Sexual XXXXX! is the second studio album by the Japanese rock band Buck-Tick. It was the group's major label debut and was released on vinyl, cassette and CD on November 21, 1987[1][2] through on Victor Entertainment.[3] The album was digitally remastered and re-released on September 19, 2002, with a different cover.[4] Sexual XXXXX! was remastered and re-released again on September 5, 2007. The songs "Do the I Love You" and "Hyper Love" were later re-recorded for the band's compilation album Koroshi no Shirabe: This Is Not Greatest Hits (1992). "My Eyes & Your Eyes" was also re-recorded for the b-side to their "Rendezvous" single in 2007. At the time of its release, the album peaked at number 33 on the Oricon charts[5] and as of 2011, has sold 40,000 copies.[6]

Sexual XXXXX!
Studio album by
ReleasedNovember 21, 1987 (1987-11-21)
September 19, 2002 (2002-09-19) (digital remaster)
September 5, 2007 (2007-09-05) (remaster)
RecordedJune–October 1987 at Avaco Creative Studio in Tokyo; Star Ship Studio in Osaka; Victor Aoyama Studio in Tokyo
Genre
Length42:56
LanguageJapanese, English
LabelVictor
ProducerBuck-Tick
Buck-Tick chronology
Hurry Up Mode
(1987)
Sexual XXXXX!
(1987)
Seventh Heaven
(1988)

Track listing edit

All tracks are written by Hisashi Imai, except where noted

No.TitleLength
1."Empty Girl"3:36
2."Future for Future"3:52
3."Dream or Truth"4:23
4."Do the I Love You"2:56
5."Illusion" (lyrics written by Atsushi Sakurai)6:19
6."Sexual XXXXX!" (lyrics written by Sakurai)3:33
7."Sissy Boy"4:26
8."Mis-Cast"3:35
9."Hyper Love"5:03
10."My Eyes & Your Eyes"4:54
Total length:42:56
2002 digital remaster bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
11."Romanesque[a]" (Demo version)4:04
12."Sexual XXXXX!" (live from Climax Together on September 11, 1992; lyrics written by Sakurai)3:49

Personnel edit

Additional performers

  • Tsutomu Nakayama - keyboards, backing vocals
  • Jun-ichi Tanaka - backing vocals

Production

  • Buck-Tick - producers
  • Kazumitsu Higuchi; Kazuo Sawaki - executive producers
  • Shuuji Yamaguchi - engineer, mixing
  • Hideaki Ikeda; Kouki Fukui - assistant engineers
  • Katsunori Miyake - graphic design, cover art
  • Masanori Kato - photography

Notes edit

  1. ^ Originally released on the compilation album BT in 1999.

References edit

  1. ^ "Sexual XXXXX! by BUCK-TICK MTV". MTV. 2012-09-05. Archived from the original on 2012-09-05. Retrieved 2022-05-09.
  2. ^ "Discography at JaME". jame-world.com. Retrieved 2011-04-12.
  3. ^ "Buck-Tick – Sexual XXXXX! (1987, CD)". Discogs.
  4. ^ "SEXUAL xxxxx ! (digital remaster)". jame-world.com. Retrieved 2011-04-12.
  5. ^ "BUCK-TICKのアルバム売上ランキング ORICON STYLE". 2014-11-15. Archived from the original on 2014-11-15. Retrieved 2022-05-20.
  6. ^ "Sexual XXXXX! review". Buck-Tick Zone.com. Archived from the original on 2007-07-17. Retrieved 2012-01-29.[unreliable source?]