[Yumi Matsutoya’s Masterpieces] A Collection of Heart-Touching Gems: Yuming’s Finest Hits

Call me backMatsutōya Yumi

Yumi Matsutoya – Call me back / Yumi Matsutoya with Yumi Arai

Yumi Matsutoya is a female singer-songwriter who has been active for many years.

While many veteran singer-songwriters continue their careers without changing their style, she has a remarkably youthful sensibility, creating hit songs that reach into contemporary musical tastes.

Among her works, the track I especially recommend to women in their 20s is Call me back.

It’s a song in the trendy synthwave genre that, despite its simple vocal lines, conceals an outstanding coolness.

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Ryo

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Sugar Town is a town of goodbyes.Matsutōya Yumi

Paruminte, Sugar Town is the town of farewell — Yumi Matsutoya

This is a track included on Yumi Matsutoya’s 17th original album, DA·DI·DA, released in 1985.

With this album, Yuming won the Excellence Album Award at the 28th Japan Record Awards in 1986.

The title is said to be an homage to Nancy Sinatra’s “Sugar Town.”

September Blue MoonMatsutōya Yumi

September Blue Moon Yumi Matsutoya [cover]

A classic from Yumi Matsutoya’s electro era, this track stands out with its dazzling, rapid-fire sound arrangement that hits your ears in quick succession.

Yet once Yuming’s signature vocals come in, it instantly becomes a full-on Yuming world—fun and familiar.

Set to a Latin rhythm with Japanese lyrics on top, it’s a rhythmically danceable, slightly quirky, and highly addictive number.

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Murakami Shinpei

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Like a swallowMatsutōya Yumi

Yumi Matsutoya – Like a Swallow (Tsubame no Yō ni)

People often say that the deceased become stars, but Yumi Matsutoya wrote that they become swallows.

The words that could be taken as ironic—“Those who have passed don’t grow older, while I keep aging…”—don’t sound that way because there is love there.

A song that sounds dry and cool even though someone has died, holding grief tightly in check.

It is precisely because people keep changing that they can remain the same.Matsutōya Yumi

Yumi Matsutoya 45th Anniversary Best Album “Messages from Yuming: Songs of Love” – First-Press Limited Edition Bonus Footage – Announcement Video

Yumi Matsutoya is a female singer who has remained popular across all eras.

Perhaps the reason she continues to thrive in any era is that she lives by these very words.

There are things that change simply by growing older or repeating the same things, and there are things that must change in order not to change.

Clouds at dawnMatsutōya Yumi

Yumi Matsutoya — “Dawn Clouds” (from the 37th new album “POP CLASSICO”)

Yumi Matsutoya, a female singer who has created numerous classic songs.

This track was included as the B-side to her 41st single, “Koi o Release,” released in 2012.

It’s a bittersweet memory song that expresses feelings for a beloved person who is no longer here.

It was selected as the theme song for the film “RAILWAYS: For Adults Who Can’t Convey Love.”

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Araki Jakkan

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A Merry Christmas to the you I’d almost forgottenMatsutōya Yumi

Bye Bye My Merry Christmas / Wasurekaketa Anata Eno Merry Christmas

Among Christmas songs born in the ’90s, this track by Yumi Matsutoya is known as a masterpiece that portrays a bittersweet longing for love.

Included on the album “Cowgirl Dreamin’,” released in February 1997, it centers on spending Christmas Eve alone.

The lyrics are memorable for their delicate depiction of a rain-soaked cityscape and fleeting memories of past love that resurface for just a moment.

Through the special, almost magical time of Christmas, the song gently sings of feelings for a precious person that were nearly forgotten.

It’s a moving piece for those who have experienced heartbreak or have been separated from someone important.

A song you’ll want to listen to quietly, alone, on Christmas night.