Frank Chickens: Ninja Legends 1983-1989, 4CD Box set

• 4CD box set focusing on their 80s recordings.

• Includes the well-known albums ‘We Are Frank Chickens’, ‘Get Chickenized’, ‘Club Monkey'.

• Plus an additional compilation of BBC live sessions recorded for John Peel, Richard Skinner and Janice Long.

Frank Chickens are a legendary Japanese punk pop performance group with a cult following in the UK. Started as a duo with Kazuko Hohki and Kazumi Taguchi, now the group has expanded to more than 20 members.

Influenced by pop, punk, and traditional music particularly Japanese Minyo (folk songs), Okinawa music and Enka, Frank Chickens set out to deflate the myths separating East and West, and men and women, while showing the absurdity of the dual stereotype of Japanese women as submissive geisha or mysterious femme fatales.

They were John Peel favourites, had an independent chart hit with ‘We Are Ninja’, won the Foster Comedy God Award in 2010, released five albums and toured worldwide. Recently they have become the power behind Ura Matsuri – the festival showcasing ESEA (East And South East Asian) artists in the UK.

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE

WE ARE FRANK CHICKENS

1  Cheeba Cheeba Chimpira

2  Mothra

3  Green Banana

4  Madam Fatal

5  We Are Ninja

6  Yellow Detective

7  Shellfish Bamboo

8  Pikadon

9  We Are Frank Chickens

10  Sake Ballad

NON ALBUM TRACKS

11  We Are Ninja (Re-Cut Version) (12”)

12  Fujiyama Mama

13  Ninja Dub

14  Blue Canary

15  China Night

16  Japanese Rhumba

17  Ari Lang

DISC TWO

GET CHICKENIZED

1  We Say You Say

2  Sacred Marriage

3  Street Angels, Tokyo

4  Two Little Ladies

5  Solid Life

6  Japanese Girl

7  Island Inside Island

8  Young Summer

9  Chicken Ondo

10  Yellow Toast

11  One Million Hamburgers

12  Monster

13  The Dark

14  House Of Ninja

NON ALBUM TRACKS

15  Yellow Toast (Burnt Mix) (12”)

16  One Million Hamburgers (Mac Mix) (12”)

DISC THREE

CLUB MONKEY

1  Club Monkey

2  Waiting For A Dog

3  Burn That Body

4  Revolution

5  Night Drain

6  Feed Me

7  Jackie Chan

8  Shaken By God’s Hand

9  M.Y.T.H.

10  Hey Dead

11  Club Monkey Reprise

12  Do The Karaoke

DISC FOUR

BBC LIVE SESSIONS

BBC JOHN PEEL SESSION 16th MAY 1983

1  We Are Ninja

BBC JOHN PEEL SESSION 28th SEPTEMBER 1983

2  Fujiyama Mama

3  Shellfish Bamboo

BBC JOHN PEEL SESSION 14th MARCH 1984

4  Blue Canary

5  Yellow Toast

BBC RICHARD SKINNER SESSION 26 JULY 1984

6  Black Ship

7  We Are Frank Chickens

BBC RICHARD SKINNER SESSION 14TH NOVEMBER 1984

8  Green Banana

9  Pikadon

10  We Say You Say

BBC JOHN PEEL SESSION 5th MARCH 1985

11  China Night

12  Ari Lang

13  Japanese Rumba

14  Sake Ballad

BBC JANICE LONG SESSION 31 JULY 1985

15  Yellow Detective

16  Madam Fatal

BBC JOHN PEEL SESSION 5TH AUGUST 1986

17  Japanese Girl

18  Sacred Marriage

19  Chicken Ondo

BBC JOHN PEEL SESSION 10TH JULY 1989

20  Jackie Chan

21  Do The Karaoke