Harvest: The Very Best of Shoko Suzuki

1st Best Album

Epic/Sony ESCB-1310

Released 8.1.1992

Track listing

1. Swallow (words: Masumi Kawamura/music: Shoko Suzuki)
2. Station Wagon (words: Yasuo Sugibayashi/music: Shoko Suzuki)
3. Mizu no Kanmuri (words: Masumi Kawamura/music: Shoko Suzuki)
4. Ai wa Itsumo (Remix) (words: Masami Tozawa/music: Shoko Suzuki)
5. Sunday Bazaar (words: Masumi Kawamura/music: Shoko Suzuki)
6. Sweet Sweet Baby (words: Masumi Kawamura/music: Shoko Suzuki)
7. Anata wo Shitte Irukara (words: Masumi Kawamura/music: Shoko Suzuki)
8. Natsu wa Doko e Itta (words: Masumi Kawamura/music: Shoko Suzuki)
9. Dokonimo Kaeranai (words & music: Shoko Suzuki)
10. Little Love (words: Saeko Nishio/music: Shoko Suzuki & Yoshiyuki Sahashi)
11. Kamome (words & music: Shoko Suzuki)
12. Kaze ni Orenai Hana (words: Masumi Kawamura/music: Shoko Suzuki)

Shoko's first compilation album, released just before the marathon recording sessions for RadioGenic commenced. The album featured two new songs -- "Anata wo Shitte Irukara" was released as a single, but I prefer the poppier, more-uptempo "Kaze ni Orenai Hana" (and oddly enough, "Kaze ni Orenai Hana" has appeared on subsequent Shoko Suzuki best-of collections, but "Anata wo Shitte Irukara" didn't appear on another collection until SHO-CO-SONGS collection 2). Of note is the fact that Hourglass was completely ignored in the track listing of this album. It could be because it had just been released the prior year, but knowing about the difficulties surrounding Shoko's next album, I wouldn't be surprised if executives at Epic/Sony were less-than-enthralled with Hourglass and thus ignored it.

This album is out of print, but all of the tracks collected within are available on the SHO-CO-SONGS 1 & 2 collections.

Track 8 from Viridian
Tracks 1, 3, 5 from Mizu no Kanmuri
Tracks 2, 6 from Kaze no Tobira
Track 4 original version from Kaze no Tobira
Tracks 9, 10, 11 from Long Long Way Home
Track 7 from Anata wo Shitte Irukara single
Track 12 previously unreleased

Arranged by Yoshiyuki Sahashi (M-1, 3)
Yoshiyuki Sahashi and Akira Nishihara (M-2, 4, 5, 6, 8)
Hiroaki Sugawara and Satoshi Kadokura (M-7)
Yoshiyuki Sahashi and Takeshi "Fg" Fujii (M-9)
Yoshiyuki Sahashi, Takeshi "Fg" Fujii and Satoshi Kadokura (M-10)
Satoshi Kadokura (M-11)
Takeshi Kobayashi (M-12)