''B'z'' is the debut studio album by the Japanese rock duo
B'z
are a Japanese rock duo, consisting of guitarist, composer and producer Takahiro "Tak" Matsumoto and vocalist and lyricist Koshi Inaba, 佐伯明『B'z ウルトラクロニクル』ソニー・マガジンズ、2003年。新型光B'zはなぜ ...
. It was released on September 21, 1988 and reached #47 on the Japanese charts.
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/ref> The album sold 3,790 copies in its first week and eventually sold 338,360 in total.[
The band did not tour in support of the album, because its nine songs were all the material they had at the time, and they felt it would not be a proper show with just 40 minutes of material. Unlike the hard-rocking music that most associate with B'z, the album was very much a product of its times, with synthesizers and samplers sharing equal time with Tak's guitar.
One single was released from the album, "Dakara Sono Te o Hanashite," which released on the same day as the album.
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Track listing
Dakara Sono Te o Hanashite
is the only single from the album and the debut single by the band, released on September 21, 1988.
The song has been re-recorded twice, first in English for their ''Bad Communication
''Bad Communication'' is the first mini-album by the Japanese rock duo B'z, released in 1989. The song was the first hit song for B'z. The album also includes the band's first two "E-Style" versions of previous hits—in this case "Out of the Ra ...
'' EP, then as a guitar-driven hard rock version for 2000's ''B'z The "Mixture"
''B'z The "Mixture"'' is a compilation album of remastered hits by the Japanese rock duo B'z. The album reached 1st at Oricon
, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics a ...
''. This second version is the one the band now plays live. However, during their 2008 "Pleasure--Glory Days" tour, the original synth-driven version made a rare return, with Tak Matsumoto playing a Yamaha MG-M guitar, something the guitarist hasn't done for years.
Track listing
References
1988 debut albums
B'z albums
Japanese-language albums
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