Image is the second studio album by Japanese rock band Luna Sea, released on May 21, 1992.[1] It is their major label debut on MCA Victor, reached number nine on the Oricon Albums Chart, and charted for 14 weeks.[2] In 2000, it was certified Platinum by the RIAJ for sales over 400,000.[3]
The album was supported by the Image or Real, its three date encore, and After the Image tours for a total of 25 shows and an accumulative audience of 28,500.[4]
The song "Search For Reason" is re-recorded from their 1989 demo "Shade". "Vampire's Talk" was originally titled "Feeling", and "In Mind" was titled "Sinful Song". This recording of "Moon" is a longer, reworked version of the song from their debut album Luna Sea. Guitarist Sugizo cited "Wish" as one of the songs wherein he tried to replicate the "psychedelic feel of shoegaze bands" by using effects, "like playing fast with a wah-wah pedal, or using tape-echo and harmonizers. I couldn’t figure out how they did it, so I just made it into my own thing."[5]
Image was remastered and re-released by Universal Music Group on December 5, 2007, it came with a DVD of the promotional video for "Déjàvu". This version reached number 189 on the Oricon chart.[7]
This album's version of "Moon" was covered by Masami Tsuchiya for the 2007 Luna Sea Memorial Cover Album -Re:birth-.[8]
"Wish" was covered by Sid for the 2007 Luna Sea Memorial Cover Album -Re:birth-.[8]
Luna Sea's first Lunatic X'Mas 2018 -Introduction to the 30th Anniversary- concert at Saitama Super Arena on December 22, 2018 was subtitled Image or Real after the album's 1992 tour. There they performed some songs that had not been played since the original tour.[9]
Image and the band's seven other major label studio albums, up to Luv, were released on vinyl record for the first time on May 29, 2019.[10]
Track listingedit
All lyrics written by Ryuichi, except "Wish" by Ryuichi and J.
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Image is the second studio album by Japanese rock band Luna Sea released on May 21 1992 1 It is their major label debut on MCA Victor reached number nine on the Oricon Albums Chart and charted for 14 weeks 2 In 2000 it was certified Platinum by the RIAJ for sales over 400 000 3 ImageStudio album by Luna SeaReleasedMay 21 1992RecordedVictor Studio Studio Vincent Magnet Studio Den Music Studio Studio EGM Freedom Studio RMC Studio MIT Studio Echo HouseGenrePunk rockhard rockprogressive rockLength54 42LabelMCA VictorProducerLuna SeaLuna Sea chronologyLuna Sea 1991 Image 1992 Eden 1993 Music video Dejavu on YouTubeLive Wish 2018 Luv Tour Final Budokan Ver on YouTube Contents 1 Overview 2 Track listing 3 Personnel 4 ReferencesOverview editThe album was supported by the Image or Real its three date encore and After the Image tours for a total of 25 shows and an accumulative audience of 28 500 4 The song Search For Reason is re recorded from their 1989 demo Shade Vampire s Talk was originally titled Feeling and In Mind was titled Sinful Song This recording of Moon is a longer reworked version of the song from their debut album Luna Sea Guitarist Sugizo cited Wish as one of the songs wherein he tried to replicate the psychedelic feel of shoegaze bands by using effects like playing fast with a wah wah pedal or using tape echo and harmonizers I couldn t figure out how they did it so I just made it into my own thing 5 Dejavu and Wish were both re recorded by the band for the 2000 compilation album Period the Best Selection 6 Image was remastered and re released by Universal Music Group on December 5 2007 it came with a DVD of the promotional video for Dejavu This version reached number 189 on the Oricon chart 7 Dejavu was also covered by Mucc for the 