• Source: Versus (Mr. Children album)

Versus is the third, and second full-length album, by Japanese rock band Mr. Children released on September 1, 1993. The album debuted on the Japanese Oricon music charts at #3 and sold 802,140 copies during its run on the chart. Just like the previous two albums, Versus contains only one single released on July 1, 1993, titled "Replay" with another album track "And I close to you" also being included in Mr. Children's fourth single "Cross Road". Versus also marked the first time use of Takeshi Kobayashi as a writer and composer for Mr. Children.




Track listing






Personnel


Kazutoshi Sakurai – vocals, guitar
Kenichi Tahara – guitar
Keisuke Nakagawa – bass
Hideya Suzuki – drums, vocals
Carol Steele - percussion
Takuo Yamamoto - tenor, baritone sax, recorder
Yoichi Murata - trombone
Toshio Araki - trumpet




Production


Production credits for album:

Producer - Takeshi Kobyashi
Executive producer - Takamitsu Ide, Mitsunori Kadoike
Recording - Kunihiko Imai[a], Hiroshi Hiranuma, and Doug Conroy
Mixing - Hiroshi Hiranuma, Kunihiko Imai[a]
Brass arrangement - Takuo Yamamoto[b]
A&R chief - Koichi Inaba
A&R director - Makoto Nakanishi, Katsumi Shinohara
Computer programming - Ken Matsumoto
Assistant engineering - Greg Digesu, Jeff Mauriello, Kenji Nagashima, Yoshitaka Shirahata, Kei Kosaka, and Tomoaki Sato
Recording - Waterfront Studios, Tokyo Hilton Hotel, Hitokuchizaka Studio, and Avaco Studio
Mixed at - Peninsula, Studio Vincent
Mastering - Gateway Mastering
Mastered by - Bob Ludwig
U.S production supervision - Kaz Hayashida
Account Administration - Jeff Schwartz and Rupert Gray
Translator - Rika Nakaya
Recording co-ordination - Akira Yasukawa
Promotion - Naoki Imoto
Sales promotion - Masayuki Nakagawa
Art Direction - Mitsuo Shindo
Designer - Satoshi Nakamura
Photographer - Meisa Fujishiro
Stylist - Hiroko Umeyama
Marine coordinator - Masato Nagai
Artist management - Isao Tanuma and Kazushiro Miura
Desk management - Tomoko Okada
Production management - Tetsuhiko /nono
Production co-ordination - Harumi Oshima
P.R management - Chikane Kumagai




Footnotes






References

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• Mr. Children
• Diskografi Mr. Children
• Cheyenne Jackson
• Akira Toriyama
• Versus (Mr. Children album)
• Versus
• Mr. Children
• Mr. Children discography
• Replay (Mr. Children song)
• Gloria Trevi
• Gramps Morgan
• Cross Road (song)
• Black and White
• List of best-selling albums in Japan