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Buck-Tick Songs
Buck-Tick (stylized as BUCK-TICK) is a Japanese rock band formed in Fujioka, Gunma in 1983. The classic lineup of lead vocalist Atsushi Sakurai, lead guitarist Hisashi Imai, rhythm guitarist Hidehiko Hoshino, bassist Yutaka Higuchi and drummer Toll Yagami lasted from 1985 until 2023. Following Sakurai's death that year, Imai and Hoshino began sharing lead vocal duties. The band has experimented with many different genres of music throughout their four decade career, including punk rock, gothic rock and industrial rock. Buck-Tick are commonly credited as one of the main founders of the visual kei movement. The band has released twenty-four studio albums and forty-four singles as of 2024, nearly all reaching the top ten and twenty positions on the Japanese Oricon charts. Buck-Tick released both their debut independent and major studio albums in 1987, and achieved breakthrough success the following year with the album '' Seventh Heaven'' (#3) and the single " Just One More Kiss". I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fujioka, Gunma
240px, Takayama-sha Sericulture school is a city located in Gunma Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 64,539 in 27,616 households, and a population density of . The total area of the city is . Geography Fujioka is located on the southern border of Gunma Prefecture, bordered by Saitama Prefecture to the south. Physical features Mountains * Amefuriyama (雨降山) * Higashi-Mikaboyama (東御荷鉾山) 1286m * Koshinyama (庚申山) * Nishi-Mikaboyama (西御荷鉾山), 1246m * Sakurayama (桜山), 591m * Takayama (高山) Rivers * Ayugawa (鮎川) * Kaburagawa (鏑川) * Kannagawa (神流川) * Karasugawa * Nukuigawa (温井川) * Sannagawa (三名川) * Sasagawa (笹川) Lakes and marshes * Kannako (神流湖) * Sannako (三名湖) * Ayugawako (鮎川湖) * Takenuma (竹沼) Surrounding municipalities Gunma Prefecture * Kanna * Kanra * Shimonita * Takasaki * Tamamura Saitama Prefecture * Chichibu * Kamikawa * Kamisato Climate Fujioka has a Hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yutaka Higuchi (musician)
, nicknamed "U-ta", is a Japanese musician. Known as the bassist of the rock band Buck-Tick since 1983. He is the younger brother of Toll Yagami, Buck-Tick's drummer. History In 1985, when Higuchi and Hidehiko Hoshino graduated high school they moved to Tokyo together, where Higuchi started business school.''LOVE ME'', Yasue Matsuura, Takao Nakagawa; Shinko Music Publishing Company, Ltd. 1989. . Throughout Buck-Tick's long career, his only writing credit has been lyrics for "Under the Moon Light" (b-side of the "Aku no Hana" single). Higuchi has also performed on Fake?'s ''Marilyn is a Bubble'', Shammon's ''Lorelei'', and on ''Tribute to The Star Club featuring Hikage''. Wild Wise Apes Wild Wise Apes is a side project that he began in 2004. It consists of himself as bassist and Atsushi Okuno as vocalist. They released their first album, ''3rd World'', on July 14, 2004. References External links * Buck-Tick members Visual kei musicians Japanese rock bass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurutta Taiyou
is the sixth studio album by the Japanese rock band Buck-Tick. It was released on cassette and CD on February 21, 1991, through Victor Entertainment. The album was digitally remastered and re-released on September 19, 2002, with two bonus tracks. It was remastered and re-released again on September 5, 2007. "Speed", "M・A・D" and "Jupiter" were later re-recorded for the group's compilation album '' Koroshi no Shirabe: This Is Not Greatest Hits'' (1992). The album peaked at number two on the Oricon charts. It was certified platinum (400,000 copies sold) within a month of its release, and has sold 326,580 copies during its run in the Oricon album chart. The album earned the band a nomination for Best Album at the 33rd Japan Record Awards. It was named number 40 on '' Bounce''s 2009 list of 54 Standard Japanese Rock Albums. Track listing Personnel * Atsushi Sakurai - lead vocals * Hisashi Imai - lead guitar, backing vocals * Hidehiko Hoshino - rhythm guitar, backing voca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aku No Hana (song)
