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- Summary: The remaster of the third album for the British new wave band includes a disc of alternative remixes and rare tracks as well as the full recording of their 1980 concert at Tokyo's Nippon Budokan.
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- Record Label: BMG Rights Management
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Art Rock, Punk/New Wave, Post-Punk, New Wave, New Romantic
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Mar 9, 2021Japan would go on to at least one better album than Quiet Life, but they would never again capture the same kind of nervous youthful energy they display here. An essential album from an essential band.
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Mar 9, 2021Inevitably, the two extra discs are thick with superfluous alternative and extended mixes. But there are fine non-album singles here too, notably the glossy synth-funk stomper European Son and a plastic-soul remake of Smokey Robinson’s I Second That Emotion. Also included is the four-track Live In Japan EP first released in 1980, and a full live album recorded at the same show. ... Glorious.
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UncutMar 9, 2021Quiet Life enabled Japan to get from B to C, and from D to E, and from there to wherever they went next. ... A third disc, recorded live at Japan's Budokan, captures the band at full tilt. [Apr 2021, p.45]
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MojoMar 9, 2021Remastered with a disc of rarities and curiously, a screamtastic bootleg-quality 1980 show at Tokyo's Budokan. [Apr 2021, p.97]
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Mar 9, 2021Japan had to go through the period of growth that resulted in Quiet Life, straining against the limits of their abilities as songwriters and musicians in order to move beyond them. As heard in the context of the group’s history, this album, however imperfect, feels rich with possibility and promise.