Buck-Tick Zone

Notes

If you can only afford just one Buck-Tick video, make it this comprehensive set. It contains every music video released to date (except for "My Eyes & Your Eyes" which is technically just b-roll footage), a video for every song from Six/Nine not previously available, as well as a nice documentary (narrated in English with Japanese subtitles!) of the band from their early days until the present. (Please note that "Loop Mark II" is not technically a video as the credits roll while the song is played, making it similar to "My Eyes & Your Eyes" except no footage is shown, just graphics.)

Where they got the documentary narrator from is more of a mystery for me than where they got the foreign guy for "Prologue" on Hurry Up Mode.

The date listed before each music video corresponds with the release date of the audio format (single or album), not the filmming date of the video.

There is a typo in the documentary portion in regards to a date. A correction slip is included with the DVD. However, I have found other date typos:

1. the live footage at Taiyo Matsuri is credited as taking place on October 22, 1986 at Shinjuku Loft. However, the Taiyo Matsuri was on September 10, 1986 at Shinjuku Loft. On October 22, the band did play at Shinjuku Loft but it was the single release on Taiyo Records commemmoration gig.
2. the footage of their appearance on tv "Pati Pati Tomato" at Yomiuri Land East is credited as taking place on July 28, 1988. However, it took place on July 16. (Hisashi was busy doing a guest appearance on July 28.) It could be that the program aired on July 28 but I do not know for sure.
3. there is concert footage from a performance I never heard of: March 15, 1990 at Club Citta in Kawasaki. On Buck-Tick's official site, it lists that the "Aku No Hana Tour" lasted for 51 dates. All 51 dates are noted in Hyp No. 3 but they did not play on March 15 nor did they play at Club Citta during the tour. This is probably the "Live Tomato" tv show appearance on February 20.
4. there is concert footage from the "This is NOT Greatest Tour" at Yokohama Arena and it is credited as taking place on March 31, 1992. However, Buck-Tick played at that venue during that tour on March 14 and March 15. To my knowledge, the band was off on March 31.

In the video for "Uta", Atsushi hints of being a madam, Hisashi is Kurt Cobain, Hide is Lenny Kravitz, U-ta is no one in particular, and Toll mimics the Beatles.

Picture Set

5 pictures came with the first copies sold. 20 pictures in total were available. Below is the set that came with my copy plus some pics nicked from the net. Send me what you received and I'll put it here until we have all 20 available! (This picture is supposedly the complete set.)

group

Atsushi

Hisashi

Hide

U-ta

Toll

Video Stills - Documentary

Video Stills - Six/Nine album

Loop, directed by Wataru Hayashi

Love Letter, directed by Wataru Hayashi

Kimi No Vanilla, directed by Wataru Hayashi

Kodo, directed by Wataru Hayashi

Kagiri Naku Nezumi, directed by Wataru Hayashi

Rakuen (Inori Negai), directed by Wataru Hayashi

Hosoi Sen, directed by Wataru Hayashi

Somewhere Nowhere, directed by Wataru Hayashi

Aikawarazu No "Are" No Katamari Ga Nosabaru Hedo No Soko No Fuki Damari, directed by Wataru Hayashi

Detarame Yarou, directed by Wataru Hayashi

Misshitsu, directed by Wataru Hayashi

Kick (Daichi Wo Keru Otoko)

Itoshi No Rock Star, directed by Wataru Hayashi

Uta, directed by Wataru Hayashi

Mienai Mono Wo Miyou To Suru Gokai    Subete Gokai Da, directed by Wataru Hayashi

Loop Mark II, directed by Wataru Hayashi