FOREWORD
This is published in some Chinese magazine a few years ago. Thanks to Irene for posting it at Fans Board and sharing it with all of us. ^^


B'z on "Best Pleasure" & "Best Treasure"

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Love Phantom
Tak The idea came to me while doing concert hanging in the mid-air, afterwards we went through much pain to follow that feeling in completing this song.

Love Me, I Love You
Tak Even though we have released the single version, in the album version we put in Masao Akashi's live bass playing.

Easy Come, Easy Go
Tak I really like the whole feeling of this song, right from the intro.

ZERO
Koshi The first lyrics completed were the verse parts. Maybe when I was writing them, I had some annoying matters in mind (laugh).
Tak We created this song during touring and tried it live on stage first, afterwards we recorded it.

Alone
Koshi I wrote the lyrics with sunset as the main theme. In the process of writing the music, we also put in much attention to make it very melancholy.

Hadashi No Megami
Koshi Very strong rock colour. The feeling it exudes during Live shows is fantastic.

Ai No Mama Ni, Wagamama Ni, Boku Wa Kimi Dake Wo Kizutsukenai
Tak We spent so much time writing many different kind of melodies and lyrics to finish this one.
Koshi It might be our most 'wagamama' (= selfish, disobidient) song of all time.

Lady Navigation
Tak The music and lyrics are decided on 'fresh' as the concept, even the guitar solo is wild and free.

Taiyou No Komachi Angel
Tak We tried to reflect season through the melody and music arrangement, didn't we? Yes, it is a song filled with the feeling of season.

Be There

Tak Even though when we first released it, the reaction was not up to our expectation, we sort of caught a good feeling during the first stage of creating this song.

Don't Leave Me

Koshi I had so much fun singing this song.
Tak I heard that it's called "black period song" among the fans (laugh).

Bad Communication E. Style
Tak When we started the promotion, it was only in the form of 12" single CD. It was not for sale in public, solely for broadcasting by TV/Radio stations or discos only.
Koshi I can't say which one is better, the Japanese or the English lyrics.

Calling
Tak This was an encore song during our Dome Lives. The melody of this song was already fixed, so I didn't want to do any changes to it.
Koshi We actually changed it many times before. Once we even let it freeze for sometimes (laugh). Fortunately we could get it out smoothly afterward.

Samayoeru Aoi Dangan

Tak The best part of this song is the classic-guitar style which can turn into intense playing anytime.

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Blowin'
Koshi After reducing the electronica-sound, it has a pure guitar song feeling.

Koi Gokoro
Tak It's a B-side song from the single Zero. A very good opposite of Zero.

TIME
Koshi I wrote the lyrics while browsing through old photos. In the memories that continue to pile up, there are heavy and light ones.

Liar! Liar!
Koshi Things that I've experienced myself seem to be flashing back in front of my eyes after some time. It's kinda exciting.

NEGAI
Tak We go back right to our earlier concept in creating music, considering it from the fans' point of view.

Itoshii Hito Yo, Goodnight...
Koshi This song is the very image of rock in my mind when we first started.

Pleasure '98
Tak The lyrics is wonderful. Even though it is only a B-side song, it definitely has all it needs to become a great single.

Mienai Chikara ~ Invisible One
Tak We did two versions for the mid-part of this song. The guitar solo is quite simple.

Mou Ichido Kiss Shitakatta
Koshi To put it simply, it's a love song.
Tak This is the kind of song I have always wanted to create during school days, now I finally realized it.

Fireball
Koshi Tak's guitar makes the unique part of the song come out to the fullest.

Real Thing Shakes
Tak Since it is foreign production, we learned many things from the producer. I wrote the music in some hotel in New York.
Koshi Because I was at a place where the lyrics can be corrected anytime, therefore I gave it a try.

MOTEL
Tak Even though we completed some of the chorus part on the first day, but we had our share of pain during the finishing. It's basically a very different style of song.

Itsuka No Merry Christmas
Tak This song was included in our mini album which beginning concept was scene-less music. Therefore Inaba's lyrics must have stronger story line in them. This song should be the last story in the album...

Run 1998 Style
Tak This is a song that was made for us and the whole team, in hope that we will improve and improve.


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