Singlecovers - JAPAN

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Singles
  • Don't Rain On My Parade / Stateline  [March ' 78]
  • Adolescent Sex / Don't Rain On My Parade  [April ' 78]
  • The Unconventional / Adolescent Sex (re-recording)  [August ' 78 ]
  • Sometimes I Feel So Low / Love Is Infectious  [October ' 78]
  • Deviation / Suburban Berlin  [January ' 79]
  • Life In Tokyo / Life In Tokyo (part two)  [April ' 79]
  • Quiet Life / Halloween  [December ' 79]
  • I Second That Emotion / Quiet Life or European Son  [March ' 80]
  • Gentlemen Take Polaroids / The Experience Of Swimming  [October ' 80]
  • Life In Tokyo (re-release) / European Son (remix)  [April ' 81]
  • The Art Of Parties / Life Without Buildings  [April ' 81] 
  • Visions Of China / Taking Islands In Africa (remix)  [October ' 81]
  • European Son (remix) / Alien [January ' 81]
  • Quiet Life (edit) / A Foreign Place [August ' 81]
  • Ghosts (alternate) / The Art Of Parties (live ' 81)  [March ' 82]
  • Cantonese Boy / Burning Bridges  [June ' 82]
  • I Second That Emotion (remix) / Halloween  [July ' 82]
  • Nightporter (remix) / Ain't That Peculiar (alternate)  [October ' 82]
  • All Tomorrows Parties (remix) / In-Vogue (live)  [February ' 83]
  • Canton (Live) / Visions Of China (Live)  [March ' 83]

It seems nearly impossible to list all the single releases with all the different covers, re-releases, b-sides, 12" versions and special pressings. For a more detailed discographie of the Japan singles read Paul Rymer's site of Japan.
Life in Tokyo (March 1979) 7"
1.Life in Tokyo Part I (Disco Version)
2.Life in Tokyo Part II (Single Version)
Gentlemen take Polaroids (1980) 7"
1. Gentlemen Take Polaroids
2. The Experience Of Swimming
Quiet Life (1981) 7"
1.Quiet Life (edit)
2.A Foreign Place
European Son (1981) 7"
1.European Son (remix by Steve Nye)
2.Alien
The Art of Parties (1981) 7"
1.The Art of Parties
2.Life Without Buildings
Visions of China (1981) 7"
1.Visions of China
2.Taking Islands in Africa (remix)
Cantonese Boy (1982) 12"
1.Cantonese Boy
2.The Experience of Swimming
3.Gentlemen Take Polaroids
Life in Tokyo (1982) 7"
1.LIfe in Tokyo (special remix)
2.Life in Tokyo (theme)
Nightporter (1982) 7"
1.Nightporter (remix)
2.Ain't that Peculiar (alternate)

12" has different cover: Sylvian standing by the window.
All Tomorrows Parties (1983) 7"
1.All Tomorrows Parties (remix by Steve Nye)
2.In-Vogue (live)
Canton - live (1983) 7"
1.Canton (live)
2.Visions of China (live)

gatefold sleeve

Boot
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Methods of Dance (1991)
booklet says: rec. at Hammersmith Odeon, London, April 18 1980 [proabably not correct, later recording]
1.Swing 2.Gentlemen Take Polaroids 3.Alien 4.Rhodesia 5.Quiet Life 6.My New Career 7.Taking Islands in Africa 8.Methods of Dance 9.Ain't that Peculiar 10.Halloween 11.European Son
Soundquality is average, sounds as if copied from vinyl.

 

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