Outerlimits

This article is about the 1989 Show-Ya album. For the 1963 TV show and other uses, see The Outer Limits (disambiguation).

Outerlimits is the seventh album of the Japanese female hard rock 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.^[1] The first single "Genkai Lovers" (限界 Lovers) sold more than 30,000 copies in Japan, being used for a commercial campaign.^[2]

Outerlimits
Studio album by Show-Ya
Released	6 September 1989
Recorded	June–July 1989
Studio	Music Inn Yamanakano, Freedom Studio, Tokyo, Japan
Genre	Hard rock, heavy metal
Length	47:31
Language	Japanese
Label	Eastworld / EMI
Producer	Show-Ya
Show-Ya chronology
White (1988) Outerlimits (1989) Hard Way (1990)
Singles from Outerlimits
"Genkai Lovers" / "What Do You Say?" Released: 1 February 1989 "Watashi Wa Arashi" / "Ai No Frustration" Released: 7 June 1989

Reception and charts

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]

Alex Henderson in his review for AllMusic defined the Japanese album "well worth searching for" for every metalhead, comparing the songs of Show-Ya to the works of Ozzy Osbourne, Iron Maiden, Heart and Lita Ford.^[3]

The album was a huge success in Japan, reaching number three in the national charts (Oricon chart).^[4] 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.^[5]

Track listing

1. "Out of Limits" (Miki Igarashi, Yoshihiko Andō) – 3:09
2. "Look at Me!" (Show-Ya, Keiko Terada & Andō) – 5:11
3. "Genkai Lovers" (限界 Lovers) (Terada & Igarashi, Andō) – 3:59
4. "Trouble" (Terada, Andō) – 4:06
5. "Yasei no Bara" (野性の薔薇) (Igarashi, Andō) – 5:31
6. "Inori" (祈り) (Terada, Terada & Andō) – 4:37
7. "Kaigenrei no Machi – Cry for the Freedom" (戒厳令の街 ／Cry for the Freedom) (Miki Nakamura, Andō) – 4:52
8. "Bad Boys" (Satomi Senba & Miki Tsunoda, Andō) – 3:58
9. "Watashi Wa Arashi" (私は嵐) (Terada, Andō) – 4:05
10. "Paranoia Paradise" (Senba & Tsunoda, Andō) – 3:19
11. "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 – mastering
• Masanori Sasaji – arrangements
• Yoshihiko Andō – lyrics