to produce the album as "significant, as the band's sights had shifted from gutter-glam to elegant decadence." Writing for The Quietus, Joseph Burnett called Quiet Life "an album that pushed the elegant, improbably-coiffed Sylvian into the limelight, aided and abetted by some of the band's best songs," and found that it "deserves to be placed alongside Travelogue, Mix-Up and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark as one of the key early British synth-based pop/rock albums". Legacy Quiet Life appears in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. The title track made an appearance as a playable cassette track in the video game Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. Track listing The band originally intended for the track listing to be 1) All Tomorrow's Parties, 2) Fall in Love with Me, 3) Alien, 4) Quiet Life, 5) The Other Side of Life, 6) Despair, 7) In Vogue, 8) Halloween, 9) A Foreign Place, and the notes in the CD cover booklet of the 2006 remastered edition suggest that the listener should try listening to the album in that order. 2021 deluxe edition bonus tracks Personnel Japan David Sylvian – lead vocals, guitar, production Rob Dean – guitar, backing vocals, production Richard Barbieri – synthesizer, keyboards, production Mick Karn – bass, backing vocals, saxophone, flute, production Steve Jansen – drums, backing vocals, percussion, production Additional personnel Ann Odell – orchestral arrangements Martyn Ford – orchestral conduction Technical John Punter – production, engineering Simon Napier-Bell – production Colin Fairley – engineering Keith Bessey – engineering on "All Tomorrow's Parties" Charts Certifications References External links Japan (band) albums 1979 albums Albums produced by John Punter Hansa Records albums