Release Date: 20 October, 1998
Audio CD
Tracks
- Let's Go To Bed
- The Dream
- Just One Kiss
- The Upstairs Room
- The Walk
- Speak My Language
- Lament
- The Lovecats
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Rating 4.0
The lighter side of The CureProceeding here as a duet, Robert Smith and Lol Tolhurst utilize sythesizers and sounds of The Orient to make "Japanese Whispers," which contains only eight songs, most of which are less than four minutes long (in fact, the entire album times in at less than 30 minutes). I've never particularly loved the "silly" side of The Cure. Although "Let's Got to Bed," "The Walk," and "Lovecats" are fun, they are not representative of the songs that make them a great band, although I appreciate the sharp departure from the all too bleak "Pornography." I really do like "Just One Kiss" and "La Ment" which could easily have fit well on other albums.
"Japanese Whispers" is not one of "The Cure's best, but it is quite enjoyable.Disagree with SandmanI remember many nights listening to (...) and waiting for the next Cure album...When the Let's Go to Bed singel was first released, I ran out, bought it, put it on and was stunned...it was one of the coolest songs I have ever heard them do...then I realized that I was listening to "Just One Kiss" which was the B-Side (it was one of those photo on one side, info on the other singles), still in my euphoria, I put the flip side on and gagged....every other fan of the Cure that I knew at the time pretty much gagged as well-----when "The Top" was released, we pretty much wrote the cure off (just as we did with Gang of Four after "Hard" and Killing Joke after "Outside the Gates" - While I still feel "Just One Kiss" is right up there with Charlotte sometimes as one of their best songs, La Ment is really the only other track worth a listen on this piece of drivel.....I will never forget how terrible I felt about one of my favorite bands turning to crap.....This is their best albumRemember hearing the Cure a lot on the J's back then, and having mixed reactions to their music. Much of it was great, while some of it was just straight out awful. Japanese Whispers is really their best album that chains together beautifully. Much of their early work was a mish mash of one-hit albums that kind of struggled to awake my attention. The tracks "Boys don't cry", and "primary" were both excellent hits, with their energetic rhythms, but the album's they came from were very much less then desirable. With three hits singles, "Let's go to bed", "The Walk, and "Love Cats", and a number of good album tracks, with a similar feel to keep the album consistent, this album is definitely the Cure's winning disc. |
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