Hide Your Face is the debut album by Japanese musician hide, released on February 23, 1994. It reached number 9 on the Oricon chart.[1] The cover art features a reproduction of a mask, created by H. R. Giger, by Screaming Mad George.[2] The album was re-released on the Japan only format SHM-CD on December 3, 2008, this version reached number 223 on the Oricon chart.[1] The album was named one of the top albums from 1989-1998 in a 2004 issue of the music magazine Band Yarouze.[3]
The song "Frozen Bug '93 (Diggers Version)" is a remixed version of "Frozen Bug", a song that hide wrote and performed with Luna Sea members J and Inoran, under the band name M*A*S*S, on the 1993 compilation Dance 2 Noise 004.
Track listing
All songs written and composed by hide, except tracks 4 and 15 lyrics by Yukinojo Mori, and track 9 music by M*A*S*S.
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| 1. |
"Psychommunity" |
4:04 |
| 2. |
"Dice" |
3:03 |
| 3. |
"Scanner" |
3:23 |
| 4. |
"Eyes Love You (T.T. Version)" |
5:57 |
| 5. |
"D.O.D. (Drink Or Die)" |
2:17 |
| 6. |
"Crime of Breen St." |
1:17 |
| 7. |
"Doubt (Remix Version)" |
4:42 |
| 8. |
"A Story" |
3:13 |
| 9. |
"Frozen Bug '93 (Diggers Version)" |
4:44 |
| 10. |
"T.T. Groove" |
0:31 |
| 11. |
"Blue Sky Complex" |
5:35 |
| 12. |
"Oblaat (Remix Version)" |
4:47 |
| 13. |
"Tell Me" |
4:44 |
| 14. |
"Honey Blade" |
4:31 |
| 15. |
"50% & 50% (Crystal Lake Version)" |
5:33 |
| 16. |
"Psychommunity Exit" |
19:57 |
Personnel
- hide – vocals, guitar
- Kazuhiko "B-side" Inada – co-producer, synthesizer programming
- Terry Bozzio – drums on tracks 2, 4, 10, 11, 14
- Mitsuko Akai – drums on tracks 8, 13
- Junji Ikehata – drums on track 15
- T.M. Stevens – bass on tracks 2, 4, 10, 11, 14
- Michiaki Suzuki – bass on track 12
- Toshihiro Nara – bass on track 15
- Rich "Korede-iinoda" Breene – Rhodes on track 6
- Neil Larson – organ on track 11
- Jerry Hey, Gary E. Grant, William F. Reichenbach – horn on track 11
- Maxine Waters, Julia Waters, Carmen Twillie – chorus on track 11
- Byron Berline – fiddle on track 15
- Personnel per the album's liner notes.[4]
Cover versions
Yoshiki composed a piece based on "Psychommunity Exit" as the intro for the 1999 hide tribute album Tribute Spirits.[5] American bassist T.M. Stevens, who plays on the album, recorded a cover of "Blue Sky Complex" for his 1999 album Radioactive. Nightmare guitarist Hitsuji covered "D.O.D. (Drink Or Die)" for Tribute II -Visual Spirits-, while Dezert covered it for Tribute III -Visual Spirits-. Both albums were released on July 3, 2013.[6] The Cherry Coke$ also recorded a version of the song for Tribute VII -Rock Spirits-, released on December 18, 2013.[7]
References
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- Tune Up
- Tribute Spirits
- Best -Psychommunity-
- Psy-Clone
- Singles - Junk Story
- King of Psyborg Rock Star
- We Love hide -The Best in The World-
- "Musical Number" -Rock Musical Pink Spider-
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