2007 Luna Sea Memorial Cover Album Re birth 8 This album s version of Moon was covered by Masami Tsuchiya for the 2007 Luna Sea Memorial Cover Album Re birth 8 Wish was covered by Sid for the 2007 Luna Sea Memorial Cover Album Re birth 8 Luna Sea s first Lunatic X Mas 2018 Introduction to the 30th Anniversary concert at Saitama Super Arena on December 22 2018 was subtitled Image or Real after the album s 1992 tour There they performed some songs that had not been played since the original tour 9 Image and the band s seven other major label studio albums up to Luv were released on vinyl record for the first time on May 29 2019 10 Track listing editAll lyrics written by Ryuichi except Wish by Ryuichi and J No TitleMusicLength1 Call For Love Sugizo0 422 Dejavu Sugizo3 543 Mechanical Dance J5 054 Wall Sugizo4 555 Image Inoran5 416 Search For Reason Sugizo7 107 Imitation J3 228 Vampire s Talk Inoran6 169 Symptom Sugizo2 1510 In Mind J3 5411 Moon Sugizo7 1012 Wish J4 18Personnel editLuna SeaVocal Ryuichi Guitar violin Sugizo Guitar Inoran Bass J Drums percussion ShinyaAdditional performersChorus Yurie Kokubu Kaoru Akimoto Chorus arrangement Hidekazu TokumitsuProductionProducer and arranger Luna Sea Executive producers Masatoshi Sakanoue Sweet Child Seiichiro Ishihara Takafumi Muraki Victor Invitation Supervisor Hiroyuki Iwata Director Yoshiyuki Maki Akira Sekiguchi Victor Invitation Recorder mixer Masayuki Nakahara Victor Studio Additional engineers Hirokazu Akashi Victor Studio Shigetoshi Saito Victor Studio Mastering engineer Hiroshi Kawasaki Victor Studio Assistant engineers Masayuki Oka Victor Studio Tomoaki Sato Victor Vincent Takashi Kondo Victor Vincent Terushi Maruyama Magnet Studio Osamu Konishi Den Music Studio Akihiro Sano Studio EGM Minoru Yasuda Freedom Studio Toshio Tanabe RMC Studio Shigeru Matsumura MIT Studio Satoru Arai Echo House Sound effects Keishi Urata Tsuyoshi Kon Kunihiko Tominaga Manabu Ogasawara Tsutomu Nakayama Sound adviser Kazutaka Minemori Drum tuner Yukihiro Sugimoto Adviser Toshihiro Nara Art direction amp graphic design Sakaguchi Ken Factory Design coordinator Tatsuo Sato Photography Bruno Dayan Hair amp make up Tetsuya Kameyama Stylist Sayuri Chihara Costumes Mikako Ohhara Cover model Sakuraku K Shinya s model Sayuri Ichiyo Sugizo s doll Katan Amano Ryoichi Yoshida A amp R coordinator Nobuhiro Sonoyama Sweet Child Artist management Yoshiki Okiyama Sweet Child Masato Takahashi Sweet Child Eriko Murata Sweet Child Road crew Yosuke Narita Keisuke Takimoto Jyunzi Sakuma Official fan club Slave Orie Murasaki Naoe TanimotoPersonnel per album s liner notes 11 References edit Luna Sea Image discogs com Retrieved November 13 2011 ＬＵＮＡ ＳＥＡのアルバム売り上げランキング Oricon in Japanese Archived from the original on 2012 12 04 Retrieved 2021 02 17 Japanese album certifications Enter Luna Sea into the アーティスト then select 検索 in Japanese Recording Industry Association of Japan Retrieved 2021 05 15 LUNA SEA God Bless You JRock Revolution 2007 08 27 Archived from the original on 2016 01 09 Retrieved 2015 03 28 Luna Sea rockers Sugizo and Inoran talk life at 25 The Japan Times 2014 06 19 Retrieved 2014 12 09 PERIOD LUNA SEA amazon co jp in Japanese Retrieved 2012 03 18 IMAGE Oricon in Japanese Retrieved 2021 02 17 a b c Luna Sea Memorial Cover Album Re birth cdjapan co jp Retrieved 2012 07 07 LUNA SEA 結成30周年記念ライヴの開催を発表 barks jp in Japanese 2018 12 23 Retrieved 2019 04 13 LUNA SEA 結成30周年記念に IMAGE から LUV までの8作品をアナログレコード化 barks jp in Japanese 2019 03 01 Retrieved 2019 04 13 Image liner notes 1992 05 21 Retrieved 2013 10 25 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Image album amp oldid 1115572361, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
