Hide Your Face

Hide Your Face
Studio album by hide
Released	February 23, 1994
Genre	Alternative rock
Label	MCA Victor
Producer	hide
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Hide Your Face (1994) Psyence (1996)

Hide Your Face is the debut album by hide, released on February 23, 1994. The cover art features a mask designed by H. R. Giger. The song "Frozen Bug '93 (Diggers Version)" is a remixed version of "Frozen Bug", a song that hide wrote and performed with Luna Sea members J and Inoran, under the band name M*A*S*S, on the 1993 compilation Dance 2 Noise 004. Yoshiki composed a piece based on "Psychommunity Exit" as the intro for the 1999 hide tribute album, Tribute Spirits. American bassist T.M. Stevens, who plays on the album, recorded a cover of "Blue Sky Complex" for his 1999 album Radioactive. Hide Your Face was re-released on, the Japan only format, SHM-CD on December 3, 2008.

Track listing

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"Psychommunity"		hide	4:04
2.	"Dice"	hide	hide	3:03
3.	"Scanner"	hide	hide	3:23
4.	"Eyes Love You (T.T. Version)"	Yukinojo Mori	hide	5:57
5.	"D.O.D. (Drink Or Die)"	hide	hide	2:17
6.	"Crime of Breen St."		hide	1:17
7.	"Doubt (Remix Version)"	hide	hide	4:42
8.	"A Story"	hide	hide	3:13
9.	"Frozen Bug '93 (Diggers Version)"	hide	M*A*S*S	4:44
10.	"T.T. Groove"		hide	0:31
11.	"Blue Sky Complex"	hide	hide	5:35
12.	"Oblaat (Remix Version)"	hide	hide	4:47
13.	"Tell Me"	hide	hide	4:44
14.	"Honey Blade"	hide	hide	4:31
15.	"50% & 50% (Crystal Lake Version)"	Yukinojo Mori	hide	5:33
16.	"Psychommunity Exit"		hide	19:57

Personnel

• hide – vocals, guitar
• Kazuhiko "B-side" Inada – co-producer, synthesizer programming
• Terry Bozzio – drums on tracks 2, 4, 10, 11, 14
• Mitsuko Akai – drums on tracks 8, 13
• Junji Ikehata – drums on track 15
• T.M. Stevens – bass on tracks 2, 4, 10, 11, 14
• Michiaki Suzuki – bass on track 12
• Toshihiro Nara – bass on track 15
• Rich "Korede-iinoda" Breene – Rhodes on track 6
• Neil Larson – organ on track 11
• Jerry Hey, Gary E. Grant, William F. Reichenbach – horn on track 11
• Maxine Waters, Julia Waters, Carmen Twillie – chorus on track 11
• Byron Berline – fiddle on track 15