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Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids flac album
  • Performer Japan
  • Title Gentlemen Take Polaroids
  • Date of release 1980
  • Country UK
  • Style New Wave, Synth-pop
  • Other formats AA MIDI MMF WMA AIFF FLAC VOX
  • Genre Electronic / Rock
  • Size MP3 1828 mb
  • Size FLAC 1687 mb
  • Rating: 4.9
  • Votes: 482

Gentlemen Take Polaroids is the fourth studio album by the English band Japan, released on 24 October 1980 by Virgin Records. Gentlemen Take Polaroids was the band's first album for the Virgin Records label, after leaving Hansa-Ariola who had released their first three albums. It continued in the vein of their previous album Quiet Life, drawing on its elegant Euro-disco stylings coupled with more ambitious arrangements

Gentlemen Take Polaroids Lyrics. Now, there's a girl about town I'd like to know I'd like to slip away with you And if you said you love me, how could I mind? Is there another side to everything you do? Take in the country air, you'll never win Gentlemen take polaroids They fall in love, they fall in love Gentlemen take polaroids They fall in love, they fall in love

The last album with Rob Dean, Gentlemen Take Polaroids was also unquestionably the album in which Japan truly found its own unique voice and aesthetic approach. The glam influences still hung heavy, particularly from Roxy Music, but now the band found itself starting to affect others in turn. Even the back cover photo says as much - looking cool in glossy, elegant nightwear, the quintet had a clear impact on Duran Duran, to the point where Nick Rhodes obviously was trying to be Sylvian in appearance.

Gentlemen Take Polaroids" is the fourth studio album of Japan and was released in 1980. It continued in the same vein of their previous third album, "Quiet Life", using the combination of the electronic elements with the traditional musical elements. The final result was an album with a more sophisticated and atmospheric ambient than its predecessor. The album was well received by the critics and it was said if Brian Eno, rather than Bryan Ferry, had rerouted the original direction of Roxy Music, this might well have been the final result.

Gentlemen Take Polaroids. Gentlemen Take Polaroids. I played this for a friend recently and he was shocked when I told him it was now over 30 years old - it truly sounds as if it could have just been made last year. There are a few reasons for this: the lyrics are abstract enough to not feel tied to the 80s, the production is pristine and the songs still sound good the hundredth time you hear them. Some albums I listen to repeatedly to discover new elements I may have missed

Features Song Lyrics for Japan's Gentlemen Take Polaroids album. Gentlemen Take Polaroids - 2003 Digital Remaster Lyrics. 2. Nightporter Lyrics. 3. Taking Islands in Africa (Steve Nye remix) Lyrics. 4. Taking Islands in Africa Lyrics.

Tracklist Hide Credits

A1 Gentlemen Take Polaroids
Written-By – D. Sylvian*
7:06
A2 Swing
Written-By – D. Sylvian*
6:25
A3 Burning Bridges
Written-By – D. Sylvian*
5:20
A4 My New Career
Written-By – D. Sylvian*
3:54
B1 Methods Of Dance
Written-By – D. Sylvian*
6:53
B2 Ain't That Peculiar
Written-By – M. Tarplan*, R. Rodgers*, W. Robinson*, W. Moore*
4:40
B3 Nightporter
Written-By – D. Sylvian*
6:57
B4 Taking Islands In Africa
Written-By – Sakamoto • Sylvian*
5:15

Companies, etc.

  • Distributed By – PolyGram Distribution Inc.
  • Manufactured By – PolyGram Inc.
  • Pressed By – CBS Records Canada Ltd.
  • Phonographic Copyright (p) – Virgin Records Ltd.
  • Copyright (c) – Virgin Records Ltd.
  • Recorded At – Air Studios
  • Recorded At – The Town House
  • Lacquer Cut At – Disques SNB Ltée.

Credits

  • Design Concept [Cover Concept] – Stuart McLeod
  • Engineer [Assistant Engineer] – Renate*
  • Engineer [Engineered By] – Colin Fairley, John Punter, Nigel Walker, Steve Prestage
  • Lacquer Cut By – Al*
  • Mixed By – John Punter
  • Other [Hair] – Maneline
  • Other [Make-up] – Regis
  • Photography By – Stuart McLeod
  • Photography By [Back Cover Photography Assisted By] – Steve Shivers*
  • Photography By [Back Cover Photography] – Nicola Tyson
  • Producer [Produced By] – John Punter

Notes

℗ 1980 Virgin Records Limited
© 1980 Virgin Records Limited
Made in Canada

Printed on the vinyl label & sleeve: Manufactured by PolyGram Inc, and Distributed by PolyGram Distribution Inc, 6000 Cote De Liesse, St Laurent, Quebec, H4T 1E3.

Recorded at Air Studios and The Townhouse Studios, London.

Another Canadian vinyl edition also exists which has different manufacturing details printed on the vinyl label: VL 2208

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Matrix / Runout (Variant 1 side A run-out, etched): VL·2208-A-3 SNB Al DM 10
  • Matrix / Runout (Variant 1 side B run-out, etched): VL·2208-B SNB Al DM
  • Matrix / Runout (Variant 2 side A run-out, etched ("5" in DM 5 is stamped)): VL·2208-A-3 SNB Al DM 5
  • Matrix / Runout (Variant 2 side B run-out, etched ("17" in DM-17 is stamped)): VL·2208-B SNB Al DM-17
  • Matrix / Runout (Variant 3 side A run-out, etched): VL·2208-A-3 SNB Al DM-2
  • Matrix / Runout (Variant 3 side B run-out, etched): VL·2208-B SNB Al DM-16
  • Matrix / Runout (Variant 3 side A run-out, Label): VL 2208 (VL-2208-AS)
  • Matrix / Runout (Variant 3 side B run-out, Label): VL 2208 (VL-2208-BS)

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
V 2180, V2180 Japan Gentlemen Take Polaroids ‎(LP, Album, M/Print) Virgin, Virgin V 2180, V2180 UK 1980
V 2180, V2180 Japan Gentlemen Take Polaroids ‎(LP, Album) Virgin, Virgin V 2180, V2180 UK 1980
VV 33.067 y, VV-33.067 Y Japan Gentlemen Take Polaroids ‎(LP, Album) Virgin, Virgin VV 33.067 y, VV-33.067 Y Portugal 1980
OVEDK 7138 Japan Gentlemen Take Polaroids ‎(Cass, Album) Virgin OVEDK 7138 Italy 1980
V 2180, V2180 Japan Gentlemen Take Polaroids ‎(LP, Album) Virgin, Virgin V 2180, V2180 UK 1980