UC YMO: Ultimate Collection of Yellow Magic Orchestra is a compilation album by Yellow Magic Orchestra

Yellow Magic Orchestra

Sakamoto first worked with Hosono as a member of his live band in 1976, while Takahashi recruited Sakamoto to produce his debut solo recording in 1977 following the split of the Sadistic Mika Band...

. The songs were selected by keyboardist

Keyboardist

A keyboardist is a musician who plays keyboard instruments. Until the early 1960s musicians who played keyboards were generally classified as either pianists or organists. Since the mid-1960s, a plethora of new musical instruments with keyboards have come into common usage, requiring a more...

 and pianist Ryuichi Sakamoto. The album was also released as a premium edition. The premium addition came with a long-sleeved white shirt emblazed with the yMo logo as well as a yMo bandana that the band wore a live tour, along with a special Liner Notes Booklet and an autograph print by Drummer and sometimes singer, Yukihiro Takahashi. It was cataloged as MHCL 291-4 and sold in Japan for 21,000 yen.

Track listing

CD 1

1. Computer Game [Theme from "The Circus"]
2. Firecracker
3. Tong Poo
4. La Femme Chinoise
5. Technopolis※JP7"version
6. Insomnia
7. Rydeen
8. Behind the Mask
9. Solid State Survivor
10. Radio Junk [Live at Bottomline in N.Y.]
11. Jingle "Y.M.O."
12. Nice Age
13. Tighten Up (Japanese Gentlemen Stand Up Please!)
14. End of Asia
15. Citizens of Science
16. Hirake Kokoro-Jiseiki※Stereo version(It became a record first in Japan because of the monaural recording. )

CD 2

1. Cue
2. Ballet
3. U.T
4. Gradated Gray
5. Taiso
6. Lover, Come Back to Me
7. Kimi Ni Mune Kyun
8. Chaos Panic
9. Ongaku
10. Lotus Love
11. Kai-Kou
12. Kagekina Shukujyo
13. Madmen
14. Ishin Denshin (You've Got to Help Yourself)
15. Perspective
16. M-16
17. Pocketful of Rainbows
18. Behind the Mask [Seiko Quartz CM Ver.]

Personnel

• Ryuichi Sakamoto
  Ryuichi Sakamoto
  After working as a session musician with Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi in 1977, the trio formed the internationally successful electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra in 1978. Known for their seminal influence on electronic music, the group helped pioneer electronic genres such as...
  
   - keyboards, vocals
• Yukihiro Takahashi
  Yukihiro Takahashi
  Yukihiro Takahashi is a Japanese musician, who is best known as the drummer and lead vocalist of the Yellow Magic Orchestra, and as the former drummer of the Sadistic Mika Band.-Biography:...
  
   - drums, electronic drums, vocals
• Haruomi Hosono
  Haruomi Hosono
  , also known as Harry Hosono, is a Japanese popular musician, best known internationally as a key member of the rock band Happy End and the pioneering electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra.-Biography:...
  
  - bass, vocals