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Releases: Singles

To-Search

release date: October 21, 1986
company: Taiyo Records
formats: 7" vinyl (LEO-007)
initial price: ?
goodies: ?

Tracklisting

To-Search (Imai/Imai)
Plastic Syndrome Type II (Imai/Imai)

Credits

Atsushi Sakurai: vocal
Hisashi Imai: guitar
Hidehiko Hoshino: guitar
Yutaka Higuchi: bass
Toll Yagami: drums

photo by: Mamoru Tsukada?
covering by: Tomoyo Tanaka?

[this page was last updated on Saturday, 03-Jul-2010 17:12:57 PDT]

Notes

Ranked #6 on the Indies singles chart.

Buck-Tick only released 2 items during their indie days, this single and the album Hurry Up Mode. The A-side of this single is not from the album but the B-side is.

This release is extremely rare and collectable because it is Buck-Tick's first release.

There is a misprint of Hisashi's name in romaji. The kanji is correct but the romaji says that his name is Kotobuki! This is due to the unusual reading of Hisashi's kanji as "Hisashi" (it is not normally read that way) and the person who did the artwork apparently did not know the correct way to read his kanji.

The credit's for Toll's name is Tohru because that is the literal romanization of Japanese characters.

In 2002, Victor issued digital remasters of all the Buck-Tick albums. Victor also created a remaster CD of the To-Search single (with b-side "Plastic Syndrome Type II") which was used for promotional purposes. (CDS-1390)

Please note that I have credited the songs as printed in this release but I disagree with some of the songwriting credits as there has been confusion caused over the years with an inconsistency in the credits. In the liner notes for the original 1987 release, it credits Imai/Sakurai for "Prologue" and Imai/Imai for "Plastic Syndrome Type II". In the 1990 mix, it credits Imai/Sakurai for writing both "Prologue" and "Plastic Syndrome Type II". In the official tab book for the 1990 mix, it credits Imai for writing the music for "Prologue" and Sakurai for writing the music for "Plastic Syndrome Type II". In the discography section of Buck-Tick's official website, it lists both songs as being composed by Sakurai/Imai, causing confusion as to who are the actual songwriters for each. In the book Buck-Tick, Hisashi says that Atsushi wrote the music for "Plastic Syndrome Type II" and then Hisashi later wrote the lyrics. Hence, I have believe those to be the true songwriting credits until I am informed otherwise from the horse's mouth.