The new 2016 season of Live and Loud! kicks off with Japan, who were touring the country of Japan after releasing their first 2 albums Adolescent Sex and Obscure Alternatives, in 1978. They were already looking ahead and starting to introduce a more electronic sound into their demos for what would be their 3rd album Quiet Life, released at the end of 1979. You can start to hear that influence in the early version of European Son, included in this live set, which otherwise consists of songs from their first 2 albums.
Someone had already applied far too much noise and hiss reduction to the recording I had access to but I've done what I can to lessen the impact of the noise that added. This has polished up a treat.
The show is available for download HERE as 1 MP3 file.
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Setlist
Don't Rain On My Parade
Obscure Alternatives
Love Is Infectious
Deviation
European Son
Suburban Love
Ballad-Suburban Berlin
Adolescent Sex
The Unconventional
Automatic Gun
Amazing, thank you so much for upping!
ReplyDeleteGreat upload,thanks always loved Japan
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ReplyDeleteNice! I came to Japan, as I suppose many others did, through their later 'new romantic' stuff (no offence to Japan fans if that's the wrong term), and was a bit surprised at the sound of their first two albums. The first album though, Adolescent Sex, proved to be a real grower, and here I am now, thirty something years on, and it's only that first album, and to some degree the second one, that I now choose to listen. Lovely stuff!!
ReplyDeleteI actually received this boot from my Japanese pen friend shortly after the gig. I had never heard European Son before. Prepared me for the Rainbow gig ��
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