Quiet Life – Japan (Box Set)

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Japan – Quiet Life (box-set)

BMG Rights Management
Japan
New Wave / Post Punk
That Japan’s breakthrough record Quiet Life was released in both 1979 and 1980 is uniquely fitting for a band who were about to step out of the glam rock, post punk shadows of the late 70s and deliver an as yet genre-less record that would come to define the 80s. Quiet Life was the third, final and most successful release on the Hansa Records label. A forerunner for the alternative/new wave sound of the new decade, the album would become one of the great classic British albums. The record is now the subject of a major new reissue featuring a brand new Abbey Road half-speed remaster of the original album, alt mixes, b-sides, singles, rarities and live material – including the sought after ‘lost’ Live at Budokan show from March 1980 previously only available as the 4 track EP ‘Live in Japan’.

CD2 – A Quieter Life: Alternative Mixes and Rarities European Son (Steve Nye 7” Remix 1982)* (10/02/21) Life In Tokyo (Steve Nye 7” Special Remix 1982) Quiet Life (Original German 7” Mix 1980) I Second That Emotion (Steve Nye 7” Remix 1982) All Tomorrow’s Parties (Steve Nye 7” Remix Version 1983) European Son (John Punter 12” Mix 1980) Life In Tokyo (Steve Nye 12” Special Remix Version 1982) I Second That Emotion (Steve Nye 12” Remix Version 1982) All Tomorrow’s Parties (Steve Nye 12” Remix Version 1983) European Son (Steve Nye 12” Remix Version 1982) Quiet Life (Japanese 7” Mix 1980) [18/01/21] A Foreign Place All Tomorrow’s Parties (John Punter 7” Mix 1979) Life In Tokyo (Theme Giorgio Moroder Version 1979) [05/03/21] Deviation (Live In Japan) Obscure Alternatives (Live In Japan) In Vogue (Live In Japan) Sometimes I Feel So Low (Live In Japan)

CD3 – LIVE AT THE BUDOKAN 27/03/1980 Intro Alien …Rhodesia Quiet Life Fall In Love With Me Deviation All Tomorrow’s Parties Obscure Alternatives In Vogue Life In Tokyo Halloween Sometimes I Feel So Low Communist China Adolescent Sex I Second That Emotion Automatic Gun

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The artist

About Quiet Life

Quiet Life is the third studio album by English new wave band Japan, first released on 7 December 1979 in Canada, Japan and The Netherlands by record label Hansa and on 18 January 1980 in the UK. The album was a transition from the glam rock-influenced style of previous albums to a synth-pop style. Though sales were initially slow, Quiet Life was the band's first album to chart and was later certified Gold by the British Phonographic Industry for sales in excess of 100,000 copies.

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The release

About Japan (Box Set)

Japan (Box Set) is a release by Quiet Life. This edition is supplied as vinyl. Musically, it sits within All Products and Brit Rock.

GenreAll Products, Brit Rock, Rock