Aku no Hana (悪の華) (Literal translation: "Evil's flowers") is the third single released by the Japanese rock band Buck-Tick, released on January 24, 1990, and labeled with Victor Entertainment. The song ranked first in the Oricon Chart selling 104,470 copies during the first week of February 1990. It is band's best-selling single, with over 221,000 copies sold. Track listing Musicians * Atsushi Sakurai – Voice * Hisashi Imai – Guitar * Hidehiko Hoshino – Guitar * Yutaka Higuchi – Bass * Toll Yagami , known exclusively by his stage name , is a Japanese musician, best known as the drummer of the rock band Buck-Tick since 1985. He is the older brother of Yutaka Higuchi, Buck-Tick's bassist. Life and career Toll Yagami dropped out of high ... – Drums References External links * 1990 singles Buck-Tick songs Songs with music by Hisashi Imai 1990 songs Victor Entertainment singles Songs with lyrics by Atsushi Sakurai Oricon Weekly number-one ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aku No Hana
is the fifth studio album by the Japanese rock band Buck-Tick. It was released on cassette and CD on February 1, 1990, through Victor Entertainment. It peaked at number one on the Oricon charts and is the group's best-selling album to date. It was certified gold in the month of its release, and sold 435,080 copies in the first year of its release. The title comes from Charles Baudelaire's volume of poetry, ''Les Fleurs du mal''. Releases The album was digitally remastered and re-released on September 19, 2002, with two bonus tracks. It was remastered and re-released again on September 5, 2007. "Aku no Hana" and "Love Me" were later re-recorded for the group's compilation album '' Koroshi no Shirabe: This Is Not Greatest Hits'' (1992). On February 1, 2014, ''Aku no Hana'' was re-released again as a digital remaster to celebrate 25 years since its release, giving the songs the sound they imagined and would like them to originally have but couldn't due to limits of the equipmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taboo (Buck-Tick Album)
''Taboo'' is the fourth studio album by the Japanese Rock music, rock band Buck-Tick. It was released on Compact Cassette, cassette, Compact Disc, CD and as a two-record vinyl set (one is a blank picture disc) on January 18, 1989, through Victor Entertainment. ''Taboo'' was digitally remastered and re-released on September 19, 2002, with two bonus tracks. It was remastered and re-released again on September 5, 2007. "Angelic Conversation" was re-recorded as the b-side to the group's single "M・A・D" in 1991. "Just One More Kiss", "Iconoclasm" and "Taboo" were later re-recorded for the compilation album ''Koroshi no Shirabe: This Is Not Greatest Hits'' (1992). "Iconoclasm" was covered by J (musician), J for the Buck-Tick tribute album, ''Parade -Respective Tracks of Buck-Tick-'' (2005). ''Taboo'' peaked at number one on the Oricon charts, selling 298,620 copies in the first year, and at least 300,000 in total. Production The band recorded the album in London in the fall of 1988 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Just One More Kiss (Buck-Tick Song)
"Just One More Kiss" is the second single by the Japanese rock band Buck-Tick. It was released on October 26, 1988 by Victor Entertainment as the band's major label debut. Description It was the second single released by Buck-Tick in two years. It reached number 6 on the Oricon Chart and charted for 20 weeks. It is band's 5th best-selling single, with over 147,000 copies sold. The song earned the band a nomination for Best New Artist at the 30th Japan Record Awards.''LOVE ME'', Yasue Matsuura, Takao Nakagawa; Shinko Music Publishing Company, Ltd. 1989. . Track listing Musicians *Atsushi Sakurai - Voice *Hisashi Imai - Electric guitar * Hidehiko Hoshino - Electric and acoustic guitar * Yutaka Higuchi - bass *Toll Yagami - Drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c .. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seventh Heaven (Buck-Tick Album)
''Seventh Heaven'' is the third studio album by the Japanese rock band Buck-Tick. It was released on vinyl, cassette and CD on June 21, 1988, through Victor Entertainment, and has been certified gold by the RIAJ for sales over 100,000 copies. The album was digitally remastered and re-released on September 19, 2002, with two bonus tracks. It was remastered and re-released again on September 5, 2007. The lyrics for "Physical Neurose" mention Gregor Samsa, the main character of Franz Kafka's ''The Metamorphosis''. "...In Heaven...", "Oriental Love Story" and "Victims of Love" were later re-recorded for the group's compilation album '' Koroshi no Shirabe: This Is Not Greatest Hits'' (1992). ''Seventh Heaven'' peaked at number three on the Oricon charts, and 1st on the LP chart; it has sold 110,000 copies. Track listing Personnel * Atsushi Sakurai - lead vocals * Hisashi Imai - lead guitar, backing vocals * Hidehiko Hoshino - rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar, backing vocals * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oricon
, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics Statistics (from German language, German: ', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. In applying statistics to a s ... and information on music and the music industry in Japan and Western music. It started as , which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc. was originally set up as a subsidiary of Original Confidence and took over the latter's Oricon record charts in April 2002. The charts are compiled from data drawn from some 39,700 retail outlets () and provide sales rankings of music CDs, DVDs, electronic games, and other entertainment products based on weekly tabulations. Results are announced every Tuesday and published in ''Oricon Style'' by subsidiary Oricon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Visual Kei
, abbreviated , is a category of Japanese musicians that have a strong focus on extravagant stage costumes that originated in Japan during the early 1980s. Koji Dejima of '' Bounce'' wrote that visual kei is not a specific sound, but rather it "revolves around the creation of a band's unique worldview and/or stylistic beauty through visual expressions in the form of makeup and fashion". While visual kei acts can be of any music genre, it originated with bands influenced by glam rock, heavy metal, punk rock and gothic rock. Visual kei was pioneered by groups such as X Japan, Dead End, Buck-Tick, D'erlanger, and Color, and gained further notoriety in the 1990s through the success of groups like Luna Sea, Glay, L'Arc-en-Ciel, and Malice Mizer. The movement's success continued through the 2000s with Gackt and more musically broad bands such as Dir En Grey, the Gazette, Alice Nine, Girugamesh, and Versailles, a period which some critics term . Many acts tone-down their appea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gothic Rock
Gothic rock (also called goth rock or simply goth) is a style of rock music that emerged from post-punk in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s. The first post-punk bands which shifted toward dark music with gothic overtones include Siouxsie and the Banshees, Joy Division, Bauhaus (band), Bauhaus, and the Cure. The genre itself was defined as a separate movement from post-punk. Gothic rock stood out due to its darker sound, with the use of primarily minor or bass chords, reverb, dark arrangements, or dramatic and melancholic melodies, having inspirations in gothic literature allied with themes such as sadness, nihilism, dark romanticism, tragedy, melancholy and morbidity. These themes are often approached poetically. The sensibilities of the genre led the lyrics to represent the evil of the century and the romantic idealization of death and the supernatural imagination. Gothic rock then gave rise to a broader goth subculture that included clubs, Gothic fashion, fashion and publi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metropolis (free Magazine)
''Metropolis'' is a 32-to-48-page free monthly city guide, news and classified ads glossy magazine published by Japan Partnership Inc. targeting the English-speaking community in Tokyo, Japan. As of April 2011, its circulation was claimed to be 30,000.Simone, Gianni,English mags approach milestone, crossroads, ''The Japan Times'', 26 April 2011, p. 12. History The magazine was first published in 1994 as the ''Tokyo Classified''. Early editions, in the broadsheet style, consisted of classified advertisements sourced from shop notice boards. Initially distributed with the '' Daily Yomiuri'', the free magazine is now distributed across Tokyo and beyond to companies, embassies, hotels, bars and restaurants. The magazine was originally owned and operated by Mark and Mary Devlin, renamed ''Metropolis'' in 2001, and sold to Japan Inc. Holdings in 2007. Since 1999 the magazine hosted an annual Halloween party "Glitterball" at Roppongi's Velfarre club at other notable clubs around Tokyo. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
