as listed below. "来たるべきもの" more accurately translates to "What should come". Reception When released in 1981, the album's reception was positive. Stereo Review described the recording as "crystalline" and the performance as "the twain meet", praising the album for its "remarkable" blend between "East and West", its "catchy tunes", its "ambitious collection of electronics" and for "pushing at the frontiers of electronic rock", but noted that this affected the album's accessibility. Track listing All CDs released between 1984 and 1998 feature an alternate take of "Happy End", with audible differences throughout the second half of the track. The original version appears on all CD and later vinyl releases from 1999 onwards. Personnel Yellow Magic Orchestra – Arrangements, Electronics, Vocals, Voices on "U•T", Mixing engineers Haruomi Hosono – Bass, Synth Bass, Keyboards, Delays & Harmonizer on "U•T", Production Ryuichi Sakamoto – Keyboards, Vocoder Yukihiro Takahashi – Drums, Electronic drums Guest musicians Hideki Matsutake – Programming Takeshii Fujii, Don Nagata & Tomoki Miyadera – Equipment Coordination Peter Barakan – Lyrics, spoken words on "Mass" Tomoko Nunoi (uncredited) – French Narration on "Ballet" Staff Kunihiko Murai & Shōrō Kawazoe – Executive Producer Mitsuo Koike – Recording & Mixing engineer Yoshifumi Īo – Recording Engineer Kazusuke Obi – A&R Coordinator Plan-New Werk & Tsukuitoshinao – Creative Services Masayoshi Sukita – Photography References 1981 albums Yellow Magic Orchestra albums Alfa Records albums