''Speed Pop'' is the second album by Japanese

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. It is the band's major label debut album, was released on March 3, 1995, and peaked at #8 at

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charts, with 320,150 copies sold.

Overview

Former drummer Akira appears on tracks 9 and 10, which originally appeared on their debut album along with "Rain".

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and Yūji Kawashima also contributed electric guitar and

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to these new versions of those two songs respectively. Masafumi Minato (

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and Dead End) performs on tracks 3 and 7.

Track listing

# "Speed Pop (Introduction)" - 1:20 # "Happy Swing" - 5:12 # "" - 4:29 # "" - 7:06 # "Love Slave" - 4:17 # "Regret" - 4:53 # "Innocence" - 6:16 # "Freeze My Love" - 5:33 # "" - 5:07 # "" - 6:53 # "Junk Art" - 4:34 # "Rain" - 6:45

Personnel

*Masahide Sakuma -

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, electric and acoustic guitar (2–8, 11), string arrangements (1–11), computer programming (1–11) *Soul Toul - drums (tracks 2, 4–6, 8, 11) *Masafumi Minato - drums (3 & 7) *Akira - drums (9 & 10) *

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- drums (12) *Yūji Kawashima - synthesizer (9 & 10) *

- electric guitar (9 & 10) *

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& string arrangements (12)

References

Speed Pop page at Oricon

External links

Glay Official Site
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