After Service

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After Service
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Live album by Yellow Magic Orchestra
Released February 22, 1984 (1984-02-22)
Recorded 12 – 13 December 1983
Venue Nippon Budokan, Kitanomaru Park, Chiyoda, Tokyo
Genre
Length 1:22:33
Label Alfa
Producer Haruomi Hosono
Yellow Magic Orchestra chronology
Service
(1983)Service1983
After Service
(1984)
Technodon
(1993)
Alternative cover
Vinyl cover
Vinyl cover

Technodon1993

After Service is the second live album by Yellow Magic Orchestra, directly following their (at the time) final studio album, Service. The album features former ABC member David Palmer on additional drums. A film version was released alongside the album. After Service features "Kageki na Shukujo" (過激な淑女 "Radical Lady"?), which was released in a studio version as a single, but does not feature on any of their albums (compilations excepted).

After Service was later expanded and remixed by Brian Eno under the title Complete Service.[1]

Track listing

Original pressing

All songs arranged by YMO.

Disc 1/Side A
No. Title Lyrics Music Length
1. "Propaganda"     Yellow Magic Orchestra 1:53
2. "Tong Poo" (東風 Ton Pū)   Ryuichi Sakamoto 5:06
3. "Behind the Mask"   Chris Mosdell Sakamoto, Yukihiro Takahashi 4:33
4. "Solid State Survivor"   Mosdell Takahashi 4:09
5. "La Femme Chinoise" (中国女 Chūgoku Onna) Mosdell Takahashi 5:02
Disc 1/Side B
No. Title Lyrics Music Length
1. "Ongaku" (音楽) Sakamoto Sakamoto 3:27
2. "Focus"   Haruomi Hosono, Peter Barakan Hosono, Takahashi 3:47
3. "Ballet"   Takahashi, Barakan Takahashi 4:37
4. "Wild Ambitions"   Hosono Hosono, Sakamoto 5:15
5. "Kai-Koh" (邂逅) Sakamoto Sakamoto 4:09
Disc 2/Side A
No. Title Lyrics Music Length
1. "Expecting Rivers" (希望の河 Kibō no Kawa) Takahashi Sakamoto, Takahashi 4:48
2. "See-Through"   Barakan YMO 3:40
3. "Key" (手掛かり Tegakari) Hosono, Barakan Hosono, Takahashi 4:29
4. "Technopolis"     Sakamoto 4:14
5. "Rydeen" (雷電 Raidīn)   Takahashi 4:04
Disc 2/Side B
No. Title Lyrics Music Length
1. "You've Got to Help Yourself" (以心電信 Ishin Denshin) Hosono, Barakan Sakamoto, Takahashi 4:15
2. "Kageki na Shujuko" (過激な淑女) Takashi Matsumoto YMO 4:21
3. "Kimi ni, Mune Kyun. (Uwaki na Vakansu)" (君に、胸キュン。 (浮気なヴァカンス)) Matsumoto YMO 4:31
4. "Firecracker"     Martin Denny 6:01
Total length:
40:28

Complete Service

Disc 1
No. Title Lyrics Music Length
1. "Propaganda" (Full Version)   YMO 5:42
2. "Tong Poo" (東風 Ton Pū)   Sakamoto 5:17
3. "Behind the Mask"   Mosdell Sakamoto, Takahashi 4:39
4. "Solid State Survivor"   Mosdell Takahashi 4:46
5. "La Femme Chinoise" (中国女 Chūgoku Onna) Mosdell Takahashi 5:10
6. "Ongaku" (音楽) Sakamoto Sakamoto 3:30
7. "Focus"   Hosono, Barakan Hosono, Takahashi 3:48
8. "Shadows on the Ground"   Sakamoto, Takahashi, Barakan Sakamoto, Takahashi 4:27
9. "Ballet"   Takahashi, Barakan Takahashi 4:41
10. "Perspective"   Sakamoto, Barakan Sakamoto 5:09
11. "Wild Ambitions"   Hosono Hosono, Sakamoto 5:17
12. "The Madmen" (マッドメン Maddomen) Hosono, Barakan Hosono 5:27
Disc 2
No. Title Lyrics Music Length
1. "Limbo"   Hosono, Takahashi, Barakan Hosono, Takahashi 3:41
2. "Chinese Whispers"   Takahashi, Barakan Takahashi 4:17
3. "Expecting Rivers" (希望の河 Kibō no Kawa) Takahashi Sakamoto, Takahashi 4:48
4. "Kai-Koh" (邂逅) Sakamoto Sakamoto 4:09
5. "See-Through"   Barakan YMO 3:43
6. "Key" (手掛かり Tegakari) Hosono, Barakan Hosono, Takahashi 4:35
7. "You've Got to Help Yourself" (以心電信 Ishin Denshin) Hosono, Barakan Sakamoto, Takahashi 4:42
8. "Firecracker"     Denny 5:23
9. "Kageki na Shujuko" (過激な淑女) Matsumoto YMO 4:24
10. "Kimi ni, Mune Kyun. (Uwaki na Vakansu)" (君に、胸キュン。 (浮気なヴァカンス)) Matsumoto YMO 4:47
11. "Technopolis"     Sakamoto 4:14
12. "Rydeen" (雷電 Raidīn)   Takahashi 4:44

