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 170,000 copies.[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, and "Sane" was re-recorded in 2012 for their "Elise no Tame ni" single.[4]

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".
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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. "Cosmos review". Buck-Tick Zone.com. Archived from the original on June 19, 2011. Retrieved January 29, 2012.
  4. "BUCK-TICK announces new single, "Elise no Tame ni"". tokyohive.com. Retrieved March 8, 2012.


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