It's official now what Imai has been lately hinting about in his blog (writing and recording new stuff): two new tracks will appear in the upcoming two-part documentary about the band's last year! Each movie will have its theme song, one written by Imai and the other by Hoshino. There is no CD release announced for them yet, but they can surely be heard in the movies themselves. The details are as follows:

LOVE PARADE (theme song for Part I)
lyrics: Sakurai Atsushi
music: Hoshino Hidehiko

STEPPERS - PARADE- (theme song for Part II)
lyrics: Sakurai Atsushi, Imai Hisashi
music: Imai Hisashi

There's not only a new live DVD/Blu-ray out today. Mr. Imai is also featured in the new Bridge.

I hope one of these is making its way to your house : )

Looks like... an anniversary retrospective?

5/17(金)21:00～、ニコニコ生放送にて「BUCK-TICK デビュー25周年YEAR振り返りSP」をオンエアー!!詳細・試聴はコチラをチェック！

http://live.nicovideo.jp/watch/lv137074466

One of the things that touched me the most in the early days of buck_tick was members' willingness to share. New members would introduce themselves with a cache of icons or wallpapers they made and we would all gleefully indulge. It was a terrific icebreaker and a great way to get to know each other.

Sometimes the shares would be bonus goodies offered by HMV. Remember when large wallpapers measured a whopping 1024 x 768? My little laptop screen could barely contain them XD

One thing is for certain, our members are incredibly talented and imaginative people.

And even those of us without much talent, could still join the fun.

Let's wallpaper and icon again ( like it's 2003Collapse )

We've made so many great memories in ten years! I spent much of last month reading all the old posts and smiling a lot. We've covered so many things, Buck-Tick wise; both the high brow and the low.

For example, there was the time a member asked a perfectly decent question and the thread got completely hijacked by pants. We're so glad that never happened again :D

Or when new members ask for an album recommendation, we're no help whatsoever. When it comes to favorite B-T albums, there is no consensus!

And sometimes, someone asks a question with a lot of good answers. Not "How did you first learn about Buck-Tick?" but Why Buck-Tick? What made you join the BiTch ranks in the first place, and what made you stay?

So, I pose this question today. Why Buck-Tick? ( Why not some other band?Collapse )

We're ten years old today! Our founding BiTch _maldorora had a great idea and created this community on this day in Buck-Tick history.

It was a modest start, and grew slowly over the first year. It was the place that warmly welcomed me, and so many others, as new fans. Anything I ever wanted to know about Buck-Tick was answered here.

We've shared so many translations, answers to questions about getting to shows and joining Fish Tank, news, release info, ticket info, scans, fanarts, sales, trades, icons, live reports, observations, links to Japamese articles we'd never find otherwise, personal covers of B-T songs, band scores, wallpapers, gifs, layouts, macros, meetups, B-T ringtones, the birth of Youtube, the death of UV, the exodus to Dreamwidth, Tumblr and beyond.

Thanks _maldorora for making this a wonderful place. Thanks to il_pleut for her tireless scanning, translating and setting a nice tone. And thanks to jenbowie for her strength and sanity.

Most of all, thank you for being a part of this. Happy Anniversary Dangerous Kids ♥

And remember, always put the "football pants" picture ( behind a cutCollapse )

Because more B-T is better!

These are older performances/interviews, but I didn't recognize a few of them and I thought they might be new to a few of you as well:

Glamorous: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU8EB-XBpHk
Sakurai M-Voice Interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-D_FlbhglM
Rocket Punch Interview/Bran New Lover: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWq8HyIyKFg
(I had seen the interview, but never BNL included)

There's a few others that may be of interest to you on that person's channel as well, so check them out! ^_^