Japanese Album

Ian Gillan | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 25, 1998)
• Original Release Date: 1978
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Cleopatra
• ASIN: B000009CNG
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #814,977 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Street Theatre

2. Secret Of The Dance

3. I'm Your Man

4. Dead Of Night

5. Fighting Man

6. Message In A Bottle

7. Not Weird Enough

8. Bringing Joanna Back

9. Abbey Of Thelema

10. Back In The Game

11. Vengeance

12. Move With The Times

13. Sleeping On The Job

14. Roller

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Must For GILLAN collectors, September 3, 1998

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This review is from: Japanese Album (Audio CD)

We finally have the lost Japanese album on CD - remastered w/bonus tracks!!! Only for diehards, not because of the music -it's classic Gillan- but because most of these tracks are versions of songs from "Mr. Universe". Also has a nice booklet explaining Gillan's strange recording history.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not exactly as the 'original' GILLAN LP, March 1, 2001

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eveoflove (North York, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Japanese Album (Audio CD)

Made in USA in 1998, Serial# CLP-0314, Playing Time 58:43

Also released in UK in 1993, Serial# RPM-113, and re-released again in 1999 (Remastered) in UK in 1999, Serial# PUR-306.

As an IanG collector, I have the "original" Japan-only 1978 release on vinyl, simply entitled "Gillan".

2 IanG albums (his 4th,"Gillan" and his 5th,"Mr. Universe) are completely confusing to the collector, the latter also released in the UK with some re-recorded tracks.

The CD versions of "Gillan" (all with the same content), labeled as "The Japanese Album", are a bit different from the original vinyl release: Track 1 is actually from the japanese release of Mr. Universe, which leaves the vinyl version of "Second Sight" yet unavailable on CD; tracks 2 to 10 are from "Gillan"; tracks 11 to 14 are listed as "bonus" tracks: track 11 is a different version than on the japanese "Mr. Universe", track 12 is taken from the japanese "Mr. U"", track 13 is different than on the japanese "Mr. U" or "Glory Road" (yes the song was recorded 3 times!), while track 14 is different than on the japanese "Mr. U"; this also means that the song "Sleeping On The Job" from the "Mr. U" japanese vinyl is yet unreleased on CD. Confused yet?

In case you don't care for any of the above, let's talk about the music: the songs on this disc are much rockier than on his previous 3. This is due to a significant change in line-up, and the material is in the same vein as his better known 6th offering, "Glory Road". There's a lot of versatility on "Gillan", but still moves away from the jazzy explorations of albums like "Clear Air Turbulence" or "Scarabus": "Gillan" presents mostly straight-ahead rock, which I guess was a lot closer to what was expected by the DEEP PURPLE fans.

It's a good album, with plenty of energy.