Life Is Beautiful (Chicago Poodle album)

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Life is Beautiful
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Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 24, 2014 (2014-09-24)
Recorded2013-2014
Genre J-pop
Length44:20
Label Giza Studio
Producer Chicago Poodle
Chicago Poodle chronology
3.0
(2013)
Life is Beautiful
(2014)
Sodefuri Au mo Tashou no En
(2017)
Singles from Life is Beautiful
  1. "Kimi no Egao ga Nani yori Suki datta"
    Released: 28 August 2013
  2. "with/Sora Tooku"
    Released: 11 November 2013
  3. "Scenario no Nai Life"
    Released: 5 February 2014

Life is Beautiful is the fourth studio album by Japanese pop-rock band Chicago Poodle. [1] It was released on 24 September 2014 by Giza Studio label.

Contents

Charting

The theme of the album is "life". [2] [3]

The album consists of previously one normal and two digitally released singles.

Several artist from Giza Studio such as Yumemoto Tsuresawa from Japanese rock band WAR-ED, Yuuzo Ohkusu from instrumental band Sensation or the former members of the Japanese pop band Garnet Crow, Hitoshi Okamoto and Hirohito Furui were involved with the album production. [4]

Charting

The album reached the #81 rank in Oricon for the first week. It charted for two weeks. [5]

Track listing

All music is composed by Kouta Hanazawa

Life is Beautiful [6]
No.TitleLyricsArranger(s)Length
1."Life is Beautiful"Chicago PoodleChicago Poodle1:03
2."Kotae Awase" (答エアワセ)Norihito YamaguchiSatoshi Iwakura3:01
3."Yumeiro Canvas" (夢色キャンバス)YamaguchiIwakura4:22
4."Naitara Ee" (泣いたらええ)Yamaguchi Hitoshi Okamoto (ex. Garnet Crow)3:49
5."Kimi no Egao ga Nani yori mo Suki datta" (君の笑顔がなによりも好きだった)Tsujimoto, YamaguchiIwakura4:33
6."Good-bye, what a wonderful world"TsujimotoYuuzo Ohkusu4:06
7."LaTaTa"TsujimotoYumeto Tsuresawa (WAR-ED)4:11
8."Sora Tooku" (空遠く)TsujimotoChicago Poodle4:18
9."with"YamaguchiHirohito Furui (ex. Garnet Crow)5:40
10."Scenario no Nai Life" (シナリオのないライフ)YamaguchiChicago Poodle4:35
11."Just My Special Lady"YamaguchiChicago Poodle4:47

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