Higher Self (Kyosuke Himuro album)

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Higher Self
Higher Self.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedApril 6, 1991
Genre Rock, pop
Length48:11
Label Toshiba-EMI
Producer Akira Nishihira
Kyosuke Himuro chronology
Neo Fascio
(1988)
Higher Self
(1991)
Memories of Blue
(1991)

Higher Self is the third album by Japanese singer Kyosuke Himuro. Reached number one on Oricon Albums Chart. [1]

Track listing

  1. Crime of Love
  2. Black-List
  3. Velvet Rose
  4. Psychic Baby
  5. Maximum 100 no Yūutsu (MAXIMUM 100の憂鬱 (Melancholy of Maximum 100))
  6. Wild at Night
  7. Stormy Night
  8. Climax
  9. Cabaret in the Heaven
  10. Moon
  11. Jealousy wo Nemurasete (Remix Version) (JEALOUSYを眠らせて(REMIX VERSION) (Let Jealousy Sleep (Remix Version)))
  12. Lover's Day -Solitude-

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References

  1. "氷室京介のアルバム売り上げランキング". Oricon (in Japanese). Archived from the original on May 29, 2013. Retrieved October 7, 2021.