Monster (Pink Lady song)

"Monster"
Single by Pink Lady
from the album Pink Lady no Katsudou Ooutsushin
B-side "Catch Lip"
Released June 25, 1978
Genre J-pop, kayōkyoku, Disco
Length 4:30
Label JVC
Songwriter(s) Shunichi Tokura, Yū Aku.
Pink Lady singles chronology
"Southpaw"
(1978)		 "Monster"
(1978)		 "Tomei Ningen"
(1978)

"Southpaw"
(1978)		 "Monster"
(1978)		 "Tomei Ningen"
(1978)

"Monster" (モンスター, Monsuta) is Pink Lady's eighth single release, and their seventh number-one hit on the Oricon charts in Japan.[1] The single sold 1,600,000 copies, and was number one for eight weeks. It also peaked at number-one on the Japanese Music Labo chart.[2]

According to Oricon this was the 3d best selling single from 1978.[3]

A re-recorded version of the song was included on the 2-disc greatest hits release, Innovation, released in December 2010.

Track listing (7" vinyl)

All tracks composed by Shunichi Tokura, lyrics written by Yū Aku.

  1. "Monster" 4:30
  2. "Catch Lip" 2:50

Chart positions

Charts (1978) Peak
position
Japanese Oricon Singles Chart 1
Japanese Music Labo Chart[2] 1

Cover versions

  • Sudirman Arshad of Malaysia recorded a cover version of this song in Malay in 1979, titled "Toyol" in his "Perasaan" album. Toyol is a Malaysian fabled monster who steals valuables and money from people under the command of its master, who in return has to feed it with his own blood by allowing it to bite his big toe.
  • CHINEPHILE recorded a cover version of this song for the 2003 album KAYOMANIA.
  • Nana Yanagisawa and Takashi Yutaka recorded a cover of this for the Pink Lady/Yū Aku tribute album Bad Friends from 2009.

References

  1. ↑ "List of the number-one hit singles on the Japanese Oricon Chart". Retrieved 2008-10-13.
  2. 1 2 "Billboard Magazine, August, 1978". Billboard.
  3. ↑ "Annual Oricon Charts 1977-1980" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2011-10-25.


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