Trivia / Naughty Boys

• Black Sheep Hit: Kimi Ni Mune Kyun is completely unrepresentative of the band's style overall, but was their biggest hit, and indeed was the highest-charting electropop single in Japan until Perfume's "Love The World" in 2008.
• Channel Hop: Naughty Boys was the band's first album to be released through Pick Up Records in Europe, after A&M Records' handling of Yellow Magic Orchestra, ×∞Multiplies, and BGM and Alfa's in-house releases of Solid State Survivor and Technodelic.
• Contractual Obligation Project: Both this album and Service were recorded specifically to fulfil the band's contract with Alfa Records. The group initially planned to dissolve right after the release of Technodelic thanks to Creative Differences between Ryuichi Sakamoto and Haruomi Hosono, but Alfa still required two more albums out of them.
• Late Export for You: Naughty Boys was one of many YMO albums to not see a release in the United States until Restless Records' CD reissues in 1992. Meanwhile, Naughty Boys Instrumental was never released outside of Germany or Japan for roughly 19 years; its first release outside of those territories was in Europe and Canada as part of the band's 2003 reissue campaign (itself a case of this trope, given that it consists of re-pressings of the previously Japan-exclusive 1999 remasters), as part of a combo pack with the original Naughty Boys.
• No Export for You: Naughty Boys Instrumental never saw a Stateside release, with the closest it ever got being a few cuts tossed onto Restless Records' CD reissue of ×∞Multiplies as bonus tracks.
• Referenced by...:
  • "Kimi Ni, Mune Kyun" was covered by The Human League for the collaborative EP YMO Versus the Human League, later appearing as the B-side to the Human League's "Tell Me When".
  • A Cover Version of "Kimi Ni, Mune Kyun" is used as the closing theme for Maria†Holic.
• Saved for the Sequel: "You've Got To Help Yourself" appears as a 30-second "preview" on Naughty Boys; the full song would first appear on the Remix Album Naughty Boys Instrumental before the band put out a vocal rendition on Service later that year.

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