The FANKS!／GORILLA (1986, TM NETWORK)

The
FANKS!

FUNK, PUNK, FANS, 
IT CAN MAKE YOU FEEL THE POWER AND THE TENDERNESS ®

You may like funky music or you may not,
You may be punk or you may not be, and you may be one of our fans or you maybe not.
<Of course we are sure that you will be one of our fans after listening this album>
But forget about these kinds of things for the moment.
Because we've made "The FANKS" for you.
When you listen to it,
You will sometimes feel the power, sometimes the tenderness,
and sometimes the sentiment.
And above all, you can dance to
"The FANKS"
anywhere, anytime, in anyway.
Come on, Let's Dance!

GORILLA

One day,
I saw some photographs of gorillas in a book.
I used to have a bad image about gorillas till then,
as a rough, dull, dirty animal,
but these pictures changed my impressions.
Some looked powerful, some looked rhythmic
(As you may know, their chest-beating is called "drumming"),
some looked tender,
some looked sad,
and some looked even intellectual.
They seemed very close to the human being.
And I came to think that their nature was very close to what we wanted to express through our music
"The FANKS".
That's why we decided to call our third album
"GORILLA".
How about thinking about those gorillas in the jungle of far-away Africa?

(1986, from the TM NETWORK's album "GORILLA")