We Are They Who Ache with Amorous Love explained

We Are They Who Ache with Amorous Love
Type:	Album
Artist:	Half Japanese
Cover:	We Are They Who Ache with Amorous LoveHalfJapanese.jpg
Released:	1990
Genre:	Indie rock, punk rock, lo-fi
Length:	40:51
Label:	Ralph/T.E.C.^[1]
Prev Title:	The Band That Would Be King
Prev Year:	1988
Next Title:	Fire In the Sky
Next Year:	1992

We Are They Who Ache with Amorous Love is an album by the rock group Half Japanese, released in 1990.^[2]

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."^[3] Magnet counted the album as among the band's "most accessible, most listenable."^[4]

Legacy

Kurt Cobain of Nirvana ranked it his 37th favorite album on his top 50 favorite albums list, published in Journals.^{[5] [6] [7]}

Notes and References

1. Web site: Marshall . Mary Ann . Underground . Spin . March 1991 . 9 July 2020.
2. Web site: McGuinness . Paul . HALF JAPANESE - VOLUME THREE: 1990- 1995 . Record Collector . 9 July 2020.
3. Web site: Half Japanese . Trouser Press . 9 July 2020.
4. Web site: Berkowitz . Kenny . ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC: HALF JAPANESE'S "VOLUME 3, 1990-1995" . Magnet . 9 July 2020.
5. Web site: Kurt Cobain's Handwritten Top 50 Albums List.
6. Web site: Top 50 by Nirvana [MIXTAPE]]. 8 May 2013.
7. Book: Cross, Gaar, Gendron, Martens, Yarm . Nirvana: The Complete Illustrated History . 2013 . 978-0-7603-4521-4 . 34.