Contents 1 Adolescent Sex (1978) 2 Obscure Alternatives (1978) 3 Quiet Life (1979) 4 Gentlemen Take Polaroids (1980) 5 Assemblage (1981) 6 Tin Drum (1981) 7 Oil on Canvas (1983) 8 Exorcising Ghosts (1984) 9 The Very Best Of (2006) 10 Other Songs 11 Additional information

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Adolescent Sex (1978)Edit

1. Transmission
2. The Unconventional
3. Wish Your Were Black
4. Performance
5. Lovers On Main Street
6. Don't Rain On My Parade
7. Suburban Love
8. Adolescent Sex
9. Communist China
10. Television

Obscure Alternatives (1978)Edit

1. Automatic Gun
2. ... Rhodesia
3. Love Is Infectious
4. Sometimes I Feel So Low
5. Obscure Alternatives
6. Deviation
7. Suburban Berlin
8. The Tenant

Quiet Life (1979)Edit

1. Quiet Life
2. Fall In Love With Me
3. Despair
4. In Vogue
5. Halloween
6. All Tomorrow's Parties
7. Alien
8. The Other Side Of Life

Gentlemen Take Polaroids (1980)Edit

1. Gentlemen Take Polaroids
2. Swing
3. Burning Bridges
4. My New Career
5. Methods Of Dance
6. Ain't That Peculiar
7. Nightporter
8. Taking Islands In Africa

9. The Experience Of Swimming (Instrumental)
10. The Width Of A Room (Instrumental)
11. Taking Islands In Africa (Steve Nye Remix)

Assemblage (1981)Edit

1. Adolescent Sex (Re-Recorded Version)
2. Stateline
3. Communist China
4. ... Rhodesia
5. Suburban Berlin
6. Life In Tokyo
7. European Son
8. All Tomorrow's Parties (Alternate Version)
9. Quiet Life
10. I Second That Emotion

Tin Drum (1981)Edit

1. The Art Of Parties
2. Talking Drum
3. Ghosts
4. Canton
5. Still Life In Mobile Homes
6. Visions Of China
7. Sons Of Pioneers
8. Cantonese Boy

9. The Art Of Parties (Single Version)
10. Ghosts (Single Version)
11. Life Without Buildings
12. The Art Of Parties (Live)

Oil on Canvas (1983)Edit

Japan in concert, Hammersmith Odeon London, 1982.

1. Oil On Canvas (Instrumental)
2. Sons Of Pioneers
3. Gentlemen Take Polaroids
4. Swing
5. Cantonese Boy
6. Visions Of China
7. Ghosts
8. Voices Raised In Welcome, Hands Held In Prayer (Instrumental)

1. Nightporter
2. Still Life In Mobile Homes
3. Methods Of Dance
4. Quiet Life
5. The Art Of Parties
6. Canton
7. Temple Of Dawn (Instrumental)

Exorcising Ghosts (1984)Edit

1. Methods Of Dance
2. Swing (on vinyl release only)
3. Gentlemen Take Polaroids
4. Quiet Life
5. A Foreign Place (on vinyl release only)
6. Nightporter
7. My New Career
8. The Other Side Of Life
9. Visions Of China
10. Taking Islands In Africa (Steve Nye Remix) (on vinyl release only)
11. Ghosts
12. Sons Of Pioneers (on vinyl release only)
13. Voices Raised In Welcome, Hands Held In Prayer (on vinyl release only)
14. Life Without Buildings
15. Talking Drum (Edited Version)
16. The Art Of Parties (Extended Version)

The Very Best Of (2006)Edit

1. Ghosts Single Version
2. Quiet Life Single Mix
3. I Second That Emotion Single Mix
4. Gentlemen Take Polaroids
5. The Art Of Parties Extended Version
6. Visions Of China
7. Taking Islands In Africa Steve Nye Remix
8. European Son Single Mix
9. Cantonese Boy
10. Life In Tokyo Single Mix
11. Nightporter
12. Methods Of Dance
13. All Tomorrow's Parties Single Mix
14. Canton Live at Hammersmith Odeon London, 1983
15. Ghosts

Other SongsEdit

1. ...Rhodesia
2. Rhodesia
3. State Line
4. Wish You Were Black

Additional information

Band members: David Sylvian – vocals, keyboards, guitars (1978–1983) Steve Jansen – drums, percussion (1978–1983) Richard Barbieri – keyboards (1978–1983) Mick Karn – bass, saxophone (1978–1983) Rob Dean – guitars (1978–1980) Masami Tsuchyia – guitars (1981–1983) Related artists: Rain Tree Crow Ryuichi Sakamoto Nine Horses

Genres: Post-Punk New Wave Record labels: Hansa Virgin Records

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