Absolute Hits
Alternative 80s (CD)
UK 2007
Crimson (catalogue number needed)
Track: Quiet Life (version to be confirmed but likely to be the 4.24
edit that appears on other Crimson label releases).
Absolute Synth
Classics (2 CD)
Sweden 2002
EVA ACCD 3004
Track: Visions Of China
Action Replay (1979) (LP)
Includes the alternate video
edit version of "Adolescent Sex" (3.08). This is a shorter version of
the "re-recorded" version, missing one verse.
K-Tel Holland TN-1411
Action Trax 2 (LP)
UK 1982
K-Tel International NE 1162
Track: European Son (Steve Nye 7” remix)
A
KICK UP THE EIGHTIES: TALKING LOUD AND CLEAR – Volume 4 (CD)
UK 1990
OLD GOLD – OG3523
Track: Nightporter – 7”
remix [5.01] - thanks to Robin for confirming this - I originally
had this CD listed as including the 12" version
A Kick Up The Eighties: Shout To The Top - Volume 8
(CD)
UK 1992
Old Gold OG 3527
Track: Quiet Life (3.35)
All Lined Up - The Kult Of The Eighties (2 CD)
Netherlands 2003
Universal TV 039 477-2
Track: Quiet Life
Ambient - Imaginary Landscapes (2 CD)
UK 1993
Virgin AMBT2
Tracks: Rain Tree Crow - New Moon at Red Deer Wallow. Also features
David Sylvian (The Healing Place), Sylvian/Fripp (Bringing Down The
Light),
Sylvian & Czukay (Premonition), Jansen/Barbieri (When Things Dream)
Ambient Journeys (CD)
UK 1997
Virgin CDOVD495
Track: Rain Tree Crow - Red Earth (As Summertime Ends)
Ambient Moods (CD)
UK 1996
Polygram TV 5259522
Track: Ghosts (LP version)
Ambient3: The Music of Changes (2 CD)
UK 1994
Virgin AMBT3
Tracks: Red Earth As summertime Ends (RTC). Also includes Darshana,
Epiphany and Mutability by David Sylvian.
Atomic 80s (2 CD)
UK 2001
Universal 585162-2
Track: Quiet Life (LP version)
Audio 80's (CD)
Germany 1990
BMG 261 299
Track: I Second That Emotion
Back To The 80's - Pop & Wave (3 CD)
Netherlands 2000
Sony SMM 501266 2
Track: Adolesent Sex
The Best Of 80's Remixed (3 CD)
UK 2007
Apace Music BOFCD14
Track: I Second That Emotion (Steve Nye extended mix) 5.16
The Best Of Music -
Electro 2.0
EEC (made in the Netherlands) 2005
Disky DC 903204
Track: Visions Of China
Best of New
Romantic
UK 2006
Sony BMG/EMI 094637446522
Tracks: I Second That Emotion and After a Fashion by Mick Karn &
Midge Ure.
The
Best Of 12" Synth Gold (1990) (CD)
Includes the 6.15 remix of Life In
Tokyo that was first released on the cassette of "Assemblage".
UK 1990
Old
Gold OG-3802
THE
BEST OF SYNTH GOLD – Volume 2 (CD)
This compilation
from the late, lamented Old Gold, is the only place I’ve ever
seen Nightporter – 12” remix [6.46].
UK1991
OLD GOLD – OG3806
Best of The Eighties (6 CD box set)
EU 2000
EMI Gold 7243 5 28435 2 7
Track: "Ghosts"
Best Of The 80s (3CD box set)
UK 2006
EMI/Sony 094636454122
Track: I Second That Emotion (7” version)
The Best Of Eighties (3CD box set)
UK 2006
Apace BOFCD01
Track: I Second That Emotion (7” version)
Breaking The Back Of Indie (2 CD)
New Zealand, date not known
Catalogue No: GG4
2 x CDR - Unofficial Release Compilation
Includes: 'Suburban Berlin'
Note: Sampler used as a giveaway to promote an
underground indie music event in New Zealand
Breakout 22 Roaring Great Hits! (LP)
UK 1982
Ronco RTL 2081
Track: I Second That Emotion (version to be confirmed)
Brilliant Eighties
UK 1998
Virgin CDVIP199
Track: Ghosts (LP version)
Brilliant Eighties Two
UK 1998
Virgin CDVIP224
Track: Visions of China
Brilliant 80's Glittering Prize (CD)
Netherlands 2004
Disky 0724389912227
Track: Visions Of China
Briliant 80's Wishfull Thinking (CD)
Netherlands 2004
Disky (catalogue number needed)
Track: Ghosts
Note the pic of Japan from 1978 on the front cover of the
CD!
The Britpack: 80s UK innovators Of Pop (3 CD)
EU 2005
K West/Disky 8711539021160
Track: Ghosts
Cash
Cows (1981) (LP)
Various
artists compilation including the
"alternate" recording of "Ain't That Peculiar" that was later put on
the b-side of "Nightporter" in the UK and has never appeared on CD.
This may be of interest as the recording here is more likely to be free
of crackles than the 7" single.
