Rusty Nail (song)
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"Rusty Nail" is the tenth single by Japanese heavy metal band
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, released on June 10, 1994.


Summary

It was written and composed by
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, later appeared on the album ''
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'', and was used as the theme song for the 1994 Japanese TV drama . A new version of "Rusty Nail" was reportedly recorded for X Japan's unreleased studio album, before it was decided to create entirely new material instead.
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added a cover of the song to the
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ese edition of their 2004 album '' Starfall''.
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of
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covered the song during the band's fifth Japanese tour, Tone: Live Tour 2012. It was also covered by Inugami Circus-dan for ''Crush! 3 - 90's V-Rock Best Hit Cover Love Songs-'', which was released on June 27, 2012 and features current
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bands covering
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s by visual kei artists of the 90's.


Music videos

Two
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s have been made for "Rusty Nail". The first is an
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version created in 1994 in collaboration with manga artists Clamp and animated by
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, that includes cartoon versions of the band members. It was included on VHS with the 1999 '' Perfect Best'' compilation album. In September 2014, the video was uploaded to Yoshiki's
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account. The second was released on the ''X Japan Showcase in L.A. Premium Prototype'' DVD on September 6, 2010. Directed by
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and mainly shot as the band performed live on top of the
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in January 2010, it has the sound of the audience added to the audio. In the
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''X Japan Virtual Shock 001'', released for the
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on October 20, 1995, the player edits a live video of "Rusty Nail" using footage from the
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concert.


Commercial performance and legacy

The song reached number 1 on the
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charts, and charted for 20 weeks. In 1994, with 712,390 copies sold was the 28th best-selling single of the year, being certified Platinum by
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, is the band's second best-selling single. Yoshiki revealed that a part of "Rusty Nail" inspired his 2018 song " Red Swan", which was a collaboration with Hyde. Its cover art, with blood dripping from a person's mouth, also inspired the cover art of the newer song.


Track listing


Personnel

*Co-Producer – X Japan *Orchestra arranger –
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*Mixing – Mick Ging *Recording engineers – Rich Breen, Mick Ging, Shinichi Tanaka, Motonari Matsumoto *Assistant engineers – Mike Stock, Tal Miller, Naoya Takahashi *Mastering – Chris Bellman *A&R direction – Yoshinobu Toida *Art direction and design – Mitsuo Izumisawa *Executive producers – Takayuki Takeshi, Sekiji Murata, Ryuzo "Jr." Kosugi


References


External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Rusty Nail (Song) X Japan songs Songs written by Yoshiki (musician) Japanese television drama theme songs Oricon Weekly number-one singles 1994 singles Japanese-language songs Torch songs 1994 songs