Cats and Dogs: The Very Best of Mari Hamada

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Cats and Dogs: The Very Best of Mari Hamada
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Compilation album by
Mari Hamada
ReleasedOctober 7, 1998 (1998-10-07)
Recorded1983–1994
Genre
Length2:31:00
LanguageJapanese
Label Universal Victor
Mari Hamada chronology
Persona
(1996)		Cats and Dogs: The Very Best of Mari Hamada
(1998)		 Philosophia
(1998)

Cats and Dogs: The Very Best of Mari Hamada is a compilation album by Japanese singer/songwriter Mari Hamada, released on October 7, 1998, by Universal Victor. The album coincided with Hamada's label transfer from MCA Victor to Polydor Records, as well as the 15th anniversary of her music career. Hamada herself was not involved in the album's track selection. [1] [2]

Contents

Cats and Dogs peaked at No. 24 on Oricon's albums chart. [3]

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Mari Hamada, except where indicated

Disc 1 (Cats Side)
No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."Tokio Makin' Love" Munetaka Higuchi Project TeamMunetaka Higuchi Project Team3:48
2."Romantic Night"Munetaka Higuchi Project TeamMunetaka Higuchi Project Team3:57
3."Paradise" Hiroyuki Ohtsuki5:01
4."Crime of Love" Howard Killy5:29
5."Love and Free" Keiji Katayama4:13
6."Cry No More" Ohtsuki4:38
7."Forever" Ohtsuki4:02
8."Heart and Soul" Ohtsuki4:52
9."Nostalgia" Takanobu Masuda4:18
10."Precious Summer" Tetsuro Oda3:50
11."Tele-Control" Ohtsuki4:38
12."Cry for the Moon" (Single Version) Ohtsuki5:18
13."Antique" (Album Version) 
6:47
14."Someone Like You"
  • G. Nelson
  • M. Nelson
  • Tanner
4:06
Disc 2 (Dogs Side)
No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."Misty Lady" Hamada4:51
2."Runaway from Yesterday"Munetaka Higuchi Project TeamMunetaka Higuchi Project Team5:48
3."Blue Revolution" 
  • Hiroaki Matsuzawa
  • Yōgo Kōno
4:48
4."Free Way" Hamada4:53
5."Call My Luck" Ohtsuki4:03
6."Magic -Adventurous Heart-" Kaoru Ohori4:11
7."999 ~One More Reason~"
  • Pat DeRemer
  • Damon Danielson
  • Hamada
  • DeRemer
  • Danielson
3:28
8."My Tears" Masuda6:22
9."Return to Myself ~Shinai, Shinai, Natsu." ((Return to Myself ~しない、しない、ナツ。, "Return to Myself ~Not, Not, Summer.")) Ohtsuki4:31
10."Heaven Knows" 
  • Greg Edward
  • Tom Keane
  • Ohtsuki
4:21
11."Paradox" Masuzaki5:13
12."Anti-Heroine" Ichiro Hada4:50
13."Hey Mr. Broken Heart" 
  • Hamada
  • Yōichi Fujii
5:52
14."Fixing a Broken Heart" (feat. Indecent Obsession)
  • Richard Hennassey
  • Michael Jay
  • Mark Duffy
  • Neil McDiamind
  • Don Kilpatrick
  • Hennassey
  • Jay
  • Duffy
  • McDiamind
  • Kilpatrick
3:33

Charts

Chart (1998)Peak
position
Japanese Albums (Oricon) [3] 24

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References

  1. ↑ "浜田麻里 / CATS AND DOGS～THE VERY BEST OF MARI HAMADA [2CD]". CDJournal. Retrieved 2020-04-22.
  2. ↑ "CATS AND DOGS/浜田麻里". Billboard Japan . Retrieved 2020-04-22.
  3. 1 2 "CATS AND DOGS/浜田麻里". Oricon . Retrieved 2020-04-21.
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