- UK - Virgin
Records MILK-1
- Netherlands - Ariola Benelux
202.969
Catch
The 80's (CD + VCD)
Hong Kong CD + CD video
Includes the video
of "Gentlemen Take Polaroids"
on the CDV, plus audio tracks of Polaroids (5.14 edit), Bamboo Music
and
Sakamoto's Fieldwork. Japan and Sakamoto both appear on the
sleeve.
Chartbeat (LP)
UK 1982
K-Tel International NR 1180A
Track: I Second That Emotion (7” remix version)
Chart Wars (LP)
UK 1982 LP
Ronco RTL 2086
Track: "Life In Tokyo (Special Remix)"
Chilled Out (3 CD box set)
UK 2003
EMI Gold 724358193725
Track: Ghosts (LP version)
CHOICE: Danny Howells (2
different versions)
UK 2007
Azuli Image 1. AZCD42UM (2 CD only, unmixed), Image 2. AZCD42 (CD +
DVD, tracks mixed)
Tracks: Ghosts (3.56) - on the mix CD this is an edited version mixed
with other tracks and with added sound FX. It is the full song, so
counts as a remix. Really good. On the unmixed CD Ghosts is the album
version.
The Classic Eighties Mix (2 CD)
Australia 1998
Startel Entertainment STELCD0055
Features "Quiet Life".
Classic Rock (CD)
Netherlands 1993
MCA 31064 MCD
Track: Adolesent Sex
Club For Heroes (CD)
UK 1992
Telstar TCD 2566
Track: I Second That Emotion (7” version)
Completely New Romantic (CD)
UK 2001
EMI Gold 724353119324
Track: Ghosts (LP Version)
Computer Sound 3 (CD)
(artwork needed)
Russia 1995
(Catalogue number needed)
Track: Alien (5.02)
This may be an MP3 only compilation, as it seems only to
appear on Russian MP3 sites.
Daily Star 80's Pop (CD)
UK 2004
Express Newspapers/Daily Star DS004
Track: "Quiet Life" (3.37)
Dance The
Alternative 2 (2 CD)
Dutch/German 2000
Universal 541.573-2
Track: The Art of Parties (7 inch single version)
The Dawn of Electronica Uncut (CD)
UK 2000
Demon Uncut CD001
Track: Life In Tokyo (Souvenir from Japan mix) (4.01)
The Decade One (LP)
Germany 1991
EMI Germany 186-7967091
Track: The Art of Parties (12” version)
Direct
Hits (UK 1982) (LP)
"Nightporter"
- a unique edited version that is shorter than the regular 7" but
longer than the DJ 7".
Disco del Mese
(means: "Record of the month")
Italy 1995
Catalogue #: DdM-22
Roberto Spiga: "It is a NOT FOR SALE (in italian: "Edizione fuori
commercio") just a
supplement to the italian newspaper "LA REPUBBLICA". # 22 in a series,
this is the only one that included a Japan's track."
Japan track included: Visions of China (time 3'38")
Disco Mania (LP)
Germany 1979 - also released in Austria, Switzerland and
Holland.
K-Tel TG 1211
Track: "Adolescent Sex" - this is another edit of the
"re-recorded version", missing the second verse and with a second cut
in the final few "take it much higher" parts. The version on "Action
Replay" is much better, and the fact that Japan used that version for
TV performances and the video makes it more "official'. This
compilation reached No3 in the Swiss charts.
There is also a red vinyl pressing of this LP. I didn't
believe it, but Simon sent in the photo below as proof!
Double Art (LP)
Germany 1981
Ariola 204 012
Tracks: Life In Tokyo (3.30), Art of Parties (3.55)
Double Art Vol. 2
Germany 1982
Ariola 204 754
Track: Visions Of China (3.37)
Dressed In Black (2 CD)
EU 1999
PolygramTV 564 410-2
Track: Adolescent Sex (4.14)
Duracell Pop Hits (cassette)
Pushbike Records PBC0023
Track: Quiet Life
Echoes of Darkness (CD)
Germany/Belgium 1997
PolygramTV 731455392128
Track: Adolescent Sex (Re-recorded Version) (4.14)
Echoes of Darkness Volume 2 (CD)
Germany/Belgium 1997
PolygramTV 555 560-2
Track: Suburban Love (7.28)
The Edge of the Seventies (CD)
Sony BMG 2008. 88697372412.
Track: European Son- original 7" mix 3:39m
The Edge of the 80s
UK 2008 Sony BMG 8869729402 Track: Quiet Life
(7” single version), Life In Tokyo (original 7” version)
and Red Guitar
The
Eighties Mix (CD)
Global
Polygram TV RADCD85 - 1998
Megamix
of early 80's electronic/new wave
hits including a version of "Quiet Life" (3.54) segued between The
Communards
"Don't Leave Me This Way" and Eurythmics "Sweet Dreams".
