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Released
  
July 28, 1999

Golden Best (1999)
  
Golden Bad (2000)

Release date
  
28 July 1999

Producer
  
Various

Artist
  
Yōsui Inoue

Label
  
FOR LIFE RECORDS

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Recorded
  
1972-1998 2001-2003 (Bonus disc)

Length
  
74:43 (disc one) 78:23 (disc two)

Genres
  
Kayōkyoku, Folk music, Pop music, Rock music

Similar
  
Yōsui Inoue albums, Pop music albums

Golden Best is the double-CD compilation album by a Japanese singer-songwriter Yōsui Inoue. The album was released in July 1999, celebrating his 30-year career as a solo recording artist. It comprises 35 tracks spanning his works after 1972; a year he released his debut album Danzetsu under the renewed stage name.

Contents

Golden Best debuted at the number-six on the Japanese Oricon chart and climbed the top in September 1999. It became one of the most successful albums for Inoue, entering the record chart for a year with sales of over 1.4 million copies. The label For Life Music Entertainment stated that Golden Best album has sold more than 2.06 million copies up to late 2008.

After a year from the album's release, a sequel entitled Golden Bad came out. And in 2003, when the album shipped more than 2 million units, an expanded edition called Golden Best Super was issued. It features bonus disc which includes his singles in the 2000s and previously unreleased recordings.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Yōsui Inoue, unless otherwise indicated

Disc one

  1. "Shounen Jidai (少年時代)" (Inoue, Natsumi Hirai) - 3:21
  2. "Arigatou (ありがとう)" (Inoue, Tamio Okuda) (recorded with Tamio Okuda, credited to InoueYōsuiOkudaTamio) - 3:31
  3. "Make-up Shadow" (Inoue, Utsuru Ayame) - 4:09
  4. "Asia no Junshin (アジアの純真)" (Inoue, Okuda) (recorded with Tamio Okuda, credited to InoueYōsuiOkudaTamio) - 3:53
  5. "Saigo no News (最後のニュース)" - 3:55
  6. "Kasa ga Nai (傘がない)" - 5:35
  7. "Kōri no Sekai (氷の世界)" - 4:11
  8. "Yume no Naka e (夢の中へ)" - 2:40
  9. "Riverside Hotel" - 3:54
  10. "Kokoro Moyou (心もよう)" - 3:27
  11. "Gogatsu no Wakare (5月の別れ)" - 5:06
  12. "Isso Serenade (いっそ セレナーデ)" - 3:16
  13. "Crazy Love" - 4:04
  14. "Kazari ja Nai no yo Namida wa (飾りじゃないのよ涙は)" - 4:43
  15. "Jealousy (ジェラシー)" - 4:01
  16. "Aozora, Hitorikiri (青空、ひとりきり)" - 4:22
  17. "Atarashii Rhapsody (新しいラプソディー)" - 4:51
  18. "Nagai Saka no E no Frame (長い坂の絵のフレーム)" - 5:52

Disc two

  1. "Tomadou Pelican (とまどうペリカン)" - 4:52
  2. "Canary (カナリア)" - 3:56
  3. "Dance wa Umaku Odorenai (ダンスはうまく踊れない)" - 3:56
  4. "Musume ga Nejireru Toki (娘がねじれる時)" - 4:13
  5. "Nazeka Shanghai (なぜか上海)" - 5:32
  6. "Eiyū (英雄)" - 5:04
  7. "Wakan'nai (ワカンナイ)" - 4:59
  8. "Wine Red no Kokoro (ワインレッドの心)" (Inoue, Kōji Tamaki) - 5:25
  9. "Natsu no Owari no Harmony (夏の終わりのハーモニー)" (Inoue, Tamaki) (recorded with Anzen Chitai) - 3:53
  10. "Teenager" (Inoue, Hirai) - 4:34
  11. "Tokyo" (Inoue, Hirai) - 2:58
  12. "Thailand Fantasia (タイランド ファンタジア)" - 4:55
  13. "Kaerenai Futari (帰れない二人)" (Inoue, Kiyoshiro Imawano) - 4:21
  14. "Just Fit" - 4:25
  15. "Jinsei ga Nido Areba (人生が二度あれば)" - 4:59
  16. "Musubikotoba (結詞)" - 4:07
  17. "Tsumini no Nai Fune (積み荷のない船)" - 5:38

Bonus disc for 2003 limited edition

  1. "Tomadou Pelican (とまどうペリカン)" [Live version recorded at the Tokyo International Forum on March 21, 2003, previously unreleased] - 5:07
  2. "Coffee Rumba (コーヒー・ルンバ)"　(Jose Manzo Perroni, Seiji Nakazawa) - 3:07
  3. "Hana no Kubikazari (花の首飾り)" (Koichi Sugiyama, Fusako Sugawara, Rei Nakanishi) - 4:11
  4. "Aozora, Hitorikiri (青空、ひとりきり)" [Live version recorded at the Pacifico Yokohama on December 23, 2002, previously unreleased] - 3:31
  5. "Kimerareta Rhythm (決められたリズム)" - 4:12
  6. "Mis Cast" [Live version recorded at the Tokyo International Forum on March 21, 2003, previously unreleased] - 5:10
  7. "L-O-V-E" [Live version recorded at the Fukuoka Convention Center on January 21, 2003, previously unreleased] - 2:58
  8. "Miss Contest" [Live version recorded at the Bluenote Tokyo on January 6, 2003, previously unreleased] - 4:38
  9. "Kōri no Sekai (氷の世界)" [Live version recorded at the Tokyo International Forum on March 21, 2003, previously unreleased] - 5:07
  10. "Umi e Kinasai (海へ来なさい)" (Inoue, Katz Hoshi) [Live version recorded at the Tokyo International Forum on March 21, 2003, previously unreleased] - 4:32

Songs

Make-up Shadow4:09
TEENAGER4:34
Tokyo2:57

References

Golden Best (Yōsui Inoue album) Wikipedia
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