Ken Nakano & The Flying Penguins

Thirsty

Thirsty album cover

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Melodius and discordant; spanning cultures and traditions
1 4:03 Wild Horse medium rock
2 4:25 Thirsty fast hard rock
3 4:52 Sitting In The Dark ballad, some Japanese
4 5:34 Gypsy medium rock
5 1:53 Gyakumodori I acoustic, in Japanese
6 4:23 Heart Of A Rising Sun slow rock, bluesy
7 4:03 Jessie medium, in Japanese
8 4:36 Nine Miles medium, hard rock
9 5:07 We Dream Together ballad
10 2:07 Gyakumodori II fast rock jam, in Japanese
11 4:35 Kaeru No Uta (The Frog Song) ballad, in Japanese
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Highlights

Track 1. Wild Horse
An oft-told tale of bitter-sweet obsession in a 4 minute, mid-tempo rockbox.

Track 2. Thirsty
The title track of this album is a heavy, driving rock number with steelwheels and chrome trim. A stellar performance by the Penguins is augmented by Ultra Bidé drummer Tada and his alter-image on the lead guitar.

Track 3. Sitting In The Dark
A moody, intimate (and bilingual) ballad. Ken felt most able to express the subtle lyrical nuances by taking advantage of both languages.

Track 4. Gypsy
Ken originally wrote and performed Gypsy with The Faith in 1988. It remained a part of his repertoire and through many a re-arrangement and translation the song has grown to gain a kind of anthemic status among friends and fans, alike.

Track 6. Heart Of A Rising Sun
Written by Ken's frequent musical collaborator, Jason Yoon-Hendricks, the song has a somewhat American flavor. In fact, it was inspired by the tragic life of a famous Japanese music idol. This story of hidden pain in the lime-light is, apparently, universal as Ken's re-interpretation illustrates.

Track 11. Kaeru No Uta (The Frog Song)
A beautiful ballad, if a bit odd for Western audiences. The song is about frogs struggling survive in the summer heat much as humans get uglier as they compete against one another in life.




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