The 80s Nightclubbing (CD)
USA 1999
K-Tel 022775430820
Track: Quiet Life
The 80s Tapes: pop & wave
Germany 2007
Sony/BMG 88697136682
Track: All Tomorrowís Parties (12 inch remix)
Elec-trax
UK 2002
Demon Music Club MCCD508
Track: Quiet Life (LP Version)
Electrax
UK 2007
Music Club MCCD623
Track: Quiet Life (LP version)
Electric Dreams (2 CD)
Country/Year: UK 1995
Label: PolygramTV 525435-2
Track: Quiet Life (LP Version)
Electric Dreams
UK 1995
NECTAR NTRCD033
Track: Life In Tokyo (7 inch version as on Assemblage LP)
Electric Dreams: 80s Synth Pop Classics (2 CD)
UK 2002
Virgin/EMI VTDCD447
Track: Ghosts (LP version)
ELECTRIC 80s (3 CD)
UK 2005
This 2005 3CD set includes Life in Tokyo (original
12” version) [7.06] and Quiet Life (LP version) [4.48].
SONY/BMG – 82876705382
Appears to have been released in a white or black cover.
Electric: High
voltage hits from the 80s (CD)
UK 1997
Crimson CRIMIDCD03
Track: Quiet Life 4.24 edit . I got excited when I saw this one as I
thought it may have been the Japanese 7" edit, but it is different.
ELECTRIC
– THE VERY BEST OF ELECTRONIC, NEW WAVE & SYNTH (CD)
This 2002 compilation is
the only UK CD I’ve ever found I Second that Emotion (7”
remix) [3.56] on and, amazingly, the booklet to this 2CD set actually
correctly lists that it’s the remix by Steve Nye! Also contains
the mono version of Quiet Life (LP version) [4.48] obviously given to
them from the, then recent, master compiled for the In Vogue CD.
BMG/TELSTAR – TTVCD3246
Electric Level 2 (CD)
UK 2003
BMG/Telstar TV TTVCD3329
Track: Life In Tokyo (original 7” version)
Electricity: 18 Synth Pop Hits (CD)
UK 1993
MCI Music MUSCD 008
Track: Quiet Life (LP Version)
Electrocity Vol.1 (CD)
Germany 1992
Ausfahrt EFA-CD-06303
Track: Taking Islands In Africa (5.07)
Electronic (CD)
UK 1997
BMG DIRCD 13
Track: Life In Tokyo Remix (6min 18 sec version)
Electropop Essentials (CD)
USA 1999
Universal HIPD-40145
Track: Gentlemen Take Polaroids (7" version 3.29).
Enter The 80s (CD/DVD)
Warner Music Australia 2005 5101109352.
Gentlemen Take Polaroids on CD 3:20m version
Essential 80s (3 CD)
UK 2006
EMI Gold 094634974325
Track: Cantonese Boy
Essential New Wave Vol. 1 (CD)
Belgium 2005
EMI 0094633627628
Track: Visions of China
EXTENDED 80s –
CLASSIC HITS & REMIXES
This 2006 2CD set features Quiet Life (LP version) [4.48].
EMI – 82876705382
Fantastic 80s (CD box)
Sony Music Rhino 2008. 88697425232.
Track: Quiet Life 3:53m version
Fantastic 80s: Go For It! (2 CD)
UK 2000
Sony TV92CD
Track: Ghosts (7” version)
Fantastic Hits of the 80s (CD)
UK 3CD Set Label: Sony BMG Cat No: UTDX 005 Year: 2007
Contains I second That Emotion 3:49min
February 87 Mixes 2 (LP)
UK 1987, DMC49
Includes Quiet Life as part of a "Strip That Perfect Beat" megamix!
February 89 Mixes 2 (LP)
UK 1989
DMC 073/2
Track: Life In Tokyo (Sanny X Mix) 6.00
Fingers Off! (Levi’s compilation LP)
UK 1982
Pushbike Records PBR 0020
Track: Visions of China
FM Rock - The Rock Collection
UK 1992
Time Life TL 527/18
Featuring "I Second That Emotion"
Full Throttle (3 CD)
EU 2003
Disky CB 901451
Track: "Life In Tokyo"
Get Closer (CD)
Free with Wilkinson Sword Kompact Razor. 1991. ENT 1010.
Track: I Second That Emotion 3:52m
Giorgio Moroder - Electronic Dancefloor Classics 2 (2 LP)
Germany 2006
GMR Entertainment GMR002
Track: Life In Tokyo (Extended Disco Mix) (7.01)
GOTH: 18 Classics
From The Dark Side (CD)
UK 2005
Crimson CRIMCD426
Track: Quiet Life edit 4.26 - this is the same as the edit that appears
on the other Crimson CD release "Electric - High Voltage Hits.."
The Greatest Eighties Collection (4 CD box set)
UK 2001
HMV/EMI 7243 5 33863 2 0
Track: "I Second That Emotion"
The Greatest Eighties Collection 2
(4 CD box set)
UK 2001
HMV/EMI 7243 5 43200 2 6
Track: "Quiet Life"
Greatest Ever! New Wave Hits (3 CD)
UK 2007
Union Square (catalogue number needed)
Track: Quiet Life
Greatest Hits New Romantic (3 CD)
UK 2005
EMI Gold 094634472623
Track: Visions of China, Cantonese Boy, Ghosts (LP versions) and After
A Fashion by Mick Karn and Midge Ure.
