Image (album)


Image is the second album by Japanese rock band Luna Sea, released on May 21, 1992. It is their major label debut on MCA Victor and reached number nine on the Oricon chart.

Overview

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.
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. "Déjàvu" and "Wish" were both re-recorded by the band for the 2000 compilation album Period -the Best Selection-.
Image was remastered and re-released by Universal Music Group on December 19, 2007, it came with a DVD of the promotional video for "Déjàvu".
"Déjàvu" was also covered by Mucc for the 2007 .
This album's version of "Moon" was covered by Masami Tsuchiya for the 2007 Luna Sea Memorial Cover Album -Re:birth-.
"Wish" was covered by Sid for the 2007 Luna Sea Memorial Cover Album -Re:birth-.
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.
Image and the band's other seven major label studio albums were released on vinyl record for the first time on May 29, 2019.

Track listing

All lyrics written by Ryuichi, except "Wish" by Ryuichi and J.

Personnel

;Luna Sea
;Additional performers
;Production