Er..I just photos of this chick that he had kids with, Ingrid Chavez .she looks quite beautiful..so..forget the fagg line...hahaha.but still he has the most annoying voice and pretentious style. definitely would be tossing the salad in prison me thinks.
Definately their best song, the song is just so haunting and enchanting. It sends tingles down my spine everytime I hear it and can't stop myself from singing along at disturbing high volume.
You can go to nightporter.co.uk/pages/bass_auction.html to learn about a bass auction with the proceeds going to the Mick Karn Appeal to help this great bassist and his family during his recent time of need fighting cancer.
japan is among the best things i keep in my memories back from the 80ties, even better as depeche m. And ghosts is the most spiritual song of that band and is bonded to my memory for ever.
I'd forgotten how good this track was, liked it then & it's still quite good today. The comments below are hilarious though, no need guys, grow up eh!
I now believe that japoan fans are stuck in a tanget universe of 1980 where their icons, japan, are protected from the evolution of pop music and retain their cool status for ever and a day...seriously, japan fans, you live in la la land and perhaps moving to far far away and socialise with shrek would be best option in life for you lot coz you live in fairytale world.
U2 played at my college in the early 80's ... good PA... otherwise boring ... I would have rather seen Japan. U2 got better later ... the Eno influence no doubt ! Sylvian would later play and sing on tour with Fripp and a version of King Krimson although they may not have called it that.
Doesn't this sound a bit like...No, that's right Japan don't sound like anybody else..and the Bass player - Mick Karn - is still one of my favourite bassists. Musicians amongst you will note that you NEVER see any of his basslines on Tab sites - can't emulate his level of brilliance!!
@donandlil Erm, the suspiciously Japanese looking chappy playing the synth is non another than RS himself making a guest appearance with the line-up for this performance!
Oh wah wah wah... all you pseudo wannabe music purists slamming the Police & U2, change your pad already & calm down!!!! All that tight bra strap hissy fit aside, DAMN this is such a sick song, there's such a beautiful melody to this which seems to compliment the angular notes from the guitars & synths. Unlike anything I've ever heard, awesome.
Mood1ndigo your name says it all, MOOOOOODYgrow up mate. Music is in the ear of the beholer. Im sure many ppl think your favourite music is a load of shiite to? think before you type. An Japan WERE incredably influencal an original at the time.
@Mood1ndigo get your facts correct you troll/asrsehole/underclass/retard/socially disadvantaged/pest/scrotum - i enjoy japan music at times and of course believe they were a talented outfit. that said, i dont think they were the best band of the era or anything like that but i would say they would be in the top ten of 80s artists probably. In addition, when enjoying these videos, the comments i read are so ego influennced and outwith factual consideration i am compelled to respond. fuck you.
This is a great track from one of the best art rock bands of the 80's,
David Sylvian and his band were WAY ahead of their times, along with Wang Chung, while they opening real techno doors, the Police were doing boring white boy watered down reggae and U2 were doing laughable copies of the Doors and singing protest crap no one gave a crap about ! Real Art lingers! If you like Japan, check out Wang Chung 'Points on a Curve' , or their film score to 'To Live and Die in LA' .
Half of you are speaking some what strangely, this is brillance, I can understand people might get annoyed , but this and Nightporter....maybe these people never had a first Love.
This song foreshadows so much of his solo work, especially the material on "Blemish" - the atmospheric arrangement, the dissonance, the seemingly disembodied vocal lines...great stuff.
you have to be in the right mellow melancholic mood for this style of chillout new wave. gary numan has an album called dance that has a similar style. it may be with the bassist from japan if i remember right...
Well, Japan did cobble together the sounds of Eno with a Bowie-tinged melodic sensibility, but they did in a way that was completely original. Nick Karn's slithering baseline on "My New Career" is a great example of this; I can't think of a musical precedent for it. Duran Duran, on the other hand, borrowed heavily from Japan's aesthetic. If you're denying that, you're just a blind fanboy.
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if any one know what respect is they display it. If youhave an opinion on music then you have to say it. people might not like it. anyway, critical feedback on Japan is needed to help those who have succumbed to the hero worship disease of davy sylvian. japan are not original.
having discovered this pearl only veeeeery late, have to say - so moving & brilliant!!!!! Can't stop listening! Have more of them by now and they are so worth it!
2greg.firstly, japan's 1st two albums were more glam rock and came out some 3 years b4 duran duran's 1st album. secondly ,singles life in tokyo79 and quiet life80 were both released before careless memory81 and planet earth81 which to me sound like total japan rip offs.thirdly- they even stole the japan image.finally , all the bands you quoted are cool but are not a facsimili of other bands- sorry but ,duran duran were at this stage.