The Greatest New Romantic Collection (3 CD)
UK 2001
EMI 724353538323
Tracks: I Second That Emotion, Quiet Life (LP version), European Son
(original version), Ghosts (LP version) - also available in a
boxed version.
Hardest Hits Vol 4
Canada 1993
SPG Music Ltd. SPG 004
Features "Life In Tokyo" Disco Mix
Het Beste Uit De Arbeidsvitaminen Top 100 (2 CD)
Netherlands 1998
PolygramTV 565 777-2
Track: Adolescent Sex (4.14)
The History Of Rock (Volume 38) (LP)
Includes a photo and biography of Japan inside the gatefold sleeve.
"The History Of Rock" was a companion to the magazine of the same name
that was available on subsciption for a very limited time in the 1980s.
All of the tracks here are the same versions that appear on
"Assemblage".
Japan
1. Quiet Life
2. European Son
3. I Second That Emotion
4. Life In Tokyo
5. All Tomorrow's Parties
Hits Hits Hits (LP)
UK 1981
Ronco RTL 2063
Track: Visions of China (printed as Vision of China) -
unique version missing Mick's dida solo and the second verse.
The Hits Box (3 LP set)
Telstar Star 2052. Consists of the Direct Hits Compilation LP which
includes unique edited Nightporter.
Hits in The First Degree (CD)
UK 1994
Newsound Records NSCD 013 (A)
Features "I Second That Emotion"
Hits In The 1st Degree (CD)
Japan 1994
CHOR. LTD PH-5006
Track: I Second That Emotion. Seems to have the same songs as the UK
compilation above, and the German one below, but is part of a series
called "Rock Hits".
Hits In The 1st Degree (CD)
Germany 1994
Catalogue number needed. Track listing the same as the UK and Japanese
CD's above but with a different cover.
Track: I Second That Emotion
Hooked on Dance Music (LP)
Ariola 6.11066 - country of manufacture probably Spain as the
catalogue number and label type is similar to other releases. Looking
at the songs included the release must date from 1980 or 1981.
Track: Life In Tokyo 3.30
Hunting Venus - A soundtrack to the 80s (CD)
UK 1999
Columbia/Sony 494300-2
Track: Ghosts (7 inch version)
This CD was a tie-in with a UK ITV drama that showed members of a
fictional 80s band reforming. The intro to "Ghosts" was one character's
door bell chime.
I Bliğu Og Striğu (LP)
(Artwork needed)
Iceland 1982, Steinar SAFN 512
Tracks: Ghosts and Bamboo Houses (Sylvian/Sakamoto)
Ikon Classics (cassette)
1995
BMG Records IKON1
Cassette features "Quiet Life" (4.52)
I Love Music 1980-1984: It's Electric (3 CD)
Holland 2004
DISKY CB901791
Track: Visions Of China
Indoor Cycling 15
This is a compilation of tracks designed to be used in spin (indoor
cycling) workout classes.
UK 2009 Multitrax Pro MIND 2704
Includes Visions of China
Into
The Blue (CD)
UK 1998
Polygram 555 665-2
Track: Nightporter (DJ 7"/video soundtrack version)
It's Electric (CD or cassette)
UK 1994
Dino Entertainment DINCD 73/DINMC 73
Features "Quiet Life"
It's Kosmik! (Promotional CD)
(cover image needed)
Country not known (Eastern Europe?)
Virgin PRCD 3350
Includes "Blackwater"
A copy of this has been seen on eBay but without any front cover - if
you have one please email in an image.
It's My Discothek (LP)
Bulgarian LP - release date not known, probably 1979 or 1980.
Hansa BTA 1833
Track: Life In Tokyo (3.22 edit)
This record has no visible track markers.
Its My Discothek (LP)
Bulgarian LP - release date not known but likely to be 1980 or 1981
Hansa BTA 2007
Track: Quiet Life - called "Calm Life" in Bulgarian on the sleeve.
Track length unconfirmed.
January 88 Mixes 2 (LP)
UK 1988
DMC 060/2
Track: Fade to "Gray" megamix - includes "Life In Tokyo" mixed with
other electronic tracks.
Just
Can't Get Enough: New Wave Hits of
the 80's Vol. 5 (Rhino) (CD)
USA
1994
Rhino R2 71698
contains
"The Art of Parties" (4.12). (many thanks to R. Jackson and ozboyz)
R Jackson: "Oh,
yeah, here's what the liner notes say
about the group. ... "(segueing from Haircut One Hundred)...Nick
Heyward may have
been the scream dream of a certain strain of British teenybopper, but
David Sylvian, of
the group Japan, was 1982's pinup of choice among the art-school set.
Rising to prominence
at the same time as a number of other U.K. smart-pop bands (ABC, The
Associates, early
Simple Minds) who shared a flair for the dramatic and a huge stylistic
debt to Roxy Music
and David Bowie. Japan hit a critical and commerical peak with Tin
Drum, their studio swan
song. 'The Art of Parties'--which sets Sylvian's crooning vocal against
the free-range
rumble of Mick Karn's fretless bass and a chugging pseudofunk
rhythm--was a U.S. club
staple for months as an import, but the band's inability to secure an
American record deal
until just before they split up prevented them from reaching a broader
audience in the
U.S."
