SHO-CO-JOURNEY

5th Best Album

Sony Music Direct MHCL-1097/8

Released 6.13.2007

Track listing
Disc One

1. Natsu wa Doko e Itta (words: Masumi Kawamura/music: Shoko Suzuki)
2. Swallow (words: Masumi Kawamura/music: Shoko Suzuki)
3. Get Back (2007 edit version) (words: Masumi Kawamura/music: Shoko Suzuki)
4. Kaze no Tobira (words & music: Shoko Suzuki)
5. Circle Game (single version) (words: Masumi Kawamura/music: Shoko Suzuki)
6. Station Wagon (words: Masumi Kawamura/music: Shoko Suzuki)
7. Yume no Iwa de (words: Bun Onoe/music: Shoko Suzuki)
8. Melody (words: Yasuo Sugibayashi/music: Shoko Suzuki)
9. Dokonimo Kaeranai (2007 edit version) (words & music: Shoko Suzuki)
10. Todokukashira (words & music: Shoko Suzuki)
11. Kaze ni Orenai Hana (words: Masumi Kawamura/music: Shoko Suzuki)
12. Yasashii Ame (single version) (words: Kyoko Koizumi/music: Shoko Suzuki)
13. I say a little prayer (words: Hal David/music: Burt Bacharach)
14. Monochrome no Natsu (words: Shoko Suzuki/music: Shoko Suzuki & Hiroaki Sugawara)
15. Crying in the Sunshine (words & music: Mark "Moogy" Klingman)
16. Koi no Shotgun (Korinai Futari) (words & music: Shoko Suzuki)

Disc Two

1. Atashi no Basho de (words: Shoko Suzuki/music: Hiroaki Sugawara)
2. Tashikamete Ite yo (words: Shoko Suzuki/music: Shoko Suzuki & Tamio Okuda)
3. Koi wa Yume no Hana (words: Shoko Suzuki/music: Hiroaki Sugawara)
4. Tada no Koi Dakara (words & music: Shoko Suzuki)
5. Atarashii Ai no Uta (words & music: Shoko Suzuki)
6. Watashi no Nozomi (words & music: Shoko Suzuki)
7. Adios (words & music: Jimmy Webb)
8. Boukyaku (words & music: Shoko Suzuki)
9. Kotoba (live version) (words & music: Shoko Suzuki)
10. Swallow (live version) (words: Masumi Kawamura/music: Shoko Suzuki)
11. Tokyo de Umareta On'na (live version) (words & music: Shoko Suzuki)
12. Michi (live version) (words & music: Shoko Suzuki)

Shoko's fifth best album, and the first one to feature songs from every stage of her career -- though the main focus in her 1988-1991 period. Disc one is made up of songs from her Epic/Sony albums, and includes the first album (non-single) apperances of the single version of "Yasashii Ame" and "Monochrome no Natsu." To make room for all the songs on disc one, "Get Back" has been edited, and "Todokukashira" is faded out early (the packaging says "Dokonimo Kaeranai" is edited, but it seems to be the same length as the original version). Disc two has songs from the Warner era and beyond, with most of the tracks being taken from Shishousetsu, with the later albums generally getting one song apiece. Finally, disc two ends with four "bonus tracks," live renditions of previous released songs (except for "Tokyo de Umareta On'na," which I don't think had been released beforehand). As a set, it's probably not as good (or thorough) as previous Shoko collections -- and focusing so much on the early years means a lot of great songs were left out. But it does have a handful of songs you won't get elsewhere (at least not without spending a decent amount of money), and it does hit every major album of Shoko's career. It's also readily available, and thus the easiest way to get some of the Warner tracks (as opposed to hunting out the original, out-of-print releases).

SHO-CO-JOURNEY / Shoko Suzuki - Purchase album at CDJapan

Disc 1, track 1 from Viridian
Disc 1, track 2, track 3 (original version) & Disc 2, track 10 (original version) from Mizu no Kanmuri
Disc 1, track 5 from Station Wagon CD single
Disc 1, track 4, 6, 7 from Kaze no Tobira
Disc 1, track 8, 9 from Long Long Way Home
Disc 1, track 10 & Disc 2, track 9 (original version) from Hourglass
Disc 1, track 11 from Harvest
Disc 1, track 12 from Radio no Youni CD single
Disc 1, track 13 from Shoko Suzuki Sings Bacharack & David
Disc 1, track 14 from True Romance CD single
Disc 1, track 15 from Snapshots
Disc 1, track 16 from Candy Apple Red
Disc 2, tracks 1-4 from Shishousetsu
Disc 2, track 5 from Atarashii Ai no Uta
Disc 2, track 6 from Love, painful love
Disc 2, track 7 from I Was There, I'm Here
Disc 2, tracks 8, 12 (original version) from Suzuki Syoko
Disc 2, track 11 previously unreleased

Arranged by Yoshiyuki Sahashi and Akira Nishihira (Disc 1, M-1, 4, 5, 6, 7)
Yoshiyuki Sahashi (Disc 1, M-2, 3 & Disc 2, M-5)
Yoshiyuki Sahashi and Takeshi Fujii (Disc 1, M-8, 9)
Takeshi Kobayashi (Disc 1, M-10, 11)
Satoshi Kadokura (Disc 1, M-12)
Hiroaki Sugawara (Disc 1, M-14, 16 & Disc 2, M-1, 3)
Hiroaki Sugawara and Shoko Suzuki (Disc 1, M-14)
Hiroaki Sugawara, Shoko Suzuki and Takeshi Naumra (Disc 1, M-16)
Shoko Suzuki, Tamio Okuda and Yuta Saito (Disc 2, M-2)
Shoko Suzuki and Takuo Yamamoto (Disc 2, M-4)
Shoko Suzuki (Disc 2, M-6, 9-12)
Shoko Suzuki and Carnation (Disc 2, M-8)