Personnel

(track numbers based on the Complete Service sequencing)

Yellow Magic Orchestra - Arrangements, Electronics, Keyboards, Mixing engineers, Producers
Guest musician
  • David Palmer (ex-ABC) - Electronic Drums & Cymbals (5-19, 21-22)
Staff

Credits

Tour Crew

  • Planning: Makoto Sato & YMO
  • Production: Makoto Sato & Tadsashi Katoh
  • Stage Design: Kappa Senoh
  • Stage Direction: Osamu Yamada
  • Art Direction: Tsuguya Inoue
  • Light Planning: Jiro Katsushiba
  • Choreographer: Tsukio Kurotaki
  • Hair & Make-up: Chiaki Shimada, Kiyomi Yoshikawa (Ours), and Mikio Honda (Bijin)
  • Stage Staff: Takenori "Mansaku" Kubota, Terunobu Ohtsuka, Mariko Okabayashi, Satoru Ide (Create Osaka), Junji Kobayashi, Shoichi Katoh, Kazumi Hoshi, Masakatsu Yamada, Terunobu Tamaya, Yasutaka Nakano, Yoshio Kumada, Kazuo Kawakami (Kanai Ohdogu)
  • Sound: Ken Kondo (Front), Hiroyuki "Ah So!" Matsura (Monitor), Noriyasu "Uchiumi" Nishiumi, Yoshiaki "Noisy" Nojima (Hibino Sound), Kohji "Shacho!" Sawai (Crewbie Office)
  • Lighting: Takenori Hayakawa, Koyshin Suzuki, Yoshinori Kobyashi, Minoru Kobayashi, Toshiaki Hirasawa, Takashi Uehara, Kenji Muto, Kiyoto Hoshino, Sonoyo Nishikawa, Reiko Nihei, Masaki Hotei, Kazuhiko Koike (Stage Factory)
  • Transportation: Tadashi Ohgawara, Kazuhito Miyamoto, Toshinobu Kiyobe, Mitsuo Shimada, Tsutomu Kobayashi, Tomio Maeda (Minegishi Unso)
  • Instrument Care: Akimitsu Sasagawa (Crewbie Office), Kohji Kanamaru (Yoroshita Music), Masanobu Tsuchiya (Office Intenzio)
  • Tape Operated & Click Mixed by: Takeshi Fujii (Yoroshita Music)
  • Linn & Simmons Operated by: Aki Yamazoe (Yoroshita Music)

Equipment Support

  • TEAC Corp. (TEAC 48 Tape Recorder, DBX DX-40 Noise Reduction)
  • Onkyo Corp. (Onkyo PW-33 Transmitter, PR-1 Receiver)
  • Management: Yoichi Itoh, Junko Sugimura, Hiromitsu Fujisawa (Office Intenzio), Fumie Takahashi, Peter Barakan (Yoroshita Music)
  • Tour Conductor: Rima "Rimao" Yamashita (Yoroshita Music)
  • Tour book compiled and edited by: Hiroma Shimizu
  • Promotion: Kunio Tzutsu
  • Dancers: Jacqueline Hurley, Clare Macnamara, Tina Stubbington, Nicole Matney (FOLIO)
  • Executive Producer: Hiroshi Okura (Yoroshita Music)

[Re-issue]

  • Supervised by: Yuji Tanaka
  • Remastering and edited by: Mitsuo Koike at Ast studio, Tokyo, July 1999
  • Art Direction & Design: Takayuki Innami
  • Design: Kazuhiro Nozawa

References