TM NETWORK‘s most symbolic “flagship” song, their hymn, is no other than “GET WILD” released in 1987, and brought to fame because the song was the Ending song of the first season of the popular 80’s anime series City Hunter. This song marked the commercial success of TM Network, and started their path to become a legendary band.
Being the 30th anniversary of this important song, obviously TM Network celebrates with a very interesting upcoming release in April 5th of 2017! (the song anniversary is also in April) which is a compilation album of 33 different versions of the song.
The title of the album will be “GET WILD Thanks 30th Anniversary“, it will have 3 albums and 33 songs. Among these songs, we will have a total of 20 GET WILD versions performed by TM NETWORK in their latest 30th anniversary tours, and in previous tours such as the Double Decade 2004 (20th years anniversary), and other important versions. The rest of the 13 songs are going to be covers the song sung by other artists. The full list of TM NETWORK versions is the following:
- Get Wild(1987/4/8)
- Get Wild(“FANKS CRY-MAX”Version)(1987/6/24 Nippon Budokan)
- GET WILD ’89(1989/4/15 SG)
- Get Wild(“COLOSSEUM I”Version)(1989/8/29 Yokohama Arena)
- Get Wild(“RHYTHM RED TMN TOUR”Version)(1991/2/22 Sendai Izumity 21)
- Get Wild(“tour TMN EXPO ARENA FINAL”Version)(1992/4/12 Yokohama Arena)
- Get Wild(techno overdub mix)(1993/8/21)
- GET WILD ’89(“TMN final live LAST GROOVE 5.18″ Version)(1994/5/18 Tokyo Dome)
- GET WILD DECADE RUN(1999/7/22)
- GET WILD(LIVE EPIC25 ver)(2003/8/20)
- Get Wild(Double Decade 2004/4 Yokohama Arena)
- Get Wild(Double Decade 2004/6/24 Nippon Budokan)
- Get Wild(REMASTER version)(2007 Nippon Budokan)
- Get Wild(Incbation Period version)(2012/4/25 Nippon Budokan)
- Get Wild(FINAL MISSION -START investigation- version)(2013/7/21 Saitama Arena)
- Get Wild 2014(2014/4/22)
- Get Wild(the beginning of the end version)
- Get Wild(QUIT30 HUGE DATA version)
- Get Wild(30th FINAL version)
- Get Wild 2015 -HUGE DATA-(2015/3/21)
If you are interested in Pre-ordering this great and unique collection of GET WILD versions, you can pre-order it via Amazon Japan and HMV Online.
And also via CD Japan:
GET WILD Thanks 30th Anniversary (Title subject to change) / TM NETWORK
And in order to continue the celebration, let’s enjoy this great version of GET WILD from their 2014 tour “TM NETWORK 30th 1984~ the beginning of the end“, with the great synthesizer arrangement done by Tetsuya Komuro for this one: