We Are They Who Ache with Amorous Love

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We Are They Who Ache with Amorous Love
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Released1990
Genre Indie rock, punk rock, lo-fi
Length40:51
Label Ralph/T.E.C. [1]
Half Japanese chronology
The Band That Would Be King
(1988)
We Are They Who Ache with Amorous Love
(1990)
Fire In the Sky
(1992)
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We Are They Who Ache with Amorous Love is an album by the rock group Half Japanese, released in 1990. [3]

Contents

Content

There are six cover songs, including "Gloria," a song by the band Them famously covered and rewritten by Patti Smith. Two songs were co-written with Daniel Johnston: "Titanic" and "Hand Without a Body."

Critical reception

Trouser Press wrote that "with a rotating stack of fellow noisemakers, Jad manages to deliver some quietly cogent (if unexceptional) performances ('The Titanic,' 'All of Me,' 'Three Rings,' 'Secret' and a few others), but a sizable chunk of the record is unlistenably indulgent nonsense, noisy improvs in the musical sandbox." [4] Magnet counted the album as among the band's "most accessible, most listenable." [5]

Legacy

Kurt Cobain of Nirvana ranked it his 37th favorite album on his top 50 favorite albums list, published in Journals. [6] [7] [8]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Every Hour"2:46
2."Elevator Boy"2:21
3."Gloria"4:10
4."Ear"1:34
5."The Titanic"1:50
6."Our Eyes"3:43
7."Spin"0:42
8."Up and Down"0:51
9."Run"1:53
10."All of Me"1:35
11."Hand Without a Body"1:00
12."Going Home"4:13
13."Three Rings"1:47
14."How Did You Know?"1:33
15."Then We Walk"0:13
16."Secret"2:16
17."Best"2:10
18."The House I Live In"1:01
19."Shanty Town"2:26
20."Everything Is Right"2:47

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