milestone 30th anniversary. From the update you can see that this is a member selected set of songs, so hopefully that is Ami and Yumi and not the staff (which is a complaint of mine for a similar ZARD greatest hits album shortly before her passing). Expect this to drop May 13, I have not seen it appear on Amazon Music's US site, but that is often the last in line for releases.
I'll be perfectly honest here, for a landmark anniversary this is underwhelming. I expected more and for me about half the tracks are ones I would like to hear. Everything else not so much. The album art is also not great unless found thrift store art is your thing (which is coo, just not for me).
The physical CD also costs ¥5,000 (~$32), which is not out of the norm for a disc these days. If you pre-order you can get a free digital wallpaper which is the album art in a different dimension. Again, the lowest possible effort for a milestone release.
As a note, the Japanese music industry is notorious for repackaging and then repackaging again artist's greatest hits so this is not out of the norm. Being a ZARD fan I have still acquired her compilation albums, mostly because the track lists are strong with songs are ridiculously good. Judge for yourself, here is the track list:
1. Asia no Junshin | Lyrics: Yosui Inoue / Composition & Arrangement: Tamio Okuda
2. Kore ga Watashi no Ikiru Michi | Lyrics, Composition & Arrangement: Tamio Okuda
3. Nagisa ni Matsuwaru Etcetera | Lyrics: Yosui Inoue / Composition & Arrangement: Tamio Okuda
4. MOTHER | Lyrics, Composition & Arrangement: Tamio Okuda
5. Ai no Shirushi | Lyrics & Composition: Masamune Kusano / Arrangement: Tamio Okuda
6. Boogie Woogie No. 5 | Lyrics, Composition & Arrangement: Tamio Okuda
7. Hi Hi | Lyrics: Puffy AmiYumi / Andy Sturmer / Composition & Arrangement: Andy Sturmer
8. Kuchibiru Motion | Lyrics, Composition & Arrangement: Kazuya Yoshii
9. Dareka ga | Lyrics & Composition: Yusuke Chiba / Arrangement: Kenji Ueda
10. All Because Of You | Lyrics & Composition: Butch Walker / Avril Lavigne Arrangement: Butch Walker
11. Bye Bye | Lyrics, Composition, Arrangement: Masahiko Shimura
12. Go Baby Power Now | Lyrics, Composition, Arrangement: Jon Spencer
I guess the big question is Puffy going to retire on this anniversary which they have previously stated might be the case. But we also heard that for other benchmark anniversaries.
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P.S. Life has been remarkably complicated as of late so expect posts to happen but like Puffy not at an aggressive pace. No surprise its been like that for years now.
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