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I DONT THINK THEY DO AS- duran duran had a far more punk edged guitar sound on album 1 and bass player john taylor was a fanantic of bernard edwards - chic - disco. the simiaarity in music is on the synth = nick rhodes obsession and grew up with kraftwerk/tangerine dream/can/eno and bowie. japan were too new (in terms of time) to have infljuenced duran duran as Japan fans like to believe (its part of your hero worship mechanism).
A superb song. No pun intended but very haunting! I was pleased to see it referred to in the novel The History of Us, a book set in the early eighties. They must've been great times.
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a view to a kill? man, your a thick fucking silly idiotic davy sylvian masterbater to his videos and nuisance of a retared dweeb brained nostaligia filled fucker of a bampot.
gregingram1970 is a psychopath troll, just ignore him. I'm shocked to see he's still up to this. He's been doing it for over a year. Just randomly trolling and trying to start fights under Japan videos. Seriously get a life man and move on with yourself. Maybe get the help you need while you're at it.
the singer was a David Sylvan of Japan. They were around in the early 80s but they hit the big time when they changed their record label. Up until then they had a cult following.
Many people will relate to this: terrible things that happened to you in the early part of your life, you can spend the rest of your life trying to get over them.
when my marrige broke up i discovered this song i rate it the best ok i dont even know who sings it but it is a good recording plus i use to watch old grey whistle test thank you
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It's absolutely astounding to always come to Japan videos and see my comments thumbed down. It actually upsets me - gee man, I just happen to like David AND Nick Rhodes, is that how much you elitists hate Nick?! That's sad guys, I feel sorry for you putting such barriers on yourself, both Duran and Japan make great music, give yourself a chance to discover it!
there's nothing to discover in Duran Duran except they mostly suck, a few good early songs influenced by this band and a few others and a whole career of just flat out awful and embarrassing music. You know things are bad when they think working with Timberlake and hip hop producers is going to save their careers. Even Andy Taylor is smart enough to realize that. They're rich commercial pop whores whereas the members of Japan have done music with meaning and for pure art.
I know all those songs very well, I'm not a casual fan of that band at all. I know them very well and even have many live recordings of them. Nothing you mentioned there is past 1982 though, what about the rest of their career?
When I said "a few" those are some of the songs I would choose. Considering their whole career, that early stuff is just a few things. I wouldn't even say their third album is any good, it seems to have a huge lack of focus and awful commercial singles like the reflex.
Please don't label me as naive. Japan fans aren't naive either. I don't even know anyone who likes this band, there aren't many of us out there. I do anything but limit myself. I wouldn't of wrote the comment had I not believed in it or at least had some idea what I was talking about. I can tell you a few songs that sound like Japan, Planet Earth, Tiger Tiger, Sound of Thunder.
listen to tiger tiger then tin drum the album stuff like canton, clear influence there. listen to planet earth, the synth and beat is the same.
your favorite bands are all 80s associated except the beatles. I like the beatles (far from fanatically) but there's so much more out there in the 60s than them. I'm almost sick of them, there's endless amounts of good 60s music. Check out an 80s band called fiat lux, think you might like them.
well I just thought it was odd to have the beatles listed next to 80s bands honestly, nothing more nothing less than that. The rest is all assumptions!
I know the cryin' shames, been on freakbeat compilations a bunch.
I never told you who your favorite band should be. I just recommended one I doubt you heard of. It's not some contest and I never jumped to conclusions. yikes!
I don't want to turn this into some DD discussion. I think they're a crap band past 1983 who lost their original focus.
Those first 2 albums get loads of credit, whereas Japan get nothing. I think it's quite the other way around. Everyone knows Rio but do they know Quiet Life? Nope. Gentlemen Take Polaroids? Nope. Tin Drum? Nope. Japan gets left out in the cold. It isn't wrong to say they're teenie pop either, they've dabbled in some of that for sure. Every teenage girl did love them right
I'm getting seriously confused by all these comments plus some of them you deleted (?) I can't reply here anymore, way too confusing, send me a private message if you want to discuss this more.
I definitely think its a commercial single. it's everything that defined what I hated about the 80s. Give me Sound of Thunder, khanada, etc etc over that any day.
Buddy Holly didn't record really bad music later on so he's remembered for what he did before he died. With DD you have a career of 32 years to look at and consider.
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Absolutely astonished to look back on my comments and see them being thumbed-down to the point where they can't be viewed. So I like Duran AND Japan, is that not acceptable?! Why do you all have to be such snobs when it comes to Duran? It is possible to like both bands, you know...
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Can't people just accept that Nick Rhodes resembles like David Sylvian, that's where the Japan/Duran comparison ends! He can't help what he was born with, you make out he had surgery to look like him! They don't even dress the same.
