Solid State Survivor | ||||
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Released | September 25, 1979 | |||
Recorded | March 2 – June 1979[1] | |||
Studio | Alfa Studio "A", Shibaura, Minato, Tokyo | |||
Genre | Electronic, synth-pop | |||
Length | 32:23 | |||
Label | Alfa | |||
Producer | Haruomi Hosono | |||
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Singles from Solid State Survivor | ||||
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Solid State Survivor is the second album by Japanese electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra, released in 1979. Later, Solid State Survivor was released in 1982 in the UK on LP and cassette, also in 1992 in the United States on CD, but many of the songs from this album were compiled for release in the US as the US pressing of ×∞Multiplies (1980), including the tracks "Behind the Mask", "Rydeen", "Day Tripper", and "Technopolis".[2] Solid State Survivor is only one of a handful of YMO albums in which the track titles do not have a Japanese equivalent.
The album was an early example of synth-pop, a genre that the band helped pioneer alongside their earlier album Yellow Magic Orchestra (1978),[3] and it also contributed to the development of techno.[4] Solid State Survivor won the Best Album Award at the 22nd Japan Record Awards,[5] and it sold two million records.[6] In 2020, Jonathan McNamara of The Japan Times listed it as one of the 10 Japanese albums worthy of inclusion on Rolling Stone's 2020 list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.[7]
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