Aku no Hana

This article is about the Buck-Tick album. For the song, see Aku no Hana (song). For the manga series, see The Flowers of Evil (manga).
Aku no Hana
Studio album by
Buck-Tick
ReleasedFebruary 1, 1990 (1990-02-01)
September 19, 2002 (2002-09-19) (digital remaster)
September 5, 2007 (2007-09-05) (remaster)
RecordedOctober–December 1989 at Victor Aoyama Studio in Tokyo
Genre
Length45:09
LanguageJapanese, English
LabelVictor
ProducerTsutomu Nakayama and Buck-Tick
Buck-Tick chronology
Taboo
(1989) 		Aku no Hana
(1990) 		Kurutta Taiyou
(1991)
Singles from Aku no Hana
  1. "Aku no Hana"
    Released: January 24, 1990

Aku no Hana (悪の華, "Flowers of Evil") is the fifth studio album by the Japanese rock band Buck-Tick. It was released on cassette and CD on February 1, 1990, through Victor Entertainment.[1] It peaked at number one on the Oricon charts and is the group's best-selling album to date.[2] It was certified gold in the month of its release,[3] and sold 435,080 copies in the first year of its release.[4][5] The title comes from Charles Baudelaire's volume of poetry, Les Fleurs du mal.[6]

  1. ^ "Aku no Hana". jame-world.com. Retrieved 2011-04-12.
  2. ^ "BUCK-TICKのアルバム売り上げランキング". oricon.co.jp. Retrieved 2011-04-27.
  3. ^ "月次認定作品 認定年月：1990年 2月 (Dropdown menu: 1990年 2月)" (in Japanese). RIAJ. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
  4. ^ "1990年 アルバム年間TOP100" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2016-03-03.
  5. ^ "Buck-Tickの主な記録 『悪の華』など5作でオリコン週間アルバムランキング1位獲得" [Buck-Tick's main records: Achieved 1st place in the Oricon weekly album rankings with 5 albums including "Aku no Hana"]. Oricon (in Japanese). 24 October 2023. Retrieved 26 October 2023.
  6. ^ Shweta Basu (2017). "Flowers of Evil to Aku no Hana: Baudelaire's Transculturation across Space and Time" (PDF). Spring Magazine on English Literature. III (I). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-03-05. Retrieved 2022-05-16.