Handsome Boy (album)

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Handsome Boy
Handsome boy inoue.jpg
Studio album by
Yōsui Inoue
ReleasedOctober 21, 1990
GenreFolk rock
Length47:31
LabelFor Life
ProducerYōsui Inoue
Yōsui Inoue chronology
Negative
(1987) 		Handsome Boy
(1990) 		The Night Without a Guide
(1992)

Handsome Boy is the 14th studio album by a Japanese singer-songwriter Yōsui Inoue, released in 1990.

The album contains the songs that were already known through the commercial tie-in with television programs or advertisements. Like "Gallery" which was recorded by Yoko Oginome and released as a single in June 1990, some of the materials were previously interpreted by other performers.[1]

Prior to the album, three songs were released as a single; "Yume Ne Mi", "Saigo no News", and "Shounen Jidai" which was co-written by Natsumi Hirai and has been one of his most well-known songs throughout Inoue's longtime career. It was initially featured on the theme song for an award-winning film adaptation of Fujiko Fujio (A)'s manga Childhood Days (based on Hyouzou Kashiwabara's novel Nagai Michi).[2] The song was gradually recognized through the TV ad of Sony Handycam which was aired during the following year. "Shounen Jidai" became his biggest hit single, peaking at No. 4 on the Japanese chart and selling more than 850,000 copies in total. In 1997, 3-inch CD single of the song was certified quadruple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of Japan, for shipments of over 1 million copies. [3]

Led by the success of a single "Shounen Jidai", the album Handsome Boy itself also gained favorable reaction, peaking at No. 2 on the Japanese Oricon chart and entering top-100 for over 10 months with sales of about 640,000 copies.

Track listing[]

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

  1. "Pi Po Pa" – 3:55
  2. "Emily (エミリー, Emirī)" – 3:35
  3. "Rival (ライバル, Raibaru)" (Inoue, Yūji Kawashima) – 3:51
  4. "Saigo no News (最後のニュース)" – 3:55
  5. "Gallery (ギャラリー, Gyararī)" – 5:07
  6. "Shounen Jidai (少年時代)" (Inoue, Natsumi Hirai) – 3:21
  7. "Fiction (フィクション, Fikushon)" – 3:21
  8. "Tokyo" (Inoue, Hirai) – 3:56
  9. "Yume Ne Mi (夢寝見)" – 5:03
  10. "Shizen ni Kazararete (自然に飾られて)" (Inoue, Hirai) – 6:07
  11. "Choujikan no Hikou (長時間の飛行)" (Inoue, Kawashima) – 4:22

Personnel[]

  • Yōsui Inoue – Vocals, acoustic guitar
  • Hiromi Yasuda – Acoustic guitar
  • Kenji Ōmura – Electric guitar
  • Tomotaka Imamichi – Electric guitar
  • Jun Sumida – Electric guitar
  • Masaki Matsubara – Electric guitar
  • Masayoshi Furukawa – Gut-string guitar
  • Hirokazu Ogura – Gut-string guitar
  • Masami Satou – Gut-string guitar
  • Tsugutoshi Goto – Bass guitar
  • Motofumi Hagiwara – Bass guitar
  • Chiharu Mikuzuki – Bass guitar
  • Vagabond Suzuki – Bass guitar
  • Haruomi Hosono – Bass guitar, synthesizer, percussion
  • Tadashi Nanba – Synthesizer
  • Akira Inoue – Synthesizer
  • Miharu Koshi – Synthesizer
  • Akira Senju – Synthesizer
  • Shinji Kawahara – Piano
  • Takao Kisugi – Piano
  • Yasuharu Nakanishi – Piano
  • Yūji Kawashima – Synthesizer, computer programming
  • Takeshi Fujii – Computer programming
  • Hiroaki Sugawara – Computer programming
  • Nobuo Tsuji – Computer programming
  • Ma*to – Computer programming
  • Yasuo Kimoto – Computer programming
  • Motoya Hamaguchi – Percussion
  • Eiji Narushima – Percussion
  • Masato Hashida – Percussion
  • Makoto Kimura – Percussion
  • Hinotamao – Percussion
  • Hideo Yamaki – Drums
  • Eiji Shimamura – Drums
  • Yutaka Odawara – Drums
  • Junichi Kazezaki – Brasswinds
  • Shin Kazuhara – Brasswinds
  • Kenichirou Hayashi – Brasswinds
  • Masahiro Kobayashi – Brasswinds
  • Kenji Nakazawa – Brasswinds
  • Kenji Nishiyama – Brasswinds
  • Taro Kiyooka – Brasswinds
  • Sumiyo Okada – Brasswinds
  • Watanabe Katsu – Brasswinds
  • Teiko Haruna – Woodwinds
  • Mitsuru Souma – Woodwinds
  • Ryūji Hoshikawa – Woodwinds
  • Tadashi Togame – Woodwinds
  • Masakazu Ishibashi – Woodwinds
  • Toshitsugu Inoue – Woodwinds
  • Jake H. Conception – Woodwinds
  • Hirofumi Kinjou – Woodwinds
  • Masaki Takano – Woodwinds
  • Hiroyuki Ichihara – Woodwinds
  • Hidefumi Toki – Woodwinds
  • Aska Kaneko Strings – Strings
  • Akiko Yano – Chorus
  • Minako Yoshida – Chorus
  • Seri Ishikawa – Chorus

Chart positions[]

Album[]

Album Chart Position Weeks Sales
Handsome Boy Japanese Oricon Weekly Albums Chart (top 100) 2[4] 44 639,000+

Singles[]

Single B-Side Chart Position Weeks Sales
"Yume Ne Mi" "Beni Suberi" Japanese Oricon Weekly (top 100)[5] 37 6 23,000
"Saigo no News" "Back Side" 57 6 16,000
"Shounen Jidai" "Ara-Washi no Uta" 4 38 853,000

Release history[]

Country Date Label Format Catalog number Notes
Japan October 20, 1990 For Life Records CD FLCF-30081
Audio cassette FLTF-26021
May 30, 2001 CD FLCF-3858 Original recording digital remastered
March 25, 2009 For Life Music Entertainment/BMG SHM-CD FLCF-5011

References[]

  1. ^ 荻野目洋子 Official Website "single / discography" Check |url= value (help). oginome.com (in Japanese). Retrieved June 15, 2009.
  2. ^ 映画 少年時代 – "allcinema (Movie & DVD Database) – the motion picture Childhood Days" Check |url= value (help) (in Japanese). Retrieved May 11, 2009.
  3. ^ "List of the singles certified "Million" by the Recording Industry Association of Japan (1989–2009)" (in Japanese). Archived from RIAJ Certified Million Seller Singles the original Check |url= value (help) on April 15, 2009. Retrieved June 15, 2009.
  4. ^ "Yamachan Land (Archives of the Japanese record charts) – Albums Chart Daijiten – Yosui Inoue" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on June 19, 2007. Retrieved April 24, 2009.
  5. ^ "Yamachan Land (Archives of the Japanese record charts) – Singles Chart Daijiten – Yosui Inoue" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on October 16, 2007. Retrieved April 24, 2009.
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