Other Side Of Life (track)
by Japan
Other Side Of Life appears on the following album(s) by Japan:
- Quiet Life (track #8) (this album) (1979)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 08/29/2026 23:24 |  serpico | 3,959 | 89/100 |
| ! | 06/01/2026 10:25 | phmusic | 73,577 | 100/100 |
| ! | 01/21/2026 00:36 | Exist-en-ciel | 171,081 | 71/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 6% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 79.7/100, a mean average of 81.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 81.1/100. The standard deviation for this track is 10.4.
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This song is bathed in the same nostalgic and fatalistic atmosphere as "Despair" but is much more interesting musically. Here it is the great arrangements of strings, the fretless bass of the regretted Mick Karn and the guitar that prevent the song from getting bored over time.
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