Golden Best (Yōsui Inoue album)

Golden Best is the double-CD compilation album by a Japanese singer-songwriter Yōsui Inoue. The album was released in July 1999, celebrating his 30-year career as a solo recording artist. It comprises 35 tracks spanning his works after 1972; a year he released his debut album Danzetsu under the renewed stage name.

Golden Best debuted at the number-six on the Japanese Oricon chart and climbed the top in September 1999.^[1][2] It became one of the most successful albums for Inoue, entering the record chart for a year with sales of over 1.4 million copies.^[3] The label For Life Music Entertainment stated that Golden Best album has sold more than 2.06 million copies up to late 2008.^[4]

After a year from the album's release, a sequel entitled Golden Bad came out. And in 2003, when the album shipped more than 2 million units, an expanded edition called Golden Best Super was issued. It features bonus disc which includes his singles in the 2000s and previously unreleased recordings.^[5]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Yōsui Inoue, unless otherwise indicated

Disc one

1. "Shounen Jidai (少年時代^?)" (Inoue, Natsumi Hirai) - 3:21
2. "Arigatou (ありがとう^?)" (Inoue, Tamio Okuda) (recorded with Tamio Okuda, credited to InoueYōsuiOkudaTamio) - 3:31
3. "Make-up Shadow" (Inoue, Utsuru Ayame) - 4:09
4. "Asia no Junshin (アジアの純真^?)" (Inoue, Okuda) (recorded with Tamio Okuda, credited to InoueYōsuiOkudaTamio) - 3:53
5. "Saigo no News (最後のニュース^?)" - 3:55
6. "Kasa ga Nai (傘がない^?)" - 5:35
7. "Kōri no Sekai (氷の世界^?)" - 4:11
8. "Yume no Naka e (夢の中へ^?)" - 2:40
9. "Riverside Hotel" - 3:54
10. "Kokoro Moyou (心もよう^?)" - 3:27
11. "Gogatsu no Wakare (5月の別れ^?)" - 5:06
12. "Isso Serenade (いっそ セレナーデ^?)" - 3:16
13. "Crazy Love" - 4:04
14. "Kazari ja Nai no yo Namida wa (飾りじゃないのよ涙は^?)" - 4:43
15. "Jealousy (ジェラシー^?)" - 4:01
16. "Aozora, Hitorikiri (青空、ひとりきり^?)" - 4:22
17. "Atarashii Rhapsody (新しいラプソディー^?)" - 4:51
18. "Nagai Saka no E no Frame (長い坂の絵のフレーム^?)" - 5:52

Disc two

1. "Tomadou Pelican (とまどうペリカン^?)" - 4:52
2. "Canary (カナリア^?)" - 3:56
3. "Dance wa Umaku Odorenai (ダンスはうまく踊れない^?)" - 3:56
4. "Musume ga Nejireru Toki (娘がねじれる時^?)" - 4:13
5. "Nazeka Shanghai (なぜか上海^?)" - 5:32
6. "Eiyū (英雄^?)" - 5:04
7. "Wakan'nai (ワカンナイ^?)" - 4:59
8. "Wine Red no Kokoro (ワインレッドの心^?)" (Inoue, Kōji Tamaki) - 5:25
9. "Natsu no Owari no Harmony (夏の終わりのハーモニー^?)" (Inoue, Tamaki) (recorded with Anzen Chitai) - 3:53
10. "Teenager" (Inoue, Hirai) - 4:34
11. "Tokyo" (Inoue, Hirai) - 2:58
12. "Thailand Fantasia (タイランド ファンタジア^?)" - 4:55
13. "Kaerenai Futari (帰れない二人^?)" (Inoue, Kiyoshiro Imawano) - 4:21
14. "Just Fit" - 4:25
15. "Jinsei ga Nido Areba (人生が二度あれば^?)" - 4:59
16. "Musubikotoba (結詞^?)" - 4:07
17. "Tsumini no Nai Fune (積み荷のない船^?)" - 5:38

Bonus disc for 2003 limited edition

1. "Tomadou Pelican (とまどうペリカン^?)" [Live version recorded at the Tokyo International Forum on March 21, 2003, previously unreleased] - 5:07
2. "Coffee Rumba (コーヒー・ルンバ^?)"　(Jose Manzo Perroni, Seiji Nakazawa) - 3:07
3. "Hana no Kubikazari (花の首飾り^?)" (Koichi Sugiyama, Fusako Sugawara, Rei Nakanishi) - 4:11
4. "Aozora, Hitorikiri (青空、ひとりきり^?)" [Live version recorded at the Pacifico Yokohama on December 23, 2002, previously unreleased] - 3:31
5. "Kimerareta Rhythm (決められたリズム^?)" - 4:12
6. "Mis Cast" [Live version recorded at the Tokyo International Forum on March 21, 2003, previously unreleased] - 5:10
7. "L-O-V-E" [Live version recorded at the Fukuoka Convention Center on January 21, 2003, previously unreleased] - 2:58
8. "Miss Contest" [Live version recorded at the Bluenote Tokyo on January 6, 2003, previously unreleased] - 4:38
9. "Kōri no Sekai (氷の世界^?)" [Live version recorded at the Tokyo International Forum on March 21, 2003, previously unreleased] - 5:07
10. "Umi e Kinasai (海へ来なさい^?)" (Inoue, Katz Hoshi) [Live version recorded at the Tokyo International Forum on March 21, 2003, previously unreleased] - 4:32

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