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Live in Japan (Do As Infinity album)

album by Do As Infinity

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 7, 2024
Entity authorityQ6657716 ↗
Source-derived summary

Live in Japan is Do as Infinity's second live album, as well as a concert DVD. It was a recording of the first live concert that Do as Infinity held in Budokan which was part of the Gates of Heaven Tour. Guitarist Ryo Owatari considered Budokan as a place where only the best bands could play. The CD version was recorded on 31 January 2004 and the DVD version on 1 February 2004.

Track listing

Disc one

"Gates of heaven"

"Honjitsu wa Seiten Nari" (本日ハ晴天ナリ, We Will Have Fine Weather Today)

"under the sun"

"We are."

MC

"Hi no Ataru Sakamichi" (陽のあたる坂道, Sunny Hill)

"Desire"

"Azayaka na Hana" (アザヤカナハナ, Vivid Flower)

"Treasure Pleasure" (トレジャプレジャ, Toreja Pureja)

MC

"Buranko" (ブランコ, Swing)

"Hiiragi" (柊, Holly)

"Fukai Mori" (深い森, Deep Forest)

"Kagaku no Yoru" (科学の夜, Night of Science)

Disc two

MC

"Week!"

"Tōku Made" (遠くまで, Far away)

"Boukensha Tachi" (冒険者たち, Adventurers)

"135"

MC

"One or Eight"

"Thanksgiving Day"

MC -encore-

"Rock and Roll All Nite" -encore-

MC -encore-

"Tangerine Dream" -encore-

MC -encore-

"Field of Dreams" -encore-

MC -encore-

"SUMMER DAYS" -encore-

"Ai no Uta" (あいのうた, Song of Love) -encore-

DVD

Gates of heaven

本日ハ晴天ナリ

under the sun

We are.

陽のあたる坂道

Oasis

アザヤカナハナ

トレジャプレジャ

ブランコ

柊

深い森

科学の夜

Week!

遠くまで

冒険者たち

135

One or Eight

Thanksgiving Day

Detroit Rock City -ENCORE-

Tangerine Dream -ENCORE-

Field of dreams -ENCORE-

SUMMER DAYS -ENCORE-

あいのうた -ENCORE-

Chart positions

Sales is for the CD version.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Live in Japan (Do As Infinity album)” is album by Do As Infinity. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Live, Japan and Infinity, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2004-03-31. For this dossier, Live, Japan and Infinity is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “album by Do As Infinity” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 7, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q6657716. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2004.

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This entry incorporates text from “Live in Japan (Do As Infinity album)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.