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. The lyrics to the song refer to the problems the band was going through at the time. They had lost their US record contract and Hansa Records were pressurising them for a hit single in the UK.
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. Following the commercial success of the band's 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.

Track Listings

;Japan 7" 1979
  1. Quiet Life
  2. Halloween
;German and Dutch 7" 1980
  1. Quiet Life
  2. Second That Emotion
;UK 7" single 1981
  1. Quiet Life
  2. A Foreign Place
;UK 12" single 1981
  1. Quiet Life
  2. A Foreign Place
  3. Fall In Love With Me