Six/Nine

Six/Nine is the eighth studio album by the Japanese rock band Buck-Tick. It was released in a clear purple case on May 15, 1995, through Victor Entertainment.^[1]

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Quick Facts Studio album by Buck-Tick, Released ...

It peaked at number one on the Oricon chart.^[2] It was certified gold in the same month^[3] and sold over 240,760 copies in the first year.^[4]^[5] The album was digitally remastered and re-released on September 19, 2002, with a bonus track. The album remastered once again and released on September 5, 2007, in a clear red case.

The single "Uta" is band's 2nd best-selling single, with over 200,000 copies sold.^[6]

Issay (Der Zibet) provides vocals for "Itoshi no Rock Star".^[7]

Controversy

The hard-industrial rock song "Rakuen (Inori Koinegai)" (4:48) was released as a B-side of single "Kodou". It also has a music video, but the accompanied version was from the studio album (4:37) which oriental composition and arrangement is in instrumental-acoustic style. During the tours the band usually performed the original rock version.

Sakurai's lyrics are socially conscious and critical of the people seeing the political and war situation in the Middle East. They talk how in a country/garden of love and peace (Garden of Eden) suddenly there is bloodshed, children of God kill each other with gunfire, but on the TV it is showcased as a melodrama while "I" (Sakurai, in other sense, the listener/viewer) is indifferent, pretends to show tears and shuts their eyes (willful blindness).

The song caused controversy because some of the lyrics were lifted from the Quran and later the album was re-issued with the offending part removed by November 1995 in a clear case.^[8]

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Track listing

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

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No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"Loop"			4:38
2.	"Love Letter"	Imai		4:17
3.	"Kimi no Vanilla" (君のヴァニラ)			4:27
4.	"Kodou" (鼓動)			6:53
5.	"Kagiri Naku Nezumi" (限りなく鼠)			5:03
6.	"Rakuen (Inori Koinegai)" (楽園(祈り希い))		Hidehiko Hoshino	4:37
7.	"Hosoi Sen" (細い線)		Hoshino	4:34
8.	"Somewhere Nowhere"			1:26
9.	"Aikawarazu no "Are" no Katamari ga Nosabaru Hedo no Soko no Fukidamari" (相変わらずの「アレ」のカタマリがのさばる反吐の底の吹き溜まり)	Imai		4:45
10.	"Detarame Yarou" (デタラメ野郎)		Imai/Sakurai	4:52
11.	"Misshitsu" (密室)		Hoshino	4:54
12.	"Kick (Daichi wo Keru Otoko)" (Kick (大地を蹴る男))			4:29
13.	"Itoshi no Rock Star" (愛しのロック・スター)		Hoshino	4:51
14.	"Uta" (唄)			3:59
15.	"Mienai Mono wo Miyo to Suru Gokai Subete Gokai da" (見えない物を見ようとする誤解全て誤だ)			4:45
16.	"Loop Mark II" (Instrumental)			2:23
Total length:	71:11

2002 digital remaster bonus tracks
No.	Title	Length
17.	"Taiyo ni Korosareta" (太陽ニ殺サレタ; live at Omiya Sonic City in Ōmiya, Saitama in 1993)	7:11

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Personnel

Atsushi Sakurai - lead vocals, saxophone
Hisashi Imai - lead guitar, backing vocals, lead vocals on "Aikawarazu no "Are" no Katamari ga Nosabaru Hedo no Soko no Fukidamari"
Hidehiko Hoshino - rhythm guitar, keyboards, backing vocals
Yutaka Higuchi - bass
Toll Yagami - drums, percussion

Additional performers

Susanne Bramson - backing vocals
Aska Strings - violin
Kazutoshi Yokoyama - keyboards
Issay - vocals on "Itoshi no Rock Star"

Production

Hitoshi Hiruma; Gary Stout - producers, recording, mixing
Hisashi Imai; Buck-Tick - producers
Takafumi Muraki; Osamu Takagi - executive producers
Hirohito Fujishima; Shinichi Ishizuka - engineers
Kenichi Arai; Hiroshi Tanigawa - assistant engineers
Kazushige Yamazaki - mastering
Ken Sakaguchi - graphic design
Robert Longo - cover art
M-Hasui - photography

Controversy

Track listing

Personnel

References

External links

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