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Jinsei×Boku= (人生×僕= Jinsei Kakete Boku wa, lit. Life Times Me Equals) is the sixth full-length album by the Japanese band, ONE OK ROCK. It was released on March 6, 2013 and managed to reach second place on the Oricon weekly chart.
This album brought ONE OK ROCK to worldwide popularity, especially after the first single, The Beginning, selected as official soundtrack in live action adaption of Rurouni Kenshin (2012). Then the next single, Deeper Deeper/Nothing Helps, featured on "DmC: Devil May Cry" game and used for Suzuki Swift TV commercials.
A DVD special bundled with the album released for limited pre-order only, consist of an acoustic performance in the studio of The Beginning and the same as.
Background and Development[]
After their first two night live in Yokohama Arena, ONE OK ROCK said that they want to record their new album. Some songs, like The Beginning have been made before Zankyo Reference released. In their last tour documentary, revealed that they played early version of Clock Strikes in a stage during checksound.
In mid 2012 they asked to make a song to a new live adaption of popular manga Rurouni Kenshin. At that time they already have 3 demo song for the upcoming single. But Taka felt that only The Beginning which suitable for this movie. Then they released The Beginning single in the end of August 2012 and they movie came out 3 days later.
Three months later, ONE OK ROCK released a digital single the same as....without a video music clip. Then in January double side single Deeper Deeper/Nothing Helps released together with Deeper Deeper music clip.
Promotion[]
ONE OK ROCK held their first national arena tour in 2013, engaged more than 100,000 audiences, 6 cities and 11 days, started from 11 May to 6 June 2013. They recorded 22 songs from their second day in Yokohama Arena and insert them into Blu-ray and DVD, entitled Jinsei×Kimi= (人生×君=) TOUR LIVE&FILM, together with the a-hour-long documentation of this tour.
Later the band conducted their first world tour, consisted in 11 countries of Asia and Europe from October to December. An additional date added for Los Angeles and New York in early 2015. On Springs they participated in Vans Warped Tour 2014, successfuly reached new audiences abroad.
Singles[]
Track listing[]
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Where the idiots should go~ | 1:12 |
| 2. | Ending Story?? | 4:15 |
| 3. | ONION! | 3:18 |
| 4. | The Beginning | 4:55 |
| 5. | Clock Strikes | 3:55 |
| 6. | Be the Light | 5:39 |
| 7. | Nothing Helps | 4:48 |
| 8. | Juvenile | 3:59 |
| 9. | All Mine | 4:36 |
| 10. | Smiling Down | 4:25 |
| 11. | Deeper Deeper | 3:35 |
| 12. | 69 | 4:37 |
| 13. | the same as... | 4:36 |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Where the idiots should go~ | 1:12 |
| 2. | Ending Story?? | 4:15 |
| 3. | ONION! | 3:18 |
| 4. | The Beginning | 4:55 |
| 5. | Clock Strikes | 3:55 |
| 6. | Be the Light | 5:39 |
| 7. | Nothing Helps | 4:48 |
| 8. | Juvenile | 3:59 |
| 9. | All Mine | 4:36 |
| 10. | Smiling Down | 4:25 |
| 11. | Deeper Deeper | 3:35 |
| 12. | 69 | 4:37 |
| 13. | the same as... (+ Bonus Track) | 16:15 |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | The Beginning (Studio Jam Session) | 5:41 |
| 2. | the same as... (Studio Jam Session) | 6:16 |
Booklet and Credits[]
If you're going to add credits then can you find the designer of the album cover.
- Credits for scans to kuroshi42.
- Artist Manager -- Yoshitaka Goto
- Assistant Manager -- Ho Wailim
- Desk -- Kayoko Takimoto
- Merchandiser -- Maiko Kataoka
WESS, GIP, SOGO, FOB, SUNDAY FOLK PROMOTION, etc.