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Watashi to Hōden

2008 compilation album by Ringo Sheena

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 13, 2023
Entity authorityQ849075 ↗
Source-derived summary

Watashi to Houden (私と放電, Me and Electric Discharge), also known as Electric Discharge & Me, is a compilation album by Japanese singer and songwriter Ringo Sheena. It features most of her B-sides and rarer songs from her solo era, and was released to celebrate her 10th anniversary in the industry.

The music video collection DVD "Watashi no Hatsuden (私の発電, My Generator)" was released on the same day.

Outline

The songs were either not featured in previous full albums, or were at least non-album versions. However, not all non-album songs were released in this compilation.

The music video of "Mellow" was produced for this release. The clip was recorded the DVD "Watashi no Hatsuden".

Track listing

All tracks written by Ringo Sheena, except where noted.

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This entry incorporates text from “Watashi to Hōden” 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.