Kyokutou I Love You

Kyokutou I Love You
Studio album by Buck-Tick
Released	March 6, 2002
Recorded	Studio Sunshine, Aobadai Studio, Studio Sound Dali
Genre	Alternative rock industrial rock
Length	48:06
Label	BMG/Funhouse
Producer	Buck-Tick
Buck-Tick chronology
Super Value Buck-Tick (2001) Kyokutou I Love You (2002) Mona Lisa Overdrive (2003)
Singles from Kyokutou I Love You
"21st Cherry Boy" Released: November 21, 2001 "Kyokutou Yori Ai wo Komete" Released: February 20, 2002

Kyokutou I Love You (極東 I Love You, "Far East I Love You") is the 12th album by Buck-Tick, released on March 6, 2002. It reached number twelve on the Oricon chart with 28,770 copies sold. "21st Cherry Boy" contains some lyrics from T.Rex's "20th Century Boy". The album is thematically connected to the next release, Mona Lisa Overdrive: the last instrumental song in Kyokutou I Love You gives the musical foundation to the first song in Mona Lisa Overdrive, while the base of the last song of that album recurs in the first song of Kyokutou I Love You.

Track listing

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"Shippuu no Blade Runner" (疾風のブレードランナー)	Imai	Imai
2.	"21st Cherry Boy"	Sakurai & Imai	Imai
3.	"Warp Day"	Sakurai	Imai
4.	"Shanikusai -Carnival-" (謝肉祭-カーニバル-)	Sakurai	Hoshino
5.	"Trigger"	Sakurai	Imai
6.	"Long Distance Call"	Sakurai	Imai
7.	"Kyokutou Yori Ai wo Komete" (極東より愛を込めて)	Sakurai	Imai
8.	"Ghost"	Sakurai	Imai
9.	"Brilliant"	Sakurai	Hoshino
10.	"Oukoku Kingdom Come -Moon Rise-" (王国 Kingdom come-moon rise-)	Sakurai	Imai
11.	"Continue" (instrumental)		Imai
Total length:				48:06

Personnel

Buck-Tick

• Atsushi Sakurai – vocals
• Hisashi Imai – guitar
• Hidehiko Hoshino – guitar
• Yutaka Higuchi – bass
• Toll Yagami – drums

Additional performers

• Kazutoshi Yokoyama - manipulate, keyboards and noises

Production

• Hiromi Yoshizawa - executive producer