You don't hear orchestral synths or Dave Gilmour-esque soaring guitar in Japan. Their music is very different, but both equally good! 80s = people used the same Roland synths, people teased & dyed their hair, guys wore make-up. It's not just Nick and David.
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@chronoglideskyway2 of course i can that was why i watched japan videos to start with. however when reading through comments it becomes highly offensive with some of the shite people write regarding duran duran indebted to japan for their career?? thats just simply wrong on every level. what people fail to undestand is the similarity is with the synths and both bands - as most people outwith japan cicles know - brain enos roxy music shaped japans ambience. tbc
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@chronoglideskyway2 egoist? i dont think so. i think what you meant was that i dont like reading stuff about duran durans career based on japans...as its wrong and offensive and as a result i express my disgust with my point of view. if that means, to you, im an egoist then in your eyes I must be. i disagree.
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The point is, all you Japan elitists who don't open your eyes up to the great music produced by bands who were influenced by them (amoungst other bands), for instance Duran Duran... just as bad as Bowie fans who don't embrace Sylvian for fear that he 'copied' him. Get over it, influence is a wonderful thing! Without The Beatles or Rolling Stones none of these bands would exist, influence is everything! Those two bands showed that music could actually be a career not just a hobby.
All I know was that I was 13/14 when this came out and 2 albums later (yes, it was VERY expensive! $9.99 an album!) I thought, man, between him and Roxy, there is some wierd plane of existence I'm missing from life....
I used to sit and listen to this band late 70!s early 80!s they were great ,or was it just the drink and dugs,or being 19/ 20 ish.just to let you know my favorite bands of the time and now! ac/dc,thin lizzy ,quo,sex pistols,dammed,t,rex,kate bush,furs,rush,girl,everything and anything,its all good!?
Why did they quit after their biggest hit? Doesn't make sense to me. I would've thought that that alone would make a band realise that they should continue?
New solo album "manafon" out now, but if you've not kept up - I'd recommend the Nine Horses - Snow Borne Sorrow as his best recent work. Manafon is an acquired taste...
Why have this band been wiped from music history - watched the BBC docu on Synth Britania not a fucking mention .... tragic.Thiey were total class and very original.
if you watched synth britannia at the bbc it showed their performance of Ghosts (discovering it for the first time) and Quiet Life is on Ministry of Sound - Anthems Electronic 80s...
Amazing! The first time I have seen this on YouTube and Im taken back to many years ago when I first heard the tune! Love this sound!!!
IRONJUNK625 1 year ago
Er..I just photos of this chick that he had kids with, Ingrid Chavez .she looks quite beautiful..so..forget the fagg line...hahaha.but still he has the most annoying voice and pretentious style. definitely would be tossing the salad in prison me thinks.
rockcityaudio 1 year ago
Sad to hear about Mick Karn's ill health.....such an innovative bass player !
Hope things are as comfortable as they can be Mick!
rael1999 1 year ago
David Sylvian is amazing, Très chic!
anniechristien 1 year ago
what a tune..one of the best of their genre...
urbanscubadiver1 1 year ago
david sylvian modelled him self on lady diana and in later years meg ryan. what a fairy
gregingram1970 1 year ago
Definately their best song, the song is just so haunting and enchanting. It sends tingles down my spine everytime I hear it and can't stop myself from singing along at disturbing high volume.
steviej815 1 year ago
awsomee
Softie25 1 year ago
this song is creepy man lol, im not old enough to know the original, but the trance mix is sure a tune
BendTOONer 1 year ago
So awesome... Here's hoping Mick Karn can pull through and make a full recovery. Thinking of you Mick x
lubilou64 1 year ago
Yeah, classic track 4 sure
Ni9kye 1 year ago
i think this has really stood the test of time....
nothing quite like it before or after
thesillywabbit1349 1 year ago
Best use of a SCI Prophet 5 and a marimba in a song ever! Plus I love David Sylvian's voice, not to everyone's taste but certainly to mine.
davedagreat69 1 year ago 4
Its kinda confused me at first. LOLOL i thought the video will be about a ghost in Japan.
zZhOrNyZmOnSTeRZz 1 year ago
You can go to nightporter.co.uk/pages/bass_auction.html to learn about a bass auction with the proceeds going to the Mick Karn Appeal to help this great bassist and his family during his recent time of need fighting cancer.
ronbo11 1 year ago
This song is awesome - takes me back to when days were better. No idea what mood1indigo has posted but bet he needs some serious therapy
MrCairo1934 1 year ago
This song is awesome - takes me back to when days were better. No idea what mood1indigo has posted but bet he needs some serious therapy
MrCairo1934 1 year ago
japan is among the best things i keep in my memories back from the 80ties, even better as depeche m. And ghosts is the most spiritual song of that band and is bonded to my memory for ever.
