"Mind Games" is the 28th single by Zard and released April 7, 1999 under B-Gram Records. This is the significant song for Zard starting to step out of
pop rock
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and
Soft rock, and began to integrate electronic dance music and R&B elements into pop rock music, and the media commented that the quality of this song was far less than that of Zard at the peak, and the new music style was very stiff and lacking sincerity. The single became Zard's last number-one Hit.
The single debuted at #1 on the first week. It charted for six weeks and sold over 167,000 copies. This is the last time a Zard single would reach #1 first week in Oricon rankings.
Track list
All songs are written by Izumi Sakai.
#Mind Games
#*composer: Masaaki Watanuki/arrangement:
Hirohito Furui
is a Japanese musical arranger and keyboardist in distributors Being Inc., mainly in their label Giza Studio. In years 1999-2013 he was part of Japanese band Garnet Crow as arranger. In March 2018, he launched his own band project ''Again'', ho ...
#**the song was used in
Fuji TV
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program ''Pro Yakyuu News'' as theme song
#Hypnosis
#*composer:
Hitoshi Okamoto
is a Japanese guitarist, composer, arranger and the former member of the J-pop band Garnet Crow in years 1999-2013, as well as some of his own solo releases.
Biography
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/arrangement: Hitoshi Okamoto and Furui
#Mind Games (Redway Secret Mix)
#Mind Games (original karaoke)
[Official track list (in Japanese) http://beinggiza.com/ci/item/JBDJ-1046]
References
1999 singles
Zard songs
Songs written by Izumi Sakai
Oricon Weekly number-one singles
B Zone singles
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