True Album Akina 95 Best

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True Album Akina 95 Best
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Compilation album by
Akina Nakamori
ReleasedDecember 6, 1995 (1995-12-06)
Recorded1993–1995
Studio
  • Ocean Way Recording
  • Victor Studio
  • Aobadai Studio
  • Freedom Studio
  • Studio MIT
  • Studio Jive
  • Sound Studio Dali
  • Heartbeat Recording Studio
  • Sound Valley
Genre
Length96:18
LanguageJapanese
Label MCA Victor
Producer Akina Nakamori
Akina Nakamori chronology
La Alteración
(1995)		True Album Akina 95 Best
(1995)		 Vamp
(1996)
Singles from True Album Akina 95 Best
  1. "Tokyo Rose"
    Released: November 1, 1995

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]

Contents

Charting performance

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

Disc 1: Wild Disc
No.TitleLyricsMusicArrangementLength
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. InoueKōichi Korenaga4:22
2."Tokyo Rose"
  • Akina Nakamori
  • Takashi Kamisawatsu
Masaki Brian Setzer 4:09
3."Tattoo [Renewal]"Yuri MorikoAnri SekineKorenaga4:02
4."Gaia (Chikyū no Sasayaki)" ((Gaia 〜地球のささやき〜, "Gaia ~Whisper of the Earth~"))Seriko NatsunoNittoku InoueShōhei Narabe3:18
5."Blonde [Renewal]"
  • Biddu
  • Winston Sela
  • Keiko Asō
  • Biddu
  • Sela
Nobuhiko Kashiwara3:58
6."Aibu" ((愛撫, "Caress")) Takashi Matsumoto Tetsuya Komuro Komuro5:12
7."Desire (Jōnetsu) [Renewal]" (DESIRE -情熱-) Yoko Aki Kisaburō Suzuki Yasunori Iwasaki4:39
Total length:29:40
Disc 2: World Disc
No.TitleLyricsMusicArrangementLength
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))MatsumotoWataru 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 MasakiIwasaki4:47
4."Tango Noir [Renewal]"Kayoko FuyumoriTakashi TsushimiFujiwara4:33
5."Gekka" ((月華, "Moon Flower")) Gorō Matsui Shūgō KajiwaraAkihiko Matsumoto5:01
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 Mukaiya4:06
7."Shangrila [Bonus Track]"NatsunoIwasakiIwasaki5:37
Total length:32:48
Disc 3: Whisper Disc
No.TitleLyricsMusicArrangementLength
1."Slow Motion [Renewal]" (Surō Mōshon (スローモーション))Etsuko Kisugi Takao Kisugi Fujiwara5:14
2."Second Love [Renewal]" (Sekando Rabu (セカンド・ラブ))E. KisugiT. KisugiIwasaki5:03
3."Liar [Renewal]"Mitsuko ShiramineKazuya IzumiMukaiya4:55
4."Kagerō" ((陽炎, "Heat Haze"))Nakamori Kōji Tamaki Yūji Toriyama4:20
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 Fujiwara5:15
7."Yokan [Renewal]" ((予感, "Premonition")) Ryō Asuka AsukaKashiwara4:55
Total length:33:50

Charts

Chart (1995)Peak
position
Japanese Albums (Oricon) [2] 16

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