Aku no Hana | ||||
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Studio album by Buck-Tick | ||||
Released | February 1, 1990 September 19, 2002 (digital remaster) September 5, 2007 (remaster) |
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Recorded | October–December 1989 at Victor Aoyama Studio in Tokyo | |||
Genre | Post-punk, gothic rock | |||
Length | 45:09 | |||
Language | Japanese, English | |||
Label | Victor | |||
Producer | Tsutomu Nakayama and Buck-Tick | |||
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Singles from Aku no Hana | ||||
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Aku no Hana (悪の華 "Flower of Evil") 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. It peaked at number one on the Oricon charts and is the group's best-selling album to date, having been certified double platinum by the RIAJ for over 500,000 copies sold. The title comes from Charles Baudelaire's volume of poetry, Les Fleurs du mal ("The Flowers of Evil"). 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 Koroshi no Shirabe: This Is Not Greatest Hits (1992).
On February 1, 2014, it was re-released again as "惡の華 2015 Re-mix"- in the following formats:
All lyrics written by Atsushi Sakurai, except where noted; all music composed by Hisashi Imai, except where noted.
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