True Album Akina 95 Best
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| Released | December 6, 1995 | |||
| Recorded | 1993–1995 | |||
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| Length | 96:18 | |||
| Language | Japanese | |||
| Label | MCA Victor | |||
| Producer | Akina Nakamori | |||
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| Singles from True Album Akina 95 Best | ||||
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True Album Akina 95 Best is a compilation album by Japanese entertainer Akina Nakamori, released through MCA Victor on December 6, 1995. Produced by Nakamori, the album consists of her singles from the MCA Victor era and self-covers of her singles from the Warner Pioneer era. The album is split in three discs: "Wild Disc" focuses on Nakamori's fast-paced songs, "World Disc" features songs with world music themes, and "Whisper Disc" compiles her ballads.[1]
Charting performance
[edit]The album peaked at No. 16 on Oricon's weekly albums chart and charted for seven weeks.[2] It sold over 86,000 copies.[3]
Track listing
[edit]| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Arrangement | Length |
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| 1. | "Kazari ja Nai no yo Namida wa [Renewal]" ((飾りじゃないのよ涙は, "The Tears Are Not a Decoration")) | Yōsui Inoue | Y. Inoue | Kōichi Korenaga | 4:22 |
| 2. | "Tokyo Rose" |
| Masaki | Brian Setzer | 4:09 |
| 3. | "Tattoo [Renewal]" | Yuri Moriko | Anri Sekine | Korenaga | 4:02 |
| 4. | "Gaia (Chikyū no Sasayaki)" ((Gaia 〜地球のささやき〜, "Gaia ~Whisper of the Earth~")) | Seriko Natsuno | Nittoku Inoue | Shōhei Narabe | 3:18 |
| 5. | "Blonde [Renewal]" |
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| Nobuhiko Kashiwara | 3:58 |
| 6. | "Aibu" ((愛撫, "Caress")) | Takashi Matsumoto | Tetsuya Komuro | Komuro | 5:12 |
| 7. | "Desire (Jōnetsu) [Renewal]" (DESIRE -情熱-) | Yoko Aki | Kisaburō Suzuki | Yasunori Iwasaki | 4:39 |
| Total length: | 29:40 | ||||
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Arrangement | Length |
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| 1. | "Meu amor é... [Renewal]" (Mi Amōre (ミ・アモーレ)) | Chinfa Kan | Naoya Matsuoka | Ikurō Fujiwara | 4:24 |
| 2. | "Gypsy Queen [Renewal]" (Jipushī Kuīn (ジプシー・クイーン)) | Matsumoto | Wataru Kuniyasu | Minoru Mukaiya | 4:20 |
| 3. | "Genshi, Onna wa Taiyō Datta" ((原始、女は太陽だった, "Primitive, the Woman Was the Sun")) | Neko Oikawa | Masaki | Iwasaki | 4:47 |
| 4. | "Tango Noir [Renewal]" | Kayoko Fuyumori | Takashi Tsushimi | Fujiwara | 4:33 |
| 5. | "Gekka" ((月華, "Moon Flower")) | Gorō Matsui | Shūgō Kajiwara | Akihiko Matsumoto | 5:01 |
| 6. | "Futari Shizuka: Tenkawa Densetsu Satsujin Jiken yori [Renewal]" ((二人静 -「天河伝説殺人事件」より, "Two People Still: From The Legendary Tenkawa Murder Case")) | T. Matsumoto | Makoto Sekiguchi | Mukaiya | 4:06 |
| 7. | "Shangrila [Bonus Track]" | Natsuno | Iwasaki | Iwasaki | 5:37 |
| Total length: | 32:48 | ||||
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Arrangement | Length |
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| 1. | "Slow Motion [Renewal]" (Surō Mōshon (スローモーション)) | Etsuko Kisugi | Takao Kisugi | Fujiwara | 5:14 |
| 2. | "Second Love [Renewal]" (Sekando Rabu (セカンド・ラブ)) | E. Kisugi | T. Kisugi | Iwasaki | 5:03 |
| 3. | "Liar [Renewal]" | Mitsuko Shiramine | Kazuya Izumi | Mukaiya | 4:55 |
| 4. | "Kagerō" ((陽炎, "Heat Haze")) | Nakamori | Kōji Tamaki | Yūji Toriyama | 4:20 |
| 5. | "Nanpasen [Renewal]" ((難破船, "Shipwreck")) | Tokiko Kato | Kato | Masahiro Sayama | 4:08 |
| 6. | "Mizu ni Sashita Hana [Renewal]" ((水に挿した花, "Flowers in Water")) | Natsuko Tadano | Junko Hirotani | Fujiwara | 5:15 |
| 7. | "Yokan [Renewal]" ((予感, "Premonition")) | Ryō Asuka | Asuka | Kashiwara | 4:55 |
| Total length: | 33:50 | ||||
Charts
[edit]| Chart (1995) | Peak position |
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| Japanese Albums (Oricon)[2] | 16 |
References
[edit]- ^ "中森明菜 / 中森明菜 / true album akina 95 best [3CD]". CDJournal. Retrieved 2021-11-13.
- ^ a b "true album akina 95 best | 中森明菜". Oricon. Retrieved 2021-11-13.
- ^ "中森明菜". Yamachan Land. Archived from the original on 2011-08-14. Retrieved 2021-11-13.
External links
[edit]- True Album Akina 95 Best at MusicBrainz (list of releases)
- True Album Akina 95 Best at Discogs
