Releases

Below is a brief outline of Buck-Tick's discography; click on an item for in-depth details. Song title links point to lyrics which are in romaji for a few select songs. Eventually lyrics will be available for all Buck-Tick releases. Main releases and solo/side projects are listed directly below. Guest appearances and compilation albums are listed on the right.

Please note that the album version and single version of songs are usually slightly different. Sometimes this may simply be trimming the intro/outro for the single version to make it radio friendly. Other times it may be a different effect treatment for the vocals or a particular instrument. For example, try listening to the following songs, both their album and single (b-side) versions, which have obvious differences:

  • "Speed" (5 more seconds during intro for plane sound effect)
  • "Kodo" (listen to how the song fades in and out)
  • "Rakuen" (percussion effects, how the song fades in at 0:16 and how it fades out, dance beat vs. crunchy guitar)
  • "Kimi No Vanilla" (drum stick intro, backing vocals and vocal effects)
  • "Rasenchu" (ambient rhythm section versus rock band rhythm section)

Releases are listed in the following order: Singles, Albums, Videos, Books, Solo Works, and Side Projects.

Song composition credits on singles and albums are (lyrics/music). A breakdown of songwriting credits is tallied at the end of the discography (see Songwriting Credit Count) as well as Music Videos (PVs).

Please note that chart ranking and sales info are taken from the band's official books and the Japanese wikipedia entry on Buck-Tick. As wikipedia is a public site, it is prone to error and removal of text. Unfortunately as of Spring 2009, Japanese wikipedia no longer lists sales data for B-T's discography and neither does Oricon, the Japanese chart compiler and ranker.

Singles

For the corporate types and data lovers, please view some lovely charts I created on the sales and chart rankings.

To-Search (1986; indies)
Romanesque (1988; mini LP)
1. Just One More Kiss (1988)
2. Aku No Hana (1990)
3. Speed (1991)
4. MAD (1991)
5. Jupiter (1991)
6. Dress (1993)
7. Die (1993)
8. Uta (1995)
9. Kodo (1995)
10. Mienai Mono Wo Miyou To Suru Gokai    Subete Gokai Da (1995)
11. Candy (1996)
12. Heroine (1997)
13. Sasayaki (1998)
LTD (1998; mini LP)
14. Gessekai (1998)
15. Bran-New Lover (1999)
16. Miu (1999)
17. Glamorous (2000)
18. 21st Cherry Boy (2001)
19. Kyokutou Yori Ai Wo Komete (2002)
20. Zangai (2003)
21. Gensou No Hana (2003)
22. Romance (2005)
Dress (Blood Trinity Mix) (2005)
23. Kagerou (2006)
24. Rendezvous (2007)
25. Alice in Wonder Underground (2007)

Albums


For the corporate types and data lovers, please view some lovely charts I created on the sales and chart rankings.

Hurry Up Mode (1987; indies)
1. Sexual XXXXX! (1987) ** #
2. Seventh Heaven (1988) ** #
3. Taboo (1989) ** #
4. Aku No Hana (1990) ** #
5. Hurry Up Mode (1990 mix) ** #
Symphonic Buck-Tick in Berlin (1990)
6. Kurutta Taiyo (1991) ** #
* Koroshi No Shirabe ~ This is NOT Greatest Hits (1992) ** #
7. Darker Than Darkness --Style 93-- (1993) ** #
Shapeless (1994)
8. Six/Nine (1995) ** #
Catalogue 1987-1995 (1995) #
9. Cosmos (1996) ** #
10. Sexy Stream Liner (1997)
Sweet Strange Live Disc (1998)
BT (1999) #
97BT99 (2000; not sanctioned by Buck-Tick)
11. One Life, One Death (2000)
One Life, One Death Cut Up (2001)
Super Value Buck-Tick (2001; not sanctioned by Buck-Tick)
12. Kyokutou I Love You (2002)
13. Mona Lisa Overdrive (2003)
At the Night Side (2004)
14. Juusankai Wa Gekkou (2005)
Catalogue 2005
15. Tenshi No Revolver (2007)

* Buck-Tick's official web site counts Koroshi No Shirabe as a studio release but on my site I am only counting original works. This album is a re-working of existing material and is on par with the remix album Shapeless in my humble opinion. Instead I am counting the re-release of the indie album Hurry Up Mode, as it is an original studio release that was made accessible to all.