333Chrome 1 year ago
mick karn is dying with cancer:( im a bass player and i dont know if i would have been if not for japan....
sprintbass 1 year ago
I'd forgotten how good this track was, liked it then & it's still quite good today. The comments below are hilarious though, no need guys, grow up eh!
raydex63 1 year ago
Go to mickkarn.net and see how you can help him fight his bout with cancer!
ronbo11 1 year ago
I used to hate this song, but its really grown on me - its so creepy and unusual - love it!!!!
lizzie1820 1 year ago
I now believe that japoan fans are stuck in a tanget universe of 1980 where their icons, japan, are protected from the evolution of pop music and retain their cool status for ever and a day...seriously, japan fans, you live in la la land and perhaps moving to far far away and socialise with shrek would be best option in life for you lot coz you live in fairytale world.
gregingram1970 1 year ago
all of ya...shut the f..k up ! and just listen to
this beautiful song, and remember those ghostly
80ties, when musik was the religion, and not the
fight about who was Cool.
being cool was about musik like this song.
if u dont feel it...well dont bother answering
333Chrome 1 year ago
U2 played at my college in the early 80's ... good PA... otherwise boring ... I would have rather seen Japan. U2 got better later ... the Eno influence no doubt ! Sylvian would later play and sing on tour with Fripp and a version of King Krimson although they may not have called it that.
videocanone 1 year ago
my life they where so gay
o4fcuksake 1 year ago
Doesn't this sound a bit like...No, that's right Japan don't sound like anybody else..and the Bass player - Mick Karn - is still one of my favourite bassists. Musicians amongst you will note that you NEVER see any of his basslines on Tab sites - can't emulate his level of brilliance!!
micktomazou 1 year ago
No words, just ghosts in the machine....
TheSilverDubber 1 year ago
One of the first singles in which my sister's and my musical tastes converged. A great song!!!
Leeandrew65 1 year ago
one of the most important british band of that era
JAPAN RULES !!!!
FLORENT2222 1 year ago
I loved this song. When I was eleven. When I feel upset. I play this song. And listen to the music always helps me to think and relex. I am now 41
janpeanut 1 year ago
Does anyone know if the fellow with the scarf is Riuichi Sakamoto? The last golden age of music was 1978 to 1985 and everything since then sucks.
pattyo14 1 year ago
@pattyo14 no its not riuichi sakamoto he came later when david sylvian went solo
donandlil 1 year ago
@donandlil Erm, the suspiciously Japanese looking chappy playing the synth is non another than RS himself making a guest appearance with the line-up for this performance!
Peace.
TheSilverDubber 1 year ago
Oh wah wah wah... all you pseudo wannabe music purists slamming the Police & U2, change your pad already & calm down!!!! All that tight bra strap hissy fit aside, DAMN this is such a sick song, there's such a beautiful melody to this which seems to compliment the angular notes from the guitars & synths. Unlike anything I've ever heard, awesome.
huezo92703 1 year ago
choooooon!
homePicShow 1 year ago
brilliant! thanks for this, I havent heard it for years!
Lomie32 1 year ago
Nice creative use of synths unlike the predictable, loud, irritating crap in today's charts.
maccagrabme 1 year ago
@maccagrabme The keyboardist is now a member of Porcupine Tree, which is a fantastic band. Check them out if you haven't.
OrangePylon 1 year ago
Mood1ndigo your name says it all, MOOOOOODYgrow up mate. Music is in the ear of the beholer. Im sure many ppl think your favourite music is a load of shiite to? think before you type. An Japan WERE incredably influencal an original at the time.
(my apologies on the spealling lol)
87NNY 1 year ago
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Mood1ndigo 1 year ago
@Mood1ndigo get your facts correct you troll/asrsehole/underclass/retard/socially disadvantaged/pest/scrotum - i enjoy japan music at times and of course believe they were a talented outfit. that said, i dont think they were the best band of the era or anything like that but i would say they would be in the top ten of 80s artists probably. In addition, when enjoying these videos, the comments i read are so ego influennced and outwith factual consideration i am compelled to respond. fuck you.
gregingram1970 1 year ago
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Mood1ndigo 1 year ago
the man with the most beautiful nose in the world ...the song is not bad either :)
lilacwine1971 1 year ago
i was at the recording of this performance at riverside studios, it was magical!
teribilli 1 year ago
This song is just...man, there isn't anything else like it...awesome song.
