hear some thing, put on one side of a record and that's enough for me for a while.

Here is something I've never seen before. I put one of the albums I just got, Fushigi (the black and orange one), side A is a standard pressed record, I flipped it over to B and discovered a picture disc. I have never seen an LP like that. Kind of bummed as side B has a ton of surface noise due to it being a picture disc. Oh well, I could have researched this on discogs but I didn't know it was a thing so I never looked for it.

[chiefbrody]

Took me quite a while to pick this one up, but glad to finally have it. What's with MOV using an outer (PVC?) sleeve? I've not seen that on any of their other non-OST releases.

Great timing though, my turntable is out of commission for the next 3 weeks.

[Bezulsqy]

a new box arrived

it contained these smaller packages



those contained the following

an album filled with the sounds of the automobiles pictured on the front...


some albums


and mainly 45's
you are not seeing double, I actually forgot I already had some of them

[inksb]

Nice haul @bez! Is that a Battle Creek Brawl 7" I see in there?

[Bezulsqy]

Nice haul @bez! Is that a Battle Creek Brawl 7" I see in there?

It is. I also have the LP. Need to make some new pictures for the thread with obi stuff.

[deafmetal]

Nice haul, Bez. Did you get more pamphlets as well? I look forward to visiting your museum some day! ;)

[Spun out of control]

Lovely stuff @Bez... including Belly of the Black Tarantula 7-inch!

I think I'd quite happily live in a Japanese record store. ;)

[Bezulsqy]

@deaf
No brochures this time but I did get this Eraserhead foldout I am going to get framed. It came together with a more recent flyer

@spun
I think that 7” together with the stone killer one are the ones I am the happiest with

[inksb]

Love that Eraserhead poster!

[ChrisMcQueen007]

Great haul, Bez!

This reninds me that I need to get the Japanese Day of the Dead as it features the two pop songs from the film which WW didn‘t include on their pressing.

[inksb]

These two beauties showed up yesterday. I absolutely love this Laurie Spiegel album and I got it for $26 which is crazy as it's a $45 3LP set. Some guy on dicogs accepted my low ball offer.

[Bezulsqy]

These two beauties showed up yesterday. I absolutely love this Laurie Spiegel album and I got it for $26 which is crazy as it's a $45 3LP set. Some guy on dicogs accepted my low ball offer.

I don't know Laurie Spiegel (don't shoot me) but that is an excellent price for a triple set.
And those Klaus Schutze records I always wanted to get but I don't think I will ever end up buying them simply because there are so many other records I also want.

[Dollarhyde]

A couple of beauts that dropped through the letter box.


Thanks @texas for the Horrorshow!! Very happy to add this to my growing Osamu collection :D

The other record is a great little 70's OST with some Italian tones and some great laid-back jazzy funky 70's OST sounds. Very pleasantly surprised.
Two in the Amsterdam Rain by Takayuki Inoue and the Kenny Wood Orchestra
https://www.discogs.com/%E4%BA%95%E4%B8 ... se/5045887

[inksb]

Very cool that Horror Music Show ended back up in the STBC collection. I have to tell myself on a daily basis not to buy all of the Osamu records that show up on my discogs daily listings.

[Dollarhyde]

I have to tell myself on a daily basis not to buy all of the Osamu records that show up on my discogs daily listings.

Literally doing this now, ugh!! :D

[texasvinyl]

Glad it made it safely. Loved the cover, but the music wasn't for me. Super cool looking record for sure though!!

[ScoJo]

C'est geniale!

I'm top thrilled to add this to my Serge collection - all six episodes onto LP (there were 4x different colours pressed) of his 60s space-age mod toon featuring the exploits of 'Barbarella's little sister'... I had no idea that this awesome unofficial release existed until recently, luckily scored one from CD and LP for the original value. I love the show and SGs music is typically fantastic.

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https://www.discogs.com/Serge-Gainsbo ... se/9677129

Here's an article with inks to all six episodes on YT:

https://dangerousminds.net/comments/ser ... thematique

[Bezulsqy]

Nice ones @Dollar and @ScoJo

I did see that 2 in the Amsterdam Rain pop up on occasion. But because I had no clue about the music I did not really pay attention.

And I need to get more Serge in my life!

[Mateo Sanboval]

Echoing Bez's sentiments here.

Dollar, Two In The Amsterdam Rain is a killer score from the little I've heard. If you ever rip that, send up a smoke signal, please.

ScoJ, That Gainsbourg has my head spinning. I was ignorant to both the music and its subject. That will have to be remedied.

[ScoJo]

ScoJ, That Gainsbourg has my head spinning. I was ignorant to both the music and its subject. That will have to be remedied.

You bet your bippy.

[Dollarhyde]

Echoing Bez's sentiments here.

Dollar, Two In The Amsterdam Rain is a killer score from the little I've heard. If you ever rip that, send up a smoke signal, please.

ScoJ, That Gainsbourg has my head spinning. I was ignorant to both the music and its subject. That will have to be remedied.

May well do that Mateo, but I need to get a new stylus first. I will have a few other bits to rip also.

[texasvinyl]

Surprised to find a random record shop in Waco TX. All crap, all way way overpriced. Then I found a VG+ original Prestige of Miles Cookin' for $40. These days that's a steal in this condition, probably best find in the wild in some time. Not supposed to buy anything but had to make an exception for this one.