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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 188. Chapters: 12012, 8-Ball (band), 9mm Parabellum Bullet, Abingdon Boys School, Acid (band), Acid Black Cherry, Afrirampo, Alice Nine, Analogfish, Andymori, Aqua Timez, Asian Kung-Fu Generation, Atom on Sphere, Back-On, Base Ball Bear, BIS (band), Buck-Tick, Bump of Chicken, Cali Gari, Coaltar of the Deepers, Coldrain, D'erlanger, Deadman (band), Defspiral, Die in Cries, Does (band), Dragon Ash, DuelJewel, Due le Quartz, Ellegarden, Fake?, Fanatic Crisis, Flipper's Guitar, Flow (band), Fujifabric, Fuzzy Control (band), Galileo Galilei (band), Garlic Boys, Gellers, Girugamesh, Guitar Vader, Guniw Tools, Heavenstamp, Heidi., High and Mighty Color, Hikashu, HY (band), Janne Da Arc, Jealkb, Kagerou (band), Kannivalism, Kinniku Sh jo Tai, Kra (band), L'Arc-en-Ciel, Last Alliance (band), Lucifer (band), Luminous Orange, Luna Sea, Marbell, Mass of the Fermenting Dregs, Merry (band), Monoral, Mucc, Nav Katze, Nico Touches the Walls, Nightmare (Japanese band), Nil (band), Nisennenmondai, Noodles (band), Nothing's Carved in Stone, Number Girl, Oblivion Dust, Ogre You Asshole, One Ok Rock, OOIOO, Orange Range, Pay Money to My Pain, Penicillin (band), Phantasmagoria (band), Pierrot (band), Plastic Tree, Plenty (band), Quruli, Rize (band), Rovo, Sambomaster, Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her, Shinsei Kamattechan, Shonen Knife, Sid (band), Sons of All Pussys, Sophia (Japanese band), Spin Aqua, Spitz (band), Spyair, Straightener, Supercar (band), Syrup16g, The Back Horn, The Beatniks, The Brilliant Green, The Gazette (band), The Hiatus, The Novembers (band), The Pillows, The Predators (Japanese band), The Underneath (band), The Yellow Monkey, Toe (band), Triceratops (band), Tsubaki (band), Tsu Shi Ma Mi Re, Uverworld, Vamps (band), Veltpunch, Vivid (band), Wands (band), Wino (band), Zeppet Store, Zigzo, Zoobombs. Excerpt: Buck-Tick (stylized as BUCK-TICK) is a Japanese rock band, formed in Fujioka, Gunma in 1983. The group has consisted of Atsushi Sakurai (lead vocals), Hisashi Imai (guitar), Hidehiko Hoshino (guitar), Yutaka Higuchi (bass) and Toll Yagami (drums) since 1985. In their three decade career, the band has released 18 studio albums, nearly all reaching the top ten on the charts, of which three in the late eighties and early nineties topped the charts. They are commonly credited as one of the founders of the visual kei movement, and experimented with many different genres of music, including punk, dark wave, electronic, industrial, gothic and straight rock. The five members have also worked on individual projects and collaborated with many other famous artists, both Japanese and foreign, including Maki Fujii (Soft Ballet), Issay (Der Zibet), Kiyoshi (Media Youth, Spread Beaver), Masami Tsuchiya (Ippu-do), Raymond Watts (PIG), Sascha Konietzko (KMFDM), Clan of Xymox, Robin Guthrie (Cocteau Twins) and Kelli Ali (Sneaker Pimps). Buck-Tick was originally formed in 1983. All five of the band members lived in the town of Fujioka, in Gunma prefecture. Hisashi Imai originally had the idea for the band, and wanted to start despite not knowing how to play any instruments at the time. He recruited his friend, Yutaka Higuchi, and the two of them began to practice - Imai on guitar and Higuchi on bass. Then, Higuchi asked Hidehiko Hoshino, who had been his friend since their first year of high school, if he would like to join, too. Since Hoshino was tall and handsome, Higuchi tried to convince him to become the vocalist, but Hoshino was more interested in playing guitar, and didn't want to be in the spotlight, so Imai's friend Araki became vocalist instead. Atsushi Sakurai, a rebellious loner in Imai's class who hung out with the bad-kid "Yank " crowd, volunteered to be the drummer. Imai named the band Hinan Go-Go ("Hinan" means "criticism" in Japanese) in Spring 1984. Once they had pra
