Japanese producer and musician Yukihiro Takahashi’s early eighties solo LPs reissued

Exploring the Yellow Magic Orchestra member’s 1980s solo output.

Producer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist Yukihiro Takahashi’s WHAT, ME WORRY? and Tomorrow’s Just Another Day albums are being reissued on vinyl, via Nippon label ALFA Music this March.

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Originally released in 1982, WHAT, ME WORRY? featured contributions from Haruomi Hosono, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Kenji Omura, and Hiroshi Sato.

One year later, Takahashi released Tomorrow’s Just Another Day, which was one of his most commercially successful releases, and reached #11 on the Japanese music charts.

The reissues continue the label’s series focusing on Takahashi’s early ’80s solo work, following the release of his Neuromantic album.

Check out the artwork and tracklist below in advance of WHAT, ME WORRY? and Tomorrow’s Just Another Day’s 9th March release.

WHAT, ME WORRY?

1. What, Me Worry?
2. It’s Gonna Work Out
3. Sayonara
4. This Strange Obsession
5. Flashback
6. The Real You
7. Disposable Love
8. My Highland Home In Thailand
9. All You’ve Got To Do
10. It’s All Too Much
11. Futari No Kage Ni
12. Disposable Love (Japanese Version)
13. Ich Bin Der Gluckichste Mensch Auf Der Welt

Tomorrow’s Just Another Day’s

1. Ripple
2. My Bright Tomorrow
3. Kagerou
4. Rokugatsu No Tenshi
5. Maebure
6. Coincidence
7. This Island Earth
8. Are You Receiving Me? (Remix)
9. Good Time
10. The April Fools
[Bonus Tracks]
11. Are You Receiving Me? (Single Version)
12. And I Believe In You
13. Another Door