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Media

All sorts of delictables for your enjoyment, such as audio, video, merchandise, and wallpapers. Submissions from others encouraged. Share 'em if you got 'em.

Merchandise

Fan Club stuff
Tour merchandise (and other items related to their live shows)
Miscellaneous goods

Audio

I'll try to put up "rare" (versions of) songs here. For guest appearances, most are available in the Releases section. (Seemed silly to duplicate it here.)

Victims of Love (live 1992) 1:38 (mp3)
I forgot where I extracted this from and thus the exact details, sorry, but I put this clip up because during this time the band played the song with an interesting arrangement ("Sakura" traditional intro)
National Media Boys (studio rough cut) 0:27 (mp3)
taken from a television broadcast
Rakuen: uncensored & censored (mp3) (I can't tell the difference but see if you can, here's even a visual representation of uncensored and censored)

Midi Files

In alphabetical order

Aku No Hana: Kiss Me Good-Bye, Love Me, Maboroshi No Miyako, National Media Boys, Pleasure Land
Cosmos: Ash-Ra, Cosmos, Foolish, Idol, Sane, Tight Rope
Darker Than Darkness: Ao No Sekai, Deep Slow, Die, Dress, D-T-D, Kamikaze, Kirameki No Naka De..., Lion, Yuuwaku, Zero
Koroshi No Shirabe: Do the "I Love You", Hyper Love, Iconoclasm, In Heaven, In Heaven + Moon Light, Jupiter, Just One More Kiss, Love Me, Moon Light, Oriental Love Story, Taboo, Victims of Love
Kurutta Taiyo: Angel Fish, Brain, Whisper, Head, Hate is Noise, Chikashitsu No Melody, Henshin (Reborn), Machine, My Funny Valentine, Sakura, Taiyo Ni Korosareta
Seventh Heaven: Memories, Physical Neurose, Seventh Heaven
Sexy Stream Liner: Heroine, Kalavinka, Kimi Ga Shin..dara, Muchi No Namida, My Fuckin' Valentine, Schizo Gensou, Thanatos
Six/Nine: Kick (Daichi Wo Keru Otoko), Love Letter, Mienai Mono Wo Miyou To Suru Gokai Subete Gokai Da, Misshitsu, Rakuen, Uta
Singles/B-sides: My Baby Japanese, Narcissus

Video

I highly recommend searching for videos on YouTube:

Buck-Tick videos (lots of stuff)
Schaft videos (footage from their live release and the rare "Arbor Vitate" music video)
Schwein videos ("You're My Disease" music video and interview)
Lucy videos (harder to weed through but there are live clips, music video, etc.)
Atsushi Sakurai (footage from his live release and the film Longinus, as well as music videos)

Or, if you understand Japanese, search for videos on NicoVideo.jp (registration required) which has some duplicates of the clips on YouTube but unique ones as well (once the clips are playing, you can turn off the user comments from appearing on the video:

Buck-Tick videos (including rare footage of Hinan Go-Go)

Semi-Official Images

These were put out not by the fan club but still officially sanctioned such as endorsements and free papers at stores.

Buck-Tick Land newsletter (this was probably a short-lived newsletter): #9 - 1987
B-T Industries newsletter (1990/1991 to promote Kurutta Taiyo): (half the image of the front page) #1, #2, #3, #4, #5
B-T Press newsletters (1993 to promote Darker Than Darkness): 5 newsletters
CDian (JVC stereo endorsed by Buck-Tick): pamphlets, 1 page print ad, 2 page print ad (second page missing but it can be seen here along with another print ad and tv commercial still), poster1, poster2, poster3, poster4, poster5, sampler CD
CDioss (JVC stereo endorsed by Atsushi): pamphlets
SoftBank 815T cellphones (Buck-Tick theme: outside, screen, strap)

Flyers

Flyers for various releases that were distributed at record stores.

Tab/Lyric Sheets

These are tab/lyric sheets that appeared in various magazines at the time of single/album releases.

Taboo: page 1, page 2, page 3, page 4, page 5, page 6, page 7, Angelic Conversation & Tokyo, Tokyo cont. & Just One More Kiss
Aku No Hana: page 1, page 2, page 3, page 4, page 5, page 6, page 7, page 8
Kurutta Taiyo: page 1, page 2, page 3, page 4, page 5, Speed, Speed (chords), MAD, Jupiter
misc: To-Search, Aku No Hana, National Media Boys, & Just One More Kiss

Miscellaneous

Desktop Goodies: items to dress up your computer such as wallpapers and avatars
Magazine Covers: a guide to magazines Buck-Tick has appeared on the cover of
Today in Buck-Tick History widget for Mac OS X: if you like the "today in history" bit on the main page then you'll love this widget (it's my first widget so it's not perfect but it'll do)

[this page was last updated on 2010.07.19 @ 23:05:05 PDT]

Manager's Special (#5)

The current featured download is Buck-Tick Genshou at Tokyo Dome on December 29, 1989. What's special about this show is that this is the first show that Buck-Tick did after Hisashi had been arrested earlier in the year and the "Taboo Tour" was cancelled. Technically I should mention though that did play a warm-up show in their home prefecture 9 days prior but this was the first big show. Also, the band played for the first time "Aku No Hana" and "The World is Yours" (though they possibly may have played these at the warm-up show). The files cover the opening music before the band starts through to the encore, though some of the time inbetween while waiting for the encore is cut out.

Buck-Tick Genshou at Tokyo Dome on December 29, 1989: Sexual XXXXX!, Empty Girl, Hurry Up Mode, Tokyo, Sex For You, Misty Zone, Illusion, Aku No Hana, The World is Yours, Romanesque, Hyper Love, Victims of Love, To-Search, Fly High, Physical Neurose, Just One More Kiss, Iconoclasm, ...In Heaven..., Moon Light

If you missed previous specials, shoot me an email and I'll tell you the link to download them.

Kalavinka Hybrids

This is where I compare the single version vs. album version of a song by merging them to a single file. Perhaps these should be called Buck-Tick mashups?

Angelic Conversation (kalavinka hybrid) - 1989 vs. 1992 (mp3)
Kimi No Vanilla (kalavinka hybrid) - the combination leads to a nice mix of high and low tones of Atsushi's voice (mp3)
Rakuen (kalavinka hybrid) - if you like your techno beats with crunchy guitars! (mp3)
Rasenchu (kalavinka hybrid) - ambient rock (mp3)

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