Waking Up with the House On Fire

Culture Club

Culture Club / Waking Up with the House On Fire
Genre: music4me > Pop > Pop
Format: CD Album
Released: Tue 7 Oct 2003
Catalogue Number: VIR92406.2

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Description:
Culture Club: Boy George (vocals); Roy Hay (guitar, guitar synthesizer); Mikey Graig (bass); Jon Moss (drums, percussion, programming). Additional personnel: Steve Grainger (saxophone); Ron Williams (trumpet); Kenneth McGregor (trombone); Phil Pickett (piano, background vocals); Helen Terry, Derek Green, Christopher Rainbow, Martin Sunley, Louis Rogers, Nancy Peppers, Clare Torry, Andriana Loizou, Alanda Marchant, Imogen Exton, Alice Kemp, Tara Thomas (background vocals). Recorded at Red Bus Studios, London, England. Tell-all books and TV shows later explained that Culture Club was slowly imploding under the weight of intra-band tensions and Boy George's increasing drug addiction, but upon its release in 1984, WAKING UP WITH THE HOUSE ON FIRE just sounded strained and odd. Listening to the album in hindsight, its charms are more apparent, and the discomfort of its creation is readily audible in the subtle tension of songs like "Dangerous Man" and the sweeping ballad "Mistake Number Three." George is in fine voice, and the band's playing is as smooth and relaxed as always, but there's no denying that the songwriting is uneven--the plainly imbecilic "The War Song" was a horrid choice for the first single--and there's an unsettling sense of listening to the psychic collapse of a once-promising talent. Waking up with the house on fire indeed...

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Track Listing:

1.  Dangerous Man
2.  War Song
3.  Unfortunate Thing
4.  Crime Time
5.  Mistake No 3
6.  Dive
7.  Medal Song
8.  Don't Talk About It
9.  Mannequin
10.  Hello Goodbye
11.  La Cancion de Guerra (Bonus Track)
12.  Love Is Love (Bonus Track)
13.  Dream (Bonus Track)
14.  Don't Go Down That Street (Bonus Track)

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