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  Type LP
  Artist Japan
  Cover Gentlemen_take_polaroidsjpg
  Background orange
  Released November 15, 1980
  Recorded 1980
  Genre Post-Punk , New Wave
  Length 46:26
  Label Virgin Records
  Producer John Punter
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  Last Album '' Quiet Life '' <br/> ( 1979 )
  This Album '''Gentlemen Take Polaroids''' <br/> ( 1980 )
  Next Album '' Tin Drum '' <br /> ( 1981 )


Released by Japan in 1980 , this album continued in the vein of their previous album, Quiet Life . Interestingly enough, the band Duran Duran were at AIR Studios at the same time recording demos.


TRACK LISTING

# "Gentlemen Take Polaroids" (7:08)
# "Swing" (6:23)
# "Burning Bridges" (5:23)
# "My New Career" (3:52)
# "Methods of Dance" (6:53)
# "Ain't That Peculiar" (4:40)
# "Nightporter" (6:57)
# "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".



SINGLES


# "Gentlemen Take Polaroids"
# "Nightporter"