Just Can't Get Enough -
Originalhits Fra 80'erne ( 2 CD)
Denmark 1994
EMI-Medley EMI 8316692
Track: Visions Of China (5.51) - we
need confirmation on this one - I bet it will be the live version from
"Oil On Canvas" plus the intro to "Ghosts", but it would be nice if I
was wrong at it turned out to be another extended version!
King & Hound - Life In
Tokyo/Twice As Nice (re-edits) (12" single)
USA 2008
Golden Goose Records GG4
This is an extended re-edit version
by King & Hound. Can be heard on this myspace page
Kult Klassix Volume
3 (2 CD)
Germany 1994
Total Recall SPV 087-59342/TR 1027
Track: Visions Of China (unreleased 12 inch version - 4min 41 secs)
Robin writes: Sadly, this isn't some previously unheard
Steve Nye remix classic, but more of a promotional extended version.
The track begins with the drum break taken from the middle eight of the
song (so to speak) before going straight into the start of the song.
Visions of China then plays right through to the end, but just as the
fade out hum starts, the original instrumental melody comes back in
slightly messily for a few bars before ending on the familiar fade-out
hum again. This is a curio that I don't expect to see on any official
Japan CD any time soon :)
LateNightTales:AIR
UK 2006
Azuli ALNCD15
Track: Ghosts 4min 9secs edit
Left Of The Dial - Dispatches from the 80s Underground (
4 CD + book set)
USA 2004
Rhino R2 76490
Track: Ghosts (4.32)
Life In Tokyo/Show Time/I Don't Know What It Is (12" EP)
Country unknown, limited release for clubs (possibly not licenced)
DGD Records DGD 005
Includes Life In Tokyo plus tracks by Gary's Gang and Pete Shelley.
The Long Versions Pop
& Wave (CD)
Belgium 2 CD Label: Sony Music Media Cat No:
SMM-4979252 Year: 2000
Contains Life In Tokyo (Remix) 6:18mins
The Long Versions -
New Wave
Includes "Blackwater" by Rain Tree Crow
DISKY CB 902713
Love Bites & School Nites (CD)
EU 2004
Telstar TTVCD3385
Track: "I Second That Emotion"
Major UK Hits from the Jobete Catalogue (Promotional CD)
USA EMI MP-AW6/03 Year: 2003 Contains I Second That Emotion 3:38min
Mama We're All Crazy Now! The Best of Glam Rock (2
CD)
Netherlands 2006
Hunter 7715582
Track: Adolescent Sex (album version 3.43)
Matsu & Take's DJ Edit Tape "1985-1984" (cassette)
Japan 2000
Spotlight Mixtape Vol.3
Track: European Son
Mega Hits 70's (CD)
Japan 1997
BMG Japan BVCM-2661
Track: Adolescent Sex (3.44)
Mega Hits 70's The Best Hits Collection (CD)
Japan 2004
BMG Funhouse BVC2-31039
Track: Life In Tokyo
Methods of Dance (LP & CD)
UK & Germany 1981 (left), CD remaster 2008 (right)
UK - Virgin OVED 5, Germany - Virgin 204 327
Track: The Art of Parties (12” version).
The 2008 CD version (due out 21st July) includes the
original vinyl LP contents plus "Methods of Dance Volume 2" which did
not feature Japan.
The Mix Tapes (CD)
EMI 2008 VTDCD 923.
Tracks: Nightporter LP version and Forbidden Colours-original version
The Model (CD)
UK 1997
EMI/SPECTRUM 552918-2
Track: Ghosts (LP version)
Modern
Dance (LP)
UK 1981
K-Tel NE1156 Includes
"Quiet Life" and "Visions Of China"
Modern Dance - My Affair With Fred Astaire
Released
by Virgin/ Polygram in Greece, 1982. It includes 'Visions Of China'
whereby they have credited Sylvian & Jansen as 'D. Sulvian' &
'S. Hansen'. Catalogue # is 2473836.
Modern Heroes (LP)
UK 1982
TV Records TVA1
Tracks: Cantonese Boy, a unique edited version, plus early fade versions of Sensitive and Bamboo Houses.
Music For Heroes (CD)
UK 1998
Debutante 555959-2
Track: Ghosts (single version)
Music Life 40 Anniversary Virgin Version
Japan 1990
Virgin VJCP-2802
Tracks: Gentlemen Take Polaroids (LP version). Also includes Forbidden
Colours (re-recorded version) and Red Guitar (LP version)
New Romantic 15 Classic Club Cuts
Australia 1996
BMG 7243 8 52959 2 8
Features "Quiet Life" and also "After A Fashion" by Mick Karn and
Midge Ure.
New
Romantic Classics (1992) (CD)
Various
artists compilation CD, including
"Ghosts".
New
Romantic Classic Tracks (1994) (CD)
Various
artists compilation CD including
"Quiet Life" (live) and "After A Fashion" by Mick Karn and Midge
Ure.
