Fire Bomber

Fire Bomber is a fictional rock 'n roll band from the anime series "Macross 7" (and related projects such as "Macross 7 Trash", "Macross 7 Encore", and "Macross Dynamite 7"). In real life, Fire Bomber's music was performed by Yoshiki Fukuyama (as the singing voice and guitar of Basara), Chie Kajiura (as the singing voice of Mylene), and occasionally by Tomo Sakurai (the acting voice of Mylene).

Fictional line-up

* Basara Nekki - Guitar and lead vocals
* Mylene Flare Jenius - Bass and back vocals
* Ray Lovelock - Keytar
* Veffidas Feaze - Drums

Real line-up

*Vocals - Yoshiki Fukuyama and Nobutoshi Hayashi (Basara Nekki)
*Vocals - Chie Kajiura and Tomo Sakurai (Mylene Jenius)
*Bass - Yukio Sugi
*Drums - Kazuo Sitay
*Lead Guitar - Yoshiki Fukuyama
*Guitar - Haruhiko Mera
*Guitar - Masaki Suzuki
*Keyboard - Seiji Tanaka

Discography

* "LET'S FIRE!!". The first Macross 7/Fire Bomber album released. It contains the tracks played in the first half of the TV series in more or less the order in which they appear in the episodes. [http://www.seventhmoon.org/macross/fb/CDletsfire.html]
* "SECOND FIRE!". The second Fire Bomber CD . Contains the songs played in the second half of the series, including the two "Let's Bomber!" video songs. [http://www.seventhmoon.org/macross/fb/CDsecondfire.html]
* "DYNAMITE FIRE!!" The Dynamite OVA song album. Songs are in more or less the order in which they appear in the series, though there are several that are never sung in the OVA at all. [http://www.seventhmoon.org/macross/fb/CDdynamitefire.html]
* "RADIO FIRE!!". This CD contains the complete radio program from all the radio broadcasts from Elma's radio and the Zola public radio in the Dynamite OVA. Most of the tracks on this CD are drama tracks. There are also different versions of Fire Bomber songs and songs by other artists. [http://www.seventhmoon.org/macross/fb/CDradiofire.html]
* "LIVE FIRE!!" (1995). A recording CD of Fire Bomber live in concert. The tracks are mostly sung by the seiyuu of Basara (Hayashi Nobutoushi) and Mylene (Sakurai Tomo), not their singing voices from the anime. [http://oddimals.com/ss/cd1/macross/7_live.htm] [http://www.seventhmoon.org/macross/fb/CDenglishfire.html]
* "KARA-OK FIRE!!". Karaoke album of most of the songs that appear in the TV series. Contains duet and guitar karaoke bonus tracks at the end for Planet Dance. [http://www.seventhmoon.org/macross/fb/CDkaraokefire.html]
* "ACOUSTIC FIRE!!" The songs on this acoustic album are not quite the acoustic versions found in the anime itself. There's more instrumentation, though little enough to be called "acoustic." The album also has a more "country American" feel to it, since it was recorded in the USA. [http://www.seventhmoon.org/macross/fb/CDacousticfire.html]
* "ULTRA FIRE!!" "Best of" Fire Bomber album. [http://www.seventhmoon.org/macross/fb/CDultrafire.html]
* "GALAXY NETWORK CHART 1". A "real" Macross universe album containing tracks from what is probably a single week of the Galaxy Network Chart top 10 ratings of bands from all over the galaxy. Note that Fire Bomber has five of the ten spots. [http://www.seventhmoon.org/macross/fb/CDgalaxy1.html]
* "GALAXY NETWORK CHART 2" As above. [http://www.seventhmoon.org/macross/fb/CDgalaxy2.html]
* "MYLENE JENIUS SINGS LYNN MINMAY" (1995) Two female vocalists of Macross join forces in this album. Mylene sings Minmay's most famous songs including Ai Oboeteimasu ka? (Do You Remember Love?), the version of which appears in Fleet of the Strongest Women. The singer is not Chie Kajiura, Mylene's series singing voice, but is instead her seiyuu Sakurai Tomo. [http://oddimals.com/ss/cd1/macross/7_sings.htm] [http://www.seventhmoon.org/macross/fb/CDmylene.html]
* "ENGLISH FIRE". All the songs on this album have been redone in English by the band Fire Bomber American. Instead of simply being English versions of Fire Bomber songs, the makers of Macross have created an English version of the band Fire Bomber. In the Macross universe, Fire Bomber American is a band on the English-speaking fleet Macross 11 that claims that the Macross 7 Fire Bomber is a rip-off of it. The singers are different. [http://www.seventhmoon.org/macross/fb/CDenglishfire.html]
* "BEST COLLECTION" (not an official release) [http://www.seventhmoon.org/macross/fb/CDbest.html]
* "OTHER FIRE!!" (not an official release)
* "MEMORIAL CD" (not an official release)
* "SEVENTH MOON SINGLE" [http://www.seventhmoon.org/macross/fb/CDseventhmoon.html]
* "MY FRIENDS SINGLE" [http://www.seventhmoon.org/macross/fb/CDmyfriends.html]
* "HEART AND SOUL SINGLE" [http://www.seventhmoon.org/macross/fb/CDheart.html]
* "DYNAMITE EXPLOSION SINGLE" [http://www.seventhmoon.org/macross/fb/CDdynamite.html]
* "FUKUYAMA FIRE". On May 24 2005, 10 years after Macross 7 aired in Japan, Yoshiki Fukuyama (singing voice for Basara) released a tribute album ("Fukuyama Fire - A Tribute To Nekki Basara") in which he sings the most popular Macross 7 songs with new arrangements plus a new song. Tracklist:

