Ways (album)

Ways
Studio album by
Show-Ya
Released3 September 1986
StudioSmoky Studio, EMI Studios and Sedic Studio, Tokyo, Japan
GenreRock
Length43:06
LanguageJapanese
LabelEastworld / EMI
ProducerAkira Tanaka
Show-Ya chronology
Queendom
(1986) 		Ways
(1986) 		Trade Last
(1987)
Singles from Ways
  1. "One Way Heart" / "Love Sick"
    Released: 22 August 1986

Ways is the third album of the Japanese rock group Show-Ya. The album was released on 3 September 1986 in Japan. All the songs were arranged by Tadashi Namba & Show-Ya.[1]

Overview

Despite being recorded only six months after their previous album Queendom, this album manifests a strong progression both in cohesiveness of the musicians and sound. In fact, the arrangements and compositions are tighter as the result of a real group effort, while the sound of the album is very similar to what could be heard at a Show-Ya's live show at that time. On the contrary, the two poppier songs on the album "S・T・O・P (But I Can't...)" and the single "One Way Heart" were not composed by the band and are almost harbingers of next album Trade Last's style. The single was also used as theme for a Japanese TV show.[2] The hard rocker "Fairy" has since become a staple of every Show-Ya's live show.

Track listing

Side one
  1. "Shot" (Miki Nakamura, Keiko Terada) – 4:17
  2. "Blow Away" (Miki Igarashi, Terada) – 4:28
  3. "S・T・O・P (But I Can't...)" (Takahashi) – 4:05
  4. "Get Up Higher" (Nakamura, Mary Stickles) – 3:34
  5. "Over Now" (Nakamura, Terada) – 4:48
Side two
  2. "One Way Heart" (Nobody, Masumi Kawamura) – 4:18
  3. "Townscape" (Igarashi, Terada) – 4:25
  4. "? Question" (? クエスション) (Satomi Senba & Miki Tsunoda, Terada) – 3:38
  5. "Fairy" (Igarashi, Terada) – 3:56
  6. "Everybody Someday" (Terada) – 5:37

Personnel

Band members

  • Keiko Terada – vocals
  • Miki Igarashi – guitars
  • Miki Nakamura – keyboards
  • Satomi Senba – bass
  • Miki Tsunoda – drums

Production

  • Akira Tanaka – producer
  • Takeshi Sukegawa – recording and mixing
  • Ron Saint Germain – remix of "One Way Heart"
  • Tatsuya Endou, Keisuke Hasegawa, Yasu Ito – recording engineers
  • Tadashi Namba – creative input and arrangements

References

  1. ^ "Show Ya Ways". HeavyHarmonies.com. Retrieved 8 March 2010.
  2. ^ Igarashi, Miki. "WAYS" (in Japanese). Retrieved 8 March 2010.