''Outerlimits'' is the seventh album of the Japanese female
hard rock
Hard rock or heavy rock is a heavier subgenre of rock music typified by aggressive vocals and Distortion (music), distorted electric guitars. Hard rock began in the mid-1960s with the Garage rock, garage, Psychedelic rock, psychedelic and blues ...
group
Show-Ya. The album was released on 6 September 1989, in Japan. The album was mixed at the famous
Cherokee Studios in California and was arranged by Masanori Sasaji and Show-Ya. Lyricist Yoshihiko Andō wrote most of the lyrics for the songs of the album. This is the band's best selling album, with more than 100,000 copies sold in Japan. The first single "Genkai Lovers" (限界 Lovers) sold more than 30,000 copies in Japan, being used for a commercial campaign.
Reception and charts
Alex Henderson in his review for
AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online database, online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on Musical artist, musicians and Mus ...
defined the Japanese album "well worth searching for" for every metalhead, comparing the songs of Show-Ya to the works of
Ozzy Osbourne
John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne (born 3 December 1948) is an English singer, songwriter, and media personality. He rose to prominence during the 1970s as the lead singer of the heavy metal music, heavy metal band Black Sabbath, during which per ...
,
Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden are an English Heavy metal music, heavy metal band formed in Leyton, East London, in 1975 by bassist and primary songwriter Steve Harris (musician), Steve Harris. Although fluid in the early years of the band, the line-up for most ...
,
Heart
The heart is a muscular Organ (biology), organ found in humans and other animals. This organ pumps blood through the blood vessels. The heart and blood vessels together make the circulatory system. The pumped blood carries oxygen and nutrie ...
and
Lita Ford.
The album was a huge success in Japan, reaching number three in the national charts (
Oricon
, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics
Statistics (from German language, German: ', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that ...
chart). The first single "Genkai Lovers" (限界 Lovers) sold more than 30,000 copies in Japan, while the second single "Watashi wa Arashi" (私は嵐) was the best-selling CD single of the band, reaching position No. 12 in the Oricon single chart.
Track listing
#"Out of Limits" ''
(Miki Igarashi, Yoshihiko Andō)'' – 3:09
#"Look at Me!" ''
(Show-Ya, Keiko Terada & Andō)'' – 5:11
#"Genkai Lovers" (限界 Lovers) ''
(Terada & Igarashi, Andō)'' – 3:59
#"Trouble" ''
(Terada, Andō)'' – 4:06
#"Yasei no Bara" (野性の薔薇) ''
(Igarashi, Andō)'' – 5:31
#"Inori" (祈り) ''
(Terada, Terada & Andō)'' – 4:37
#"Kaigenrei no Machi – Cry for the Freedom" (戒厳令の街 ／Cry for the Freedom) ''
(Miki Nakamura, Andō)'' – 4:52
#"Bad Boys" ''
(Satomi Senba & Miki Tsunoda, Andō)'' – 3:58
#"Watashi Wa Arashi" (私は嵐) ''
(Terada, Andō)'' – 4:05
#"Paranoia Paradise" ''
(Senba & Tsunoda, Andō)'' – 3:19
#"Battle Express" ''
(Igarashi, Andō)'' – 4:31
Personnel
Band members
*
Keiko Terada – vocals
*Miki Igarashi – guitars
*Miki Nakamura – keyboards
*Satomi Senba – bass
*Miki Tsunoda – drums
Production
*Atsuhiro Sakamoto – engineer
*Toshimi Naseki – assistant engineer
*Paul Wertheimer – mixing at
Cherokee Studios, Hollywood, California
*
Bernie Grundman
Bernie Grundman (born 16 December 1943, Minneapolis) is an American audio engineer.
He is most known for his mastering work and his studio, Bernie Grundman Mastering, which he opened in 1984 in Hollywood. The studio, which includes engineers Chr ...
– mastering
*Masanori Sasaji – arrangements
*Yoshihiko Andō – lyrics
References
External links
Show-Ya discography"Genkai Lovers" video clip"Watashi Wa Aarashi" video clip
{{Authority control
Show-Ya albums
1989 albums
EMI Records albums
1980s Japanese-language albums