''Sexy Stream Liner'' is the tenth album by

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, their first on Mercury Music Entertainment, released on December 10, 1997. It reached number four on the

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chart with 78,820 copies sold. Starting with this album, Hisashi Imai started using the

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in their sound. Like their previous album, ''Sexy Stream Liner'' is very influenced by the

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subculture.

Track listing

Personnel

Buck-Tick

* Atsushi Sakurai -

vocal The human voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal tract, including talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, shouting, humming or yelling. The human voice frequency is specifically a part of human sound production i ...

* Hisashi Imai -

electric guitar An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar (however combinations of the two - a semi-acoustic guitar and an electric acoustic gui ...

, vocal on track 10 * Hidehiko Hoshino -

rhythm guitar In music performances, rhythm guitar is a technique and role that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with other instruments from the rhythm section (e.g., drum kit, bass guitar ...

* Yutaka Higuchi -

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

* Toll Yagami -

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

Additional musicians

* Kazutoshi Yokoyama - manipulation, keyboard

References

Buck-Tick albums Japanese-language albums 1997 albums Industrial rock albums {{1990s-rock-album-stub