The Best Of Crush 40 – Super Sonic Songs

Catalog Number WWCA-31207
Barcode 4571164382074
Release Date Nov 18, 2009
Publish Format Commercial
Release Price 2500 JPY
Media Format CD
Classification Arrangement, Vocal, Original Work
Label WAVE MASTER ARTISTS
Publisher WAVE MASTER ARTISTS
Manufacturer WAVE MASTER INC.
Distributor avex marketing Inc.
Phonographic Copyright WAVE MASTER INC.

Artist Crush 40
Vocals Johnny Gioeli
Guitars Jun Senoue
Programming Jun Senoue
Writer Jun Senoue, Johnny Gioeli, Tomoya Ohtani, Kenichi Tokoi, runblebee, Mike Szuter, Ian Astbury, Billy Duffy
Arranged by Jun Senoue
Bass Takeshi Taneda, Naoto Shibata
Drums Toru Kawamura, Hirotsugu Homma, Katsuji, Mark Shulman
Piano Yutaka Minobe
Strings Kimiko Nakagawa Strings
Background Vocals Bob Burch, David Braun
Session Coordinators Kiyoshi Yoshida (Attic-Arcade, inc.), Stan Katayama
Recording Engineers Masahiro Fukuhara, Bob Burch, Stan Katayama, Hirokazu Akashi, Yoshitada Miya
Compilation Produced for Release by Jun Senoue
Executive Producer Fumitaka Shibata
A&R Director Kazuo Koizumi
Sales Promoter Osamu Igarashi (avex marketing)
Licensing Toshimasa Kubo, Junichiro Takahashi, Eishin Miura
Mastered by Isao Kikuchi
Mastered at Warner Music Mastering
Design Chiaki Kuroda (Windansea Design)
Thanks “Crushers”, Sega, Chieko, Juri, Joshua, rest of my family, Naofumi Hataya, Sega sound team, Hiroki Hayashi at ESP guitars, Michelle Silberman at Line 6, Scott Uchida at Jim Dunlop, Yasu Yokote at Performance guitars, Kaz Hirose at BURRN! magazine, Yumiko Haba at BURRN! magazine, Parminder Gill, Martin Sturrock, Naoko Hayashi
Special Thanks the Senoue family, the Gioeli family, Brandon, Katy, everyone, all our friends and fans

Products represented
Sonic Adventure
EA SPORTS NASCAR ARCADE
Sonic Adventure 2
Sonic Heroes
Shadow the Hedgehog
Sonic the Hedgehog (2006)
Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity
Sonic and the Black Knight

Tracklist:

01 I Am… All Of Me 3:51
02 His World 5:16
03 Un-gravitify 4:44
04 All Hail Shadow 4:01
05 Never Turn Back 4:39
06 Revvin’ Up 4:34
07 Into The Wind 4:29
08 Watch Me Fly… 5:11
09 Fire Woman 5:16
10 Sonic Heroes 3:28
11 What I’m Made Of… 3:43
12 Live Life 5:38
13 Knight Of The Wind 4:31
14 Live & Learn 4:31
15 Open Your Heart 4:49
16 Is It You 4:58
Disc length 73:39

M-01, 05, 08, 10~14, 16 (Jun Senoue & Johnny Gioeli)
M-02 (Tomoya Ohtani & Johnny Gioeli, Arranged by Jun Senoue)
M-03 (Kenichi Tokoi & runblebee, Arranged by Jun Senoue)
M-04 (Jun Senoue & Mike Szuter)
M-06, 07 (Jun Senoue)
M-09 (Ian Astbury & Billy Duffy, THE CULT / Sonic Temples, 1989)
M-15 (Jun Senoue & Kenichi Tokoi)

M-01, 05 from Shadow the Hedghehog
M-02, 04 from Sonic the Hedgehog (2006)
M-03 originally from Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity.
M-06~08 from NASCAR Arcade
M-10, 11 from Sonic Heroes
M-12, 13 from Sonic & the Black Knight
M-14 from Sonic Adventure 2
M-15 from Sonic Adventure

M-01, 02, 13, 15 New Mix For This Release
M-03, 09, 16 Previously Unreleased, New Recording For This Release

CRUSH 40
Johnny Gioeli : Vocals
Jun Senoue : Guitars and Programming

Additional Musicians
Bass: Takeshi Taneda (1-5, 9-14, 16), Naoto Shibata (6-8, 15)
Drums: Toru Kawamura (1-5, 9, 16), Hirotsugu Homma (6-8, 15), Katsuji (10, 12-14), Mark Shulman (11)
Piano: Yutaka Minobe (8, 12)
Strings: Kimiko Nakagawa Strings (12, 13)
Background Vocals: Bob Burch & David Braun (3, 9, 16)

Session Coordinators: Kiyoshi Yoshida (Attic-Arcade, inc.), Stan Katayama
Recording Engineers: Masahiro Fukuhara, Bob Burch, Stan Katayama, Hirokazu Akashi, Yoshitada Miya
Compilation Produced for Release by Jun Senoue

Label Staff
Executive Producer: Fumitaka Shibata
A&R Director: Kazuo Koizumi
Sales Promoter: Osamu Igarashi (avex marketing)

Sega Staff
Licensing: Toshimasa Kubo, Junichiro Takahashi, Eishin Miura

Mastered by Isao Kikuchi at Warner Music Mastering, Tokyo, Japan
Design: Chiaki Kuroda (Windansea Design)

Johnny would like to thank all of the “Crushers” who year after year support Crush40
and all of the Sega teams involved in making great games and great music!
Special thanks to the Senoue family for treating me so awesome! And to my family… it goes without saying…I love you all.
Brandon wants it louder! Katy wants it lower! What the heck?! Go to your rooms……..and play CRUSH40!
Thanks everyone…

Jun would like to thank… Chieko, Juri, Joshua and rest of my family.
Naofumi Hataya and everyone at Sega sound team. All the development teams at Sega I had worked with.
Hiroki Hayashi at ESP guitars, Michelle Silberman at Line 6, Scott Uchida at Jim Dunlop, Yasu Yokote at Performance guitars
Kaz Hirose and Yumiko Haba at BURRN! magazine
Parminder Gill, Martin Sturrock, Naoko Hayashi
Special thanks to the Gioeli family, you guys are so sweet!
And all our friends and fans! Love ya!

Jun Senoue uses ESP guitars, LINE 6 Products & Jim Dunlop Picks

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