Sexual XXXXX!
{{Infobox album
| name = Sexual XXXXX!
| type = Studio album
| artist = Buck-Tick
| cover = Buck-Tick - Sexual XXXXX!.jpg
| alt =
| released = {{Start date|1987|11|21}}
{{Start date|2002|9|19}} (digital remaster)
{{Start date|2007|9|5}} (remaster)
| recorded = June–October 1987 at Avaco Creative Studio in Tokyo; Star Ship Studio in Osaka; Victor Aoyama Studio in Tokyo
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = {{hlist|Punk rock|power pop}}
| length = 42:56
| language = Japanese, English
| label = Victor
| producer = Buck-Tick
| prev_title = Hurry Up Mode
| prev_year = 1987
| next_title = Seventh Heaven
| next_year = 1988
}}
Sexual XXXXX! is the second studio album by the Japanese rock band Buck-Tick. It was the group's major label debut and was released on vinyl, cassette and CD on November 21, 1987{{cite web
|title = Sexual XXXXX! by BUCK-TICK MTV
|website = MTV
|url = http://www.mtv.com/artists/buck-tick/albums/1415948/
|date = 2012-09-05
|archive-url = https://archive.today/20120905055607/http://www.mtv.com/artists/buck-tick/albums/1415948/
|archive-date = 2012-09-05
|access-date = 2022-05-09
|url-status = dead
{{cite web
| title = Discography at JaME
| work = jame-world.com
| url = http://www.jame-world.com/us/artists-discography-310-buck-tick.html
| accessdate = 2011-04-12}}
through on Victor Entertainment.{{Cite web|url=http://www.discogs.com/Buck-Tick-Sexual-XXXXX/release/469828|title=Buck-Tick – Sexual XXXXX! (1987, CD)|website=Discogs}} The album was digitally remastered and re-released on September 19, 2002, with a different cover.
{{cite web
| title = SEXUAL xxxxx ! (digital remaster)
| work = jame-world.com
| url = http://www.jame-world.com/us/items-27926-sexual-xxxxx-digital-remaster-.html
| accessdate = 2011-04-12}}
Sexual XXXXX! was remastered and re-released again on September 5, 2007. The songs "Do the I Love You" and "Hyper Love" were later re-recorded for the band's compilation album Koroshi no Shirabe: This Is Not Greatest Hits (1992). "My Eyes & Your Eyes" was also re-recorded for the b-side to their "Rendezvous" single in 2007. At the time of its release, the album peaked at number 33 on the Oricon charts{{cite web
|title = BUCK-TICKのアルバム売上ランキング ORICON STYLE
|url = http://www.oricon.co.jp/prof/3189/rank/album/
|date = 2014-11-15
|archiveurl = https://archive.today/20141115000827/http://www.oricon.co.jp/prof/3189/rank/album/
|archivedate = 2014-11-15
|access-date = 2022-05-20
|url-status = live
}} and as of 2011, has sold 40,000 copies.{{cite web|title=Sexual XXXXX! review| publisher=Buck-Tick Zone.com|url= http://www.calavera.com/btzone/releases/album_sexualxxxxx.shtml|accessdate= 2012-01-29|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070717233548/http://www.calavera.com/btzone/releases/album_sexualxxxxx.shtml|archivedate=2007-07-17}}{{unreliable source?|date=May 2022}}
Track listing
{{track listing
| all_writing = Hisashi Imai, except where noted
| total_length = 42:56
| title1 = Empty Girl
| length1 = 3:36
| title2 = Future for Future
| length2 = 3:52
| title3 = Dream or Truth
| length3 = 4:23
| title4 = Do the I Love You
| length4 = 2:56
| title5 = Illusion
| note5 = lyrics written by Atsushi Sakurai
| length5 = 6:19
| title6 = Sexual XXXXX!
| note6 = lyrics written by Sakurai
| length6 = 3:33
| title7 = Sissy Boy
| length7 = 4:26
| title8 = Mis-Cast
| length8 = 3:35
| title9 = Hyper Love
| length9 = 5:03
| title10 = My Eyes & Your Eyes
| length10 = 4:54
}}
{{track listing
| headline = 2002 digital remaster bonus tracks
| title11 = Romanesque{{efn|Originally released on the compilation album BT in 1999.}}
| note11 = Demo version
| length11 = 4:04
| title12 = Sexual XXXXX!
| note12 = live from Climax Together on September 11, 1992; lyrics written by Sakurai
| length12 = 3:49
}}
Personnel
- Atsushi Sakurai - lead vocals
- Hisashi Imai - lead guitar, backing vocals
- Hidehiko Hoshino - rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar, backing vocals
- Yutaka Higuchi - bass
- Toll Yagami - drums
Additional performers
- Tsutomu Nakayama - keyboards, backing vocals
- Jun-ichi Tanaka - backing vocals
Production
- Buck-Tick - producers
- Kazumitsu Higuchi; Kazuo Sawaki - executive producers
- Shuuji Yamaguchi - engineer, mixing
- Hideaki Ikeda; Kouki Fukui - assistant engineers
- Katsunori Miyake - graphic design, cover art
- Masanori Kato - photography
Notes
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References
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{{Buck-Tick}}
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Category:Victor Entertainment albums
Category:1980s Japanese-language albums
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