Cosmos (Buck-Tick album)

Cosmos is the ninth studio album by the Japanese rock band Buck-Tick. The album was released on June 21, 1996, through Victor Entertainment.[1] It was the group's last album released through Victor and peaked at number six on the Oricon charts.[2] Cosmos has sold 130,000 copies within two weeks.[3] 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. The song "Tight Rope" was later re-recorded as the b-side to the group's "Alice in Wonder Underground" single in 2007,[4] and "Sane" was re-recorded in 2012 for their "Elise no Tame ni" single.[5] The album was heavily influenced by electronic music, as the band started gravitating towards cyberpunk music.[6][7]

Cosmos
Studio album by
Buck-Tick
Released21 June 1996 (1996-06-21)
19 September 2002 (2002-09-19) (digital remaster)
5 September 2007 (2007-09-05) (remaster)
RecordedMarch–April 1996 at Sound Sky Kawana in Tokyo; Victor Studio in Tokyo
Genre
Length49:50
LanguageJapanese, English
LabelVictor
ProducerKoniyang and Buck-Tick
Buck-Tick chronology
Six/Nine
(1995)		 Cosmos
(1996)		 Sexy Stream Liner
(1997)
Singles from Cosmos
  1. "Candy"
    Released: 22 May 1996

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Atsushi Sakurai, except where noted; all music is composed by Hisashi Imai, except where noted

No.TitleLength
1."Maria"3:52
2."Candy" (キャンディ)4:23
3."Chocolate" (チョコレート; music written by Hidehiko Hoshino)4:05
4."Sane"4:34
5."Tight Rope"5:16
6."Idol"4:58
7."Living on the Net" (lyrics written by Imai)4:07
8."Foolish"3:59
9."In" (music written by Hoshino)4:31
10."Ash-ra"5:09
11."Cosmos"5:01
Total length:49:50
2002 digital remaster bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
12."Candy" (single version)4:23
13."Chocolate" (single version; music written by Hoshino)4:05

Personnel

Additional performers

  • Kazutoshi Yokoyama - keyboards, piano, backing vocals

Production

  • Koniyang - producer, recording, mixing[A], mastering
  • Buck-Tick - producers
  • Takafumi Muraki; Naoki Toyoshima - executive producers
  • Shinichi Ishizuka - mixing[A]
  • Hitoshi Hiruma; Takahiro Uchida - engineers
  • Kenichi Araki; Akinori Kaizaki; Hiroshi Tanigawa; Masanobu Murakami; Naoki Ibaraki; Mikiro Yamada - assistant engineers
  • Ken Sakaguchi - cover art, graphic design
  • Nicci Keller; Alan Solon - photography

Notes
  1. ^ ^* The only song that Shinichi Ishizuka mixed and that Koniyang did not mix was "Chocolate".

References
  1. "Cosmos". jame-world.com. Retrieved April 13, 2011.
  2. "BUCK-TICKのアルバム売り上げランキング". oricon.co.jp. Retrieved April 27, 2011.
  3. "1996.7.8付 アルバムTOP20" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on March 11, 2016.
  4. "Alice in Wonder Underground (Limited Edition)". JAME. Retrieved June 8, 2022.
  5. "BUCK-TICK announces new single, "Elise no Tame ni"". tokyohive.com. Retrieved March 8, 2012.
  6. Words by Buck-Tick. Shinko Music Publishing Company, Ltd. 2002. ISBN 4-401-61726-6. Archived from the original on February 22, 2012. Retrieved June 8, 2022..
  7. "Buck-Tick". Allmusic. Retrieved November 8, 2017.


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