Ways (album)

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.

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. The hard rocker "Fairy" has since become a staple of every Show-Ya's live show.

Track listing Side one "Shot" (Miki Nakamura, Keiko Terada) – 4:17 "Blow Away" (Miki Igarashi, Terada) – 4:28 "S・T・O・P (But I Can't...)" (Takahashi) – 4:05 "Get Up Higher" (Nakamura, Mary Stickles) – 3:34 "Over Now" (Nakamura, Terada)'' – 4:48

Side two "One Way Heart" (Nobody, Masumi Kawamura) – 4:18 "Townscape" (Igarashi, Terada) – 4:25 "? Question" (? クエスション) (Satomi Senba & Miki Tsunoda, Terada) – 3:38 "Fairy" (Igarashi, Terada) – 3:56 "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

Ways (album)

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