RYUSYS-0077: Original Sound Track "Men at Work!" 1~4 COMPLETE!

[Muzza]

Just thought I'd point out something that's absent from the notes section; the vocalists and composers for tracks 2-01 and 3-01 aren't clarified. =/ Does anybody have this info?

[Gigablah]

They're in the attached booklet scans. I've added the missing info, including vocalist Rika Fujiwara.

[Chris Porter]

I just noticed that the catalog number on the Obi is RYUSYS-0077, but each disc has its own number: COOL-06001, COOL-06002, COOL-06003, COOL-06004. I'm not sure if that information is important or useful, but it does give an identifying catalog number for each disc, rather than the single RYUSYS number for the whole collection.

[Chris Porter]

Okay, I just discovered something thanks to a comment someone left on the YouTube upload of this soundtrack. The person pointed out that Track 2 of the first Men at Work game is actually an arrangement of the main menu/title screen music of the Sega Saturn golf game Pebble Beach Golf Links.

Here's the music from the Pebble Beach (timestamped link): https://youtu.be/DRFUtQPJFgc?t=68

Here's the track from Men at Work (timestamped link): https://youtu.be/3-3im7VsEv8?t=85

The soundtrack to the first Men at Work is credited to a composer named ATSU. There doesn't seem to be any information as to who that is an alias for. I did some research and found the ending credits to Pebble Beach Golf Links credit sound effects and music to Yumi Kinoshita.

Here's a timestamped link to the credits: https://youtu.be/DRFUtQPJFgc?t=4333

Which makes me think it's possible that Yumi Kinoshita (who is also one of the composers for the game Sword World) is ATSU!

[MIDIWIZI]

Atsu is certainly Atsuyoshi Isemura, composer for such companies as DIMPS, Jaleco, TGL, Aorn, etc. His style is unmistakable. A few other examples of his work to prove it's his:
- https://youtu.be/POQYDldXsoQ?si=PmJ_fYwiulB8JgLT
- https://youtu.be/futp1HwGkTE?si=2px6eg1Wm_jx0EDP (this is the same as Track 3 on this album, and Isemura is credited in PIPE&QUEST's credits)

It's a bizarre situation with that earlier track appearing 4 years earlier in Pebble Beach Golf Links... As you can tell from the 2nd track I listed above, Isemura likes to re-use music quite often, so it could be a case of that. What I actually think, though, is the Pebble Beach Golf Links track is a stolen MIDI from an early Isemura website... (not found currently). There are other tracks in Kinoshita's games that are also Isemura's works, for example Masters Harukanaru Augusta 3. I've done enough digging that I'm convinced Kinoshita isn't simply an alias of Isemura. Puzzling stuff.