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This isn't a bad introduction to this wonderful band but with a little thought could have been so much better. Some of their most beautiful tracks are inexplicably missing: the brief Satie-esque Oil On Canvas, the sprawling ballad The Other Side of Life (the only Japan song Sylvian played on his last tour), the Bowie-esque Alien, the svelte Swing...What we do get is 2(?why?) versions of Ghosts, and on songs where the album versions were better eg Quiet Life they give a single version, and for those where the shorter mix would have been better (Polaroids, Canton live, Life In Tokyo) they've chosenmore… the long version - also live versions of Art of Parties and Cantonese Boy have more life to them than the studio mixes here. All a bit if a shame really (and as for the credits, typos and lack of any photos of any band members aside from David...) Best bet is still to buy the Exocising Ghosts compilation and either Quiet Life of Assemblage, or better still to invest in David Sylvian/Steve Jansen's brilliant new Nine Horses album 'Snow Borne Sorrow'

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Music > Albums

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CD

Release Type:

Retail

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Title:

Japan - The Very Best of Japan (2006) Retail CD

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Front

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946 x 937 px

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