Machine Gun o Buppanase (Mr. Children Bootleg)

"Machine Gun o Buppanase (Mr. Children Bootleg)"
Single by Mr. Children
from the album Shinkai
Released August 8, 1996
Format CD single
Genre Alternative rock, power pop, progressive rock
Label Toy's Factory
Producer(s) Takeshi Kobayashi
Mr. Children singles chronology
"Hana (Mémento Mori)"
(1996)
"Machine Gun o Buppanase (Mr. Children Bootleg)"
(1996)
"Everything (It's You)"
(1997)

"Machine Gun o Buppanase (Mr. Children Bootleg)" (マシンガンをぶっ放せ -Mr.Children Bootleg- Mashin Gan o Buppanase Misutā Chirudoren Būtoregu, lit. "Fire the Machine Gun (Mr. Children Bootleg)")" is the twelfth single released by Mr. Children on August 8, 1996 just after the release of their album Shinkai. The album version of the title tune was featured on the 10th track of the album Shinkai as "Machine Gun o Buppanase." With the first week sales of over 301,000 copies, the single debuted at No. 1 on the Japanese Oricon weekly charts, but it was the first single since "Replay" not to sell over a millions copies.[1]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Kazutoshi Sakurai. 

No. Title Length
1. "Machine Gun o Buppanase (Mr. Children Bootleg) (マシンガンをぶっ放せ -Mr.Children Bootleg-)"   4:21
2. "Love is Blindness"   3:25
3. "Tabibito (旅人)"   3:18

References

  1. "Oricon Weekly Single Charts for the third week of August 1996" (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved 2010-04-19.
Preceded by
"Atsukunare" by Maki Ohguro
Japanese Oricon Chart number one single
August 19, 1996
Succeeded by
"Squall" by Kyosuke Himuro