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"Love Machine"
Single by Morning Musume
from the album 3rd-Love Paradise
ReleasedSeptember 9, 1999 ( JP)
Recorded1999
Genre
Length14:47 (8 cm CD)
Label Zetima
Songwriter(s) Tsunku
Producer(s) Tsunku
Morning Musume singles chronology
" Furusato"
(1999) 		"Love Machine"
(1999) 		" Koi no Dance Site"
(2000)
Music video
Love Machine on YouTube

"Love Machine" (LOVEマシーン, Rabu Mashiin) is Morning Musume's 7th single, released on September 9, 1999 as an 8 cm CD. It sold a total of 1,646,630 copies, making it a massive hit (a #1 single in Japan) and their highest selling single. In 2004, it was re-released as part of the Early Single Box and again in 2005 as a 12 cm CD. The single also marked the debut of the "Third Generation" member Maki Goto and the departure of Aya Ishiguro.

Packaging

The original 8 cm CD release was housed in a J-card-type 12 cm slimline single case instead of the then-industry CD snap-pack packaging. The case used was 7 mm thick, showing artwork through the front, and also through the spine and part of the back of the case. The CD itself was inserted upside-down, allowing the artwork on the disc itself to show through the transparent back of the case. This is one of only two 8 cm CD singles released by Morning Musume to adhere this packaging (the other being their eighth single Koi no Dance Site (2000)).

Legacy

In 2008, a remade version of the song was released by Scott Murphy of Allister in his album Guilty Pleasures 3. [1]

In 2009, the song was remade into Korean by South Korean girl group After School under the name "Dream Girl", and Avex Group posted a "RIKI version" by actor Riki Takeuchi on its official YouTube channel in celebration of the song's tenth anniversary. [2]

In 2013, Moametal of the kawaii metal group Babymetal performed a cover during their Legend 1999 show at NHK Hall. The song was chosen because it was a hit in 1999, the year of Moametal and fellow member Yuimetal's birth. [3]

Love Machine is featured in Ubisoft's Japanese Just Dance Wii U

Track listing

The lyricist, composer and producer of both songs is Tsunku. "Love Machine" was arranged by Dance☆Man, while "21seiki" was arranged by Shunsuke Suzuki.

8 cm CD

This is the original edition of the single and has a catalog number, EPDE-1052.

  1. Love Machine (Loveマシーン) – 5:02
  2. 21 Seiki (21世紀, 21st century) – 4:45
  3. Love Machine (Instrumental) (Loveマシーン (Instrumental)) – 5:01

LP

This edition has a catalog number, EPJE-5035.

  1. Love Machine (Loveマシーン)
  2. Love Machine (Instrumental) (Loveマシーン (Instrumental))
  1. Love Machine ~Analog Remix~ (Loveマシーン ～Analog Remix～)
  2. Love Machine ~Analog Remix~ (Instrumental) (Loveマシーン ～Analog Remix～ (Instrumental))
  3. Secret Track (シークレットトラック)

12 cm CD

This edition was released as the 7th disc of the Early Single Box with catalogue number EPCE-5327 and as an individual release with catalog number EPCE-5319.

  1. Love Machine (Loveマシーン)
  2. 21 Seiki (21世紀)
  3. Love Machine (Instrumental) (Loveマシーン (Instrumental))
  4. Love Machine (Early Unision Version) (Loveマシーン)

Members at time of single

Personnel

Cover versions

References

  1. ^ "Guilty Pleasures III" (in Japanese). Universal Music LLC. Archived from the original on December 16, 2008. Retrieved January 6, 2009.
  2. ^ 竹内力の双子の弟!? RIKI / LOVEマシーン～RIKIバージョン～ Avex official YouTube channel, posted September 9, 2009 (requires Flash)
  3. ^ BABYMETAL – Love machine by MOAMETAL Babymetal.net, posted October 31, 2014

External links

  • Entries on the Hello! Project official website: CD entry, LP entry (in Japanese)
  • VHS entry on the Up-Front Works official website (in Japanese)
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