Shoko Suzuki Best Collection

4th Best Album

Epic ESCL-2641

Released 3.24.2005

Track listing

1. Swallow (words: Masumi Kawamura/music: Shoko Suzuki)
2. Tokimeki wa Namida ni Makenai (words: Masumi Kawamura/music: Shoko Suzuki)
3. Yasashii Ame (words: Kyoko Koizumi/music: Shoko Suzuki)
4. Ai wa Itsumo (Remix) (words: Masami Tozawa/music: Shoko Suzuki)
5. Radio no Youni (words: Masumi Kawamura/music: Shoko Suzuki)
6. Tsuki to Snapshots (words & music: Shoko Suzuki)
7. Happiness (New Arrangment) (words & music: Shoko Suzuki)
8. Station Wagon (words: Masmumi Kawamura/music: Shoko Suzuki)
9. Little Love (words: Saeko Nishio/music: Shoko Suzuki & Yoshiyuki Sahashi)
10. Sweet Thing (words & music: Shoko Suzuki)
11. Natsu wa Doko e Itta (words: Masumi Kawamura/music: Shoko Suzuki)
12. Sangatsu no Sei (words: Natsumi Tadano & Shoko Suzuki/music: Shoko Suzuki)
13. True Romance (words: Masumi Kawamura/music: Shoko Suzuki & Hiraoki Sugawara)
14. Angel (words: Megmumi Ogura/music: Shoko Suzuki & Hiroaki Sugawara)
15. Kaze ni Orenai Hana (words: Masumi Kawamura/music: Shoko Suzuki)
16. Goin' Home (words: Masumi Kawamura & Shoko Suzuki/music: Shoko Suzuki)

Shoko's fourth best album, and third of her Epic material -- this one, though, covers her entire Epic/Sony career. Many of her singles are represented, along with a smattering of album tracks. A little by-the-numbers, perhaps, but it's still a lot of good music -- and with someone with as long a career as Shoko's, some stuff is obviously not going to make the cut (and speaking of "cut," "Happiness" is edited ever so slightly, presumably so that all the songs would fit within the space of a single CD). Once again, Shoko writes the liner notes, and also helped with the track selection. All in all, this is probably the best single overview of her Epic years available on one disc, and it's easily obtainable.

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Track 11 from Viridian
Track 1 from Mizu no Kanmuri
Track 8 from Kaze no Tobira
Track 9 from Long Long Way Home
Tracks 7, 10 from Hourglass
Tracks 4, 15 from Harvest
Tracks 2, 3, 5 from RadioGenic
Tracks 6, 13, 16 from Snapshots
Tracks 12, 14 from Candy Apple Red

Arranged by Yoshiyuki Sahashi (M-1)
Satoshi Kadokura (M-2)
Shoko Suzuki (M-3)
Akira Nishihira and Yoshiyuki Sahashi (M-4, 8, 11)
Hiroaki Sugawara (M-5, 7, 10, 12, 14)
Hiroaki Sugawara, Shoko Suzuki and Takeshi Namura (M-6, 13, 16)
Satoshi Kadokura, Takeshi Fujii and Yoshiyuki Sahashi (M-9)
Takeshi Kobayashi (M-15)