Tin Drum (studio album) by Japan

Tin Drum by Japan
Year: 1981
Overall rank: 1,937th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
78/100 (from 167 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1981 (27th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (298th)
Award Best albums of all time (1,937th)
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Upcoming concerts

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Yamato: The Drummers of Japan
Music Center at Strathmore, North Bethesda, United States. United States
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Yamato: The Drummers of Japan
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Feb
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Yamato Drummers of Japan
Stephens Auditorium, Ames, United States. United States
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Tin Drum track list

  Track ratingsTrack ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Rating: 78 (31 votes)Comments: 0
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Average Rating: 
78/100 (from 167 votes)
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5 days ago slatsheit  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 1,87982/100
 
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11/27/2024 07:54 robertoveltri  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 58179/100
 
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09/30/2024 06:39 DavideBerna  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 1,70674/100
 
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09/06/2024 09:52 JamesMowbray  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 4,49370/100
 
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08/30/2024 04:09 Proto  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 2,17539/100

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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.8/100, a mean average of 77.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.5.

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70/100
From 02/08/2024 14:39
in 1981 this was top of the mark new romantic stuff. But today the sounds seem distant and this album sounds dated. But nevertheless a solid album
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From 05/06/2019 20:40
I thibk this is one of the best albums from 1981 and from the 80s. This was the culminate point of them carreer. There's no album sounding like this. They had a sound witch combine New Romantic and Synth-Pop with oriental music. David Sylvian's voice and compositions are amazing, Mike Karn was the best bassist of its time and Richard Barbieri made them sound futurist.
The album also produced the hits "Visions Of China", "Ghosts", "The Art Of Parties" and "Catonese Boy"; and on its time was considered one of the best bands. Duran Duran was highly influencieted in them first record by Japan (even they took Japan's looks).
Definetly a masterpiece witch everyone should listen to.
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From 03/29/2014 11:05
many of the early 80s trendy synth-wave bands sound arty and vain to me. and so it is with japan. the songs are interesting and strange - but also cool and repellent.
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From 03/07/2014 19:10
Sadly the last of Japan's studio albums. At least they went out with a bang because this is great.
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Best Albums of 1981
1. Moving Pictures by Rush
2. Computerwelt [Computer World] by Kraftwerk
3. Discipline by King Crimson
4. Juju by Siouxsie And The Banshees
5. My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts by Brian Eno & David Byrne
6. Time by Electric Light Orchestra
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8. Faith by The Cure
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10. Deceit by This Heat
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