is the fifth album by Buck-Tick

Buck-Tick

Buck-Tick is a rock band formed in 1983 in Fujioka, Japan. The band has consisted of Atsushi Sakurai , Hisashi Imai , Hidehiko Hoshino , Yutaka Higuchi and Toll Yagami for the majority of its existence...

, released on cassette and CD on February 1, 1990. It reached number one on the Oricon

Oricon

, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan. It started as , which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc...

 charts and is their best selling album to date. The title comes from Charles Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire was a French poet who produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe. His most famous work, Les Fleurs du mal expresses the changing nature of beauty in modern, industrializing Paris during the nineteenth century...

's volume of poetry, Les Fleurs du mal

Les Fleurs du mal

Les Fleurs du mal is a volume of French poetry by Charles Baudelaire. First published in 1857 , it was important in the symbolist and modernist movements...

 ("The Flowers of Evil"). The album was digitally remastered and re-released on September 19, 2002, with two bonus tracks. It was remastered and re-released again on September 5, 2007. "Aku no Hana" and "Love Me" were rerecorded for the 1992 Koroshi no Shirabe This Is Not Greatest Hits

Koroshi no Shirabe This Is NOT Greatest Hits

Koroshi no Shirabe This Is Not Greatest Hits is the first compilation album by Buck-Tick, released on cassette and CD on March 21, 1992...

compilation.

Track listing

2002 Digital Remaster Bonus Tracks

1. "Aku no Hana" (single version)
2. "Under the Moon Light"