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Released
  
March 3, 1995

Speed Pop (1995)
  
Beat Out! (1996)

Release date
  
3 March 1995

Length
  
62:00

Artist
  
Glay

Label
  
PLATINUM RECORDS

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Producer
  
Masahide Sakuma Masami Tsuchiya Yoshiki

Genres
  
Pop music, Rock music, J-pop, Pop rock, Power pop

Similar
  
Glay albums, Rock music albums

Speed Pop is the second album by Japanese rock band Glay. It is the band's major label debut album, was released on March 3, 1995 and peaked at #8 at Oricon charts, with 320,150 copies sold.

Contents

Speed pop anthology


Overview

Former drummer Akira appears on tracks 9 and 10, which originally appeared on their debut album along with "Rain". Masami Tsuchiya and Yūji Kawashima also contributed electric guitar and synthesizer to these new versions of those two songs respectively. Masafumi Minato (Saber Tiger and Dead End) performs on tracks 3 and 7.

Track listing

  1. "Speed Pop (Introduction)" - 1:20
  2. "Happy Swing" - 5:12
  3. "Kanojo no "Modern..." (彼女の "Modern…")" - 4:29
  4. "Zutto Futari de... (ずっと2人で…)" - 7:06
  5. "Love Slave" - 4:17
  6. "Regret" - 4:53
  7. "Innocence" - 6:16
  8. "Freeze My Love" - 5:33
  9. "Manatsu no Tobira (真夏の扉)" - 5:07
  10. "Life -Tooi Sora no Shita de- (Life ～遠い空の下で～)" - 6:53
  11. "Junk Art" - 4:34
  12. "Rain" - 6:45

Personnel

  • Masahide Sakuma - mandolin, saxophone, trumpet, recorder, organ, acoustic piano, synthesizer, electric and acoustic guitar (2-8, 11), string arrangements (1-11), computer programming (1-11)
  • Soul Toul - drums (tracks 2, 4-6, 8, 11)
  • Masafumi Minato - drums (3 & 7)
  • Akira - drums (9 & 10)
  • Mike Baird - drums (12)
  • Yūji Kawashima - synthesizer (9 & 10)
  • Masami Tsuchiya - electric guitar (9 & 10)
  • Yoshiki - piano & string arrangements (12)

    • Songs

    SPEED POP (introduction)1:20
    HAPPY SWING5:11
    Zutto futari de6:57

    References

    Speed Pop Wikipedia
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