Music For Pleasure CDPR-128/7243
8 31341 2 0
The New Romantic
Era (Promotional CD)
Music Factory Cat No: NROM1
Contains Quiet Life 4:40min
New Romantics -
15 Classic Club Cuts (CD)
UK 1996 EMI Gold 724385395928 Track: Quiet Life
(Oil on Canvas Version)
The New
Romantics (Australian CD)
Includes
an edited live version of Ghosts from Oil On Canvas.
Dinno Music DIN231D
The New Romantics Are Back!
Thailand/South East Asia 2003
EMI 724359283821
Track: Cantonese Boy
New Wave Diary (CD)
Phillipines 2002
EMI 07243 580069 26
Track: Gentlemen Take Polaroids (6.54)
New Wave Heroes
UK 2006
Sony/BMG 82876851032
Track: Quiet Life 3min 55sec (The version with the long intro as per LP
version but fades out during the second guitar solo)
New Wave Hits (2 CD)
Netherlands 1994
EVA 7243 831685-2
Track: Life In Tokyo (3.30)
New Wave Nostalgia Tane O Uetsuketa Shijintaichi -
selected by Kyo (CD)
Japan 1994
BMG Japan (catalogue number needed)
Track: Communist China
Note: Kyo went on to appear on the Japan tribute album
New Wave Sound (CD)
France 1992
Virgin 30975
Track: Visions Of China (3.37)
1981 - Süddeutsche Zeitung Diskothek (Book with CD)
Germany 2006
ISBN 3-86615-081-4
This book and CD was produced by the newspaper company Süddeutsche
Zeitung.
Track: Ghosts (4.33)
1981 - 20 Original Hit Songs (CD + greetings card)
UK Label: CD Card Company/Tabak Marketing Ltd CDC 1627527 CD527S - all
tracks licenced from Sony BMG Year 2006
Contains Quiet Life 4:53mins
1982 - 20 Original Hit Songs (CD + greetings card)
UK 2006
CD Card Company/Tabak Marketing Ltd CDC 1627528, CD5285 - all tracks
licenced from Sony BMG.
Track: I Second That Emotion
This was one of a series of greetings cards with CD's included.
1983 - 20 Original Hit Songs (CD + greetings card)
UK Label: CD Card Company/Tabak Marketing Ltd CDC 1627529 CD529S - all
tracks licenced from Sony BMG Year 2006
Contains All Tomorrow's Parties 4:15min
Nocturnal (2 CD)
UK 1998
Procreate Records 5559082
Track: Ghosts (3.51)
123 Original Hits 80s (6CD set)
EMI 2009 5099969468223.
Track: Ghosts 4:31m
Only The Best (LP)
Italy - year of release not known
Cosmic Communications CYB 1003
Track: Life In Tokyo (7.50) - this needs to be verified.
Likely to be a DJ mix as this label specialises in releases for club
play. Listed at discogs.com in the unofficial releases section.
100 Hits New Wave (5 CD set)
France EMI 5099921508820.
Tracks: Visions of China LP Version, Cantonese Boy LP version, The Art
Of Parties 12" Single version
100 Hits 80s (5 CD set)
UK 2001
EMI Gold 724353119324
Track: Ghosts (LP Version)
The Original Chill
Out Box Set
UK 2007
EMI Gold 094638225027
Tracks: Ghosts (LP version), Nightporter (Oil on Canvas version),
Voices
Raised in Welcome, Hands Held in Prayer. Also features The
Healing
Place and Silver Moon plus The Last Emperor by Sakamoto.
The Original 80s Album (CD)
UK 2004
EMI Gold 724347396120
Track: Ghosts (LP version)
The Original Electro Album (CD)
UK 2002
EMI Gold 724354090622
Track: Cantonese Boy
The Original Electro Album Vol.2 (CD)
UK 2004
EMI Gold 724359520124
Track: Visions of China
Original Hits 80s (6 CD
box)
UK 2009 EMI Gold
Includes "Ghosts"
Our
Friends Electric (1996) (CD)
Track: "Quiet Life" (4.24 edit)
Telstar TCD2814
Overload (LP)
UK 1982
Ronco RTL 2079
Track: Cantonese Boy
Poison Arrow - 18 New Romantic Hits
UK 1999
EMI 274349979024
Track: Ghosts (LP version)
Pop & Wave Vol. 4: The Ballads Of The 80s (2 CD)
Germany 1993
Columbia COL 475541 2
Track: I Second That Emotion (3.44)
Pop & Wave The 12 Inch Mixes (5 CD set)
Germany 2008
Sony BMG 886973183120
Track: All Tomorrow's Parties (12" version)(5.16)
The Pop Years 1980 - 1981 (CD)
UK 2009, Crimson Productions CRIMPOP801
Includes "Quiet Life"
The Pop Years 1982 - 1983 (CD)
UK 2009, Crimson Productions. CRIMPOP802.
Includes "I Second That Emotion"
Poplife Presents Poplife Sucks (CD)
Belgium 2008
News 541 416502368
Track: Adolescent Sex (3.51)
POPTRONICA ROMANCE (1999) (CD)
Includes Gentlemen take Polaroids (7” version)
[3.28].
