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Track: Automatic Gun
Artist: Japan
Album: Obscure Alternatives

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Name: Japan
Spotify Genres: new wave, synthpop, post-punk, art pop
Followers: 239,123
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New wave, art rock, synth pop band, formed in London, England in early 1974. Japan comprised David Sylvian (vocals), his brother Steve Jansen (drums), Richard Barbieri (keyboards) and Mick Karn (saxophone/bass). Rob (Robert) Dean joined the line-up as guitarist and the band subsequently won a recording contract with the German record company Ariola-Hansa. Eminently unfashionable in the UK punk era, they first found success in Japan. After three albums with Ariola-Hansa, they switched to Virgin Records in 1980 and found their fortunes dramatically improving thanks to the surge of popularity in the New Romantic movement. Japan's androgynous image made them suddenly fashionable and they registered several UK Top 20 singles. Their albums Gentlemen Take Polaroids (1980) and Tin Drum (1981) were also well received. Rob Dean left the band after Gentlemen Take Polaroids but continued working with the band for one more tour thereafter. Disagreements between Karn and Sylvian undermined the band's progress just as they were achieving some long-overdue success, and they split in late 1982. The members diversified into collaborative work and solo careers, reuniting (minus Dean) in 1991 for a project under the moniker of Rain Tree Crow.

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Release: Japan - Automatic Gun
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Genres: Electronic
Styles: New Wave, Synth-pop

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LYRICS

Too many heartaches have been rejected
A notified delay
I feel adrenalin ejecting
And I'll soon go on my way
And it's so hard now
And it's so hard now
Beating on my brain
I find no fascination to stimulate
I'll do it all again

Oh you find love inside an automatic gun

Another lifestyle breaks on the carpet
Nothing as before
Without old intuition
We're feeling stronger
We're communists at war
And it's so hard now
And it's so hard now
Authority denied
We pull the trigger
The cartridge empty
But marxists still reply

Oh you find love inside an automatic gun

I throw my fist in your chest
In search of a refugee
Love is bust from an air assault cannon
???
Heaven in your hands
Go beating on my brains
Go beating on my brains
Go

With new abandon
We're resurrected
Throwing you apart
With acclamation
Company deposited
Pissing on your heart

Oh you find love inside an automatic gun