Another Summer (album)

Another Summer (Japanese: アナザーサマー; stylized as ANOTHER SUMMER) is the fourth studio album by Kiyotaka Sugiyama & Omega Tribe, released by VAP on July 1, 1985. It the first album release with a five-member formation after guitarist Kenji Yoshida left the band in April. The album was #1 on the Oricon chart. The album gave the band another hit single with "Futari no Natsu Monogatari" (ふたりの夏物語 - Never Ending Summer), which was #5 on the Oricon chart.

Another Summer
Studio album by Kiyotaka Sugiyama & Omega Tribe
Released	July 1, 1985
Recorded	February 6, 1985 – May 20, 1985
Studio	Nichion Onkio Haus Sound City
Genre	City pop synth-pop kayōkyoku
Length	39:21
Label	VAP
Producer	Koichi Fujita
Kiyotaka Sugiyama & Omega Tribe chronology
Never Ending Summer (1984) Another Summer (1985) Single's History (1985)
Singles from Another Summer
"Futari no Natsu Monogatari" Released: March 6, 1985
Alternative cover
Alternate album cover featuring the five remaining band members

Background

After guitarist Kenji Yoshida withdrew from the band in April, the album was the first release with a five-member formation. Lead vocalist Kiyotaka Sugiyama commented, "We cut down the brass sound from the front and cherished the original sound of the band,"[1] and the band sound was now simple and light.

The single "Futari no Natsu Monogatari" was a hit, charting at #5 on the Oricon chart.[2][3][4] The album was ranked 1st on Oricon and 13th on the 1985 annual album chart.[5] It is the only work released in the summer (June to August), excluding best-of albums and planning boards.

The cover of the jacket and lyrics card was taken on the island of Mykonos in Greece, and below the title is a description of the hotel "Les Morin" on the island.

Track listing

Side A

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Arrangement	Length
1.	"Route 134"	Masako Arikawa	Tetsuji Hayashi	Hayashi	5:24
2.	"Dear Breeze"	Yasushi Akimoto	Hayashi	Hayashi	4:02
3.	"Futari No Natsu Monogatari ~Never Ending Summer~" (ふたりの夏物語 - Never Ending Summer)	Chinfa Kang	Hayashi	Hayashi	3:57
4.	"Toi Hitomi"	Arikawa	Kiyotaka Sugiyama	Ken Shiguma	4:38

Side B

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Arrangement	Length
1.	"Scramble Cross"	Kumiko Aoki	Toshitsugu Nishihara	Shiguma	4:28
2.	"Mayonaka No Screen Board"	Akimoto	Sugiyama	Makoto Matsushita	4:28
3.	"Ai No Shinkiro"	Akimoto	Hayashi	Hayashi	3:40
4.	"You're a Lady, I'm a Man" (feat. RAJIE)	Aoki	Hayashi	Hayashi	3:40
5.	"The End of the River"	Arikawa	Shinji Takashima	Matsushita	4:59

Personnel

• Bass – Takao Oshima[lower-alpha 1]
• Session Coordinator – Sound Seven
• Designers – Rikako Furuya, Takeharu Tanaka
• Directors – Ken Shiguma, Shigeru Matsuhashi
• Drums and percussion – Keiichi Hiroishi
• Overdubbing Engineers – Hiroshi Fujita, Jun Wakao, Koichi Hirase, Tatsuo Sekine
• Engineers – Junichi Fujimori, Mizuo Miura, Satoshi Yoshii, Yoshiaki Matsuoka
• Executive Producers – Atsushi Kitamura, Katsuhiko Endo
• Guitar – Shinji Takashima[lower-alpha 1]
• Keyboards – Toshitsugu Nishihara[lower-alpha 1]
• Lacquer cutting – Osamu Shimoju
• Artist Management – Triangle Production
• Photography – Jushi Watanabe
• Producer – Koichi Fujita
• Recording and Mixing – Kunihiko Shimizu
• Supervising – Tetsuji Hayashi
• Vocals – Kiyotaka Sugiyama

Charts

Chart (1985)	Peak position
Oricon[5][6][7][8]	1

References

1. "YOUNG SONG". Myōjō. August 1985. p. 80.
2. "Hits of the World". Billboard. July 6, 1985. p. 73. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
3. "Hits of the World". Billboard. June 15, 1985. p. 66. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
4. "Hits of the World". Billboard. June 22, 1985. p. 65. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
5. "Hits of the World". Billboard. August 31, 1985. p. 79. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
6. "Hits of the World". Billboard. August 17, 1985. p. 64. Retrieved May 28, 2020.
7. "Hits of the World". Billboard. August 24, 1985. p. 59. Retrieved May 28, 2020.
8. "Hits of the World". Billboard. August 3, 1985. p. 72. Retrieved May 28, 2020.

1. Also sang chorus