Advantages: Perfect songwriting and performances. Disadvantages: Not enough of it.
When Japan released "Tin Drum" in 1981 they finally broke into the mainstream, gaining critical and commercial applause for their breathtaking originality.
Sadly, one tour later, they broke, bitterly and with the exception of the semi-reunion ""Rain tree crow" sessions, have not performed together since.
It is hard to believe that a work like this was produced by four men in their very early twenties but they were always old souls.
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Tin Drum, the second album Japan released on Virgin, in 1981, went gold, confirming the band’s best selling status, and in 1982 they enjoyed two top ten singles, Ghosts (from the album) and a re-release by their former record company Ariola of their version of the old Motown classic I Second That Emotion.
Tin Drum was also Japan’s most successful album musically and, with its Maoist inspired cover, emphasised their oriental influences.
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Release Date: 1985-04-15, Audio CD, Virgin