"Say Anything" is a single released by

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on December 1, 1991.

Summary

It is the band's last single released under the name X and the last to feature

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on bass. The B-side is a live version of "

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", recorded on November 12, 1991, at

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. Both songs were originally featured on the album ''

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''. A cover of the title song appears on the album ''Global Trance 2'', by the pop band

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, of which

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was briefly a member. It was also used as the theme song for the TV drama .

Commercial performance

The song reached number 3 on the

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charts, and charted for 25 weeks. In 1992, with 537,790 copies sold was the 33rd best-selling single of the year, being certified Platinum by

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Track listing

Personnel

;X * Toshi – vocals *

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– guitar * hide – guitar *

– bass *

– drums, piano ;Other * Co-Producer – Naoshi Tsuda * Mixed by – Rich Breen * Art Direction and Design – Mitsuo Izumisawa * Cover Photography – Hitoshi Iwakiri * Artist Photography – Hideo Canno

References

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