DrNic010 1 year ago 14
This is a great track from one of the best art rock bands of the 80's,
David Sylvian and his band were WAY ahead of their times, along with Wang Chung, while they opening real techno doors, the Police were doing boring white boy watered down reggae and U2 were doing laughable copies of the Doors and singing protest crap no one gave a crap about ! Real Art lingers! If you like Japan, check out Wang Chung 'Points on a Curve' , or their film score to 'To Live and Die in LA' .
videocanone 1 year ago
@videocanone the police and u2 are way more well known though frighteningly enough. That's ok I like japan being a bit of a secret
shockmastershocksu 1 year ago
one of the greatest 80's songs
darklord682 1 year ago
in response to gregingram1970's BS comments:
I was a fan of Mick Karn's work with Japan (esp. Quiet Life,and Gentleman Take Polaroids) and he inspired me to play fretless" - John Taylor
electric barbarella's single cover
"Band founder Nick Rhodes:
-... drawing from the musical, visual and lyrical stylistic elements of Bowie, Ferry, Sylvian and Eno...-
shockmastershocksu 1 year ago
Nick Rhodes played Visions of China on MTV
John Taylor has played their songs when he dejays
Roger Taylor lists Japan under his favorite albums in Red Carpet Massacre tour book
shockmastershocksu 1 year ago
A very atmospheric piece of music. Highly enjoyable.
doire1962 1 year ago
Half of you are speaking some what strangely, this is brillance, I can understand people might get annoyed , but this and Nightporter....maybe these people never had a first Love.
fleaby 1 year ago
Deftones covering this on the itunes version of diamond eyes along with 2 others
tommyjohnson43 1 year ago 2
Great original song,with a great melody!
Tonefid115 1 year ago
I was doing any punk and new wave around from 77 on and I totally never got these guys.
MrFrendan 1 year ago
chills- literally goosebumps on top of goosebumps
MaryPastorius 1 year ago
great version, love the extra synth sounds
chrisnoaro1 1 year ago
Aaaah! The Old Grey Woolly Vest ☺ not itchy and scratchy, always a comfy fit. It was the best. Give us a *whisper* please Bob.
Top tune. This still sounds great! ;-j
ELGROOVER 1 year ago
This song foreshadows so much of his solo work, especially the material on "Blemish" - the atmospheric arrangement, the dissonance, the seemingly disembodied vocal lines...great stuff.
silverwheel 1 year ago
david played this on his 08 solo tour, his new cd Manafon
anthonynewsome 1 year ago
@Mood1ndigo
a) who or what is GregIngram?
b) my comment was not out of context, I'm saying your opinion is of no interest.
barneyjrubble 1 year ago
you have to be in the right mellow melancholic mood for this style of chillout new wave. gary numan has an album called dance that has a similar style. it may be with the bassist from japan if i remember right...
ginsushark 1 year ago
Ripped of blatantly by other household 80,s bands,Japan were beyond cool at the time,Thanks to the poster.
musicfunkydude 1 year ago
Mood1ndigo, do you think anyone cares what you think?
barneyjrubble 1 year ago
@barneyjrubble You're an alt of GregIngram, I assume?
Read the chat transcript before taking comments out of context and making uninformed, stupid comments like this.
Mood1ndigo 1 year ago
I really can't be arsed with what everyone else is saying..........beautiful tune............x
Deliah71 1 year ago
Amazing 80's song...
obscuredreamer 1 year ago
Met Japan on the Oxford road show in 1981. What happened to them? Quiet life was the main song
the0fart0machine 1 year ago
Thank goodness for the BBC's Ashes to Ashes, or I would never have found this (90's lad) :D
Marillionmad 1 year ago
Still a pleasure to see again after all these years x
kiva2611 1 year ago
Haunting. Just like ghosts...
tibbzscrum 1 year ago
although a little sedated for my tastes, this song is musical genius!
ahotbanana 1 year ago
bloody shame we don't see anything this interesting in the charts now
canvoodoo 1 year ago 10
@canvoodoo Then don't look at the charts... Interesting music is being released constantly.
MonokelJohn 1 year ago
Well, Japan did cobble together the sounds of Eno with a Bowie-tinged melodic sensibility, but they did in a way that was completely original. Nick Karn's slithering baseline on "My New Career" is a great example of this; I can't think of a musical precedent for it. Duran Duran, on the other hand, borrowed heavily from Japan's aesthetic. If you're denying that, you're just a blind fanboy.
