Ways is the third album of the Japanese rock

Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

 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

Trade Last

Trade Last is the fourth album of the Japanese rock group Show-Ya. The album was released on 4 February 1987 in Japan. All the lyrics were written by Yasushi Akimoto and half of the music by Tsutsumi Kyohei...

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

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

Band members

• Keiko Terada
  Keiko Terada
  is a Japanese rock singer. She was the lead singer of the Japanese female heavy metal band Show-Ya from 1982 to 1991, before going solo.Terada's trademark was a fake rose tattoo she wore above her right breast...
  
   - 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
  Ron Saint Germain
  Ron Saint Germain is a record producer, engineer, and mixer who was born in post-war Frankfurt, Germany into a career Air Force Family. He has helped several up and coming artists enjoy a long career in the music industry, and has even taken to naming bands...
  
  - remix of "One Way Heart"
• Tatsuya Endou, Keisuke Hasegawa, Yasu Ito - recording engineers
• Tadashi Namba - creative input and arrangements

External links

• Show-Ya discography
• "One Way Heart" video clip