These are confusing to the point of me not even trying to list them comprehensively. The simple reason for this is because I have all the E.M.U releases...but for the most part they're on the Memorial Disk set (pictured above) and that is the format in which I have them. Most all of the album release songs plus a few that weren't appear on this. So if you want a good E.M.U thing to chase down - that would be it. In terms of individual albums, if my memory serves me correctly, the first release was "Girl" (which is basically the tracklist of the First Live minus the American Medley), and there were live CDs released for both the First Live and the Equal Live (I've seen this one more often on the second hand market, but I have live tracks for all of the concert stuff on the Memorial Disks). The later albums I'm not sure about...I know there was one which has a lot of scary remixes on (really, really scary remixes), one called "Smile a Go Go" and one called "Best" but which tracks were on what I don't know.

Dear Friend, Bokutachi no Sedai Kara, Tsuitenai, Party all featured only in live concert form until the Memorial Box Set when they were studio recorded and added to the final result.

The Memorial Box Set also features a greeting message from the boys thanking the fans for their support etc (I'm still slightly creeped out by Hayashi Nobutoshi introducing himself as the "former" Hayashi Nobutoshi, now Kanna Nobutoshi").

Please remember however that Sotsugyou M music counts as separate from E.M.U music. One Sotsugyou-connected song appears on the Memorial Box because it was released as the group's final single - Oretachi no Sotsugyou. These are credited to the M Characters even on my DVD box set. And as for the rest of the Sotsugyou music...Sotsugyou M is not automatically E.M.U music (even though it's the same guys...sigh).

 So...yep...the bulk of those songs are not on the Memorial Box set. See the Sotsugyou music page for more on this!

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E.M.U: Song Book
I love this book, because I'm a music buff. Even though the score is only a single line and it's mostly all in bass clef, which I don't play in, it's still really neat to me that something like this exists. This is basically as it says, a Song Collection book involving basic music score for the E.M.U releases. It's not a complete collection, but it does include the live exclusive tracks like Tsuitenai, pictured. And it's just a really neat piece of E.M.U memorabilia. Or maybe I'm a music geek. Either way, I wish I had something like this for Fushigi Yuugi :P

I think the only tracks that aren't included (aside from the Sotsugyou M releases) are some of the really late ones like Oretachi no Sotsugyou.

The full lyrics to each of the songs featured are also printed in the back of the book.

E.M.U :Memorial Collection
This is maybe the number one non-music thing a fan of E.M.U should have on their "must have" list (if not on their shelves, LOL). Although this was produced in 1997 (quite a long time before the whole thing properly ended), it's a collection of interviews, pictures, etc relating to the boys (including some lovely pictures of them as small kiddies, which is too cute, LOL).

My own theory about this book is that E.M.U and Sotsugyou M may have ended in 1997 - or at least, that after the Equal tour, the idea may have been discussed. Certainly there weren't any actual live tours for the band after 1997. This contains artwork of the Sotsugyou and E.M.U boys by the original manga-ka for the Sotsugyou M manga, Sugisaki Yukiru. However, the "plus" manga and drama CDs came out beyond 1997, with a different manga-ka and the Sotsugyou M world certainly continued long towards the end of the century. So this is a goodbye volume long before the actual goodbye - and even before some of the albums were released!

Arisugawa Kei's reasons for prolonging his project are unknown - whether it was fan related, seiyuu related, or his own decision to carry on and even develop the spin-off GIZOKU theme. Either way, however, this is a really nice volume for fans regardless.
Some random pictures of the inside below. When I have some time, I intend to scan and/or translate some bits from this book, but right now if I'm doing any translation it's M manga or Weiss lyrics, so it's at the bottom of my to do list for the present. (I need more time and another set of brains...)

Pictures of E.M.U preceding a group interview	As it says, Hayashi's History (ain't he cute...)
Interview with Midorikawa Hikaru	Special Talk with Ishikawa Hideo