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
 * 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
 * 1) "One Way Heart"  (Nobody, Masumi Kawamura)  – 4:18
 * 2) "Townscape"  (Igarashi, Terada)  – 4:25
 * 3) "? Question" (? クエスション)  (Satomi Senba & Miki Tsunoda, Terada)  – 3:38
 * 4) "Fairy"  (Igarashi, Terada)  – 3:56
 * 5) "Everybody Someday"  (Terada)  – 5:37

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