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Outstanding
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Perfectly formed
Disadvantages:
NOne
Recommend to potential buyers:
yes
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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.
It includes Ghosts, Cantonese Boy, The Art of Parties, Talking Drum, Still Life In mobile Homes and Sons of Pioneers. It is the best work that Japan ever recorded and is the one you should buy if you only want to own one album by Japan. Unfortunately it marked the beginning of the end for the badn and shortly afterwards they were to be no more as the individual members started to fall out and go their own separate ways.
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