Pure

Released in Japan on 20 November 2002, the same year as I'm Goin' Sane, Pure is an eight-track album that its obi strip presents as a gift to Martin's Japanese fans and as newly recorded acoustic work. It revisits songs from across his career: "Sucker for a Pretty Face", the title track of the Eric Martin Band's 1983 album; "Pictures" from Eric Martin (1985); "Kisses Stain" from Somewhere in the Middle (1998); "Big Love" from Mr. Big's 1989 debut album and "Promise Her the Moon" from their 1993 album Bump Ahead; and "Bigger Man" and "There Goes the Neighborhood" from I'm Goin' Sane. The back cover marks all seven as acoustic versions. The eighth track is a new version of "Fly", the Japanese bonus track on I'm Goin' Sane that had been used in a commercial for Asahi Super Dry beer. The obi announces the new version, and Oricon's data lists the beer's 2002 commercial as the album's tie-in. The disc is an HDCD, and its CD-Extra section carries the video clip for "Fly". The Japanese liner notes were written by Yumiko Haba of BURRN!. Canyon International released Pure as PCCY-80004, priced at 2,310 yen including tax. Its obi also printed the dates of Martin's Japanese shows in January 2003: On Air Osaka on the 22nd, the Bottom Line in Nagoya on the 24th and Akasaka BLITZ in Tokyo on the 25th. Frontiers Records issued the same eight tracks and the video in Italy in 2003 (FR CD 159), and Pony Canyon reissued the Japanese edition as an HQCD (PCCY-50044) on 21 January 2009.