Kurutta Taiyou
Kurutta Taiyou is the sixth studio album by the Japanese rock band Buck-Tick. It was released on cassette and CD on February 21, 1991, through Victor Entertainment. 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. "Speed", "M・A・D" and "Jupiter" were later re-recorded for the group's compilation album Koroshi no Shirabe: This Is Not Greatest Hits.
The album peaked at number two on the Oricon charts. It was certified platinum within a month of its release, and has sold 326,580 copies during its run in the Oricon album chart.
The album earned the band a nomination for Best Album at the 33rd Japan Record Awards. It was named number 40 on Bounces 2009 list of 54 Standard Japanese Rock Albums.
Personnel
- Atsushi Sakurai - lead vocals
- Hisashi Imai - lead guitar, backing vocals
- Hidehiko Hoshino - rhythm guitar, backing vocals
- Yutaka Higuchi - bass
- Toll Yagami - drums
- Tsutomu Nakayama - keyboards
- Takeharu Hayakawa - electric cello
- Hidekazu Tokumitsu - string arrangement
- Buck-Tick - producers
- Osamu Takagi - executive producer
- Hitoshi Hiruma - engineer, mixing
- Yasuaki Shindoh; Makoto Kondoh; Shigetoshi Naitoh; Takashi Aonuma; Fumio Hasegawa; Hirohito Fujishima - assistant engineers
- Higashi Ishida - art coordination
- Ken Sakaguchi - cover art, graphic design
- Atsushi Ueda - photography