Exorcising Ghosts [Import]

Japan | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 8, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: EMI Import
• ASIN: B00005J4XH
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,270,737 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Methods of Dance

2. Gentlemen Take Polaroids

3. Quiet Life

4. Nightporter

5. My New Career

6. The Other Side of Life

7. Visions of China

8. Ghosts

9. Life Without Buildings

10. Talking Drum

11. The Art of Parties

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A Familiar Dilemma, January 10, 2002

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John D. Pride (Atlanta, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Exorcising Ghosts: Best of (Audio CD)

As is often the case, Japan made several terrific albums while contracted to one label, then switched labels to make a few more records, also terrific. The dilemma then is, the fan is left with no definitive "Best Of" release (to see an example of how this problem can be rectified, please listen to XTC's "Upsy Daisy Assortment" combining their Virgin and Geffen years into one flawless collection). Japan had so many great songs, incorporating two very different styles, yet they still seem to embody the fluid transition of musical movement from the more aggressive, punk moods of the late seventies to the more New Romantic musings of the early and mid eighties. In fact, their brief career neatly compacted and mirrored that of their most obvious influence, Roxy Music. From rock classics like "Love Is Infectious" and "Rhodesia" (early Bowie meets Hanoi Rocks) to the swoon inducing "Gentlemen Take Polaroids" (later Bowie meets Bryan Ferry), Japan was a band that still deserves it's legacy to be preserved on disc via a REAL greatest songs release, incorporating the best from both labels (Ariola and Epic). So far, sadly, this wonderfully remembered band has not been given it's proper rememberance.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Extra Tracks??? NOT!!!, August 16, 2002

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Kenneth Gammell "KG Prophet" (Minneapolis, MN United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Exorcising Ghosts (Audio CD)

My review pertains only to this particular Amazon listing for "Exorcising Ghosts [EXTRA TRACKS][IMPORT]~Japan". I purchased this in expectation that this was an import from the band named Japan (this is their geatest hits release). I have found listed in a discography that a 2 CD version of "Exorcising Ghosts" was released in the >country< Japan. It's a 2 CD set which does in fact have extra tracks compared to the domestic CD release. What I got for a whopping ($$$) from ... is an import from >HOLLAND<, and is exactly identical to the domestic release, NO EXTRA TRACKS! I can't imagine why anyone would fork over a wad of dough for a CD that you could get for a fraction of the cost????

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Wish they could re-release the double CD version!!, September 15, 2003

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Robin J. Hodson "Orloma" (Baltimore, MD United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Exorcising Ghosts: Best of (Audio CD)

For those US people, this CD was actually originally a double vinyl album in Europe, and sadly this cropped and edited collection, though excellent, misses some really cool stuff like "Sons of Pioneers". If you have to buy one Japan CD, this is it: but really, get all the studio albums!! Oh, and buy all the David Sylvian stuff, especially Brilliant Trees and Gone to Earth (also sadly a double album that became a single, cropped CD).