When TV shows get multiple soundtrack albums, there are two common ways of distributing songs. First, you can take a chronological approach, with the first album getting the songs that appear earliest in the show, the second album getting ones that appear in later episodes, and so on. The second option is to segment the albums someway. For example, one album might be all vocal songs, while another album is all background music. The second soundtrack album for the first You're Under Arrest TV show hews mostly to the first option, but not fully.

While it is true that the tracks appearing here tend to be music from the "middle episodes" of the show's 47 episodes, it isn't that clear cut. For example, the first album contains a song from episode 18, while this album contains a song from episode 14. Rather, it seems that this second soundtrack album is more focused on character songs, and background music that reinforces specific themes and concepts in the show.

The album starts out quite well, with a short instrumental variation on the first opening theme song, which started out the first soundtrack album. This immediately establishes thematic similarity between the albums, while indicating that the second soundtrack album is taking a more playful angle. The electric guitars continue into the second track, Autobahn, a nice if slightly generic piece of background fluff. Tracks three through five are background tracks that feature the standard instrumentation for this series, synthesized keyboard and horn with electric guitar and bass accompaniment. These tracks are quite similar to what you can find on the first album, and admittedly aren't that musically interesting.

Things get more interesting starting with track seven, which is the song that plays in the background in the first part of episode 14, where Natsumi hits her head and dreams that she is a Meiji-era Imperial magistrate investigating murders. This is a fun song that includes a bit of "traditional style." The next track, Traffic Squadron Orbithree, is from episode 20, where our heroines and hero put on a play to teach traffic safety. The song itself, and the episode it comes from, is a bit of a spoof on sentai shows (think "Power Rangers"). As long as you don't mind your music being on the cheesy side, it's pretty fun.

Running With My Dream is the next track, and it hails from episode 19 of the TV show, which is one of the few episodes that involves the background of a supporting character, Daimaru Nakajima. The song itself is pretty low-key, with acoustic guitar, electric guitar, and an organ accompanying the singer. It has a very "folk ballad" feel to it, which is a significant change from the rest of the album. To be honest with you, it doesn't quite work for me.

We will skip over track 10 for now (we'll get to it later), and discuss the rest of the album. What we have here are a number of shorter instrumental background pieces that anyone who has watched the show will be able to easily recognize. There is nothing really special about them, but they get the job done. Sometimes the guitar work is nice, like in track 13, Side Turn, and sometimes it's a nice, slow piece like track 20, Stabiliser, which features an acoustic guitar/piano duet and is quite enjoyable to listen to. I really don't have much to say, specifically, about individual songs in the back half of the album, as musically it is all like the previous album, though perhaps with a bit more saxophone than normal. In fact, you could easily get away with saying that there are more "jazzy" songs here than on the first album. Track 21, Side Screen, is the most significant example of this, but there are others.

For the most part, music is not repeated from the first album. There are occasional instances, like track 24, Flange, which are essentially a different arrangement of a song from the first album, but almost all of the music is original to this album.

Speaking of this, let's get back to track 10, Thank You, Love... Just Friends..., which is the first ending song, as was included on the first soundtrack album, except this time it is sung by the voice actors who voice Miyuki and Ken, the star-crossed lovers who can never seem to get it together. If you are a fan of the characters in the show, this song is both awesome and terrible at the same time, because of the lyrics to the song. The lyrics are so absolutely perfect for these two friends who want to be lovers, but for whatever reason they can't seem to cross that threshold. I don't believe that this song ever is used in the show (or if it is, I couldn't find it after watching pretty much every episode specifically looking for it), which makes its inclusion here an absolute treat, and moves the album from "nice to get" territory into "MUST HAVE!!!" for fans of the show. I mean, how can you like these characters and not hear this song? It's just so perfect that it about breaks my heart.

To summarize, for fans of You're Under Arrest! this album is a must have. For everyone else, what is here is good, but you won't pick up on all that makes this album so good for the fan. So, the second soundtrack album, like the first, is a "fan only" purchase, but in some ways an even more important one than the first soundtrack album.