Shnootz - Reaction Video (Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids)
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- What's up, people! I'm back with another Japan reaction, and this time we start our journey through their next album, Gentlemen Take Polaroids (1980). As you can see, the record starts with the title track, so let's enjoy some more David Sylvian and Japan! Cheers!
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I was waiting for this. GTP is my all time favourite Japan album. Its killer. Waiting till you hear Taking Islands In Africa and Nightporter. Stunning tracks...not to mention Swing and Methods Of Dance
One of my fav Japan songs ever. Mick Karn was one of the best fretless bass players. And glad yer on the Japan train my handsome friend!!!
There was a very good reason certain men had handkerchiefs of varying colours but not sure you would call them gentlemen haha.
Great start to a great album.
Absolutely brilliant track and album. For an album that's over 40 years old this still sounds great. Enjoy the rest of the album and look forward to watching further Japan and Sylvian reactions. 👍🏼
Mick karns bass made me want to learn it. 40 plus years later I still haven’t learnt. Well worth watching this live on RUclips,his sidewards moonwalk whilst playing bass is fantastic
This is a brilliant album. You’re in for a treat as you go..
This track and the album got me into Japan back in 1980? Happy memories of seeing them at Odeon Hammersmith a number of times
Top sound, from a top band🙏
And I thought that Polaroid cameras were the fancy new ones around 1980.
Apart from that I am so happy you got to this album. It's one of my all time faves.
Haha, I'm pretty sure my inane rambling were irrelevant here, but yes, a really great opener for the album!
@@mattsnider2667 I love your thoughts based on a song title, and it was interesting how you can see certain types of electronic equipment from two opposite sides. I didn't want to imply I am right. It's just that I remember the first time I got to see a Polaroid camera in the late 70s, it seemed quite revolutional to me. I guess in the US people were much more familar with those cameras back then. Anyways, I never really thought about the concept behind those gentlemen and their use of this particular camera, and that's why I love watching your reactions so much: You open up doors I've never thought about, even if I have known a certain song for decades.
The whole album is a true masterpiece of the highest quality, Japan really found were they wanted to be with this album, I always felt there was a strong David Bowie's 'Low' album influence in it, as well as Roxy Music.
Lyrics:
[Verse 1]
Now there's a girl about town
I'd like to know
I'd like to slip away with you
And if you said you love me
How could I mind?
Is there another side to everything you do?
[Pre-Chorus]
Take in the country air
You'll never win
[Chorus]
Gentlemen take polaroids
They fall in love, they fall in love
Gentlemen take polaroids
They fall in love, they fall in love
[Verse 2]
Breathe life into me
Spin me around
And I'll just sit and wonder why
It's just a foreign town with a foreign mind
Why is everything so cut and dry?
[Pre-Chorus]
The taste of country air
You'll never know
[Chorus]
Gentlemen take polaroids
They fall in love, they fall in love
Gentlemen take polaroids
They fall in love, they fall in love
[Instrumental]
[Pre-Chorus]
Take in the country air
I never win
[Chorus]
Gentlemen take polaroids
They fall in love, they fall in love
Gentlemen take polaroids
They fall in love, they fall in love
Note: If any part of the lyrics are wrong or missing, please let me know.
PS please check out Dali's Car first album!
At last! This is where the quality of song writing and sonics jumps up significantly.
This is definitely influenced by Roxy Music in it's overall sonics.
Nice! Also I know I'm lagging a bit with the Roxy Music reactions, but I did just put up another one a couple days ago. Will try to increase the pace of those reactions too. Thanks as always for the insight, Izzy.
By the way , this album is probably equal to or over and above Rio , as my favourite all time album.
@@izzyworld8068 it is their greatest album I think
This album version, like Ordinary World was on it's respective album, is the full version.
Most of the Japan 12" versions, unless specifically a remix, were actually their album versions.
On average they had 4 tracks per side on an album, 8 in total, but all top quality
The Bass and clarinet , and sax on other tracks all played by Mick Karn.
With Japan, you really need to go back and listen on headphones.
There sonics u were also questioning was a guitar being picked. This was guitarist Rob Dean's final album. A shame as his guitars are beautiful and layered throughout.
I believe he wasn't formally fired, he was just not invited back to do Tin Drum as the synths were essentially doing so much or they wanted a wider, cleaner sound with more space.
As a historian, did you actually (to paraphrase your handkerchief query) ask the question "why do people do things just for the sake of it?" 😂 Now we get to the good stuff. This album is superb. The title track is a great opener.
Haha, I suppose I did. Confusing, we humans.
Also I love when these moments happen, because I shoot so many videos these days that I totally forget about random comments like that by the time I get to the end of a session. And then I'll see a comment like that and think, "Oh right, I did talk about handkerchiefs in that video, didn't I?" Really made me laugh just now.
I never knew the meaning, I presumed it was about a well to do man who is obsessing about a girl or model or some lady he has been taking photos of.
Polaroids were one of the first cameras that you had instant results , they also meant you didn't need to take them to a place to be developed, hense more risqué shots could be taken.
So I am not sure it alludes to that
It would be very interesting to compare to Ultravox, John Foxx and OMD who all started around the same time, all were regular bands with synths, but all went in completely different directions from each other.
Ultravox is in the folder, isn't it? I've seen that name somewhere. Worth a closer look, obviously, especially since I'm doing this and going through OMD.
@@mattsnider2667 Yes, Ultravox, John Foxx and Tubeway Army (which is Gary Numan) all have folders.
Most of Japan appear on Gary Numan's "Dance" album. Plenty of Mick Karn's bass, although some other bassist appears on maybe one or two tracks. Best check the credits.
Try ' Nightporter' Matt
Can you reach to Ghosts and Nightporter please
Morrissey hated Sylvian from a young age, his angst stemming from a time when he wrote for the NME(new musical express) in the British press, his vitriol probably stemmng from the point of homoeroticism. For me, Mr M is not a nice person.
David Sylvian's hobby was using polaroid collage as art. I went to see them in '82 at Manchester Apollo in England.
Sylvian was a true gentleman and very gifted.
Nice, his singing is amazing even if I can't always catch the lyrics on a first listen. Such a unique voice!
@@mattsnider2667 I recommend you listen to the track 'Music for chameleons' by Gary Numan. If you think Sylvian has an obtuse singing style, you'll be mystified by Numans style. Nonetheless, you'll find the track mesmerising; and is worth listening to just for Pino Palladino's enchanting bass line.
@@davidnelson7149 Cheers, I've been going through Tubeway Army's self-titled album, and I have reacted to a handful of Numan's solo tunes (mostly from the Pleasure Principle), though I haven't gotten to that one yet. Looking forward to it!
@@davidnelson7149 Numan is not Sylvian... Karn is not Palladino. 'Music for Chameleons' is a mute point because it is a rubbish song. I loved Numan from Tubeway Army days so i aint biased, but to compare is chalk and cheese when it comes to innovation.
@@irishcowboy42 Then you have no concept of the symbiosis found in this genre of music and the time period it was set in. Just another ignorant yank I guess.