The Very Best of Puffy/amiyumi jet fever

Best Album / Stereo

Epic ESCB 2140
ESYB 7174 (Mini-Disc)
SYUM 0162/3 (LP)

Released July 5, 2000
July 14, 2000 (LP)

Produced by Tamio Okuda
Masanori Sasaji (M-8, 11, 15, 16, 18)
Tetsutaro Sakurai (M-13)
Andy Sturmer (M-9, 14)

Highest Chart Ranking: #2
Weeks on Chart: 11

Puffy's first greatest hits collection, featuring all of their singles to that point with several album tracks (and two Mandarin-language versions of their songs). Predictably, most of the focus falls on Jet CD and Fever*Fever, with amiyumi and solosolo getting two songs apiece. As a hits disc I prefer it to An Illustrated History, if only because it has a few more songs and delves a bit deeper into the early Puffy catalogue. But even so, there are quite a few good album tracks that you miss out on by sticking exclusively to the hits discs.

This CD is readily available, with YesAsia, CDJapan and Amazon Japan all having it in stock.

Track Listing

1. Kore ga Watashi no Ikirumichi (words & music: Tamio Okuda) (3:19)
2. Nagisa ni Matsuwaru EtCetera (words: Yosui Inoue/music: Tamio Okuda) (3:53)
3. Asia no Junshin (words: Yosui Inoue/music: Tamio Okuda) (4:41)
4. Circuit no Musume (words & music: Tamio Okuda) (3:22)
5. Umi eto (words & music: Tamio Okuda) (3:11)
6. Ai no Shirushi (words & music: Masamune Kusano) (2:46)
7. Nehorina Hahorina (words & music: Tortoise Matsumoto) (4:23)
8. Stray Cats Fever (words: Masato Inami & Puffy/music: Masato Inami & Katsumasa Mototani) (4:43)
9. Talalan (words: Puffy & Tamio Okuda/music: Andy Sturmer) (4:20)
10. Toku Suru Karada (words & music: Tamio Okuda) (4:00)
11. Nichiyohbi no Musume (words & music: Tamio Okuda) (3:36)
12. Mother (words & music: Tamio Okuda) (3:40)
13. V·A·C·A·T·I·O·N (words, music & arrangement: Yasuharu Konishi) (3:30)
14. Honey (words: Ami Onuki/music: Andy Sturmer) (2:45)
15. Yume no Tameni (words & music: Tamio Okuda) (3:10)
16. Puffy de Rumba (words: Puffy/music: Yoriko Tamura) (3:32)
17. Jet Keisatsu (words & music: Tamio Okuda) (3:47)
18. Dare ga Sore wo (words & music: Tamio Okuda) (4:33)
19. Kore ga Watashi no Ikirumichi (Mandarin version) (words & music: Tamio Okuda/Mandarin lyrics: Yao Chen) (3:20)
20. Ai no Shirushi (Mandarin version) (words & music: Masamune Kusano/Mandarin lyrics: Natasha) (2:46)

Tracks 3, 10 from amiyumi
Tracks 13, 14 from solosolo
Tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 12, 17 from Jet CD
Tracks 8, 9, 11, 15, 16, 18 from Fever*Fever
Track 4 from Umi eto CD single
Tracks 19, 20 previously unreleased; original versions on Jet CD

LP Track Listing

LP 1 - Side A

1. Kore ga Watashi no Ikirumichi (words & music: Tamio Okuda) (3:19)
2. Nagisa ni Matsuwaru EtCetera (words: Yosui Inoue/music: Tamio Okuda) (3:53)
3. Asia no Junshin (words: Yosui Inoue/music: Tamio Okuda) (4:41)
4. Circuit no Musume (words & music: Tamio Okuda) (3:22)
5. Umi eto (words & music: Tamio Okuda) (3:11)

LP 1 - Side B

1. Ai no Shirushi (words & music: Masamune Kusano) (2:46)
2. Nehorina Hahorina (words & music: Tortoise Matsumoto) (4:23)
3. Stray Cats Fever (words: Masato Inami & Puffy/music: Masato Inami & Katsumasa Mototani) (4:43)
4. Talalan (words: Puffy & Tamio Okuda/music: Andy Sturmer) (4:20)
5. Toku Suru Karada (words & music: Tamio Okuda) (4:00)

LP 2 - Side C

1. Nichiyohbi no Musume (words & music: Tamio Okuda) (3:36)
2. Mother (words & music: Tamio Okuda) (3:40)
3. V·A·C·A·T·I·O·N (words, music & arrangement: Yasuharu Konishi) (3:30)
4. Honey (words: Ami Onuki/music: Andy Sturmer) (2:45)
5. Yume no Tameni (words & music: Tamio Okuda) (3:10)

LP 2 - Side D

1. Puffy de Rumba (words: Puffy/music: Yoriko Tamura) (3:32)
2. Jet Keisatsu (words & music: Tamio Okuda) (3:47)
3. Dare ga Sore wo (words & music: Tamio Okuda) (4:33)
4. Kore ga Watashi no Ikirumichi (Mandarin version) (words & music: Tamio Okuda/Mandarin lyrics: Yao Chen) (3:20)
5. Ai no Shirushi (Mandarin version) (words & music: Masamune Kusano/Mandarin lyrics: Natasha) (2:46)

Notes:

• Run! Puffy! Run! contains the music videos for "Asia no Junshin", "Toku Suru Karada," and "Kore ga Watashi no Ikirumichi."
• Jet DVD contains the music videos for "Circuit no Musume," "Nagisa ni Matsuwaru EtCetera," "Honey," "V·A·C·A·T·I·O·N," "Mother." "Nehorina Hahorina," "Ai no Shirushi," and "Kore ga Watashi no Ikirumichi (Mandarin version)."
• Clips contains the music videos for "Talalan," "Puffy de Rumba," "Nichiyohbi no Musume," "Yume no Tameni," "Ai no Shirushi (Mandarin version)," and "Umi eto."
• The musical backing of “Asia no Junshin” (the descending guitar line in particular) is similar to the old ELO hit “Don't Bring Me Down.”
• "Umi eto" made its first apperance on an album here, three months before it was included on Spike.
• “Stray Cats Fever” is edited to exclude the opening chatter originally present on the Fever*Fever version.
• "Yume no Tameni" is slightly remixed (mostly noticable in the reverb present on the lead guitar lines, which weren't there originally).
• The opening to "Jet Keisatsu" is similar to the opening of the Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again".
• “Dare ga Sore wo” does not contain the nature sound effects originally present on the Fever*Fever version.
• The fadeout chours of “Dare ga Sore Wo” contains lyrical references to many other Puffy songs, such as “Kore ga Watashi no Ikirumichi," “Toko Suru Karada,” “Ai no Shirushi,” “Asia no Junshin,” “Sakura Saku,” “Koi no Line Ai No Shape,” “Nehorina Hahorina,” and “Yume no Tameni.”

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