Frank Chickens - We Are Frank Chickens
Now here's some leftovers from the Peel legacy. The Frank Chickens recorded six sessions for the great man's BBC radio show between 1983-1989 and shot to indie-pop stardom off the back of the first session and a subsequent Tube appearance. The driving force behind this novelty Jap-Synth-Pop were David Toop and Steve Beresford, both distinguished composers, studio engineers and producers, with the public face being London based ex-jap-pats Kazuko Hohki and Kazumi Taguchi.
We Are... is the debut Frank Chickens album and can best be described as silly dance-pop-rap similar to what the Tom Tom Club were doing but with Japanese accents. At times amusing, but mostly cringe worthy this is not a great record, but it was a huge step in Anglo-Japanese relationships for the post-
It Ain't Half Hot Mum generation.
Many years ago, I posted a rip of their first single, a cover of Fujiyama Mama, which strangely didn't appear on this album. If there is enough demand, I'll dig it out and post a re-rip. The classic b-side We Are Ninja does feature.
Ripped from a vinyl album released on Kaz Records (KAZ LP2) in 1984 to high quality lossless flac audio.
A1. Cheena Cheeba Chimpira
A2. Mothra
A3. Green Banana
A4. Madam Fatal
A5. We Are Ninja
B1. Yellow Detective
B2. Shellfish Bamboo
B3. Pikadon
B4. We Are Frank Chickens
B5. Sake Ballad.
