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One Life, One Death

release date: September 20, 2000
company: BMG/Funhouse
formats: CD (BVCR-11026)
initial price: ¥3059
goodies: first copies sold were packaged in a slip case with an extra booklet of photos; this poster may have been included with first copies sold

Tracklisting

Baby, I Want You. (Sakurai/Imai)
Check Up (Imai/Imai)
Glamorous -Fluxus- (Sakurai/Imai)
Cyborg Dolly: Soramimi: Phantom (Imai/Imai)
Cain (Sakurai/Imai)
Death Wish (Sakurai/Hoshino)
Megami (Sakurai/Hoshino)
Sapphire (Sakurai/Imai)
Rhapsody (Imai/Imai)
Flame (Sakurai/Imai)

Credits

Atsushi Sakurai: vocals
Hisashi Imai: guitars, noises and vocals
Hidehiko Hoshino: guitars and chorus
Yutaka Higuchi: bass
Toll Yagami: drums

additional musicians:
Kazutoshi Yokoyama: manipulate, keyboards and noises
sampler treatment: Katsushige Okazaki

all songs produced and arranged by Buck-Tick
executive producer: Hiromi Yoshizawa (BMG Funhouse)
co-produced, recorded and mixed by: Hitoshi Hiruma (Sound Sky Studio)
additional engineer: Ken-ichi Arai (Sound Sky Studio)
assistant engineers: Toshiro Honkawa (Green Bird Studio), Kaori Miyazaki (Green Bird Studio)
recorded and mixed: Green Bird Studio
mastered by: Tohru Kotetsu (JVC Mastering Center)
drum technician and tuner: Shigeo Azami
guitar and bass technician: Kazutaka Minemori (Master Tone)
A&R director: Kazuhiro Mukai (BMG Funhouse)
promotion staff: Media Promotion Department (BMG Funhouse)
sales promotor: Hiroshi Sakuma (BMG Funhouse)
visual coordinator: Kazuyuki Hikita (BGM Funhouse)
artist management: Takahiro Chiba (Banker)
publishing staff: Taeko Nomura (Circles Music Publishers)
management desk: Toshiko Kashiwaya (Banker)
official fan club: Saori Yoshida (Fish Tank)
art direction: Ken Sakaguchi
graphic design: Takeshi Maeda (Sakaguchi Ken Factory)
cg operate: Luxon S.p.A
artist photography: M. Hasui
hair styling and make up: Takayuki Tanizaki (Fat's Berry)
costume styling: Tomoharu Yagi
the origin of the cover visual: All You Zombies (Truth Before God) by Robert Longo
arranged by: Uniphoto Press
special thanks to: Fernandes, Burny, Greco, Ludwig, Moridaira Musical Instruments, Akio Matsuki (Ishibashi Gakki), Naotoshi Shigematsu (Woomack Box), Aniki, Asaki, Toshihiro Nara, Masafumi Minato, Junya Satoh, Akani, Hideto Horiuchi, Yokono, Ken, P-chan, Mikino Arai, Haine Arai, Aby, Phantom, and You

additional booklet credits:
art direction by Ken Sakaguchi
graphic design by Takeshi Maeda (Sakaguchi Ken Factory)
hair styling and make up by Takayuki Tanizaki (Fat's Berry)
costume styling by: Tomoharu Yagi
photograph by: Atsushi Ueda

[this page was last updated on Saturday, 19-Jan-2008 08:43:36 PST]

Notes

Ranked #11 on the album chart. 40,000 copies sold. This the first Buck-Tick album to not rank in the top 10 as they have been consistently doing so since 1988's Seventh Heaven.

The single released from this album was "Glamorous".

This was the first release on BMG/Funhouse as Buck-Tick ended their contract with Mercury/PolyGram.

With this album, Buck-Tick returns to their old standard of 10 songs on album. (The last time an album contained 10 songs was Aku No Hana).

The phrase "One Life, One Death" comes from the lyrics for "Cyborg Dolly: Soramimi: Phantom" in which it is sung in Japanese, "Ichido umarete, ichido shinu" (roughly "born once, die once"). Incidentally, the lyrics for that song also include a reference to cloning sheep (notice Dolly is in the title, the famous cloned sheep), and when playing the song live, Hisashi has thrown in a riff of "Mary Had a Little Lamb".

The first copies of the CD sold came with a proof of purchase one would use to enter a Buck-Tick special video present campaign. If you sent in the proof of purchase from the album and the single for "Glamorous", 300 people would win a video of the making of the "Glamorous" music video. (Contest ended October 31, 2000.)

Hisashi does some of the lead vocals on "Check Up", "Cyborg Dolly: Soramimi: Phantom", and "Rhapsody".

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