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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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