What are your favorite Tatsuro Yamashita songs?
My all-time #1 favorite Tats song will always be "Paper Doll". It's about someone stuck in an incredibly toxic relationship with someone they can't get over their feelings for, so they're content with being a paper doll whose feelings are discarded away like a child's toy. It's a sleeper song of his that I never see anyone talk about and I absolutely adore it. It helps that it's got some really awesome keyboard playing in it. And then of course I love all of the obvious ones like "Ride on Time" (inarguably his magnum opus and yes it's very annoying that it's the one song anyone ever really talks about wrt him but man it's just really fucking good I don't know what to tell you. The album version is far superior to the single version though. It kind of drives me nuts how the inferior single version is the one you hear in most places), "Love Space", "Morning Glory", "Magic Ways", "Christmas Eve", etc. But for not as known Tatsuro songs I've got some choices that I really love and get a lot of repeat listening:
I'm sure there's other standouts that I'm missing off this list but honestly you cannot go wrong with any of his albums. Come Along II is the greatest "Greatest Hits" album ever created and it's the one that I am most likely to stream in hangout calls over Discord or things like that. Otherwise, For You is probably the one non-compilation/greatest hits album I'd pick as his best overall work. I could honestly keep talking about Tats I love his stuff so much. I was a hipster listening to stuff of his during my college days in like 2008/9!! I had a Ride on Time 45!! and the album!! Granted my city pop knowledge was not anywhere near as good back then because I was experimenting with everything music genre-wise but I was a fan lol. I actually sold my crappy shape copy of the album (didn't even have the obi!! gotta have the obi) to a local record shop a few years ago and used the money towards a proper nicer quality upgraded copy. I could keep babbling about Tatsuro and his music ("Down Town" from Sugar Babe is a fucking BANGER) but I should probably end it here because I'll just be talking in circles.
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