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Beauty & Stupid

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Wikipedia article




'"Beauty & Stupid"' is the sixth single by Japanese musician hide, released on August 12, 1996. It reached number 4 on the Oricon chart. It was certified gold by RIAJ in December 1998. On May 2, 2007, the single was re-released with a slightly different cover.

On August 4, 2010, it was re-released again as part of the second releases in "The Devolution Project", which was a release of hide's original eleven singles on picture disc vinyl.



Track listing



All songs written by hide.

Personnel



* hide vocals, guitar, bass, producer, arranger

* Kazuhiko "I.N.A." Inada co-producer, programming, recording engineer on "Beauty & Stupid", recording and mixing engineer on "Squeeze It!!"

* Joe drums on "Beauty & Stupid"

* Eric Westfall recording engineer on "Beauty & Stupid"

:Personnel per the single's liner notes."Beauty & Stupid" liner notes, 1996-08-12. Retrieved 2018-01-27

Cover versions



The song "Easy Jesus" by hide's band Zilch has a similar guitar riff to that of "Squeeze It!!". "Beauty & Stupid" was covered by Kiyoharu and Shoji for the 1999 hide tribute album 'Tribute Spirits'. The title track was covered by Doppel for the 'Tribute II -Visual Spirits-' tribute album and by Diaura on 'Tribute III -Visual Spirits-', both albums were released on July 3, 2013. For 'Tribute VI -Female Spirits-', released on December 18, 2013, it was covered by Kanon Wakeshima.

References




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