BUDDHA RECORDS/BMG (USA) – 7446599613 2
Postpunk Chronicles: Scared To Dance (CD)
USA 1999
Rhino R2 75332
Track: Visions Of China
A Post Punk Primer (CD)
Virgin Cat No: CD0VD498 Year: 1997
Contains Gentlemen take Polaroids 7:07min
Raiders
Of The Pop Charts Part 1 (UK 1982) (LP)
"Nightporter"
single version. There is a colour photo of Japan on the
sleeve.
REAL EIGHTIES
This 2005 3CD set includes Ghosts (LP version) [4.30].
VIRGIN/EMI/UNIVERSAL – VTDCD 709
The Real 80s Box
Greek 4 CD Set Label: EMI Cat No: 509995148682 Year: 2007
Contains The Art Of Parties 7" Single Mix 3:55mins
Reflections CD Collection volume 3 & 4 (CD)
Telstar SAN 275.
Track: I second That Emotion 3:41m
Relax! The Ultimate
80s Mix
UK 1998
PolygramTV 565285-2
Track: "Quiet Life" (4.10 edit) mixed between King "Love and Pride" and
Icehouse "Hey Little Girl"
Replay Vol 1 - Issued free with Replay Magazine
UK
BMG V.I.1
Track: I Second That Emotion
The Rest of The 80s (CD)
UK & Australia 2005
EMI Gold 724347733024 - same catalogue number for both editions.
Track: Nightporter (original LP version)
Rock & Pop Diamonds 1970 - 1990 (22 CD box set)
Germany 1991
Sonocord 46042
Each year's disc was available separately, except the
bonus disc which was only available on the box. Of course, a Japan
track that is not on any other compilation is on that bonus disc... how
fiendish!
Tracks: Ghosts (4.31) (on the 1981 disc), The Other Side
Of Life (7.28) (on the bonus disc), Orpheus (4.47) (on the 1987 disc).
Rock
& Wave Volume 1 (2 CD)
Germany 1992
Columbia COL 472733 2
Various artists compilation.
Includes an edit of "Gentlemen Take
Polaroids" timed at 5.14.
Rock & Wave Hits From
Underground (CD)
German 2CD Label: Sony Music Cat No: 88697521752 Year: 2009
Contains All Tomorrows Parties 5:16mins
Rock 80s Vol 3
Greece 1981
Virgin 2473 822
Track: The Art Of Parties
Rock Legends Benson &
Hedges
UK 1990
Telstar BH279
Features "Quiet Life" (3.15 edit)
RTL New Romantic (2 CD)
Germany EMI Electrola Cat No: 724385226021 Year: 1996
Contains Ghosts 4:32min
Sensation (12" EP)
1979 German 12" single with "LIfe In Tokyo" segued out of "Switch" by
Benelux.
Hansa International 600 072
Sense Of Beauty (LP)
Norway 1985, Uniton U-028
Track: The Experience Of Swimming (4.02)
Single High Light (LP)
Japan 1980
Victor (catalogue number needed)
Promotional only LP including the 7" version of "Gentlemen
Take Polaroids"
Single Minded IV (Promotional CD)
UK 1991, Virgin JULZ 3
Track: Blackwater (7" version)
Singled Out (CD)
Disky 2003 Holland. CB 901054.
Track: I Second That Emotion 3:42m
Sound of New Wave (CD)
Australia 1999
BMG 74321618982
Track: "Life In Tokyo" (3.30)
THE SOUND OF THE CROWD
UK 2002
SPECTRUM/UNIVERSAL – 584 363-2
Includes the 6.15 remix of "Life In Tokyo".
Street
Scene (UK 1982) (LP)
"Life
In Tokyo" 2.58
edit - this is a mix similar to the one that appears on "A
Souvenir from Japan" and the Japanese "Assemblage"/UK double play
cassette. The sleeve says it is remixed from the album "Assemblage" and
the label states that it is a 1979 recording.
Take Off Into The 80s (CD)
RadioFFN. 1993. Polystar CD 516232-2. Germany
Track: I Second That Emotion 3:46m
Tambien Tenemos - La Mejor Musica TECNO-POP (LP)
Spain 1982, Ariola/Virgin E 204 464
Includes The Art of Parties (LP version)
Technopop
Japan 2004
BMG BVC2-31038
Tracks: Quiet Life (LP Version) . CD also contains tracks from YMO,
Hosono, Sakamoto, Takahashi and Sandii.
Tempted: A collection of mellow 80s classics
UK 2000
Crimson CRIMCD273
Track: I Second That Emotion (7” version)
Theater Van Het
Sentiment (CD)
Dutch 4CD Set Label: Sony BMG Cat No: 88697279232
Contains Nightporter 6:48min
30th Anniversary
Virgin Compilation
Japan 2003
Virgin VJCP-68509
Tracks: Bamboo Houses, Still Life in Mobile Homes, Blackwater
This Is...Electric
Netherlands 2005
Disky DC903289
Track: Ghosts (7 inch version)
This Is 1981 (CD)
EMI 2008. CD 5099922789921.
Track: Visions of China 3:39m
This is 1982 (CD)
EMI 2008. CD 5099922790020.
