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Per TRS, Feelies is now Trivia.


* {{Feelies}}: Promotional LP copies of the US mix came on translucent yellow vinyl, tying in with the band name; retail copies would be on standard black vinyl, but the idea was later carried over to initial copies of ''Music/SolidStateSurvivor'' and ''Service''.
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''Yellow Magic Orchestra'', released in 1978, is the debut studio album by the Japanese SynthPop {{supergroup}} [[Music/YellowMagicOrchestra of the same name]]. The album marked the finale of a particularly productive year for the band's three members, with Music/RyuichiSakamoto, Music/YukihiroTakahashi, and Music/HaruomiHosono collectively putting together a total of five different solo albums over the course of 1978 (Sakamoto's ''Thousand Knives of Ryuichi Sakamoto'', Takahashi's ''Music/{{Saravah}}'', and Hosono's ''Music/{{Paraiso}}'', ''Music/{{Pacific}}'', and ''Music/CochinMoon'') that featured the three collaborating together and experimenting with blends of ElectronicMusic, traditional Japanese composition methods (plus some added Indian flare on ''Cochin Moon''), and western exotica music. The trio had already spent the past two years working together, and because of this it only seemed inevitable that the three would come together to make a grand master project representing the culmination of their efforts.

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''Yellow Magic Orchestra'', released in 1978, is the debut studio album by the Japanese SynthPop {{supergroup}} [[Music/YellowMagicOrchestra of the same name]]. The album marked the finale of a particularly productive year for the band's three members, with Music/RyuichiSakamoto, Music/YukihiroTakahashi, and Music/HaruomiHosono collectively putting together a total of five different solo albums over the course of 1978 (Sakamoto's ''Thousand Knives of Ryuichi Sakamoto'', ''Music/ThousandKnives'', Takahashi's ''Music/{{Saravah}}'', and Hosono's ''Music/{{Paraiso}}'', ''Music/{{Pacific}}'', and ''Music/CochinMoon'') that featured the three collaborating together and experimenting with blends of ElectronicMusic, traditional Japanese composition methods (plus some added Indian flare on ''Cochin Moon''), and western exotica music. The trio had already spent the past two years working together, and because of this it only seemed inevitable that the three would come together to make a grand master project representing the culmination of their efforts.
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* AnimatedMusicVideo: That for "Computer Game"/"Firecracker". The first section features animated recreations of footage from the parodied arcade games, while the latter features abstract Orientalist animations that play into the satirical nature of the band's cover.

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* AnimatedMusicVideo: That for "Computer Game"/"Firecracker". The first section features animated recreations of footage from the parodied arcade games, while the latter features abstract Orientalist animations that play into the satirical nature of the band's cover. Both are done using [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scanimate Scanimate]], an analog precursor to CGI.

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* CanonImmigrant: The US version of the band's first album was very quickly accepted into their back-catalog, to the point where it was the ''only'' version available on CD until 1992 (and the only version available in the US at all). Reissues still prioritize the US mix, and the band would adopt the US logo for ''Music/SolidStateSurvivor'', ''×∞Multiplies'', and ''Public Pressure''. While the band themselves never gave any official word on the matter, all of the above quietly implied that the US mix is the de-facto canonical one.

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* CanonImmigrant: The US version of the band's first album was very quickly accepted into their back-catalog, to the point where it was the ''only'' version available on CD until 1992 (and the only version available in the US at all). Reissues still prioritize the US mix, and the band would adopt the US logo for ''Music/SolidStateSurvivor'', ''×∞Multiplies'', ''Music/{{Multiplies}}'', and the LiveAlbum ''Public Pressure''. While the band themselves never gave any official word on the matter, all of the above quietly implied that the US mix is the de-facto canonical one.



** City pop singer and Alfa Records labelmate Minako Yoshida performs vocals on "Yellow Magic (Tong Poo)".

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** City pop CityPop singer and Alfa Records labelmate Minako Yoshida performs vocals on "Yellow Magic (Tong Poo)".



* YellowPeril: Humorously parodied in "La Femme Chinoise", whose title character is portrayed as a DragonLady comparable to Literature/FuManchu.

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* YellowPeril: Humorously parodied in "La Femme Chinoise", whose title character is portrayed as a DragonLady comparable to Literature/FuManchu.Literature/FuManchu.
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