Buck-Tick Zone

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Ranked #1 on the album chart. 240,000 copies sold. This is the last album to chart at #1.

A record 3 singles were released from this album. This is the most amount of singles Buck-Tick has ever released from a single album. The first and only other album to release 3 singles was Kurutta Taiyo.

This is the second album Buck-Tick recorded at Sound Sky Studio. If Sound Atelier is the same as Sound Atelie, then it is also the second time Buck-Tick has recorded an album there as well. (Seventh Heaven was recorded at Sound Atelie and the slight spelling difference could be a typo.)

The band recorded and mixed this album utilizing more studios than Buck-Tick has ever done before and probably ever will.

This is the first album that Atsushi is credited with playing a musical instrument. However, he had played saxophone during the tour for Darker Than Darkness.

Susanne Bramson is credited as one of the guest musicians (backing vocals and arrangement). She is also one of the guest musicians for Hisashi's side project Schaft, which released an album one year prior.

The 2007 reissue was packaged in a clear red case like the original 1995 issue.

The lyrics for "Love Letter" are completely in English. This is only the second Buck-Tick song to do so. The first was "Iconoclasm" from Taboo.

"Rakuen" caused some controversy with the Japanese Muslim community as part of the melody was lifted from the reading of the Koran. The offense was supposedly removed and the album re-released in September in regular clear cases (not colored).

"Aikawarazu No "Are" No Katamari Ga Nosabaru Hedo No Soko No Fuki Damari" wins for longest Buck-Tick song title. It is also the song which contains lyrics connected to the album title, ("six side is heaven, nine side is go").

Atsushi co-wrote the music for "Detarame Yarou". Buck-Tick have only released one other song in which Atsushi wrote the music, "Plastic Syndrome Type II" (1987). (It is in debate on this as to whether Atsushi also wrote the music or not for "Prologue". Regardless, "Prologue" is not a full song, just an intro.)

Issay is the guest vocalist on "Itoshi No Rock Star". His and Atsushi's voices are so similar, many fans cannot tell them apart on this song. The reason for this could be that their voices were blended, as I think I read in an interview once.

"Uta" was originally titled "Sakebi", which means "To Shout". However, the band was told by higher powers to change the title so they renamed it "Uta", which simply means "Song".

Mark II is a car model by Toyota. It was the model that the police drove in Japan in the 1980s and possibly into the 1990s. I am not sure if "Loop Mark II" is in reference to the car but it should be worth noting to non-Japanese as all Japanese know this (if you're old enough, that is!). FYI: the Mark design continues and as of 2007, I think the most current one is Mark 8.

This is Buck-Tick's first themed album, in my opinion. Though what exactly the theme is is hard to say. There is something going on with the following words: six (side)/nine (side), world's end, etc. The album feels grand though perhaps not epic. The album starts and ends with related intro/outro songs. There are 16 songs in total, the most the band had ever released on an album up to this point, and the band recorded a video for each, though they previously did this with Aku No Hana as well. The shift in sound that first occurred with Darker Than Darkness seems much more coherent in this body of work.

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