Yep definitely remember it.
Surprised such an Asiancentric song / video made #12 in 1982!!
Remember Japanese Boy by ? reaching No.1 around that time though it’s a bit more on the pop side to be fair. Blancmange’s brilliant Living on the ceiling had a bit of Asian vibe about it too I thought.
Yes but Aneka was white and Scottish.
Yeah, but she spoke Jockanese
Was just reading a bit on wiki and came to the bit where the singer said it was a hit everywhere except in Japan because "they thought it sounded too Chinese." Just gotta love the whole weirdness of 80s pop.
Haha, that's brilliant.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.
With an album title like that, it's sure to be the bestest album of the year!
Ugh...so I take it there is going to be a volume 2? Also, This website is named after Depeche Mode's original name! Aren't you glad I told you that?
Wait, i'm a dork. Their original name was Composition of Sound, not Consequence of Sound. Damn you, Vince Clarke.
Has he done anything with the DM guys since he left or was it a total break?
Pretty much a total break. He and Martin did a collaboration called VCMG a few years back and released a couple of techno albums under that name. The more interesting part is that it was released on Mute, Daniel Miller's label. That was the label of the early DM albums. Daniel Miller was also The Normal of the original Warm Leatherette fame (and I think more people are familiar with Grace Jones' cover). Mute was also Fad Gadget's label. I could seriously talk about Mute and Daniel Miller all day long. His parents were also refugees from Nazi occupied Vienna like my nana, so I feel a special affinity toward him. Anyway, I digress. Vince has not done anything with DM proper since he left.
