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Satoru Inoue
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Pearl Pierce (1982) is a great city pop album w/ heavy disco feel especially the 1st half "Come See the Amusement Park Illumination" by Yumi Matsutoya open.spotify.com/track/359IiO...

open.spotify.comようこそ輝く時間へYumi Matsutoya · PEARL PIERCE · Song · 1982
Satoru Inoue@satoruinoue.com

Sakuban Oaishimashō (1981) is 1st in the string of 17 straight #1 albums for her This song is about Kobe. Mentions last monorail of the night—Port Liner is technically not a monorail en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Is... "Tower Side Memory" by Yumi Matsutoya open.spotify.com/track/4DhKgR...

open.spotify.comタワー・サイド・メモリーYumi Matsutoya · 昨晩お会いしましょう · Song · 1981
Satoru Inoue
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1st song, she wants to become "a beam" and "a kite", and wants to ride "a capsule", channeling the amusement park theme 2nd song, she folds a paper airplane from a real estate ad—where they said they wanted to live There's 4 other songs that are more obviously about transportation on the album