Blast Off! was the second American release (the first being the self-titled 6 song EP) by the Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese punk rock

Punk rock

Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...

 band The Blue Hearts

The Blue Hearts

was a popular Japanese punk rock band that performed from the mid-1980s to the early-1990s. In 2003, they were ranked by HMV Japan as number 19 on their list of 100 most important Japanese pop acts...

. It was released in 1991 and only in America. Though each of the songs was recorded with the original Japanese lyrics, the CD jacket included English translations of each of the songs.

Tracks

The Blue Hearts' previous American release, the self-titled CD/12" vinyl EP, was a 6 song compilation with selections from their self-titled first album, The Blue Hearts

The Blue Hearts (album)

is the self-produced and self-titled first album released by the Japanese band The Blue Hearts. They had put together albums as an independent band, but this was their first official release. It has a different track listing from their self-titled EP, which was released in the U.S...

, and their second album, Young and Pretty

Young and Pretty

is the second album released by the Japanese band The Blue Hearts. It is also the band's only studio album with a cover actually showing members of the band.-Album history:...

. As with their first American release, this album was also a compilation of songs: this time from their first album and their third, Train-Train

Train-Train (album)

is the third album released by the Japanese band The Blue Hearts.-Track listing:#"Train-Train" #"Merry Go Round" #"Denkō Sekka" #"Missile" #"Boku no Migite"...

. The first four songs were from The Blue Hearts and the rest were from Train-Train, except for "Chernobyl" and "The Blue Hearts Theme", which had only been released as singles in Japan. The original Japanese title of the songs is in parentheses.