Buck-Tick Zone

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Ranked #6 on the Indies singles chart.

Buck-Tick only released 2 items during their indie days, this single and the album Hurry Up Mode. The A-side of this single is not from the album but the B-side is.

This release is extremely rare and collectable because it is Buck-Tick's first release. Listen to Side A and Side B.

Depending on the source, there were as few as 1000 copies made or as many as 3000 copies made.

The B-side is printed both on the lyric sheet and on the label as "Plastic Symdrome Type-2". "Symdrome" is obviously a typo. How they chose to label "type 2" is up to the band's discretion. The title in the 1987 album is printed "Plastic Syndrome (typeII)" but in the 1990 album as "Plastic Syndrome Type II", which is why I have it listed that way as the 1990 version was their chance to make any corrective changes that may have been needed.

There is a misprint of Hisashi's name in romaji. The kanji is correct but the romaji says that his name is Kotobuki! This is due to the unusual reading of Hisashi's kanji as "Hisashi" (it is not normally read that way) and the person who did the artwork apparently did not know the correct way to read his kanji.

The credit for Toll's name is Tohru because that is the literal romanization of Japanese characters. However, his last name was misspelled as Yamagami instead of Yagami.

In 2002, Victor issued digital remasters of all the Buck-Tick albums. Victor also created a remaster CD of the To-Search single (with b-side "Plastic Syndrome Type II") which was used for promotional purposes. (CDS-1390)

Please note that I have credited the songs as printed in this release but I disagree with some of the songwriting credits as there has been confusion caused over the years with an inconsistency in the credits. In the liner notes for the original 1987 release, it credits Imai/Sakurai for "Prologue" and Imai/Imai for "Plastic Syndrome Type II". In the 1990 mix, it credits Imai/Sakurai for writing both "Prologue" and "Plastic Syndrome Type II". In the official tab book for the 1990 mix, it credits Imai for writing the music for "Prologue" and Sakurai for writing the music for "Plastic Syndrome Type II". In the discography section of Buck-Tick's official website, it lists both songs as being composed by Sakurai/Imai, causing confusion as to who are the actual songwriters for each. In the book Buck-Tick, Hisashi says that Atsushi wrote the music for "Plastic Syndrome Type II" and then Hisashi later wrote the lyrics. Hence, I have believe those to be the true songwriting credits until I am informed otherwise from the horse's mouth.

Vinyl Images

front

back

label, Side A

label, Side B