Mood1ndigo 1 year ago
LOLWUT
Mood1ndigo 1 year ago
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if any one know what respect is they display it. If youhave an opinion on music then you have to say it. people might not like it. anyway, critical feedback on Japan is needed to help those who have succumbed to the hero worship disease of davy sylvian. japan are not original.
gregingram1970 1 year ago
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just so japan fairiesknow...i dont read your persona messages. as soon as i see what they are...delete!
i can sense the jelous and toxic flames of hate burning bright...japan = pseudo original band with a big krautrock/bowie/roxy music influence...
gregingram1970 1 year ago
Fabulous, era-defining track.
erictapeworm 1 year ago
such an underated song.....atmospheric sounding ....so cool
bluepowder2008 1 year ago 3
having discovered this pearl only veeeeery late, have to say - so moving & brilliant!!!!! Can't stop listening! Have more of them by now and they are so worth it!
karimamilena 1 year ago
2greg.firstly, japan's 1st two albums were more glam rock and came out some 3 years b4 duran duran's 1st album. secondly ,singles life in tokyo79 and quiet life80 were both released before careless memory81 and planet earth81 which to me sound like total japan rip offs.thirdly- they even stole the japan image.finally , all the bands you quoted are cool but are not a facsimili of other bands- sorry but ,duran duran were at this stage.
thelandingsmusic 1 year ago
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I DONT THINK THEY DO AS- duran duran had a far more punk edged guitar sound on album 1 and bass player john taylor was a fanantic of bernard edwards - chic - disco. the simiaarity in music is on the synth = nick rhodes obsession and grew up with kraftwerk/tangerine dream/can/eno and bowie. japan were too new (in terms of time) to have infljuenced duran duran as Japan fans like to believe (its part of your hero worship mechanism).
gregingram1970 1 year ago
riot in glasga
sirjimtorbett 1 year ago
To see Mr. Sakamoto in this stage playing with them, how lucky I am!
anitjazz 1 year ago
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WTF is this shit. cunts.
daddyjoe21 1 year ago
A superb song. No pun intended but very haunting! I was pleased to see it referred to in the novel The History of Us, a book set in the early eighties. They must've been great times.
swanseaanorak 1 year ago 4
Using the generic spiritual world as a canvas while touching the inevitable theam of the man and war with his own demon
megabruce15 1 year ago
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theme is not theam. hilarioud. keep philosophical thoughts to yourself if you cant express them properly
gregingram1970 1 year ago
Hi Greg, is this what it sounds like in your head? when your alone at night quietly rocking backwards and forwards holding your knees and sobbing?
BONGOSPANNERS 1 year ago
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a view to a kill? man, your a thick fucking silly idiotic davy sylvian masterbater to his videos and nuisance of a retared dweeb brained nostaligia filled fucker of a bampot.
caio.
gregingram1970 1 year ago
gregingram1970 is a psychopath troll, just ignore him. I'm shocked to see he's still up to this. He's been doing it for over a year. Just randomly trolling and trying to start fights under Japan videos. Seriously get a life man and move on with yourself. Maybe get the help you need while you're at it.
paintedship 1 year ago 13
the singer was a David Sylvan of Japan. They were around in the early 80s but they hit the big time when they changed their record label. Up until then they had a cult following.
overner2001 1 year ago
Many people will relate to this: terrible things that happened to you in the early part of your life, you can spend the rest of your life trying to get over them.
quelter1 1 year ago 3
when my marrige broke up i discovered this song i rate it the best ok i dont even know who sings it but it is a good recording plus i use to watch old grey whistle test thank you
amandajaynemrs 1 year ago
@amandajaynemrs the greatest 80's band ever ;)
neil1963creed 1 year ago
Wow, i had forgotten how good this was.
palinlfc 1 year ago
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It's absolutely astounding to always come to Japan videos and see my comments thumbed down. It actually upsets me - gee man, I just happen to like David AND Nick Rhodes, is that how much you elitists hate Nick?! That's sad guys, I feel sorry for you putting such barriers on yourself, both Duran and Japan make great music, give yourself a chance to discover it!
dizzymisslizzylane 1 year ago
there's nothing to discover in Duran Duran except they mostly suck, a few good early songs influenced by this band and a few others and a whole career of just flat out awful and embarrassing music. You know things are bad when they think working with Timberlake and hip hop producers is going to save their careers. Even Andy Taylor is smart enough to realize that. They're rich commercial pop whores whereas the members of Japan have done music with meaning and for pure art.
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dizzymisslizzylane 1 year ago
I know all those songs very well, I'm not a casual fan of that band at all. I know them very well and even have many live recordings of them. Nothing you mentioned there is past 1982 though, what about the rest of their career?
When I said "a few" those are some of the songs I would choose. Considering their whole career, that early stuff is just a few things. I wouldn't even say their third album is any good, it seems to have a huge lack of focus and awful commercial singles like the reflex.
rhodesia789 1 year ago
Please don't label me as naive. Japan fans aren't naive either. I don't even know anyone who likes this band, there aren't many of us out there. I do anything but limit myself. I wouldn't of wrote the comment had I not believed in it or at least had some idea what I was talking about. I can tell you a few songs that sound like Japan, Planet Earth, Tiger Tiger, Sound of Thunder.
