LOVEppears

by Ayumi Hamasaki

LOVEppears cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 10 November 1999
  • Label: Avex Trax
  • Country: Japan
  • Length: 1:10:44
  • Community rating: 3.45/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

This massively successful sophomore album catapulted Ayumi Hamasaki to unparalleled superstardom within the Japanese music industry[cite: 1]. 'LOVEppears' heavily defined the sound of turn-of-the-millennium J-Pop, expertly blending her distinctive, frequently introspective songwriting with highly energetic, club-ready dance-pop, vocal trance, and driving house rhythms[cite: 1].

Genres

Descriptors: rhythmic, melodic, japanese, dance, female-vocals

Tracklist

  1. Introduction (1:09)
  2. Fly high (4:04)
  3. Trauma (4:16)
  4. And Then (4:11)
  5. immature (4:44)
  6. Boys & Girls (3:52)
  7. TO BE (5:16)
  8. End roll (4:47)
  9. P.S II (4:46)
  10. WHATEVER - Dub's 1999 Club Remix (7:20)
  11. too late (4:23)
  12. appears (5:36)
  13. monochrome (4:20)
  14. Interlude (0:55)
  15. LOVE ~refrain~ (5:19)
  16. Who... (5:39)

Credits

  • Ayumi Hamasaki - primary artist, lyrics by
  • Naoya Akimoto - guitar
  • D.A.I. - composed by, arranged by
  • Jun Kajiwara - guitar
  • Takahiro Iida - programmed by
  • Tatsuhiko Fuyuno - programmed by [additional]
  • Keisuke Kikuchi - arranged by
  • Yasuhiko Hoshino - composed by
  • HAL - Composed By, Arranged By, Programmed By, Keyboards, Remix
  • Naoto Suzuki - Arranged By, Keyboards, Composed By, Programmed By
  • Hidetoshi Suzuki - Guitar
  • Kazuhito Kikuchi - Composed By
  • Masayoshi Furukawa - Guitar
  • Naoki Hayashibe - Guitar
  • Hideaki Kuwabara - Composed By
  • Izumi Miyazaki - Arranged By, Programmed By
  • Tsunku - Composed By
  • CPM-Marvin - Arranged By
  • Akira Yokota - Remix
  • Tetsuya Tamura - Remix
  • Shoji Ueda - Remix
  • Akimitsu Honma - Piano, Keyboards
  • Hiroshi Kitashiro - Programmed By

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