Hide Your Face

Hide Your Face
Studio album by hide
Released February 23, 1994
Genre Alternative rock, hard rock
Label MCA Victor
Producer hide
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Hide Your Face
(1994)		 Psyence
(1996)
Singles from Hide Your Face
  1. "Eyes Love You"
    Released: August 5, 1993
  2. "50% & 50%"
    Released: August 5, 1993
  3. "Dice"
    Released: January 21, 1994
  4. "Tell Me"
    Released: March 24, 1994

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. 

No. Title Length
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

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

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "hideのアルバム売り上げランキング" (in Japanese). oricon.co.jp. Retrieved 2012-07-08.
  2. ↑ "H.R. Giger's official website". giger.com. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-05-21.
  3. ↑ "Top 44 Albums from 1989 - 1998". jame-world.com. 2004-05-09. Retrieved 2013-03-08.
  4. ↑ Hide Your Face liner notes, 1994-02-23. Retrieved 2013-05-12
  5. ↑ "hide TRIBUTE SPIRITS". amazon.co.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved 2012-07-07.
  6. ↑ "Two hide Tribute Albums to be Released Simultaneously!". musicjapanplus.jp. Retrieved 2013-05-05.
  7. ↑ "hide Tribute VII -Rock SPIRITS-". cdjapan.jp. Retrieved 2013-12-15.