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dizzymisslizzylane 1 year ago
listen to tiger tiger then tin drum the album stuff like canton, clear influence there. listen to planet earth, the synth and beat is the same.
your favorite bands are all 80s associated except the beatles. I like the beatles (far from fanatically) but there's so much more out there in the 60s than them. I'm almost sick of them, there's endless amounts of good 60s music. Check out an 80s band called fiat lux, think you might like them.
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dizzymisslizzylane 1 year ago
you asked me to name the songs since you didn't believe there were any and I did. That's all I did and I didn't say anything more to it.
I'm sure I have heard of anything you could name from the 60s, even bands that record one single, that's what I know.
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dizzymisslizzylane 1 year ago
well I just thought it was odd to have the beatles listed next to 80s bands honestly, nothing more nothing less than that. The rest is all assumptions!
I know the cryin' shames, been on freakbeat compilations a bunch.
rhodesia789 1 year ago
I never told you who your favorite band should be. I just recommended one I doubt you heard of. It's not some contest and I never jumped to conclusions. yikes!
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dizzymisslizzylane 1 year ago
@rhodesia789 There's nothing wrong with odd, I'm sure David would agree with that tangent.
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dizzymisslizzylane 1 year ago
I don't want to turn this into some DD discussion. I think they're a crap band past 1983 who lost their original focus.
Those first 2 albums get loads of credit, whereas Japan get nothing. I think it's quite the other way around. Everyone knows Rio but do they know Quiet Life? Nope. Gentlemen Take Polaroids? Nope. Tin Drum? Nope. Japan gets left out in the cold. It isn't wrong to say they're teenie pop either, they've dabbled in some of that for sure. Every teenage girl did love them right
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dizzymisslizzylane 1 year ago
I'm getting seriously confused by all these comments plus some of them you deleted (?) I can't reply here anymore, way too confusing, send me a private message if you want to discuss this more.
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dizzymisslizzylane 1 year ago
would be happy to discuss this more in detail but don't feel it's right to flood the comments about this, send me a private message if you like.
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dizzymisslizzylane 1 year ago
I definitely think its a commercial single. it's everything that defined what I hated about the 80s. Give me Sound of Thunder, khanada, etc etc over that any day.
Buddy Holly didn't record really bad music later on so he's remembered for what he did before he died. With DD you have a career of 32 years to look at and consider.
does Sylvian's solo music appeal to you?
rhodesia789 1 year ago
~ So Sweet ~
PogoPena 1 year ago 2
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japan fairies/fans dont like accurate criticism of their beloved roxy music layden sounds...
gregingram1970 1 year ago
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Absolutely astonished to look back on my comments and see them being thumbed-down to the point where they can't be viewed. So I like Duran AND Japan, is that not acceptable?! Why do you all have to be such snobs when it comes to Duran? It is possible to like both bands, you know...
You're restricting yourself alot.
dizzymisslizzylane 2 years ago
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Can't people just accept that Nick Rhodes resembles like David Sylvian, that's where the Japan/Duran comparison ends! He can't help what he was born with, you make out he had surgery to look like him! They don't even dress the same.
You don't hear orchestral synths or Dave Gilmour-esque soaring guitar in Japan. Their music is very different, but both equally good! 80s = people used the same Roland synths, people teased & dyed their hair, guys wore make-up. It's not just Nick and David.
dizzymisslizzylane 2 years ago
well theres a clear egotist here, can't you enjoy the music "gregingram"! :)
chronoglideskyway2 2 years ago 4
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@chronoglideskyway2 of course i can that was why i watched japan videos to start with. however when reading through comments it becomes highly offensive with some of the shite people write regarding duran duran indebted to japan for their career?? thats just simply wrong on every level. what people fail to undestand is the similarity is with the synths and both bands - as most people outwith japan cicles know - brain enos roxy music shaped japans ambience. tbc
gregingram1970 2 years ago
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How very true.
