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Koroshi No Shirabe ~ This is NOT Greatest Hits

release date: March 21, 1992
company: Victor/Invitation
formats: cassette ?, CD (VICL-288)
initial price: ¥3000
goodies: this poster may have been the one included with first copies sold or perhaps it was this one

digital remaster info: September 19, 2002 (VICL-60987; cover image) for ¥2415 (first copies sold included sticker)

remaster reissue info: September 5, 2007 (VICL-62547 for ¥2520)

Tracklisting

Iconoclasm (Imai/Imai)
Aku No Hana (Sakurai/Imai)
Do the "I Love You" (Imai/Imai)
Victims of Love (Sakurai/Imai)
MAD (Sakurai/Imai)
Oriental Love Story (Sakurai/Imai)
Speed (Sakurai/Imai)
Love Me (Sakurai/Imai)
Jupiter (Sakurai/Hoshino)
...In Heaven... (Sakurai/Imai)
Moon Light (Sakurai/Imai)
Just One More Kiss (Sakurai/Imai)
Taboo (Sakurai/Imai ~ interlude melody taken from "Taboo" by Lecuona Margarita)
Hyper Love (Imai/Imai)

2002 digital remaster first pressing extra tracks:

MAD (from "Climax Together" live, probably the version on the CD included with limited edition Climax Together DVD box set)

Credits

Atsushi Sakurai: vocals
Hisashi Imai: guitars
Hidehiko Hoshino: guitars
Yutaka Higuchi: bass
Toll Yagami: drums

additional musicians:
Kazutoshi Yokoyama: keyboards, programming
Tadashi Nanba: chorus, arrangements & keyboards

produced by Buck-Tick
executive producer: Takafumi Muraki; Osamu Takagi (Shaking Hands Inc.)
recorded at Victor Aoyama Studio
mixed at Sound Sky Studio
recorded & mixed by: Hitoshi Hiruma
additional engineers: Takahiro Uchida, Shigetoshi Naitoh, Yasuaki "V" Shindoh
assistant engineers: Takashi Aonuma, Shinichi Ishizuka, Yoko Ohta, Fumio Hasegawa, Hisashi Ikeda
directed by: Junichi Tanaka
drum tuner: Yukihiko Sugimoto
sound operater: Hiroshi Yamane, Shigeo Azami
artist management: Shaking Hands Inc., Yoshihiko Masuoka, Hajime Shimokawa, Hitoshi Ojima
art direction & design: Ken Sakaguchi
photographer: Kazuhiro Kitaoka
stylist: Tomoharu Yagi
hair & make-up: Takayuki Tanizaki
coordinator: Masahiro Tomioka, Tsutomu Kizawa
product management: Kenji Nakao
promoter: Masatoshi Ohoka
special thanks: Greco, Pearl, Fernandes, Bow's Guitar Gallery, Leo Music, San Musical Service, Okada Interternational Inc., Hook Up, La Ranarita Azumabashi, Arrston VoLAJU, Fred Daly, Grace Glassman
very special thanks: Jupita (inu)

[this page was last updated on 2010.07.05 @ 10:21:51 PDT]

Notes

Ranked #1 on the album chart. 330,000 copies sold. (Wikipedia Japan lists the same data in the discography section but on the individual album page lists it as selling 340,000 copies.)

Though no singles were released from this album, Buck-Tick would perform "Oriental Love Story" during television appearances, as if it were a single.

On this album, the band took songs and did more than remaster them as they did previously with Hurry Up Mode--they redid them, both arrangement and recording. This time though, Buck-Tick claimed that they did the songs the way they wanted to, although they did not alter the lyrics. They worked very hard on this album. Their albums are usually recorded in about 500-600 hours but this one took around 1300 hours to record. That's quite a long time considering there's only 24 hours in a day. This determination to get it right resulted in some very interesting versions of the songs. Some songs were beefed up a little bit ("Aku No Hana"), other songs were redone entirely ("MAD").

This is the third, possibly fourth, album Buck-Tick recorded at Victor Aoyama Studio. (A previous album was recorded at a Victor studio but exactly which one was not specificed.)

This album features 14 songs, which is the most a Buck-Tick album has ever had at the time of release. Up to now, Buck-Tick had been releasing only 10 songs per album or 11 songs (Hurry Up Mode and Kurutta Taiyo).

Buck-Tick must have been heavily influenced by Enigma's 1990 album MCMXC A.D., which spawned the chanting monks craze, for the only noticeable difference in "Jupiter" is the chant intro.

The very special thanks to Jupita (inu) was Hide's pet dog Jupiter. Jupita is the Japanization of Jupiter and inu is the Japanese word for dog.

(I think that this was the last release on cassette as Japan had stopped cassette production around this time, as such, I am not attempting to find out if there was a cassette release and what the catalogue number was for the remainder of Buck-Tick's discography.)