Taboo (Buck-Tick album)

Taboo
Studio album by Buck-Tick
Released	January 18, 1989 (1989-01-18) September 19, 2002 (2002-09-19) (digital remaster) September 5, 2007 (2007-09-05) (remaster)
Recorded	August-September 1988 at Master Rock Studios in London, England
Genre	Punk rock, dark wave
Length	42:41
Language	Japanese, English
Label	Victor
Producer	Owen Paul and Buck-Tick
Buck-Tick chronology
Seventh Heaven (1988) Taboo (1989) Aku no Hana (1990)
Singles from Taboo
"Just One More Kiss" Released: October 26, 1988 (1988-10-26)

Taboo is the fourth studio album by the Japanese rock band Buck-Tick. It was released on cassette, CD and as a two-record vinyl set (one is a blank picture disc) on January 18, 1989 through Victor Entertainment. Taboo 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. The interlude to the song "Taboo" is taken from Margarita Lecuona's composition of the same name. "Angelic Conversation" was re-recorded as the b-side to the group's single "M・A・D" in 1991. "Just One More Kiss", "Iconoclasm" and "Taboo" were later re-recorded for the compilation album Koroshi no Shirabe: This Is Not Greatest Hits (1992). "Iconoclasm" was covered by J for the Buck-Tick tribute album, Parade -Respective Tracks of Buck-Tick- (2005). Taboo peaked at number one on the Oricon charts and has sold 320,000 copies worldwide.

Track listing

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

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Iconoclasm" (lyrics written by Imai)	3:01
2.	"Tokyo"	4:23
3.	"Sex for You"	4:14
4.	"Embryo"	3:59
5.	"J" (lyrics written by Imai)	4:25
6.	"Feast of Demoralization" (lyrics written by Toll Yagami; music written by Hidehiko Hoshino)	4:19
7.	"Angelic Conversation" (lyrics written by Imai)	5:41
8.	"Silent Night"	3:26
9.	"Taboo"	4:05
10.	"Just One More Kiss"	5:03
Total length:		42:41

2002 digital remaster bonus tracks
No.	Title	Length
11.	"Just One More Kiss" (live from Climax Together on September 11, 1992)	5:12
12.	"To-Search" (lyrics written by Imai)	5:01

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, percussion

Additional performers

• Philip Hoeger - keyboards

Production

• Owen Paul - producer
• Buck-Tick - producers
• Will Gosling; Roland Herrington; Mark Dearnley; Junko Yamazaki; Shuuji Yamaguchi - engineers, mixing
• Kenshi Kajiwara - assistant engineer
• Ken Sakaguchi - graphic design, cover art
• Kazuhiro Kitaoka - photography