Tin Drum (studio album)
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Japan bestography
Tin Drum is ranked as the best album by Japan.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Tin Drum track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Tin Drum ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ! | 31 hours ago | robertoveltri | 775 | 79/100 |
| ! | 11/12/2025 23:21 | NYAndreas | 1,432 | 43/100 |
| ! | 08/22/2025 15:19 | platus | 5,819 | 74/100 |
| ! | 08/07/2025 09:35 | markl73 | 511 | 79/100 |
| ! | 06/17/2025 21:28 |  idiotican | 2,803 | 74/100 |
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(*In practice, some albums can have several thousand ratings)
This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 78.1/100, a mean average of 77.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.5.
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Jboy56 02/08/2024 14:39 | #301800
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
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.
timtooky 03/29/2014 11:05 | #107968
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.
Sadly the last of Japan's studio albums. At least they went out with a bang because this is great.
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