* 1. Holy Lonely Light
* 2. New Frontier
* 3. totsugeki Love Heart
* 4. Dynamite Explosion(live version)
* 5. Remember 16
* 6. yume no michi(live version)
* 7. Submarine Street
* 8. Planet Dance
* 9. Light the Light
* 10. na mo na ki hate no machi de
* 11. Heart & Soul
* 12. Starlight Dream(live version)
* 13. Angel Voice
* 14. Like A Fire (new song)

Fire Bomber Songs

{| class="wikitable"
-! Songs! Composer! Lyrics! Debut! Vocals! Albums
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Seventh Moon
Atsutaka Kawachi
K. Inojo
Episode 1 (Opening Theme)
Yoshiki Fukuyama|
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Planet Dance
Sudou Hideki
K. Inojo
Episode 1
Yoshiki Fukuyama and Chie Kajiura (Duet Version)|
-
My Friends
Miki Kawano
M. Meg
Episode 1 (Ending Theme)
Chie Kajiura|
-
Totsugeki Love Heart
Kawauchi Atsutaka
K. Inojo
Episode 1
Yoshiki Fukuyama|
-
My Soul For You
Yoshiki Fukuyama
K. Inojo
Episode 2 (acoustic), full version: Episode 3
Yoshiki Fukuyama|
-
Sweet Fantasy
Ootsuki
M. Meg
Episode 10
Chie Kajiura|
-
Light The Light
K. Inojo
TSUKASA
-
Yoshiki Fukuyama and Chie Kajiura (Single/Duet Version)|
-
Remember Sixteen
Kawauchi Atsutaka
K. Inojo
Episode 17
Yoshiki Fukuyama and Chie Kajiura|
-
Holy Lonely Light
Sudou Hideki
K. Inojo
Episode 21
Yoshiki Fukuyama and Chie Kajiura (Duet Version)|
-
Submarine Street
Shun'ya Fukuda
K. Inojo
Episode 29
Yoshiki Fukuyama|
-
Power to the Dream
Yoshiki Fukuyama
K. Inojo
Episode 32
Yoshiki Fukuyama|
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・・・だけど ベイビー！！(...Dakedo Baby!!)

Chie Kajiura
Episode 35 (2nd Ending Theme)
Chie Kajiura|
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Try Again
Yoshiki Fukuyama
K. Inojo
Episode 40
Yoshiki Fukuyama|
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Angel Voice
Yoko Kanno
-
Macross Dynamite 7
Yoshiki Fukuyama|
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Dynamite Explosion


Macross Dynamite 7
Yoshiki Fukuyama

-"...Dakedo Baby!!" is credited solely to Chie Kajiura instead of Fire Bomber.