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

Tower Side MemoryMatsutōya Yumi

Tower Side Memory / Yumi Matsutoya Cover

“Tower Side Memory” is a track included on Yumi Matsutoya’s 1981 album “Shall We Meet Tonight?” The “tower” refers to the Kobe Port Tower, and the lyrics also mention the Portopia Expo held in Kobe in 1981, the year the album was released.

It’s said that whenever Matsutoya performs in Kobe, this song is almost always part of the set.

Let’s go to the partyMatsutōya Yumi

Let’s Go to the Party Yumi Matsutoya Piano Cover & Sheet Music

Released on December 5, 1997, the 29th album “Syuwa no Nami” features the song “Let’s Go to the Party” as its fifth track.

With its refreshing sound and uplifting rhythm, the repeated “OK!” keeps raising your spirits.

Riding on that wave of words and sound, it’s a bubbly, feel-good song that makes you happy!

I wanted to make it in time for the memories.Matsutōya Yumi

Yumi Matsutoya – I Want to Slip Into the Memories (2005)

“Omoide ni Maniaitakute,” the third track on Side A of Yumi Matsutoya’s 19th album “Diamond Dust ga Kienu Mani,” released on December 5, 1987, is a heartrending love song with an incredibly impactful chorus melody.

The lyrics draw you into the yearning of wondering what might have happened if they’d made it in time, making it a profoundly bittersweet track.

Girlfriends: ContinuedMatsutōya Yumi

[Yuming Marathon Best 4] Girlfriends Continued ♪ #247 YUMING cover

A track from the 19th album in 1987, “Before the Diamond Dust Fades.” It’s a song celebrating a female friend who’s getting married tomorrow—a cheerful “congrats” gifted to her.

The friend I used to goof around with is getting married first; it’s a little lonely, but I’ll be there anyway.

At the church, I’ll probably be the one to cry first.

That kind of mutually caring, wonderful relationship will likely make listeners feel happy too.

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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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.