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Artist: Culture ClubEdition: Music CD
Format: Box set, Original recording remastered
Published: 2002
CD Release Date: 2003-01-28
Music Label: Virgin Records Us
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Put It Down (Demo)
- You Know I'm Not Crazy (Demo)
- Kissing 2 Be Clever (Demo)
- Stand Down (Demo)
- Next 2 You (Demo)
- Peculiar World (Demo)
- Believe (Demo)
- I'm Afraid Of Me
- White Boy
- Do You Really Want 2 Hurt Me (Demo)
- Do You Really Want 2 Hurt Me
- Love Twist
- I'll Tumble 4 Ya
- Time (Clock Of The Hear)
- Mister Man
- Church Of The Poison Mind
- Karma Chameleon
- It's A Miracle
- Shirly Temple Moment
- Victims
- Miss Me Blind
- Colour By Numbers
- Changing Everyday
- That's The Way (I'm Only Tyring To Help You)
- Mistake Number 3
- Murder Rap Trap
- Man-Shake
- Bow Down Mister (A Small Portion 2 B Polite Mix)
- I Specialise In Loneliness
- If The Lord Can Forgive
- Love In Lonely
- Sweet Toxic Love
- Moghul Tomb (Demo)
- Vanity Case (Arabesque Mix)
- Who Killed Rock N' Roll?
- Starman
- Suffragette City
- Mr Strange
- Spooky Truth
- Funtime
- Satans Butterfly Ball
- These Boots Are Made 4 Walking (Nancy Headbanger Mix)
- Genocide Peroxide
- Less Than Perfect
- Confidence Trick
- Sign Language
- How D'Ya Keep Your Credibility?
- Is There Cream In This Soup? (Demo)
- Love Hurts (Evolution Mix)
- Same Thing In Reverse (Evolution Mix)
- See Thru
- Strange Voodoo
- Do You Really Want 2 Hurt Me (TMS~PMS Mix)
- Masheri (Demo)
- Grand Scheme Of Things (Demo)
- Lions Roar (Demo)
- Victims 2002
- If I Were U (Kinky Rolands 'Mind Over Substance Mix)
- Church Of The Poison Mind (Budgie Man Electro Mix)
- Karma Chameleon (Nail Out Of Coffin 'Rewind Mix')
- I Just Wanna Be Loved
- Black Money (Hint Of Helen Mix)
- Everything I Own
- Love Is Love 2002
- Kipsy
- Time (Clock Of The Heart)
- Hiroshima
- Cold Shower (Scary Newman Mix)
- Police & Thieves (Dubversive Mix)
- Do You Really Want 2 Hurt Me (Drumheads Twisted Nerve Mix)
- Maybe I'm A Fool
- Crystal Blue Persuasion
- Armageddon (Demo)
- Run, Run, Run (Demo)
Free Music Notes for Culture Club
Free Music Review: An Unfortunate Waste of Time
Hit: 1 Stars
Culture Club emerged at a time when the pop charts had become stale as moldy bread, and most of the more interesting of the new music coming out of England (and other places where aspiring young musicians picked up synthesizers instead of guitars) had a distinct gothic gloom that the average member of the record-buying public found to be cold at best (and alien at worst).
In such an atmosphere, Culture Club came across as sunny rather than cold, human rather than mechanistic, colorful rather than monochromatic, and emotional rather than distant. Even the moody "Do you really want to hurt me", which was most of the world's first real exposure to the band, came across as smooth and engaging.
Culture Club's emergence also coincided with a resurgence of interest in Motown, whose influences on Culture Club's music were quite obvious ("Church of the poison mind" blatantly lifts from Stevie Wonder's "Uptight", for example). And, similar to Motown, Culture Club's music appealed to a variety of people as it blurred some of the rigidly defined categories the music industry had thrown up around everything.
This box set reflects very little of that appeal. Half of the first disc consists of demos that, for the most part, aren't that interesting (though they are surprisingly polished for demos); half the second disc jumps several years ahead to Boy George solo material; and the remaining two disc are a horrid mishmash of solo material, reunion tracks, unlistenable remixes, and more demos.
The packaging is similarly awful. The track listings make no distinction between Culture Club tracks and Boy George tracks, so you're likely to be very confused about what is what on the later discs unless you have followed Boy George's solo and DJ careers very closely. And there is little in the way of liner notes to speak of; what little there is tells only Boy George's side of the story.
In any event, it seems clear that this is not really a Culture Club set, but a Boy George set. In that respect, this collection is clearly mislabeled. I'm surprised that Virgin were even willing to release the thing.
If you want an overview of Culture Club's brief career, I'd suggest sticking with either the Greatest Moments/VH-1 Storytellers disc, or the more recently released Greatest Hits collection. Just avoid this.
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2002 compilation for one of the most popular bands of the early 1980s ('Karma Chameleon' is still the best-selling UK single of all time in Virgin Records history, with 'Do You Really Want to Hurt Me' also still in the top ten). This four CD box-set represents the definitive history of the band with many added gems such as demos, remixes, alternative versions & previously unreleased songs. Lavish artwork includes a 72 page glossy booklet, official photos, personal photos, quotes & notes from band members. All previously unreleased tracks have been newly remastered. Long digi-book. Virgin.Those old enough to remember the '70s may have thought they'd seen some strange things in fab culture's relentless drive toward the Different. But a soul-embracing band of English musical chameleons fronted by a bitchy, ever-quotable drag queen? David Bowie aside, that notion simply required a whole new decade to frame properly. Ironically, while Culture Club's stateside success was meteorically brief (though yielding a half dozen Top 10 singles), they ended up one of the most indelibly iconic acts of the '80s, thanks to the larger-than-life antics of Boy George and those three magic letters: MTV. This four-disc anthology never strays far from the beguiling, egocentric singer or his fetishes, musical and otherwise. Brimming with demos, a few cheeky outtakes, and a wealth of de rigueur remixes (including a full disc of 2002 dubs by Richie "Drumhead" Stevens) and footnoted with a colorfully rambling, drag-centric scrapbook that passes for liner notes, it's also a set that helps scrub away George's bluster and mascara to find the innocent fan's soul--and shrewd record collector-club DJ sensibility--that lies at the heart of Culture Club's music. It may be obsessive for the uninitiated, but seldom obtuse, while CC faithful should find it a newly annotated gospel. --Jerry McCulley
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