** These albums were re-released as the digital remaster edition in 2002. A box set was also available.

# The remasters were re-issued (along with a few more albums remastered for the first time) in 2007. A box was also available for the first few who bought all of the albums.

[Please note: if you want to own all the songs without buying every single/album release, then consider first getting these items as I have labeled them above: albums #1-9, #11-15, BT, 97BT99, & singles #17-18, #21, #23. This does not include alternate versions such as remix, demo, and live but you will own all the songs. Please see individual item pages for more specific details.]

Videos

1. Buck-Tick Live at the Live Inn (1987)
2. More Sexual!!!!! (1988)
3A. Sabbat I (1989)
3B. Sabbat II (1989)
4. Aku No Hana (1990)
5. MAD (1991)
6. (2/5) Buck-Tick (1991)
7. Climax Together (1992)
8. (5) Catalogue 1987-1995
9. Sweet Strange Live Film (1998)
10. Dream Box (1999)
11. One Life, One Death Cut Up (2001)
12. (2/4/5/6/8/10) Picture Product (2002)
13. Tour 2002 Warp Days 20020616 Bay NK Hall (2002)
14. (3A&B) Sabbat (2003)
15. Picture Product II (2003)
16. Mona Lisa Overdrive -Xanadu- (2003)
17. At the Night Side (2004)
18. Akuma To Freud -Devil and Freud- Climax Together (2004)
19. 13th Floor With Diana (2005)
20. (5/8/15) Singles on Digital Video Disc (2006)
21. Buck-Tick Fest 2007 On Parade (2008)
22. Tenshi No Revolver (2008)

*Japanese videos are NTSC format and most DVDs are Region 2.

[Please note: if you want to own all the videos without buying every video release, then consider first getting the items that are compilations of previously released material. The material that they duplicate are noted in ( ). While they might not contain every bit of the previously released material, they do contain most of it. Please see individual item pages for more specific details.]

Books

1. Buck-Tick (1987)
2. Hearts (1988)
3. Hyper (1989)
4. Love Me (1989)
5. Tenshi No Zawameki ~ My Buck-Tick Story (1990)
6. Hyp No.3 (1990)
7. BT8992 Buck-Tick's Metamorphosis 1989-1992 (1992)
8. Shapeless (1994)
9. Words by Buck-Tick 1987-2002 (2002)
10. Ikonokrusm (2002)
11. Buck-Tick Tour Guide Book 13th Floor with Moonshine (2005)
12. Oral History (2006)

Solo Works

Atsushi Sakurai
Hidehiko Hoshino

Side Projects

Dropz
Lucy
Schaft
Schwein
Wild Wise Apes
Yagami Toll & The Blue Sky

Music Videos (PVs)

Not the videos available for purchase as listed above, but their music videos AKA promotional videos. These are detailed on the page for music videos along with screen caps.

Songwriting Credit Count

  • all 199 songs from officially released studio albums and singles (from "Hurry Up Mode" 1987 up to "Tenshi No Revolver" 2007) (11 of which are instrumentals) [you can also download this spreadsheet file of all their song titles with credits and sort them whichever way you wish; spreadsheet now includes side projects, solo, and guest appearances]
  • tracks available exclusively on video only are not included (i.e.; "Theme of B-T", "Thing III")
  • duplicates not counted (such as remixes, re-recordings, live versions)
  • joint credits are counted as .5

All Songs - Lyrics (188 possible)

Atsushi: 131 (70%)
Hisashi: 52.5 (28%)
Hide: 1.5 (less than 1%)
U-ta: 1 (less than 1%)
Toll: 2 (1%)

All Songs - Music (199 possible)

Atsushi: 1.5 (less than 1%)
Hisashi: 158.5 (80%)
Hide: 39 (20%)
U-ta: 0
Toll: 0

Singles - Lyrics (25 possible)

Atsushi: 24 (96%)
Hisashi: 1 (4%)
Hide: 0
U-ta: 0
Toll: 0

Singles - Music (25 possible)

Atsushi: 0
Hisashi: 21 (84%)
Hide: 4 (16%)
U-ta: 0
Toll: 0

[this page was last updated on Sunday, 10-May-2009 12:05:32 PDT]