Japanese Whispers

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The songs were recorded when the band was in a transitional phase. In 1982, bassist Simon Gallup left following the Pornography tour and musician Lol Tolhurst switched from drums to the keyboards.

The Cure | Japanese Whispers

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. So then I a/b'd the 4 Walk EP songs on the WG CD with the UK Fiction Walk 12", and the differences between those were even more glaring... Compared to the original vinyl, the WG CD sounded like a 3rd generation cassette recording. Really cheap, murky, and harsh, with a very noticeable cut in the lower frequencies. The EP, by contrast, had a beautifully full low end and that rich detail in the higher frequencies. Japanese Whispers is the second compilation album by British group The Cure. It was released in late 1983 by Fiction Records. The title is a pun on the children's game Chinese whispers.Offiziellecharts.de – The Cure – Japanese Whispers: The Cure Singles Nov 82: Nov 83" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 3 July 2023. This new direction would earn the band their first two top 20 hits in both the UK and Ireland. Japanese Whispers would also be the band’s first album to chart in the US. May have letter "A" stamped/embossed around spindle hole on both sides, similar to The Cure - Japanese Whispers I have the WG, FR, and US (Sire) editions of this CD and I think the Sire is the best of the bunch.

The Cure | ‘Japanese Whispers’ to be released on Picture Disc! The Cure | ‘Japanese Whispers’ to be released on Picture Disc!

Japanese Whispers - Fiction 817 470-2 (blue picture label CD made in West Germany) As someone mentions above, rather thin & tinny sounding in places pretty much sums it up. JesusChris - Fair enough, i get what you mean - this record has sentimental value to you, so that's why you're so fond, i dig. P.S. Your mum has good taste in music!

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Re-Ripping my Cure to Flac, Got to the Australian Digital Audio Technologies Warner/Fiction 3 For 1 Box, Can someone post EAC for Japanese Whispers, I want to see what master they used, here are mine, thanks! Let's Go to Bed sounded fine enough, but when the Dream came on, something sounded really off. I got out my Sire LP to a/b the two versions, and sure enough, the Dream on the WG CD - as well as the other three songs culled from the Walk EP - sounded muffled and muddy compared to the Sire LP. The best way I can describe it is that the Sire LP (while not a stellar pressing) had this airiness and very pleasing definition/detail in the higher frequencies, whereas the WG CD sounded as if that high frequency had been crudely switched off. I would recommend the US Sire CD for Japanese Whispers and steer clear of the WG in this case. But the Sire is nothing special. The Cure Official store has just been updated with several new collections including Bloodflowers 20th Anniversary Collection, Seventeen Seconds 40th Anniversary Collection, ‘Cure Crew’ collection, Japanese Whispers Picture Disc, 2021 Faith Calendar, a range of new Cure masks… and lots more! In a 2004 interview with Rolling Stone, Smith detailed what contributed to the shift in style. “I didn’t want that side of life anymore; I wanted to do something that’s really kind of cheerful. I thought, “This isn’t going to work. No one’s ever gonna buy into this. It’s so ludicrous that I’m gonna go from a goth idol to a pop star in three easy lessons.

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Makes sense, Thanks Oso, that leaves US and Japan, hopefully someone with a Sire US can confirm these numbers, thanks again guys! Lent for Promotional use only. Any sale or unauthorised transfer is prohibited and void. Subject to return upon demand by owner. Acceptance of this record constitutes agreement to the above."

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Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992: 23 years of hit singles & albums from the top 100 charts. St Ives, N.S.W, Australia: Australian Chart Book. p.79. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. Use italics (lyric) and bold (lyric) to distinguish between different vocalists in the same song part Japanese Whispers is a mini-album that collects previously-released songs on various singles from November 1982 to November 1983. It marks a significant change in the band’s sound.