Track: Ghosts 4:29m
To Be Someone (CD)
UK 2002
Virgin CDV2933
Track: Ghosts
To Cut A Long Story Short - The New Romantics (CD)
UK 2000
EMI JS054UE
Track: "Ghosts"
Todo Techno 2
Spain 1993
CBS/Sony 4755332
Track: Visions of China (Live Oil on Canvas version)
Top Of The Pops - Eighties (3CD)
UK 2009 EMI 50999 2 68740 2 9
Includes Ghosts
12" Singles Promotional Album (LP)
Australia 1981
Virgin SAM 1
Includes "Gentlemen Take Polaroids".
2 many dj's as heard on radio soul wax pt 7
Country ?, 2004
Catalogue number: Whcd07
Features sample from "Adolescent Sex"
The Triptych (CD)
UK 2007
Family 9843126
Track: Adolescent Sex (LP version, Mixed between Dave Angel and Nick
Straker. Bizarre, but it works!!)
12” 80s (3 CD)
UK 2004
FAMILY/UNIVERSAL 9826602
Track: Quiet Life (LP version) [4.48].
Ultimate Chill Out
(8CD box set)
UK 2004
EMI Gold 724357722520
Track: Ghosts (LP version), Nightporter (Oil on Canvas version), Voices
Raised in Welcome, Hands Held in Prayer. Also features The
Healing
Place, Where The Railroad Meets The Sea, Red Earth As Summertime Ends
and Silver Moon.
Ultimate Eighties (3 CD box set)
UK 2002
Crimson CRIMBX38
Track: Ghosts (LP version)
Ultimate Eighties (CD)
UK 1998
Crimson CRIMIDCD61
Track: Ghosts (7 inch version)
Also available as part of the 3 CD set above
The Ultimate 80's Ballads (CD and cassette)
UK 1994
Polygram 525 113-2 (CD) and 525 113-4
(cassette)
Features "I Second That Emotion"
Ultimate 80's - 60 Classic Tracks of the Decade
UK 2009, Demon MCCDULT003
Track: I Second That Emotion
Ultimate New Wave
France 2003
EMI 0724359327228
Tracks: Visions Of China, Ghosts (LP versions)
The Ultimate Special Price Collection Sampler compilation
CD
Germany - date not given but likely to be around 1993
BMG 74321 239622
Track: "Adolescent Sex"
Uncut The Playlist May 2006 (CD)
UK 2006
Given away with "Uncut" magazine, which includes a review
of the Virgin remastered albums. A small picture of David is in the
collage on the front of the CD booklet.
Track: Nightporter (album version) (6.58)
Unwind
UK 2001
Universal 585361-2
Track: Ghosts (7 inch version)
VH1: Electric Heroes
UK 1998
VH1CD 005
Track: Quiet Life (LP version)
Virgin Collections 1973~1987 (4 CD set)
Virgin Japan VJD-25001~4
Released February 3rd, 1988
Kevin: "A limited-edition (I have copy no. #1058) 4-disc compilation
marking both the 15th Anniversary of Virgin Records and the then-new
Virgin Japan."
Tracks: Disc 3, covering the years 1980 to 1984, contains the album
version of "Gentlemen Take Polaroids" (7.06). It also includes the
album/12" mix of Mick Karn's "Sensitive" (4.37), plus
Sylvian/Sakamoto's "Forbidden Colours"(4.45) and David Sylvian's
"Red Guitar" (5.08).
Virgin 21, Loves Music, Wants To Party
Australia 1993
Virgin Records Australia 8391772
Tracks: Ghosts (3.46) and Forbidden Colours (4.41)
Virgin's 21st Anniversary Sampler
UK 1993
Virgin VVSAM 21
Track: Ghosts (LP version)
Virgin 21: In The Air Tonight (2-CD)
UK & Japan 1994
Virgin VJCP-36054.55 (Japan), Virgin/EMI
724383960729 (UK)
Track: "Ghosts" (3.48)
Visual Rock Collage
Japan 1998
Toshiba-EMI TOCP-50590
Features "Visions Of China" and "Gentlemen Take Polaroids"
Was Het Nu 70, 80 Of 90? File 3 (2 CD)
Belgium 2001
Virgin 7243 8 10479 2 7
Track: Ghosts (4.31)
Was Het Nu 70 Of 80? Vol 6 (2 CD)
Belgium 1998
Virgin 7243 845676 2
Track: Adolescent Sex
Wave Romantics: Dark Ballads and Underground Rock
Classics (2 CD)
Germany 1996
Facedown Edel 0086512FAC
Track: Nightporter (album version 6.56)
You Can't Hurry Love The Motown Covers Album
Holland 1994
EMI 7243 8 31625 2 9
Features "I Second That Emotion"
Young at Heart (2 CD)
Germany/UK 1993
Germany: Time-Life Books SDC697/03
UK: Sounds Direct SDC697/03
Track: I Second That Emotion (3.42)
Young at Heart: Classic Hits of the Early 80s
UK 1997
Readers Digest RDCD1881-5
Track: I Second That Emotion
Young Guns Go For It - Heroes of the 80s
UK 2000
Virgin EMI VTDCD346
Tracks: The Art of Parties (Tin Drum version) and Forbidden Colours
(original version)
