friends, lovers, my journey home

3rd Best Album

Warner Music Japan WPC6-10227

Released 8.28.2002

Track listing

1. Tashikamete Ite yo (words: Shoko Suzuki/music: Shoko Suzuki & Tamio Okuda)
2. Nikki (words & music: Shoko Suzuki)
3. Prive (words & music: Shoko Suzuki)
4. Soshite nao Eien ni (words & music: Shoko Suzuki)
5. Kanzen na Ai (words & music: Shoko Suzuki)
6. Kikyou (words & music: Shoko Suzuki)
7. Kono Ai wo (words & music: Shoko Suzuki)
8. Hold me, touch me (words & music: Paul Stanley)
9. Atarashii Ai no Uta (words & music: Shoko Suzuki)
10. Sickness (words & music: Shoko Suzuki)
11. Sugar Daddy Baby (words & music: Shoko Suzuki)
12. Suika (sweet bleedingheart mix) (words & music: Shoko Suzuki)
13. paingiver (words & music: Shoko Suzuki)
14. Ikenai Kotokai (Live at Asakasa Blitz, Dec. 3, 2000) (words & music: Yasayuki Okamura)

Shoko's third best album, and the only one exclusively covering her Warner years. It's a really solid collection with lots of great songs, and a good overview of her three Warner albums -- though perhaps Atarashii Ai no Uta is a bit under-represented. The disc is a CD-Extra, with four Quicktime movie files -- the PV for each of Shoko's singles while recording for Warner Music Japan. Also, the disc features liner notes by Shoko, something that would become a regular thing for many of her following discs.

This album is available through YesAsia and Amazon Japan's marketplace.

Tracks 1-5 from Shishousetsu
Track 8 from Kono Ai wo CD single
Tracks 6, 7, 9 from Atarashii Ai no Uta
Tracks 10, 11, 13 from Love, painful love
Tracks 12, 14 original versions from Love, painful love

Arranged by Shoko Suzuki, Tamio Okuda and Yuta Saito (M-1)
Hiroaki Sugawara (M-2, 5)
Hiroaki Sugawara and Shoko Suzuki (M-3, 4)
Yoshiyuki Sahashi (M-6-9)
Shoko Suzuki (M-10-14)