Aku no Hana explained

Aku no Hana
Type:Studio album
Artist:Buck-Tick
Cover:Buck-Tick - Aku no Hana.jpg
Released:
(digital remaster)
(remaster)
Recorded:October–December 1989 at Victor Aoyama Studio in Tokyo
Length:45:09
Language:Japanese, English
Label:Victor
Producer:Tsutomu Nakayama and Buck-Tick
Prev Title:Taboo
Prev Year:1989
Next Title:Kurutta Taiyou
Next Year:1991

is the fifth studio album by the Japanese rock band Buck-Tick. It was released on cassette and CD on February 1, 1990, through Victor Entertainment.[1] It peaked at number one on the Oricon charts and is the group's best-selling album to date.[2] It was certified gold in the month of its release,[3] and sold 435,080 copies in the first year of its release.[4] [5] The title comes from Charles Baudelaire's volume of poetry, Les Fleurs du mal.[6]

Releases

The album was digitally remastered and re-released on September 19, 2002, with two bonus tracks. It was remastered and re-released again on September 5, 2007. "Aku no Hana" and "Love Me" were later re-recorded for the group's compilation album (1992).

On February 1, 2014, Aku no Hana was re-released again as a digital remaster to celebrate 25 years since its release, giving the songs the sound they imagined and would like them to originally have but couldn't due to limits of the equipment. It was released in three editions: a regular edition remastered album, a video album of the music videos, and a remastered limited edition collector's set format called 惡の華 -Completeworks-. The last contained the album as a vinyl LP, photo cards, remasters of the music videos from the album on DVD and Blu-ray, the 2015 Re-mix album as a Platinum SHM CD, and the 惡の華/Under The Moonlight 2015 Re-mix single also as a Platinum SHM CD.[7] [8] [9]

Personnel

Additional performers

Production

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Aku no Hana. jame-world.com. 2011-04-12.
  2. Web site: BUCK-TICKのアルバム売り上げランキング. oricon.co.jp. 2011-04-27.
  3. Web site: 月次認定作品 認定年月:1990年 2月 (Dropdown menu: 1990年 2月). RIAJ. 2022-05-16. ja.
  4. Web site: 1990年 アルバム年間TOP100. https://web.archive.org/web/20160303171132/http://www.geocities.jp/object_ori/1990a.html. 2016-03-03. ja.
  5. News: 24 October 2023 . Buck-Tickの主な記録 『悪の華』など5作でオリコン週間アルバムランキング1位獲得 . Buck-Tick's main records: Achieved 1st place in the Oricon weekly album rankings with 5 albums including "Aku no Hana" . ja . . 26 October 2023.
  6. Flowers of Evil to Aku no Hana: Baudelaire's Transculturation across Space and Time. Shweta Basu. Spring Magazine on English Literature. III. I. 2017. 2022-05-16. 2022-03-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20220305101411/http://springmagazine.net/V3/n1/v3n112.pdf. dead.
  7. Web site: BUCK-TICK: "Aku no Hana" Special Items!. CDJapan. 2022-05-25.
  8. Web site: BUCK-TICK「惡の華」25周年ボックス登場. Natalie. ja. 2022-05-25.
  9. Web site: BUCK-TICK、『惡の華』四半世紀の時を経て新ミックスで登場!. November 2014 . Excite. 2022-05-25. ja.
  10. Web site: Aku no Hana . Buck-Tick Zone.com . 2012-01-28 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110619084208/http://calavera.com/btzone/releases/album_akunohana.shtml . 2011-06-19 .