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

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

{{notelist}}

References