Ways

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Ways Show-Ya Released 3 September 1986 Recorded Smoky Studio, EMI Studios and Sedic Studio, Tokyo, Japan Genre Rock Length 43:06 Label EMI Japan Producer Akira Tanaka Show-Ya chronology
Queendom
(1986)		 Ways
(1986)		 Trade Last
(1987)
Singles from Ways

  1. 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

Contents

  • Overview
  • Track listing
  • Personnel
    • Band members
    • Production
  • References
  • External links

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.

Track listing

  1. "Shot" - 4:17
  2. "Blow Away" - 4:28
  3. "S・T・O・P (But I Can't...)" - 4:05
  4. "Get Up Higher" - 3:34
  5. "Over Now" - 4:48
  6. "One Way Heart" - 4:18
  7. "Townscape" - 4:25
  8. "? Question" (? クエスション) - 3:38
  9. "Fairy" - 3:56
  10. "Everybody Someday" - 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

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External links

  • Show-Ya discography (Japanese)
  • "One Way Heart" video clip
  • v
  • e
Show-Ya
  • Keiko Terada
  • Miki 'Sun-Go' Igarashi
  • Miki 'Captain' Nakamura
  • Satomi Senba
  • Miki 'Mittan' Tsunoda
Former members
Studio albums
EPs
Live albums
Soundtracks
  • Burai Prototype
Compilations
Video albums
  • Date Line
  • Rollin World
  • 1990 Budokan - Reach for the World
  • Distance on Their Way
  • Hard Way Tour 1991
  • 20th Anniversary Live
  • Show-Ya Live 2006
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