"Gentlemen Take Polaroids" is a song by English new wave band Japan, released as a single from the album of the same name in October 1980. It was the...
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Gentlemen Take Polaroids is the fourth studio album by the English band Japan, released in November 1980 by Virgin Records. Gentlemen Take Polaroids was...
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Nightporter (category Single chart called without song)
"Nightporter" is a song by English new wave band Japan. The song originally featured on the band's fourth album Gentlemen Take Polaroids in 1980. However...
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Cantonese Boy (category Single chart called without song)
switched around, making it exactly the same as the "Gentlemen Take Polaroids" single. Reviewing the song for Record Mirror, Sunie Fletcher described it as...
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Visions of China (category Songs written by David Sylvian)
"Taking Islands in Africa", the final track on their previous album Gentlemen Take Polaroids (1980). The track was written by David Sylvian and Ryuichi Sakamoto...
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Swing (redirect from Swing (song))
the All-American Rejects "Swing", 1980, by Japan from the album Gentlemen Take Polaroids "Swing", 2015, by Knuckle Puck from the album Copacetic "Swing"...
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Burning Bridges (redirect from Burning Bridges (song))
Machine from Hypersensitive, 2006 "Burning Bridges", by Japan from Gentlemen Take Polaroids, 1980 "Burning Bridges", by Jason Mraz from Mr. A–Z, 2005 "Burnin'...
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Label: Hansa Formats: LP, MC, 8-track 13 — 81 24 — — — BPI: Gold Gentlemen Take Polaroids Released: 7 November 1980 Label: Virgin Formats: LP, MC 51 86 39...
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Vol. 3, no. 23. p. 25. Carlin, Marcello (November 2003). "Japan: Gentlemen Take Polaroids / Tin Drum / Oil on Canvas, David Sylvian: Brilliant Trees / Alchemy:...
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in Africa" on the Japan album Gentlemen Take Polaroids (1980). Sylvian also worked with Sakamoto on the UK Top 20 song "Forbidden Colours" for the 1983...
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themselves. Virgin Records released Japan's final studio albums, Gentlemen Take Polaroids and Tin Drum, while the band had their last live performance on...
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The Art of Parties (category Song recordings produced by John Punter)
The Art of Parties is a song by the British band Japan. It was released as a single in May 1981 and reached number 48 on the UK Singles Chart. A re-worked...
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and Quiet Life (1979). His last studio contributions were on the Gentlemen Take Polaroids album, released in November 1980. Dean left the band just prior...
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I Second That Emotion (category Single chart called without song)
"I Second That Emotion" is a 1967 song written by Smokey Robinson and Al Cleveland. First charting as a hit for Smokey Robinson and the Miracles on the...
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Retrieved 23 February 2019. Carlin, Marcello (November 2003). "Japan: Gentlemen Take Polaroids / Tin Drum / Oil on Canvas, David Sylvian: Brilliant Trees / Alchemy:...
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Retrieved 23 February 2019. Carlin, Marcello (November 2003). "Japan: Gentlemen Take Polaroids / Tin Drum / Oil on Canvas, David Sylvian: Brilliant Trees / Alchemy:...
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Songs of the Free (1982). Rob Dean was an early member of new wave group Japan on guitar and left after recording their fourth album, Gentlemen Take Polaroids...
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Bamboo Houses (category Single chart called without song)
being the track "Taking Islands in Africa" on the 1980 Japan album Gentlemen Take Polaroids which featured Sakamoto on keyboards. The "Bamboo Houses" single...
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Everything and Nothing (redirect from Everything and Nothing (song))
Houses" and "Heartbeat" with Ryuichi Sakamoto and "Buoy" with Mick Karn). The songs "Come Morning" and "Golden Way" were taken from the 1995 album Marco Polo...
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Song" (The Cure) – 3:53 "What Is Love?" (Howard Jones) – 3:58 "So Alive" (Love and Rockets) – 4:32 "Shout" (Tears for Fears) – 4:44 "Gentlemen Take Polaroids"...
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started working on the album in late 1980. A fan of Japan's album Gentlemen Take Polaroids, he hired Japan's bassist Mick Karn to play on the album. Numan...
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via sites.google.com. Carlin, Marcello (November 2003). "Japan: Gentlemen Take Polaroids / Tin Drum / Oil on Canvas, David Sylvian: Brilliant Trees / Alchemy:...
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Life in Tokyo (category Single chart called without song)
the band had enjoyed moderate success in 1980 with their album Gentlemen Take Polaroids, released by Virgin. This release featured "European Son" as the...
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Welcome to the Blackout (recorded in 1978) (2018) Tin Drum (1981) Gentlemen Take Polaroids/Tin Drum/Oil on Canvas (1994) Exorcising Ghosts (2004) Everything...
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Retrieved 1 June 2016. Carlin, Marcello (November 2003). "Japan: Gentlemen Take Polaroids / Tin Drum / Oil on Canvas, David Sylvian: Brilliant Trees / Alchemy:...
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we worked with, and drawings that Florian and I did. We took a lot of Polaroids in those days." Kraftwerk also released an iOS app called Kraftwerk Kling...
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She's Got Claws (category Gary Numan songs)
Japan's 1980 album Gentlemen Take Polaroids, and this influenced him to adopt this new musical style. Like much of its parent album, the song was inspired by...
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photographed by famed artist Andy Warhol, as part of a "Ladies and Gentlemen" series of Polaroids. In 1990, Johnson performed with Hot Peaches in London. Johnson...
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Ryuichi Sakamoto discography (category Songs written by Ryuichi Sakamoto)
Romantique Taeko Onuki Arranger, conductor, mix engineer, keyboards Gentlemen Take Polaroids Japan Co-writer ("Taking Islands in Africa") Eating Pleasure Sandii...
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awarded it a score of 8.5 out of 10 and said that the album's songs "read like Polaroids from a wild heart gone ragged". Gleason also praised Auerbach's...
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