This Right Here is Buck 65

Buck’s first compilation album, featuring tracks from his extensive back catalogue and several b-sides. It came about after he signed a recording and distribution contract with V2 Records, supplying him with United States distribution for the first time. It was his only release on the label.

None of the tracks took off in the United States, with “Wicked and Weird” remaining his sole “hit,” with a music video amassing close to 1 million plays.

Buck spoke on the release:

I don’t know if it would necessarily represent the best but I thought that it would represent kind of like a spectrum, a mix. I just wanted to put some of the songs that I saw from the previous years were popular. Every night when I perform there are people who are screaming for “The Centaur” so I knew “ok, this song has to be on the album”. Also just to have a lot of diversity because I thought “if I’m going to just present myself in ten or twelve songs…”. It’s very difficult to summarize my music and who I am in one song because I’ve done so many different things, so just having that good mix was important. It was very difficult to choose which songs should go, so I didn’t even make all the decisions myself, I just asked all of my friends “what do you think should be on?”, made a list and counted the votes, and the ones that had the most votes basically made it on the album.