''Go Ahead!'' is the third studio album by Japanese singer-songwriter

Tatsuro Yamashita , occasionally credited as Tatsu Yamashita or Tats Yamashita, is a Japanese singer-songwriter and record producer, who is known for pioneering the style of Japanese adult-oriented rock/soft rock music. His most well-known song is "Christmas E ...

, released in December 1978.

Overview

"A masterpiece third solo album that marked the creativity of Yamashita's brilliant and versatile writing style which determined his subsequent path." In commercial music, etc., there was a high demand for Yamashita as a musician who works under anonymity, but Yamashita's evaluation as a contract musician for a

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, was favorable, but he wasn't meeting the sales figures RCA wanted. Yamashita himself felt that the world of rock and

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that he had lived in had entered a new stage at that time, and thought that if he went on like this, he would probably have to give up his records and live activities. So he had a pessimistic prediction that this album would probably be the last. The album was criticized by critics and listeners for being disorganized, but it can be said that the writer's principle, which began to suffer, was the sprout of the album production policy that followed.(2002) Tatsuro Yamashita's "Go Ahead!" album booklet notes. RCA/ BMG Funhouse (BVCR-17015) However Tatsuro Yamashita was told that one of his songs in the Go Ahead! album "Bomber" was a hit song in a disco in

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. Therefore, in 1979, a

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was released under the title of "Bomber". The songs "Let's Dance Baby", "Bomber" & "潮騒 (The Whispering Sea)" would've be featured in his 1982

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" Greatest Hits! of Tatsuro Yamashita". Meanwhile, the song " This Could Be The Night" would get re-recorded in 1984 as part of his soundtrack album " Big Wave". In 2002, a remastered reissue (BVCR-17015) was released as part of The RCA/AIR Years 1976–1982 series. The reissue would include

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ed tracks and three additional tracks that were previously unreleased before. It would enter the

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charts, peaking in at number twenty-five.

Track listing

2002 remastered edition

Personnel

Overture

: All Voices 1978 P.M.P.

Love Celebration

Tatsuro Yamashita: Electric Guitar (Left),

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Yutaka Uehara: Drums Akihiro Tanaka: Bass Kazuo Shiina: Electric Guitar (Right)

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: Electric Piano

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Let's Dance Baby

Tatsuro Yamashita: Electric Guitar (Left), Percussion, Bang! & Background Vocals Yutaka Uehara: Drums & Percussion Hiroyuki Namba: Electric Piano Akihiro Tanaka: Bass & Percussion Kazuo Shiina: Electric Guitar (Right) & Percussion Hiroyuki Namba: Keyboards & Percussion Tomoo Okazaki: Alto Sax Solo Minako Yoshida: Background Vocals Ryuzo Kosugi: Background Vocals © 1978 J&K MUSIC PUB.

Monday Blue

ついておいで (Follow Me Along)

Tatsuro Yamashita: Electric Guitar (Left) & Background Vocals Yutaka Uehara: Drums Akihiro Tanaka: Bass Kazuo Shiina: Electric Guitar (Right) Hiroyuki Namba: Electric Piano Motoya Hamaguchi: Percussion Shigeharu Mukai: Trombone Solo Minako Yoshida: Background Vocals © 1978 P.M.P.

Bomber

Tatsuro Yamashita: Electric Guitar & Background Vocals Yutaka Uehara: Drums Akihiro Tanaka: Bass Kazuo Shiina: Electric Guitar Solo Hiroyuki Namba: Keyboards Minako Yoshida: Background Vocals © 1978 P.M.P.

潮騒 (The Whispering Sea)

''(Same personnel for the English version)'' Tatsuro Yamashita: Electric Guitar, Arp Odyssey Synthesizer (Bass), Percussion & Background Vocals Yutaka Uehara: Drums Akihiro Tanaka: Bass Hiroyuki Namba: Acoustic Piano Chuei Yoshikawa: Acoustic Guitar

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Paper Doll

This Could Be The Night

Tatsuro Yamashita: Drums, Bass, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Piano, Glockenspiel, Percussion, & Background Vocals Chuei Yoshikawa: Acoustic Guitar Ryuichi Sakamoto: Poly Moog Synthesizer Motoya Hamaguchi: Percussion © ROCK MUSIC

2000トンの雨 (2000t Of Rain)

Tatsuro Yamashita: Electric Guitar, Percussion & Background Vocals Yutaka Uehara: Drums Akihiro Tanaka: Bass Ryuichi Sakamoto: Acoustic Piano Tomoo Okazaki: Alto Sax Solo Ryuzo Kosugi: Percussion Minako Yoshida: Background Vocals Tadaaki Ohno: Strings Concert Master © 1978 P.M.P.

Credits

''"From the inner sleeve

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of the album (RVL-8037)."'' ''PRODUCED BY TATSURO YAMASHITA FOR P.M.P. INC'' ''ALL SONGS ARRANGED BY TATSURO YAMASHITA'' Directed by Ryuzo "Junior" Kosugi (RCA) Engineered by Tamotsu Yoshida Session Co-odinater – Ryuzo Kosugi Disk Mastering Engineer – Tohru Kotetsu Assistant Engineer – Toshihiro Itoh ( Onkio Haus) Mastering Studio: Nihon Victor Yokohama Mastering Studio Art Direction – Kenkichi Satoh Cover Design – Kenkichi Satoh, Akira Sugiyama Special thanks to Akira Ikuta, Kunio Muramatsu for their assistance ''ALL SONGS PUBLISHED BY 1978 P.M.P., 1977 P.M.P., EXCEPT; "LOVE CELEBRATION" BY 1977 ALFA MUSIC LTD.,'' ''"LET'S DANCE BABY" BY 1978 J&K MUSIC PUB., "THIS COULD BE THE NIGHT" BY ROCK MUSIC, THE RIGHTS FOR JAPAN ASSIGNED TO TOSHIBA MUSIC PUB.''

Chart positions

Release history

References

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