Sparkle

It is the album's opener at 4:13, never released as a single, recorded at CBS/Sony Roppongi Studio with Tamotsu Yoshida engineering. Yamashita plays electric guitar, electric piano and percussion, with Jun Aoyama on drums, Koki Ito on bass (Hiroki, per Japanese Wikipedia), Hiroyuki Namba on piano and synthesizer, Hidefumi Toki on the alto sax solo, Minako Yoshida on backing vocals and a horn section. About a year earlier he bought a brown late-1970s Fender Telecaster from an acquaintance for 50,000 yen, and credits it with making the song possible; he calls the song his representative work. An instrumental interlude of it was used in a Suntory draft beer commercial. It is often an opening number live, and a live version is on JOY: Tatsuro Yamashita Live (1989).

A video was released on YouTube on April 26, 2023 ahead of the May 3 reissue, with art direction by YOSHIROTTEN, direction by Katsuki Kuroyanagi and dancers SORAKI and Misa Sugiyama. Record Collector ranked it number one in its July 2020 list of the top 100 city pop songs of 1980 to 1989. The Hawaiian band Greenwood recorded an English version in 1985 (or 1984), a 7-inch that failed locally and was revived by DJ Muro's Hawaiian Breaks mix about 25 years later; a refreshed version is on Lost in Paradise, and an Aloha Got Soul 7-inch from 2025 pairs both. We found no chart history for the song, no setlist count and no statement from him about the lyrics.