“Sports Men” Haruomi Hosono

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uv-FhIOPvE Haruomi Hosono is a very funny man -- but also a deadly serious man. Nowhere else in the techo-pop pioneer's expansive discography is this dual sensibility more prevalent than in "Sports Men." "Sports Men" -- from Hosono's 1982 album Philharmony -- is about an out-of-shape guy trying to impress a girl who herself and...