Aku no Hana

Aku no Hana
Studio album by Buck-Tick
Released	February 1, 1990 (1990-02-01) September 19, 2002 (2002-09-19) (digital remaster) September 5, 2007 (2007-09-05) (remaster)
Recorded	October-December 1989 at Victor Aoyama Studio in Tokyo
Genre	Gothic rock, dark wave
Length	45:08
Language	Japanese, English
Label	Victor
Producer	Tsutomu Nakayama and Buck-Tick
Buck-Tick chronology
Taboo (1989) Aku no Hana (1990) Kurutta Taiyou (1991)
Singles from Aku no Hana
"Aku no Hana" Released: January 24, 1990 (1990-01-24)

Aku no Hana (悪の華, "Evil Flowers") is the fifth studio album by the Japanese rock band Buck-Tick. It was released on cassette and CD on February 1, 1990 through Victor Entertainment. It peaked at number one on the Oricon charts and is the group's best-selling album to date, with 440,000 copies sold worldwide. The title comes from Charles Baudelaire's volume of poetry, Les Fleurs du mal ("The Flowers of Evil"). 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. "Aku no Hana" and "Love Me" were later re-recorded for the group's compilation album Koroshi no Shirabe: This Is Not Greatest Hits (1992).

Track listing

All lyrics written by Atsushi Sakurai, except where noted, all music composed by Hisashi Imai, except where noted.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"National Media Boys" (lyrics written by Imai)	4:26
2.	"Maboroshi no Miyako" (幻の都)	3:59
3.	"Love Me"	3:15
4.	"Pleasure Land" (lyrics and music written by Hidehiko Hoshino)	5:00
5.	"Misty Blue"	4:23
6.	"Dizzy Moon" (lyrics written by Toll Yagami; music written by Hoshino)	3:25
7.	"Sabbat" (music written by Hoshino)	5:08
8.	"The World Is Yours"	4:52
9.	"Aku no Hana" (悪の華)	4:17
10.	"Kiss Me Good-Bye"	6:17
Total length:		45:08

2002 digital remaster bonus tracks
No.	Title	Length
11.	"Aku no Hana" (single version)	4:10
12.	"Under the Moonlight" (lyrics written by Yutaka Higuchi)	3:41

Personnel

• Atsushi Sakurai - lead vocals
• Hisashi Imai - lead guitar, backing vocals
• Hidehiko Hoshino - rhythm guitar, backing vocals
• Yutaka Higuchi - bass
• Toll Yagami - drums

Additional performers

• Tsutomu Nakayama - keyboards

Production

• Tsutomu Nakayama; Buck-Tick - producers
• Will Gosling - engineer, mixing
• Jun Kanazawa - assistant engineer
• Ken Sakaguchi - cover art, graphic design
• Bruno Dayan - photography