Japanese Whispers

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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. after hearing a lot of praise for the West German Cure CDs, I found a cheap WG Japanese Whispers CD and bought it. However, when I got home and played it, I was a bit dismayed at what I heard.

The Cure – Japanese Whispers (2004, Blue Picture Disc, CD The Cure – Japanese Whispers (2004, Blue Picture Disc, CD

May have letter "A" stamped/embossed around spindle hole on both sides, similar to The Cure - Japanese Whispers The best thing about the Japanese pressing is the lyric sheet insert. The label seems to have had some poor soul transcribe it from scratch. Hilarity ensues. It's at least 50% accurate and 85% complete. The remaining 15% is just lines of frustrated question marks. But the parts that they got wrong are worth the price of admission. 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! Makes sense, Thanks Oso, that leaves US and Japan, hopefully someone with a Sire US can confirm these numbers, thanks again guys! 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.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.

The Cure – The Walk Lyrics | Genius Lyrics The Cure – The Walk Lyrics | Genius Lyrics

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Smith told Rolling Stone with a laugh that after spending time recovering at his parents' house after touring in support Pornography, he ‘decided to be a pop star’: I have the WG, FR, and US (Sire) editions of this CD and I think the Sire is the best of the bunch. 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.