We Are They Who Ache with Amorous Love

We Are They Who Ache with Amorous Love
Studio album by Half Japanese
Released 1990
Genre Indie rock, punk, post-punk, experimental rock, lo-fi, alternative rock
Label TEC Tones
Half Japanese chronology

The Band That Would Be King
(1988)		 We Are They Who Ache with Amorous Love
(1990)		 Fire In the Sky
(1992)

We Are They Who Ache with Amorous Love is an album released by the rock group Half Japanese.

Style

This album seems to recall their earlier more ramshackle releases, such as Half Gentlemen/Not Beasts, or Loud. There is a great deal of horn playing, and it's very chaotic, and it seems to be influenced by free jazz and Captain Beefheart. There are six covers, including "Gloria" a Them´s song famously covered and rewritten by Patti Smith. Two songs were co-written with Daniel Johnston; "Titanic", and " Hand Without a Body".

Legacy

Kurt Cobain of Nirvana called this his 37th favorite album in his top 50 favorite album list in his Journals.[1][2][3]

Track listing

Vinyl version[4]

Side one
  1. "Every Hour"
  2. "Elevator Boy"
  3. "Gloria"
  4. "Ear"
  5. "The Titanic"
  6. "Our Eyes"
  7. "Spin"
  8. "Up And Down"
Side two
  1. "All Of Me"
  2. "Hand Without A Body"
  3. "Going Home"
  4. "Three Rings"
  5. "How Did You Know?"
  6. "Then We Walk"
  7. "Secret"
  8. "Best"
  9. "The House I Live In"
  10. "Shanty Town"
  11. "Run"

References

  1. ↑ "Kurt Cobain’s Handwritten Top 50 Albums List".
  2. ↑ "Top 50 by Nirvana [MIXTAPE]". Retrieved 8 May 2013.
  3. ↑ Cross, Gaar, Gendron, Martens, Yarm (2013). Nirvana: The Complete Illustrated History. p. 34. ISBN 978-0-7603-4521-4.
  4. ↑ www.discogs.com