Shifuku no Oto
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| Studio album by Mr.Children | ||
| Released | April 7, 2004 (Japan) | |
| Recorded | TOKYO HOTEL, Tokyo, Japan (May 2003 - February 2004) | |
| Genre | J-Rock | |
| Label | TOY'S FACTORY | |
| Producer(s) | Takeshi Kobayashi & Mr.Children. | |
| Mr.Children chronology | ||
|---|---|---|
| 10th IT'S A WONDERFUL WORLD (2002) |
11th シフクノオト (2004) |
12th I♥U (2005) |
シフクノオト (Shifuku no Oto) is the eleventh album of the Japanese rock band Mr.Children, released in April 2004. The album has 12 tracks inculding their hit singles "Any", "Hero" and "Tenohira / Kurumi". Selling over 1.3 million copies that year, it became the second best-selling album of 2004 in Japan (2004 Oricon Top 20).
This album was the first of Mr. Children's works to be titled in katakana. This led ambiguity to the meaning of the title, mostly because the word "Shifuku" has multiple meanings. One of those are "blissfulness", that makes the title, together with the word "oto" which means "sound", "Blissful sound", but there were some articles that indicated "Shifuku" been used as another meaning "private clothes". However, the band made it clear in an interview that the title actually meant "Blissful sound".
Due to the mass promotion on the media and supported by the commercial success of their top-charting singles, "Tenohira / Kurumi" and "HERO", Mr.Children succeeded in gaining new fans with this album.
[edit] About the Album...
In first instance this album was going to be titled Comic, the production of the album delayed two years (this was happen because Sakurai's Blackout in 2002), was produced by Takeshi Kobayashi, the songs was composed and writed by Kazutoshi Sakurai and interpreted by Mr.Children and Takeshi Kobayashi.
The Artwork of the album was designed by Ko Ishikawa and Yoshiki Okuse, the Artistic Director and the Drawings of the Album were done by Kashiwa Sato, the three members of the company of graphical design SAMURAI. Sato has designed artworks of another artists like SMAP and others.
The cover of the album is like a flood of drawings that seemed to be done by childrens, in the main face appears the name of the band written with different pencils from colors, in backside of the album appears writing with graphite the name of the album, on the inside appear varied photos taken by the members of the band. The letters of the subjects and the detail of the album come including in a song book of black paper and silver-plated letters.
The limited edition of this album contains like gift a DVD with part of the production of this album, in addition to an extensive interview with the members of the band, the period of time that includes the DVD is of May of the 2003 until February of the 2004 and contains the mixture and recording of the songs Tagatame, Kurumi, Hana Kotoba, Pink~Kimyounayume and Tencho Bus.
[edit] Tracklist
- "Iwasete Mitee Monda"
- "PADDLE"
- "Tenohira"
- "Kurumi"
- "Hana Kotoba"
- "Pink~Kimyounayume"
- "Chi no Kuda"
- "Karakaze no Kaerimichi"
- "Any"
- "Tencho Bus"
- "Tagatame"
- "HERO"
The songs included in the album, and promoted in singles, television shows or radio were: Any, Kurumi, HERO, PADDLE (the three first songs were part of singles except PADDLE and were used by telephone company NTT for commercial the their cellular line DoCoMo), Tagatame (Used by Nissin company for commercials of it's product Cup Noodle NO Border, also used by the Red Cross in one of its exhibitions in Japan) and Tenohira (That are part of single Tenohira/Kurumi)
Another songs recorded in this period was I'm Sorry (C/W of Any Single) and Bokuga Boku Dear Uta Meni (Included in album BLUE ~A Tribute to Yutaka Ozaki~)
