Never (Mie album)

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NEVER
Studio album by
Released25 August 1984 (1984-08-25)
GenrePop rock
LanguageJapanese
LabelCBS Sony
MIE chronology
Call Girl "from MIE to you"
(1981)
NEVER
(1984)
Diamond & Gold
(1992)
Singles from NEVER
  1. "NEVER"
    Released: 21 January 1984 (1984-01-21)
  2. "Hai to Diamond"
    Released: 21 October 1984 (1984-10-21)

NEVER is the third studio album by Japanese singer MIE. The album was released through CBS Sony on October 5, 1982. The title track, a Japanese-language cover of the Moving Pictures song from the Footloose soundtrack, peaked at No. 4 in Oricon's singles chart.[1][2] "Never" was also used as the theme song for the TBS drama series Furyō Shōjo to Yobarete (不良少女とよばれて, Call Me a Bad Girl).[3]

The album was reissued on October 24, 2007 as NEVER -Special Edition-, with eight bonus tracks and a DVD.[4][5][6]

Track listing[edit]

Side A
No.TitleLyricsMusicArrangementLength
1."NEVER"Gorō MatsuiOsamu Totsuka 
2."Hungry"Keiko Asō
Totsuka 
3."Dancing Love"Miharu KanagamiKyōhei TsutsumiYutaka Mogi 
4."Memory"Asō
Totsuka 
5."Somebody"Asō
  • Steven Diamond
  • Lois Blaich
Totsuka 
6."I Love How You Love Me"
  • Mann
  • Kolber
Makoto Matsushita 
Side B
No.TitleLyricsMusicArrangementLength
1."Otsudane" ((おつだね, "That's Good"))Takemi ShimaRyudo UzakiTotsuka 
2."Mō Umi e Nanka Ikanai" ((もう海へなんか行かない, "I Don't Go to the Sea Anymore"))Takashi MatsumotoTsutsumiTsutsumi 
3."Je t'aime" (Jutemu (ジュテム, "I Love You"))Jun HashimotoTsutsumiMasaaki Omura 
4."Gikochinai Shibai" ((ぎこちない芝居, "Awkward Play"))Rei NakanishiTakashi IkeKōji Makaino 
5."Dakishimete -Sicilian Wind-" ((抱きしめて −Sicilian Wind−, "Hold Me -Sicilian Wind-"))Tomoko SoryōT. SoryōYasunori Soryō 
Special Edition bonus tracks
No.TitleLyricsMusicArrangementLength
12."Hai to Diamond" (Hai to Daiyamondo (灰とダイヤモンド, "Diamond in the Ashes"))Saburō HigashimotoTsutsumiMatsushita 
13."Mega Madness" (Michael Sembello cover; originally from the Gremlins soundtrack)MatsuiTotsuka 
14."Kagami no Naka no On'na" ((鏡の中の女, "Woman in the Mirror"))NakanishiIkeMakaino 
15."Dreamer"Masumi KawamuraTsutsumiKazuo Otani 
16."Talk Crazy to Me"Higashimoto
  • O'Day
  • Margaret Harris
Totsuka 
17."Hirugao Roman" ((昼顔恋話(ロマン), "Daytime Romance"))KawamuraTsutsumiKeiichi Oku 
18."Hitori Kiri no Pillow Talk" (Hitori Kiri no Pirō Tōku (ひとりきりのピロートーク, "Lonely Pillow Talk"))KawamuraTsutsumiOku 
19."Manatsu no Rhythm de Daydream" (Manatsu no Rizumu de Deidorīmu (真夏のリズムで Daydream, "Daydream with Midsummer Rhythm"))MoriAkihiro YoshimiSatoshi Nakamura 
Special Edition DVD
  1. "NEVER" / "Somebody"
  2. "Dakishimete -Sicilian Wind-"
  3. "Hungry"
  4. "Mega Madness"
  5. "Memory"
  6. "NEVER"
  7. "I Love How You Love Me"

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Pink Discography: Mie". Pink Lady America. Retrieved 2020-01-29.
  2. ^ "Mie - "Never"". Discogs. Retrieved 2020-01-29.
  3. ^ "良少女とよばれて". TV Drama Database. Retrieved 2020-02-13.
  4. ^ "NEVER | MIE". Oricon. Retrieved 2020-01-29.
  5. ^ "Mie - "Never -Special Edition-"". Discogs. Retrieved 2020-01-29.
  6. ^ "MIE". Idol.ne.jp. Retrieved 2020-02-11.

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