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Japanese Whispers | 
| Artist: The Cure
Label: Polygram UK
Category: Music
Buy New: $15.98
Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 11849
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 042281747021
EAN: 0766483890025
ASIN: B000005S0B
Release Date: October 5, 1987
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| 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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Album Description
1983 singles collection featuring the 7 inch versions of three singles ('Let's Go To Bed', 'The Walk' & 'The Love Cats') and five of the B-sides from these singles ('The Dream', 'Just One Kiss' (7 inch version), 'The Upstairs Room', 'Speak My Language' and 'Lament'. Unavailable domestically. Fiction / Universal.
Album Details
This 1984 Release is a Precursor to the "Staring at the Sea/Standing on a Beach: The Singles" Collections, which Came Out in 1986. "Japanese Whispers" Includes the Early Gems "Let's Go to Bed", "The Walk" (Cracked the UK Top 20), "The Lovecats" (A UK Top 10 Single) and Four More.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 20 more reviews...
 Pop and nothing but pop September 28, 2007
ECU_Classic_Music_Fan (Charlotte, NC United States)
This is no goth masterpiece and probably should be avoided by those who just want to hear the dark Cure. If you really like their more upbeat stuff this is definitely worth having.
Good import March 9, 2006
Kurt Hungus (TX)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a good import and is a great start for anyone new to The Cure,This record is definitley one of my favorites.
 Japanese Whispers February 23, 2006
Jose Arroyo Cavero
2 out of 10 found this review helpful
The is my favorite group. This disk it's more less, two songs very good
It is SINFUL that this album is not available in the US December 18, 2005
J. Abarta (Simi Valley, CA)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
This album should be held in the highest regard. It spotlights some of Robert Smith's best songwriting skills, and some of the bands most truly "wild mood swings". Lament has always been one of my favorite songs. This album should be remastered, re-packaged, and held high up on a pedastal!
Nice, poppy yet interesting deviation from usual cure... September 30, 2005
Bill Wikstrom (Long Island, NY)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I honestly don't know how terrible it must have been to have your
gothy mascara run (from the tears) after hearing The Cure daring to deviate from their one-dimentional gloomy course before becoming a parody of themselves and release the refreshingly lighthearted, fun single "Let's Go To Bed".
I'm sure it was a bitter pill to swallow (giggle).
Don't get me wrong. Seventeen Seconds is my favorite Cure album but I think this collection of synth-heavy songs should not be dismissed just because of its' not-so-goth pop (as opposed to their familliar goth pop) status.
Sire records issued the six song The Walk EP (later they issued Japanese Whispers & The Top), which is basically the same as JW minus "Lovecats" and "Language".
I listened to that tape untill I wore it out.
Some of these songs are up there with their best material.
"The Upstairs Room" is brilliantly catchy and original.
"Just One Kiss" is chillingly perfect Cure and would not have been out of place on Disintigration (same goes for "Lament").
"Let's Go To Bed", "The Walk" and "The Dream" are all great catchy idiosyncratic pop songs.
Their "It's got to be jazz" sloganeering on the "Lovecats"
single sleeve may have been a bit of a mis-step, but proved enjoyable all the same.
As "Speak My Language" is a starting reference point for boozy Smith ramblings.
A fine little stop-gap release!
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