Gentlemen Take Polaroids

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Gentlemen Take Polaroids
Gentlemen Take Polaroids cover
Studio album by Japan
Released November 15, 1980
Recorded 1980
Genre Post-Punk, New Wave
Length 46:26
Label Virgin Records
Producer(s) John Punter
Professional reviews
Japan chronology
Quiet Life
(1979)		 Gentlemen Take Polaroids
(1980)		 Tin Drum
(1981)


Released by Japan in 1980, Gentlemen Take Polaroids continued in the vein of their previous album, Quiet Life. It was constructed around a concept of a man driving along a road at night.

Interestingly enough, the band Duran Duran were at AIR Studios at the same time recording demos.

This was the last album to feature guitarist Rob Dean.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Gentlemen Take Polaroids" – 7:08
  2. "Swing" – 6:23
  3. "Burning Bridges" – 5:23
  4. "My New Career" – 3:52
  5. "Methods of Dance" – 6:53
  6. "Ain't That Peculiar" – 4:40
  7. "Nightporter" – 6:57
  8. "Taking Islands in Africa" – 5:12
  • The 2003 remastered edition adds "The Experience of Swimming" as well as "The Width of a Room", both of which were included on the Gentlemen Take Polaroids single, as well as Steve Nye's alternate mix of "Taking Islands in Africa".
  • "Methods of Dance" was also used as the title for two Virgin compilation LPs of new talent released shortly after this album.

[edit] Singles

  1. "Gentlemen Take Polaroids"
  2. "Nightporter"

[edit] Line Up

Guest musicians:

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