Attack (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = ATTACK
Type = Album
Artist =


Released = 1 January 2006
Recorded =
Genre = JPop
Length = 53:26
Label = avex trax
AVCD-17843/B (CD+DVD)
AVCD-17844 (CD)
AVCD-17845 (CD mini-album)
Producer =
Reviews =
Last album =
This album = "ATTACK"
(2006)
Next album = "REMIX ATTACK"
(2006)

"ATTACK" is an album by the Japanese group of entertainers known as . It was released on avex trax on January 1 2006 in three different editions: CD, CD accompanied by a DVD, and a CD which featured only a selection of the songs from the album. The album contained only one top 10 hit and the band being a group of performers of both sexes picked from auditions, it was no big surprise that the album debuted at #16 in the Japanese albums chart with about 36,000 sold copies and has since continued to drop in the chart.

With a wide range of songwriters and arrangers involved in the production, the album presents a variety of modern day Japanese pop music, drawing both inspiration from both from Japanese and international music. Many styles are represented: m.o.v.e.-like Eurobeat ("Blood on Fire", "VIRGIN F"), Tokyo Ska Paradise-reminiscent ska ("Dragon Fire"), freestyle ("Welcome to This World"), funk (nihongo|きれいな空|"Beautiful Sky"|kirei na sora & "Get or Lose"), Ricky Martin'esque Latin pop (nihongo|最強 Babe|"Strongest Babe"|saikyō bēbu), bubble gum pop (nihongo|出会いのチカラ|"The power of dating"|deai no chikara & nihongo|地球に抱かれて|"sakyū ni dakerete"), disco ("Friday Party") and slow jams (nihongo|ボクラノテ|"My hands"|bokura no te).

Track listing

# "Blood on Fire" (Osamu Sasaku, Mitsuhiro Hidaka, Miki Watanabe)
# "Dragon Fire" (Akio Shimizu)
# "Welcome to This World" (SOTARO@ZZ)
# (Ken Kawai)
# (Hiroaki Hara, Ken Matsubara)
# (motsu, Face 2 fAKE)
# "Get or Lose" (Hiromi Mori, Kenji Hayashida)
# (Kenn Kato, Face 2 fAKE)
# "Friday Party" (m.c.A·T, Akio Togashi)
# "VIRGIN F" (motsu, Tsugutoshi Goto)
# (PANTA, Tomoji Sogawa)
# (Takumi Ishida)

The mini-album version contains tracks 1, 2, 3, 5, 9 & 11.

Credits

* Yoshihiko Chino – guitar
* DJ Bass – scratching
* Face 2 fAKE – various instruments, arrangement
* Ikuo Goto – guitar
* Tsugotoshi Goto – bass, synthesizer programming, guitar, arrangement
* h-wonder – various instruments, arrangement
* Naoki Hayashibe – electric guitar
* Masaaki Ikeda – trombone
* Takahiro Kaneko – tenor saxophone, horn arrangement
* Wakaba Kawai – trombone
* Futoshi Kobayashi – trumpet
* Hideyuki Komatsu – bass
* Takayuki Machida – bass
* Ken Matsubara – various instruments, arrangement
* Akira Mio – bass
* Eric Miyashiro – trumpet, flügelhorn
* Yoichi Murata – trombone, bass trombone, horn arrangement
* Eijiro Nakagawa – trombone
* Mitsuro Nasuno – electric bass
* Koji Nishimura – trumpet
* Kaori Nishina – chorus
* Nozomu – chorus
* Reo – various instruments, arrangement
* Sho Okumura – trumpet
* Koji Orita – alto saxophone
* Mikio Saito – trumpet
* Shiro Sasaki – trumpet
* Akio Shimizu – guitar, programming, arrangement
* Kazuo Shimizu – guitar
* Tomoji Sogawa – keyboards, programming, arrangement
* Kozo Suganuma – drums
* Toshiyuki Sugino – drums
* Yoshinari Takegami – saxophone
* Keiji Tanabe – keyboards, various instruments, arrangement
* Miki Watanabe – various instruments, arrangement
* Yamachi – guitar
* Koujo Yamamoto – saxophone
* Takuo Yamamoto – tenor saxophone, flute

Lyrics

* [http://www.cherryblossom-garden.com/1/aaa.html the Cherry Blossom Garden - AAA (Attack All Around) song lyrics index]
* [http://firstattack.be-ambitio.us/lyrics.php the first attack ++ a AAA (Triple A) English fansite]