Service (album)

Infobox Album | Name = Service
Type = Album
Artist = Yellow Magic Orchestra


Released = 1983
Recorded = September-October 1983
Genre = Electropop
Length = 50:44
Label = Alfa Records
Producer = YMO
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|2.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:9vem97yjkrgt link]
Last album = "Naughty Boys Instrumental"
(1983)
This album = "Service"
(1983)
Next album = "After Service"
(1983)

"Service" was the sixth studio album by Yellow Magic Orchestra, as well as their final studio album, as the band dissolved the following year; the band would later reform in 1993 for a one-off reunion album, "Technodon". Like "×∞Multiplies", it contains a mixture of YMO songs and comedy sketches performed by Super Eccentric Theater, or S.E.T. Some European editions omit the sketches, effectively cutting the album's length in half.

"Service" features "You've Got to Help Yourself", which was previously featured in instrumental form on the previous album, "Naughty Boys Instrumental". The 2nd "S.E.T." track featured a sample of Casiopea's song "Time Limit". "以心電信" more accurately transliterates to "Telegraph from the heart".

Track listing

tracklist
writing_credits = yes
headline = Side one
title1 = Limbo
length1 = 3:21
writer1 = Yukihiro Takahashi/Haruomi Hosono/Peter Barakan

title2 = S.E.T.
length2 = 4:21
writer2 = Super Eccentric Theater

title3 = The Madmen
length3 = 4:40
writer3 = Hosono/Barakan

title4 = S.E.T.
length4 = 1:23
writer4 = S.E.T.

title5 = Chinese Whispers
length5 = 4:27
writer5 = Takahashi/Baraken

title6 = S.E.T.
length6 = 4:16
writer6 = S.E.T.

title7 = You've Got to Help Yourself
note7 = nihongo2|以心電信; "Ishin denshin"
length7 = 4:42
writer7 = Yellow Magic Orchestra/Baraken

tracklist
writing_credits = yes
headline = Side two
title1 = S.E.T.+YMO
length1 = 5:53
writer1 = S.E.T./Yellow Magic Orchestra

title2 = Shadows on the Ground
length2 = 4:20
writer2 = Ryuichi Sakamoto/Takahashi/Barakan

title3 = S.E.T.
length3 = 3:25
writer3 = S.E.T.

title4 = See-Through
length4 = 3:36
writer4 = Yellow Magic Orchestra/Baraken

title5 = S.E.T.
length5 = 4:09
writer5 = S.E.T.

title6 = Perspective
length6 = 5:12
writer6 = Sakamoto/Barakan

title7 = S.E.T.
length7 = 0:46
writer7 = S.E.T.

Personnel

*Ryuichi Sakamoto: keyboards, vocals
*Yukihiro Takahashi: drums, vocals
*Haruomi Hosono: Bass, keyboards, vocals
*Peter Barakan: Lyrics