Bad Girl (Carlos Toshiki & Omega Tribe album)

Bad Girl
Bad Girl
Studio album by Carlos Toshiki & Omega Tribe
Released	September 21, 1989
Genre	City pop, soft rock
Label	VAP ; Warner Music Japan
Producer	Koichi Fujita,
Carlos Toshiki & Omega Tribe chronology
Singles from Bad Girl
	"Dōshite Suki to Itte Kurenai no"; Released: July 21, 1989;

Bad Girl (バッド・ガール) is the third studio album by Carlos Toshiki & Omega Tribe released by VAP on September 21, 1989, and later Warner Music Japan on February 21, 1991.^[2] The album peaked at No. 11 on the Oricon charts.^[3]

Background and composition[]

Released in the same year as their previous album, Be Yourself, the album included ten songs which were produced by Koichi Fujita and .^[1] They also had lyricist Yasuharu Konishi, Yasushi Akimoto and Chinfa Kan with Tamotsu Yoshida being appointed as the mixing engineer and Tetsuji Hayashi as a composer.^[4] Konishi was picked for the album as Shinkawa loved the Pizzicato Five, which Konshi was a part of.^[5] The members of the band contributed to the songs more than before; lead singer Carlos Toshiki, backing singer Joey McCoy and guitarist Shinji Takashima composing to two songs while keyboardist Toshitsugu Nishihara and composed one song.

The album received mixed reviews from fans, who disliked the direction of the album of not really being soft rock or city pop throughout the entire album.^[1]^[4]

Track listing[]

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Arrangement	Length
1.	"Bad Girl"	Yasuharu Konishi	Carlos Toshiki		5:19
2.	"Don't Think Bad"	Masao Urino	Tsunehiro Izumi	Shinkawa	4:47
3.	"Kimi wa Yowakunai" (君は弱くない)	Yasushi Akimoto	Toshitsugu Nishihara	Shinkawa	4:19
4.	"Hemmingway ni Aeru Umi" (ヘミングウェイに逢える海)	Shun Taguchi	Joey McCoy, Shinji Takashima	Shinkawa	4:10
5.	"Dear Favorite Music"	Taguchi	Shinkawa	Shinkawa	4:16
6.	"Dōshite Suki to Itte Kurenai no" (どうして好きといってくれないの)	Urino	Tetsuji Hayashi	Shinkawa	4:41
7.	"Gurei no Nagisa" (グレイの渚)	Taguchi	Takashima	Shinkawa	5:13
8.	"Miss Dreamer"	Taguchi	Toshiki	Shinkawa	4:38
9.	"Natsu no Poraroido" (夏のポラロイド)	Konishi	McCoy	Shinkawa	4:13
10.	"First Love"	Akimoto	Izumi	Shinkawa	5:04

Charts[]

Chart (1989)	Peak position
Oricon^[3]	11

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c "カルロス・トシキ＆オメガトライブ　BAD GIRL". CD Sōko. Rakuten. July 27, 2019.
^ "カルロス・トシキ & オメガ・トライブ - BAD GIRL[vap]'8x/10trks.LP 見本盤 (vg/ex++)". Blue Very (in Japanese).
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "1986オメガトライブ". 1000% Carlos Toshiki (in Japanese). Archived from the original on January 21, 2001.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "1989年に発表された、カルロス・トシキ&オメガトライブの「BAD GIRL」". Shōsetsu no Utagokoro. Ameba. August 9, 2020.
^ ; Kubota, Taihei (September 9, 2017). "シティ・ポップのゆくえ～1988年のオメガトライブ～". Kemono Disc.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

[soko-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c "カルロス・トシキ＆オメガトライブ　BAD GIRL". CD Sōko. Rakuten. July 27, 2019.

[2] "カルロス・トシキ & オメガ・トライブ - BAD GIRL[vap]'8x/10trks.LP 見本盤 (vg/ex++)". Blue Very (in Japanese).

[senpercento-3] Jump up to: ^a ^b "1986オメガトライブ". 1000% Carlos Toshiki (in Japanese). Archived from the original on January 21, 2001.

[miyazuki-4] Jump up to: ^a ^b "1989年に発表された、カルロス・トシキ&オメガトライブの「BAD GIRL」". Shōsetsu no Utagokoro. Ameba. August 9, 2020.

[5] ; Kubota, Taihei (September 9, 2017). "シティ・ポップのゆくえ～1988年のオメガトライブ～". Kemono Disc.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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