憂いの花が綴る愛～L’introduction de la fleur～ (Urei no hana ga tsuzuru ai) – Sampler

LAREINE is a Japanese visual-kei rock band that existed from November 1994 to February 17, 2007.
On this website, you can find a full release database of LAREINE and the bands related to them.
On these specific pages, you’ll find a discography listing the main audio releases. 

General Information:

Sampler 8cm CD containing different versions of two of the songs from the single that would release a month after this: “Fleur“.

While this version of the song “憂いの花が綴る愛” (Urei no hana ga tsuzuru ai) has more spoken French dialogue over the music, most of the song is the same as how it appeared on the “Fleur” single.

On the other hand, the song “Fleur” is only a very short preview of just a little over one minute on this sampler, with the spoken dialogue interrupting it.

Two versions of this sampler exist: Blue and red/pink. The blue version was distributed for free on the first day/concert of the “Fleur～Le Printemps～” tour, on 1998.03.14, at 難波ROCKETS (Nanba).

On all the other dates of the tour, starting on 1998.03.22, at 大阪hit bit (Osaka), up until the last day of that tour, 1998.05.03 渋谷ON AIR WEST (Shibuya), a pink version was sold for 300JPY.

As a result, the blue version is much rarer, since it was only available for one day.

The catalog numbers are confusing; The pink version is LCDS-002, and the blue is LCDS-003. But since the blue one released 8 days prior, that means that chronologically, LCDS-003 came BEFORE LCDS-002.

The format of this sampler is a 8cm CD in a long cardboard case. These long cardboard cases with a mini CD inside were very common for singles in Japan in the 90s, but the plastic inside often detaches pretty easily. LAREINE only released four different releases in this format: The two versions of this sampler, one version of “fiançailles“, and one version of “GRAND PAIN“.

2 Versions:

Tracklist: