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Record Details

Artist: Japan
Title: Oil On Canvas
Format: 2x12"
Label: Virgin
Cat No: VD 2513
Released: Jun 1983
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Genres: Art RockNew WavePost-PunkSynth-pop
Status Have
Added To List 6th November 2025
Disc 1 | 12"
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A Matrix:
VD.2513.A.1 ƱTOPIA  
B Matrix:
VD.2513.B.1 ƱTOPIA  
Disc 2 | 12"
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A Matrix:
VD.2513.C.1 ƱTOPIA  
B Matrix:
VD 2513 D1 ƱTOPIA  

Additional Information

Comments ℗ 1983 Virgin Records Ltd. © 1983 Virgin Records Ltd.

Published by Chadwick Nomis Ltd./ Virgin Music (Publishers) Ltd.
Some copies came with a printed sticker stating "Japan Recorded Live VD2513".

[Release notes]:
Billed as 'Japan recorded live' it actually contains some studio material (tracks A1, B4, C1 & D4), including three new instrumentals and a re-recorded 'Nightporter'. All other tracks were recorded live November 1982 at Hammersmith Odeon, London.
In chart terms this was Japan's most successful album; released at a time when interest in the group was at its peak in the wake of the split.

UK chart position: 5, Japan (national chart, 11 - a real achievement), No1 on overseas artists chart.
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