[1983] Koichi Sugiyama - THE YEARLING (Kojika Monogatari) Music Collection || Full Vinyl Rip

https://vgmdb.net/album/55508 Tracklist: 1. Hello Tomorrow [0:00] 2. Beautiful Florida's Great Nature [3:55] 3. Theme of Jody [5:26] 4. Theme of Flag the Fawn I [6:57] 5. Theme of Fodder-Wing [7:52] 6. Spring's Arrival [9:09] 7. Ominous Premonition [10:46] 8. Theme of Slewfoot [12:26] 9. Someday to My Sea (Instrumental) [13:06] 10. Someday to My Sea (Itsuka Boku no Umi e) [16:35] 11. The Baxter Family's Spectacle [19:45] 12. Theme of Flag the Fawn II [21:30] 13. Fight Against Slewfoot [22:52] 14. Nature's Harshness [25:06] 15. Mother Deer's Death [27:22] 16. Jody's Sadness [29:33] 17. Florida Snow [31:24] 18. Friendship [32:15] 19. Spring Has Come Again [33:31] 20. A Star Comes Down from the Sky (Sora kara Hoshi ga Oritekuru) [35:45] All Music Composed & Arranged by Koichi Sugiyama 01 (OP) Vocal: Keiko Toda Lyrics: Keisuke Yamakawa Composition & Arrangement: Koichi Sugiyama 10 (Insert Song) & 20 (ED) Vocal: Masaki Takanashi/高梨雅樹 Lyrics: Keisuke Yamakawa Composition & Arrangement: Koichi Sugiyama Ripped/scanned by me The original soundtrack to MK Production's TV anime of the same name, which—despite running for almost 50 episodes or so—unfortunately never made it to home media with the exception of some official VHS tapes that you could order directly from NHK themselves. There exists an English dub as well but episodes only mostly exist via 16mm reels and has been hardly catalogued... Enough about that. Now to the music! I bought my first copy of the OST (vinyl-only) in person from a now-defunct record shop when I visited Japan. However by the time I actually began trying to edit it (which was years later) I had to buy a second copy as the first one turned out to be damaged pretty badly. Idk if the music was genuinely recorded like this but I *really* do not like the way it was mastered for vinyl. The majority of the BGM sounds like it's pretty close to reaching earrape levels despite them not clipping—the insert song on this album is also kinda an indication of this. Both my first and second copies sound like this so I guarantee you it's not the LPs being worn out or anything. For the music itself...it's not bad! The funk pieces here are definitely reminiscent of stuff he's done earlier (mostly Ideon), and the rest of the tracks—which are mostly orchestral/classical-type stuff—very clearly have that distinct Sugiyama sound to them. Unfortunately Pony Canyon soiled it with this release. Being Pony Canyon, this suffers from the usual, it being an album with a short length and having lots of unreleased BGM as a result—but the music selection here is...sort of limited as well. Various BGM re-use the melody heard in "Itsuka Boku no Umi e" (which I think is a little more than it should have been), and after having skimmed through the show on YT myself, I think the album definitely would have benefited from the inclusion of several more tracks from the show that were omitted from the album. This is something I've said before but I'll say it again. There's still a chance for this to happen eventually in the future, but had the show been given a complete music collection release of sorts by now, well...I feel there may have been a likely chance that this could have one of Sugiyama's best soundtrack works of the 80s. Lastly: I intended to work on this album and release it as a "in memoriam" sort of thing for Sugiyama after he passed away last year, but due to the condition of the LP (among other things), I ended up being a year later as a result...😅 at least it's finally here though. Enjoy!