The Blue Hearts Box
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The Blue Hearts Box was a box set of three early albums released by the Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese band The Blue Hearts
The Blue Hearts
was a popular Japanese punk rock band that performed from the mid-1980s to the early-1990s. In 2003, they were ranked by HMV Japan as number 19 on their list of 100 most important Japanese pop acts...

 in 1999. It contains the three Blue Hearts' albums that were released by Meldac Records: The Blue Hearts
The Blue Hearts (album)
is the self-produced and self-titled first album released by the Japanese band The Blue Hearts. They had put together albums as an independent band, but this was their first official release. It has a different track listing from their self-titled EP, which was released in the U.S...

, Young and Pretty
Young and Pretty
is the second album released by the Japanese band The Blue Hearts. It is also the band's only studio album with a cover actually showing members of the band.-Album history:...

and Train-Train
Train-Train (album)
is the third album released by the Japanese band The Blue Hearts.-Track listing:#"Train-Train" #"Merry Go Round" #"Denkō Sekka" #"Missile" #"Boku no Migite"...

. The release included a 100-page booklet documenting their early albums and only 50,000 of the boxed sets were produced.

Disc 1: The Blue Hearts

  1. "Mirai wa Boku Nado no Te no Naka" (未来は僕等の手の中 The Future is in Our Hands) (2:25)
  2. "Owaranai Uta" (終わらない歌 An Endless Song) (3:04)
  3. "No No No" (NO NO NO) (2:26)
  4. "Punk Rock" (パンク・ロック Panku Rokku) (3:41)
  5. "Machi" (街 Town) (3:18)
  6. "Shōnen no Uta" (少年の詩 A Boy's Song) (2:41)
  7. "Bakudan ga Okkochiru Toki" (爆弾が落っこちる時 When the Bombs Fall) (2:06)
  8. "Sekai no Mannaka" (世界のまん中 Middle of the World) (2:20)
  9. "Hadaka no Ō-sama" (裸の王様 The Naked Emperor) (2:50)
  10. "Dance Number" (ダンス・ナンバー Dansu Nanbaa) (1:28)
  11. "Kimi no Tame" (君のため For You) (4:18)
  12. "Linda Linda
    Linda Linda
    was a single by the Japanese rock band The Blue Hearts that was first released on May 1, 1987. Lyrics and music were written by Hiroto Kōmoto, the band's lead vocalist, and was arranged by The Blue Hearts. Both tracks are 6m57s in length and reached #38 on the Oricon charts during its release...

    " (リンダリンダ) (3:22)

Disc 2: Young and Pretty

  1. "Kiss Shite Hoshii
    Kiss Shite Hoshii
    was the third single by the Japanese band The Blue Hearts. It was released on November 21, 1987, the same time that the band's second album, Young and Pretty, was released. Lyrics and music were written by Hiroto Kōmoto, the band's lead vocalist, and was arranged by The Blue Hearts...

    " (キスしてほしい I Want a Kiss) (3:15)
  2. "Roku de Nashi II" (ロクデナシⅡ Bastard II (2:15)
  3. "Scrap" (スクラップ) (2:40)
  4. "Roku de Nashi" (ロクデナシ Bastard) (3:18)
  5. "Romantic" (ロマンチック) (3:50)
  6. "Line o Koete" (ラインを越えて Cross the Line) (6:40)
  7. "Chewing Gum o Kaminagara" (チューインガムをかみながら While Chewing Gum) (2:43)
  8. "Tōku Made" (遠くまで Faraway) (3:21)
  9. "Hoshi o Kudasai" (星をください Please Give Me a Star) (3:01)
  10. "Restaurant" (レストラン) (3:02)
  11. "Eiyū ni Akogarete" (英雄にあこがれて Admiring the Hero) (3:50)
  12. "Chain Gang" (チェインギャング) (5:58)

Disc 3: Train-Train

  1. "Train-Train
    Train-Train
    was the fifth professional single by the Japanese band The Blue Hearts. They had released one single as an independent group, making this the sixth single overall.The single was released at the same time as the album Train-Train...

    " (TRAIN-TRAIN)
  2. "Merry Go Round" (メリーゴーランド)
  3. "Denkō Sekka" (電光石火 The Thunderbolt)
  4. "Missile" (ミサイル)
  5. "Boku no Migite" (僕の右手 My Right Hand)
  6. "Mugon Denwa no Burūzu" (無言電話のブルース Silent Telephone Blues)
  7. "Fūsen Bakudan" (風船爆弾 Paper Balloon Bomb)
  8. "Love Letter
    Love Letter (The Blue Hearts song)
    was the sixth professional single by the Japanese band The Blue Hearts. They had released one single as an independent group, making this the seventh single overall. The song was recut off of the group's third album Train-Train....

    " (ラブレター)
  9. "Nagaremono" (ながれもの Wanderer)
  10. "Burūzu o Ketobase" (ブルースをけとばせ Kick the Blues)
  11. "Aozora
    Aozora (song)
    was the eighth single by the Japanese band The Blue Hearts. The song was recut from the group's third album Train-Train. This song was written in opposition to the continuing apartheid of the time. Mashima said that the actual reading for the tile is Aoi Sora...

    " (青空 Blue Sky)
  12. "Omae o Hanasanai" (お前を離さない I Won't Leave You)
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