Gentlemen Take Polaroids
by Japan
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Japan bestography
Gentlemen Take Polaroids is ranked 2nd best out of 10 albums by Japan on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Japan is Tin Drum which is ranked number 1938 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 857.
(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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Gentlemen Take Polaroids track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 11/12/2025 23:37 | NYAndreas | 1,432 | 43/100 |
| ! | 08/05/2025 04:19 | matterhornrider | 4,820 | 81/100 |
| ! | 06/17/2025 21:28 |  idiotican | 2,803 | 74/100 |
| ! | 06/08/2025 17:49 | markl73 | 529 | 79/100 |
| ! | 11/27/2024 07:13 |  slatsheit | 2,041 | 81/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 7% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.4/100, a mean average of 74.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.5.
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Jboy56 01/16/2024 18:11 | #301233
Brings back the early 80s newromantic flavor nicely, A solid and interesting lp
I love Japan. As someone who cut his musical teeth in the period from 1979-1984, Japan stood out for me as being exactly what I was looking for in a band: they were extremely talented musicians, they (mostly) ploughed their own furrow, and they looked gorgeous! They got a lot of criticism at the time for being "too much like Roxy Music". And yes, you can definitely hear the Roxy elements in their music, and especially in David Sylvian's vocal style. But early Roxy were a great band, and Bryan Ferry a great singer. So what's wrong with a bit of emulation?
Japan really hit their purple patch with this. Following on from the change in direction from "New Glam" to "Art-Synth Pop" in their Quiet Life album, this nicely expands on that change, and is a suitable forerunner to the sublime Tin Drum.
The second best Japan album after, quiet life. It's dark and atmospheric and recorded when the band were at their peak. Great early eighties sounds.
I think this is their best. It's a consistent album with the freshness of their 'adolescent' years. Best track: 'Taking islands in Africa'.
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