Released June 12, 2013 Release date 12 June 2013 Label Vermillion Records | Artist B'z Producer Tak Matsumoto | |
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Genres J-pop, Hard rock, Pop rock Similar B'z albums, J-pop albums |
B'z The Best XXV 1988-1998 is a compilation album by the Japanese hard rock duo B'z. It was released on June 12, 2013, simultaneously with B'z The Best XXV 1999-2012, and it is part of their 25th anniversary celebration. It reached #1 at Oricon charts and Billboard Japan Top Albums.
Contents
The album's track list is composed of singles released by the band between 1988 and 1998 with two previously unreleased tracks: "Heat", a collaborative song with the South Korean pop singer Kim Hyun-joong, who once named B'z as his favorite Japanese musical act, and Kakushin, which is used as the opening theme of NTV's drama Kumo no Kaidan (雲の階段).
A special edition copy of the album is also available. It includes a bonus DVD with all of the band's music videos for their first decade, most of which are available on DVD for the first time.
Disc 1
- "Dakara Sono Te o Hanashite" (だからその手を離して) - 3:49
- "Kimi no Naka de Odoritai" (君の中で踊りたい) - 3:46
- "Lady-Go-Round" - 4:22
- "Be There" - 4:14
- "Taiyō no Komachi Angel" (太陽の Komachi Angel) - 4:10
- "Easy Come, Easy Go!" - 4:40
- "Itoshii Hitoyo Good Night… " (愛しい人よ Good Night...) - 6:13
- "Lady Navigation" - 6:09
- "Alone" - 6:21
- "Blowin'" - 3:56
- "Zero"
- "Ai no mama ni Wagamama ni Boku wa Kimi dake o Kizutsukenai" (愛のままにわがままに 僕は君だけを傷つけない) - 3:56
- "Hadashi no Megami" (裸足の女神) - 4:27
- "Don't Leave Me"
Disc 2
- "Motel" - 4:23
- "Negai" (ねがい) - 3:30
- "Love Me, I Love You" - 3:18
- "Love Phantom" - 4:40
- "Mienai Chikara ~Invisible One~" (ミエナイチカラ ~Invisible one~) - 4:29
- "Move" - 3:47
- "Real Thing Shakes" - 4:11
- "Fireball" - 4:14
- "Calling" - 5:56
- "Liar! Liar!" - 3:21
- "Samayoeru Aoi Dangan" (さまよえる蒼い弾丸) - 4:07
- "Home" - 4:20
- "Heat" (Kim Hyun-joong cover)
- "Kakushin" (核心)
Songs
Dakara Sono te wo Hanashite3:49
LADY-GO-ROUND4:22
BE THERE4:13