Kind of Love

Infobox Album |
Name = Kind of Love
Type = Album
Artist = Mr. Children


Released = December 1, 1992
Recorded = Sound Sky Studio, Power House, Victor Studio
Genre = Pop, Rock
Length = 52:16
Label = Toy's Factory
Producer = Takeshi Kobyashi
Reviews =
Last album = "Everything" (1992)
This album = "Kind of Love"
(1992)
Next album = "Versus"
(1993)Singles
Name = Kind of Love
Type = studio
single 1 = Dakishimetai
single 1 date = December 1, 1992

"Kind of Love" is the second, and first full length album, by Japanese rock band Mr. Children released on December 1, 1992. The album debuted on the Japanese Oricon music charts at #13 and sold 1,179,780 copies during its run on the chart.cite web | url=http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/music/41005/ | title=ミスチル、ニューアルバム完成！(Mr.Children and new album completion!) | work=oricon.co.jp | accessdate=2007-06-17 | language=Japanese] The album contains only one single released on December 1, 1992, titled nihongo|"Dakishimetai"|抱きしめたい. The first track on the album, nihongo|"Niji no kanata he"|虹の彼方へ, was also used as the theme song to Japanese animation nihongo|"Shonan Bakusozoku9 Omae to ore no Good Luck!"|湘南爆走族9・お前と俺のGOOD LUCK!. [cite book | title = The distance to "HOME" | publisher = Kadokawa television | series = 別冊カドカワ総力特集 Mr.Children (Separate volume Kadokawa special issue Mr.Children) | year = 2007 | pages = p. 167-170 | language = Japanese | isbn = 978-4-04-894488-5 ] "Kind of Love" also marks the debut of drummer Hideya Suzuki as one of the vocalist for the album and the use of U.S productions for an album.

Track listing

tracklist
all_writing = Kazutoshi Sakurai

title1 = nihongo|Niji no kanata he|虹の彼方へ
length1 = 3:35

title2 = All by myself
length2 = 4:34

title3 = Blue
length3 = 4:56

title4 = nihongo|Dakishimetai|抱きしめたい
length4 = 5:27

title5 = nihongo|Good-Bye My Gloomy Days|グッバイ・マイ・グルーミーデイズ
length5 = 4:14

title6 = Distance
length6 = 5:12

title7 = nihongo|Kuruma no naka de kakurete kiss wo shiyou|車の中でかくれてキスをしよ
length7 = 5:21

title8 = nihongo|Shishunki no natsu ~kimi to no koi ga ima mo makiba ni~|思春期の夏～君との恋が今も牧場に～
length8 = 3:39

title9 = nihongo|Hoshi ni naretara|星になれたら
length9 = 5:03

title10 = nihongo|Teenage Dream (I~II)|ティーンエイジ・ドリーム（I～II）
length10 = 6:08

title11 = nihongo|Itsu no hi ni ka futari de|いつの日にか二人で）
length11 = 4:13

Personnel

* Kazutoshi Sakurai – vocals, guitar
* Kenichi Tahara – guitar
* Keisuke Nakagawa – bass
* Hideya Suzuki – drums, vocals
* Takuo Yamamoto - baritone, soprano, tenor sax
* Yoichi Murata - trombone
* Toshio Araki - trumpet, flugelhorn
* Hirokazu Ogura - acoustic guitar
* Shozo Kimura - acoustic guitar
* Shoko Suzuki - chorus
* Tomoko - chorus
* Hijiri Kuwano Group - strings

Production

Production credits for album:"Kind of Love" album booklet, Toy's Factory (1992)]

* Producer - Takeshi Kobyashi
* Executive producer - Takamitsu Ide, Mitsunori Kadoike
* Recording and Mixing engineering - Kunihiko Imai, Hiroshi Hiranuma, and Tsuyoshi Inoue
* A&R producer - Koichi Inaba
* Directed - Makoto Nakanishi
* Computer programming - Ken Matsumoto
* Recording - Sound Sky Studio, Power House, Victor Studio, and moreRef_label|A|a|none
* Mixed at - West Side Studio, Studio Somewhere
* Assistant engineering - Hiroshi Tanigawa, Hideyuki Arima, Kenichi Hayashi, Tatsuya Kawakami, and Masatatsu Tsubuki
* Mastering - Masterdisk
* Mastering engineer - Bob Lubwing
* U.S production supervision - Hero Associates Inc.
* Recording co-coordination - Hiroe Takeshima
* Promotion - Naoki Imoto
* Sales promotion - Masayuki Nakagawa
* 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
* Art Director - Mitsuo Shindo
* Designer - Kumiko Tezuka
* Photographer - Hiroyuki Ishiee
* Stylist - Hiroko Umeyama
* Hair and make-up - Akemi Nakano

Footnotes

*a.note_label|A|a|none The album booklet names Sound Sky Studio, Power House, and Victor Studio as studios in which the album was recorded in addition to adding and more to the list, but does not state other studio locations.

References