Track Listing

1. Let's Go To Bed
2. The Dream
3. Just One Kiss
4. The Upstairs Room
5. The Walk
6. Speak My Language
7. La Ment
8. The Lovecats

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5447 in Music
• Released on: 2000-02-21
• Number of discs: 2
• Running time: 29 minutes

Customer Reviews

Great compilation
Japanese Whispers contains the three singles (and attendant B-Sides)that briefly made Robert Smith a bonafide popstar.Let's Go To Bed,The Walk and best of all,The Lovecats.Although The Walk is a bit too similar to Blue Monday for some,they are still good enough to rank with The Cure's best singles of the eighties(The Caterpillar,Charlotte Sometimes,Lullaby,Inbetween Days,etc,etc,etc).The B-Sides are also great-the dreamy Peter Hook bass of Just One Kiss,the synth-pop The Dream,the jazzy Speak My Language,the good enough to be a single The Upstairs Room and the re-recorded (from a free flexidisc)Lament.Obviously if you have the Join The Dots B-Sides/Rarities boxset,this probably isn't worth getting,but on a purely musical level,this is superlative.

mixed bag
The mini album that saw them drift away from the dark worlds of Faith and Pornography and dabble in light pantomime pop for the first time. I may be going against the grain somewhat to suggest that the poorest offerings here are The Love Cats and Speak My Language, but heck... that's my opinion. The rest retain an element of synth and bass intrigue for repeat listenings. It's worth getting but it doesn't feel like an album, more like what it is... a collection of singles and B-sides

One of the best known Cure's albuns
This album is the follow up of the Cure's landemark Pornography 1982 album. Recorded in the next year, Japanese Whispers introduces some new comcepts in their music, and I think that most of the songs in this album are among the ones you imediatly recall when you think of Cure. The band creates here a sound that, far from being mainstream, will be understand both by Cure fans and mainstream ones. And this is one of the things I like about Whispers. You can put in on, and no one in the room will complain about the music. Try that with Pornography (which I think is a better album, thou) and you will have to pull from your diplomatick skills... So, if you are a casual listener of music, I think this is a very good entry in the Cure Universe. But if you understand and like the goth thing, postpone this one and get Seventeen Seconds, Faith and Pornography albuns first. But dont forget to come to this one after.