The Night Without a Guide

The Night Without a Guide
Studio album by
Yōsui Inoue
ReleasedNovember 20, 1992
Recordedat Sedic, Heartbeat, Adagio Atelier, and the Paradise Studio Komazawa
GenreFolk rock
Length53:32
LabelFor Life
ProducerYōsui Inoue, Jun Satō
Yōsui Inoue chronology
Handsome Boy
(1990) 		The Night Without a Guide
(1992) 		Under the Sun
(1993)

The Night Without a Guide (ガイドのいない夜, Gaido no Inai Yoru) is the studio album by Japanese singer-songwriter Yosui Inoue, released in November 1992.

The album comprises the newly arranged versions of the songs that Inoue himself had already recorded on his albums or singles, except "Just Fit" which was written for Mis Cast album by Kenji Sawada in 1982. Inoue stated that over 20 songs were re-recorded during the sessions. Rest of them excluded from the album have not been released, except "No-ichigo" appeared on the flip side of a single "Musubikotoba".

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Yōsui Inoue, unless otherwise noted

  1. "Tsumetai Heya no Sekai Chizu (つめたい部屋の世界地図)" - 4:32
  2. "Higashi e Nishi e (東へ西へ)" - 4:32
  3. "Umi e Kinasai (海へ来なさい)" (Katz Hoshi/Inoue) - 5:31
  4. "Canary (カナリア, Kanaria)" - 4:11
  5. "Shiroi Ichinichi (白い一日)" (Kei Ogura/Inoue) - 5:18
  6. "Musubikotoba (結詞)" - 4:07
  7. "Just Fit" - 4:26
  8. "Ai no Soubi (愛の装備)" - 5:13
  9. "Natsu Matsuri (夏まつり)" - 5:10
  10. "Nemuri ni Sasoware (眠りにさそわれ)" - 5:22
  11. "Tomadou Pelican (とまどうペリカン)" - 5:21

Chart positions

Album

Year Chart Position Sales RIAJ Certification
1992 Japanese Oricon Weekly Albums Chart (Top 100) 7[1] 205,000+ Platinum

Single

Year Single B-Side Chart Position Sales
1992 "Musubikotoba"[2] "No-Ichigo" [New recording] Japanese Oricon Weekly (top 100) 33 70,000

References

  1. ^ "Yamachan Land (Archives of the Japanese record charts) - Albums Chart Daijiten - Yosui Inoue" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2007-06-19. Retrieved 2009-04-24.
  2. ^ "Yamachan Land (Archives of the Japanese record charts) - Singles Chart Daijiten - Yosui Inoue" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2007-10-16. Retrieved 2009-04-24.