In 1990-1991 Blue Hearts tried to make their way to the American scene, touring the U.S. twice and releasing two CDs there, but sales remained small despite good reviews, college radio airplay, and USA Today coverage. Meanwhile, in Japan, where they released the albums Bust Waist Hip (1990) and High Kicks (1991), their fame was growing ever bigger, not hindered even by a yearlong TV ban imposed on Blue Hearts by the stations because of the bandmembers' provocative behavior. The 1993 releases Stick Out and Dug Out both topped the charts and outdid their respective predecessors in sales, but in 1994 the band broke up -- or, rather, transformed into High-Lows, another punk rock unit that this time sported mildly surrealistic lyrics and had Komoto and Mashima on board (in 2005, they formed their third punk act, Cro-Magnons). The label released one more post-breakup album, Pan, in 1995, and the popularity of Blue Hearts endured in the 2000s, when their songs were used in a number of video games and the dramas #Socrates in Love and #Gachi Baka (both 2004), and Linda Linda lent its title to the movie #Linda Linda Linda (2005), about a high-school girl rock band playing Blue Hearts covers. ~ Alexey Eremenko, Rovi
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