TWENTIETHCENTURYBABY 1 year ago
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@chronoglideskyway2 egoist? i dont think so. i think what you meant was that i dont like reading stuff about duran durans career based on japans...as its wrong and offensive and as a result i express my disgust with my point of view. if that means, to you, im an egoist then in your eyes I must be. i disagree.
gregingram1970 2 years ago
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The point is, all you Japan elitists who don't open your eyes up to the great music produced by bands who were influenced by them (amoungst other bands), for instance Duran Duran... just as bad as Bowie fans who don't embrace Sylvian for fear that he 'copied' him. Get over it, influence is a wonderful thing! Without The Beatles or Rolling Stones none of these bands would exist, influence is everything! Those two bands showed that music could actually be a career not just a hobby.
dizzymisslizzylane 2 years ago
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boring!
tiasarahellielorna 2 years ago
@psb20367, you and me both
TheAdeDavis 2 years ago 3
1982 I was 15 ,used to spend hours in front of the mirror trying to get my hair like that ... yes you've guessed am bald now lol
psb20367 2 years ago 5
Amazing song. Simple as that
xmattvsmondayx 2 years ago 2
applause
LGUppercase 2 years ago 2
Beautiful, riuchi is awesome
Schubeedoobee 2 years ago 2
Ryuichi Sakamoto : keybords
nostalgia22 2 years ago
He started out with them-strange but true.
kiran2368 2 years ago
f--- Blender mag, good for cat box liner.
MegaDumkopf 2 years ago 2
wish they wood reform
rrr2407 2 years ago 2
wtf?
GeorgeTabs 2 years ago
We all did OGWT back then
John Peel was very influential..
And it was my first time to meet David. And he said. Ah,Julian. Wilder.
copeyattamsworth 2 years ago
o que tem piada sao as minhas enfluencias, ao fim destes anos todos, venho buscar coisas aos japan! abraço de portugal
pedrodrsax 2 years ago
And Blender Magazine had the nerve to call Japan one of the worsts artists of all time.
TurboBabyPuncher 2 years ago 4
Such a great band and a beautiful beautiful song.
raggedy 2 years ago 7
Probably the song 'Wild is the Wind' by Bowie influenced Midge.
xxxChrist 2 years ago
wonder if the line wilder than the wind influenced Midge Ure
darkalice93 2 years ago
Never realized the obvious influence of Roxy Music on them. I had that same haircut back in the day...bald as twat now Lol
nehpetsnoxoc 2 years ago 2
un grande genio
diabolik568 2 years ago
Wow, does he have new solo stuff out? Haven't listened to him since the 80's. Awesome vocals!!! Thanks for posting!
Duncan246 2 years ago
All I know was that I was 13/14 when this came out and 2 albums later (yes, it was VERY expensive! $9.99 an album!) I thought, man, between him and Roxy, there is some wierd plane of existence I'm missing from life....
And sure enough....
missionpants 2 years ago 2
I used to sit and listen to this band late 70!s early 80!s they were great ,or was it just the drink and dugs,or being 19/ 20 ish.just to let you know my favorite bands of the time and now! ac/dc,thin lizzy ,quo,sex pistols,dammed,t,rex,kate bush,furs,rush,girl,everything and anything,its all good!?
bigmopettin 2 years ago
it mey be the druds?lol
despoolkop 2 years ago
@despoolkop - yeah, definitely the druds - just say ni !
GonzoRecovery 2 years ago
Labour's manifesto should have read....
Prophet 5 Prophet 5 Prophet 5
DIGITALSCREAMS 2 years ago
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Bowie incarnation.
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kellskilleen 2 years ago
No-one who says "Make the IQ test" has an IQ above 100, no-one, just no-one.
Gibraltaria 2 years ago 7
David Sylvian was better than Matteo Branciamore.
fabriziopiludu 2 years ago
ryuichi sakamoto owes david sylvian big time.
kiran2368 2 years ago 3
Why did they quit after their biggest hit? Doesn't make sense to me. I would've thought that that alone would make a band realise that they should continue?
smpowis 2 years ago
maybe its because they were real musicians who really didnt care about fame...
HATECREWrulz123 2 years ago 4
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Japan. I'd call them a bunch of knob hounds, except that would be an insult to knob hounds.
MikeStevens101 2 years ago
Great song.
Mirkwood50 2 years ago
just out of curiosity whats mr sylvian doing now????
autorigin 2 years ago
his own solo project
paintedship 2 years ago
New solo album "manafon" out now, but if you've not kept up - I'd recommend the Nine Horses - Snow Borne Sorrow as his best recent work. Manafon is an acquired taste...
frickam 2 years ago
Why have this band been wiped from music history - watched the BBC docu on Synth Britania not a fucking mention .... tragic.Thiey were total class and very original.
hanman1 2 years ago 2
if you watched synth britannia at the bbc it showed their performance of Ghosts (discovering it for the first time) and Quiet Life is on Ministry of Sound - Anthems Electronic 80s...
BlackMarketMeds 2 years ago
80s electronica at its best.
Love it :)
Herne72 2 years ago 4
Excellent song! Japan were one of the best groups ever!
UKSazzy67 2 years ago
A Musical Poet....His music never ages....Superb!!
chrisjdt30 2 years ago