Quiet Life (song)

Quiet Life is a song by the British new wave band Japan. It is the title track of their 1979 album Quiet Life.

Quiet Life was released as a single in Japan in 1979 and in Germany and The Netherlands in 1980. In the UK it was released as the B-side of the unsuccessful single I Second That Emotion in 1980.^[1] Following the commercial success of the bands 1981 album Tin Drum Hansa Records reissued the song as a single that year and it became a top 20 hit on the UK Singles Chart, peaking at number 19 in October 1981.^[2]

Track Listings

Japan 7" 1979

Quiet Life
Halloweeen

German and Dutch 7" 1980

Quiet Life
Second That Emotion

UK 7" single 1981

Quiet Life
A Foreign Place

UK 12" single 1981

Quiet Life (Extended Version)
A Foreign Place
Fall In Love With Me

References

Japan

David Sylvian Mick Karn Steve Jansen Richard Barbieri Rob Dean

Studio albums	Adolescent Sex Obscure Alternatives Quiet Life Gentlemen Take Polaroids Tin Drum Rain Tree Crow (as Rain Tree Crow)

Live albums	Oil on Canvas

Compilation albums	Assemblage Japan Exorcising Ghosts The Very Best of Japan

Singles	"Don't Rain On My Parade" "Sometimes I Feel So Low" "Adolescent Sex" "The Unconventional" "Life in Tokyo" "Quiet Life" "Gentlemen Take Polaroids" "I Second That Emotion" "The Art of Parties" "Visions of China" "Ghosts" "European Son (remix)" "Cantonese Boy" "Nightporter" "Canton (live)" "All Tomorrow's Parties (1983 remix)"

Related articles	Simon Napier-Bell John Punter Steve Nye Ray Singer Ryuichi Sakamoto Masami Tsuchiya The Dolphin Brothers Nine Horses Porcupine Tree Dalis Car Virgin Records Hansa Records

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