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}} is the fourth studio album released by the Japanese boy band Kanjani Eight. ''8 Uppers'' was released a year and seven months from the release of their third album, ''Puzzle''. There was three versions of this release: a regular edition, a CD+DVD limited edition, and a CD+2 DVD special collector's edition. First press of the regular edition came with a photobook containing pictures from the making of the unit promotional videos, the normal edition came with member solos, and both of the limited and special edition came with DVDs, the limited containing the full length featured movie of the same title and a director's gift. The special edition contained the movie and its making as well as a poster, stickers, movie program, and lyric book. ==Composition== The music style of ''8 Uppers'' is, again, different from their previous albums. This time the album adopts a more generic, yet, mature feel as the songs were written to accompany the feature film of the same title. The album opens up with the movie's theme song, "Oriental Surfer", and continues its coinciding theme to the events of the movie with two more instrumental breaks, "Back Off" and "Realize". The album ends with the single, "Kyū Jō Show!!". The member solos featured on the regular edition of the album were also written for the "Prologue of Patchi", a series of music videos that serve as character introductions, which were featured on the "Wonderful World!!" and "Life (Me no Mae no Mukou e)" singles. In many ways, the album can also be looked as a soundtrack to the movie. Majority of all the songs for the album were written by Takeshi, known for writing many works for fellow Johnny's & Associates acts, along with guest writers from Rock'A'Trench, Crazy Ken Band, Ulfuls, and others. Kanjani Eight themselves took charge over the Members' Solo album with some of them writing their own music. Tadayoshi Ohkura and Shota Yasuda collaborated to write the final track on the Members' Solo album entitled, "tte!!".〔Potato, Page 19, November 2010〕 When asked about writing "tte!!", Ohkura commented with: Yasuda, in the same interview, also added that " () Ska and Melodic Hardcore is Eight's weapon, I thought while writing it. ".〔Wink Up, Page 11, November 2010〕 When talking about working with Ken Yokoyama of Crazy Ken Band, many of the group's members showed slight apprehension to the aggressive, soulful, tone of the song. Yokoyama remarked with, " This has to be the hardest song. () I didn't believe I could sing it, but that Subaru would be great at it. When I first heard Ken's demo, I thought it was impossible () ".〔Wink Up, Page 8, November 2010〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「8 Uppers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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