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.
It peaked at number one on the Oricon chart. It was certified gold in the same month and sold over 240,760 copies in the first year. The album was digitally remastered and re-released on September 19, 2002 with a bonus track. The album was remastered once again and released on September 5, 2007.
The single "Uta" is band's 2nd best-selling single, with over 200,000 copies sold.
Issay (Der Zibet) provides vocals for "Itoshi no Rock Star".
Controversy The hard-industrial rock song "Rakuen" (4:48) was released as a B-side to the single "Kodou". An alternative version is featured in the album, entitled "Rakuen (Inori Negai)" (4:37), featuring an oriental arrangement in an 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 with the Japanese Islamic community because the album version featured a sample of a passage from the Quran. The album was re-issued with the offending part removed by November 1995 in a clear red case.
Track listing
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
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