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Breadcrumbs dropped on music wanderings.

  1. 無敵の Only You & 横浜 Boy Style CoCo

    Having a search for CoCo songs (prompted by the neat blog JPop80ss) hasn’t turned up much, but this first song is pretty good, and I like the bad singing. The chorus of Yokohama Boy Style is okay, too.

  2. B~r~e~a~k~~~t~i~m~e

  3. Driving All Night Yutaka Ozaki

    I liked this song quite a bit at the start, and less so as it went on. Mostly I just don’t buy his persona.

    Even though just being here is aggravating is an interesting lyric translation.

  4. 愛が止まらない (Turn It Into Love) Wink

    A Kylie Minogue cover. According to the Youtube comments this was their last TV performance, that’s why one of them is upset.


    2019 edit: Again, the video’s been taken down, so I’ve had to replace it with one I just kinda liked.


    2020 edit: And gone again, so I’ve found what I think is the original one and uploaded it. I’ve also learnt the tears are because they were moved by their song becoming number one in Japan.

  5. ノ・レ・な・いTeen-age Noriko Sakai

    Another great video. I already like 80s J-Pop a lot, but I’m trying to avoid posting videos I’ve seen before. So no Dancing Hero, for example.


    2019 edit: The old video’s been taken down, but this one’s something neat too. Also, it has a lot of watches.

    2024 edit: Video’s down again. I just watched it yesterday—

  6. B~r~e~a~k~~~t~i~m~e

  7. Security Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons

    They didn’t do much else as good as this cover of (the Thane Russal version of) Security. Like too many Australian bands of this era they have a few really nice songs and a lot of pish and half ruined tracks. Shape I’m In, and All I Wanna Do are good though.