The Three Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Records I Bought — Masumi Usui
The early Beatles albums had different jacket designs, song contents, and track orders between those released in Britain (UK edition), those released in America (US edition), and those released in Jap...
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50 Years in a Dangerous World, Queen II — Yoko Sugihara
When we say "album," many works from the late 60s to 70s naturally come to mind. I think even as a child, I somehow absorbed the colors, scents, and energy of that era. Progressive rock was especiall...
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"The Album That Matsuyama's Guitar Master Has Been Listening to for 70 Years" — Fumio Takeichi
Matsuyama City, Ehime Prefecture. In my hometown, there's a friend who has been playing guitar unchanged all these years. Nicknamed "Ittsuan" — Fumio Takeichi. House band member at go-go café "Ginran...
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Born 3 Days After Abbey Road and Let It Be — Masayuki Hamaoka
I remembered something again, so I'll write about it. This time it's about The Beatles. It's about when I was in Nerima. When I wrote about Sting in Vol.4, it was also about Nerima. That time I focu...
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Yes "Close to the Edge" ~ Roger Dean on the Ceiling and Two Tatami Mat Nights — Bobby (Satoru Tokuno)
There are many artists, bands, and singers who have influenced me, but my heavy rotation is Yes's "Close to the Edge." I copied the album artwork onto a two-tatami-mat sized canvas, hung it on th...
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Lou Reed『Live In Italy』〜My Unchanged "Desert Island Disc" — Tetsuya Takeda
"If you could only take one album to a desert island, what would it be?" It's a classic music discussion topic that's been around forever, but for me, this album has been that one disc for over 40 ye...
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A Lifetime of Michael-enza Is Fine by Me — Waka Agata
When it comes to my favorite album, it has to be Michael Jackson's 'NUMBER ONES'. I started listening to Western music when I was in 7th grade. At that time, I was really into R&B and pop rock art...
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Album Covers Are Life's Compressed Files — Mitsuhiro Nakano
Jacket buying 40 years ago at Shinseido in Namba — The Pretenders' Learning to Crawl. In 2013, when I started running a music column site called "TAP the POP," I thought about "why do people ...
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The Album That Opened the Door to Western Music — Masato Ikegawa
The album that opened the door to western music — Michel Polnareff's『Gold Disc』. This is probably the album I've listened to most in my life, a precious lifelong album that opened the door to weste...
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The Day I Danced Like Crazy to Bootsy's "Mpeh, Mpeh" — Katsuhiko Sakaguchi
The Stones' "Dirty Work," Mick Jagger's solo work. As much as I hate to admit it, the late 80s Stones scene wasn't satisfying to me. Come to think of it, I was into P-Funk and Prince at the time, and ...
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