Obscure Alternatives is the second studio album by English new wave band Japan, released in October 1978 by record label Hansa. Japan's first album, Adolescent...

March 1978 Label: Hansa Formats: LP, MC, 8-track — — — 20 — — — Obscure Alternatives Released: 27 October 1978 Label: Hansa Formats: LP, MC, 8-track —...

Trouser Press. Retrieved 3 October 2015. Paul Rymer, liner notes, Obscure Alternatives, SONY BMG (2006) "Smash Hits magazine November 25 - December 8, 1982...

it proved to be their last and only US tour. The follow-up album Obscure Alternatives showed musical progress and particularly the last track "The Tenant"...

Tokyo: "Deviation" and "Obscure Alternatives", both of which originally featured on the band's second album Obscure Alternatives. A limited edition bonus...

Obscure Alternatives (1978) Quiet Life (1979) Gentlemen Take Polaroids (1980)...

B-sides to the 12" single are live versions of "Deviation" and "Obscure Alternatives", which the single states as being taken from the Assemblage Special...

album entitled Adolescent Sex was released in 1978, followed by Obscure Alternatives the same year. Both albums saw polarized reviews and poor sales domestically...

United States 2011 Obscure Alternatives LP OAR 1108 10 tracks (150-gram double vinyl) United Kingdom 14 February 2012 Obscure Alternatives LP OAR 11081 10...

glyphs, called shinjitai (新字体). Many variant forms of characters and obscure alternatives for common characters were officially discouraged.[citation needed]...

1978 he produced the first 2 albums of Japan - Adolescent Sex and Obscure Alternatives. As a songwriter he had success with Françoise Hardy, whose version...

acknowledged: Most people don't actually like it.'" Adolescent Sex (1978) Obscure Alternatives (1978) Quiet Life (1979) Gentlemen Take Polaroids (1980) Tin Drum...

Body, Live Spirit. 1978 – Adolescent Sex (Hansa Records) 1978 – Obscure Alternatives (Hansa Records) 1979 – Quiet Life (Hansa Records) 1980 – Gentlemen...

and Ireland. During this period, many record labels were looking for "alternatives", as many corporate rock, hard rock, and glam metal acts from the 1980s...

Campfire Songs: The Popular, Obscure and Unknown Recordings of 10,000 Maniacs is a compilation album by American alternative rock band 10,000 Maniacs, released...

He had previously played on their albums Adolescent Sex (1978), Obscure Alternatives (1978) and Quiet Life (1979). His last studio contributions were...

he engineered and mixed albums of new wave acts, such as Japan's Obscure Alternatives (1978), and jazz fusion releases of Colosseum II and Brand X. Tsangarides...

release of the band's material recorded for Virgin Records in the UK (Obscure Alternatives, on Ariola Records, had already been released in the US), and was...

Zeppelin. Prolific in creating guitar riffs, Page's style involves various alternative guitar tunings and melodic solos, coupled with aggressive, distorted...

launched in 1979. Edited by Charles R. Cross, the paper covered "fairly obscure alternative bands" in the local area, such as the Fartz and others. In the mid-1980s...

singer, musician, model and producer December 1 – Brad Delson, American alternative rock guitarist (Linkin Park) December 2 Nelly Furtado, Canadian/Portuguese...

authors. "Fundamental justice" was a more obscure alternative with these figures (other such alternatives include "universal justice"). Still, "fundamental...

Sanity Obscure is the second studio album by the American Christian thrash metal band Believer. It was initially released in 1990 on R.E.X. and later...

'Nightporter'". The song has also been described as "a direct descendant of Obscure Alternatives' "The Tenant" and Quiet Life's "Despair"". The song "marked the first...

Radio" and the single version of "Too Much Pressure." Re-issue label Obscure Alternatives have also re-released the album on LP in the United States in both...

single was released in October 1978 with the band's second album Obscure Alternatives. A Japanese fan club competition got entrants to write lyrics in...

Total Guitar. It's hard to tell if their recordings are from an obscure '90s alternative rock band's demo or are from the modern day. Helms, William Ruben...

Obscure Sound is an mp3 blog launched in the mid-2000s by Mike Mineo. The website is updated daily with articles and reviews covering a range of musical...

bands I was into: 'Obscure Alternatives' by Japan and 'Dangerous Rhythm' by Ultravox! Then, years later, people started using 'Alternative' for what we used...

camera at a distance, making the pages' content often brief and obscure. Alternatively, the presenter would simply tell the children what the next item...