Colour By Numbers [Original recording reissued]

Culture Club | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 29, 1992)
• Original Release Date: 1983
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued
• Label: Virgin Records Us
• ASIN: B000000WHH
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (47 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #247,725 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Karma Chameleon; Church of the Poison Mind; Miss Me Blind an absolute '80s essential! Bonus tracks: Colour by Numbers; Romance Revisited; Melting Pot , and more. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Their Best Album Ever! Great Remastered Sound plus Extra Tracks!, September 24, 2005

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Frederick Baptist (Singapore) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Colour By Numbers (Audio CD)

This was the cd that I was waiting for. After my cassette version disintegrated years ago, I decided to wait for a proper remastered version to become available before getting a replacement. The wait was very long but finally the wait was worth it.

The remastering quality is brilliant and the album has never sounded better. The extra tracks are good too and unlike in other albums do not detract from or otherwise demean the main album material.

Boy George's antics may sometime detract from Culture Club as musicians and make it difficult to take them seriously but Boy is this album a good one (pun intended). All the tracks are wonderful and showcase the band as the great singer/songwriter/musicians that they are.

Great tracks, great sound quality, what more could you ask for? Go get this already!

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "The victims we know so well", February 5, 2004

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mwreview "mwreview" (Northern California, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Colour By Numbers (Audio CD)

Put aside all those stories about Boy George and drummer Jon Moss and Boy George's drug collapse and just listen to this album. It is nearly perfect and is one of the best albums to come out of the 1980s. Considering that their smash debut album had three songs in a row with the word "Boy" in the title, Colour By Numbers is a surprisingly mature-sounding album. "Victims" (a single in the UK) is an interesting and beautiful ballad. The rest are amazing pop tracks. So many of these songs were released as singles ("Karma Chameleon," "It's A Miracle," "Church of the Poison Mind," "Miss Me Blind," "Victims," and even "Black Money" was considered for release off the "This Time" hits set) it can almost be considered a greatest hits package in and of itself. All it needs is "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me," Culture Club's best song "Time (Clock of the Heart)" and maybe "I'll Tumble 4 Ya" and there you go. In fact, the weakest track here is probably the most famous one: "Karma Chameleon." In his autobiography, Boy George writes how guitarist Roy Hay hated this track and, due to a bet, married his girlfriend when the single reached #1. Things went downhill for the band after this album but Colour By Numbers made Culture Club one of the most important bands of the 1980s. P.S. The bonus tracks are also quality material. The title track is pleasant and Helen Terry really kicks some major fanny on "Man Shake."

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Add Some "Colour" in Your Life., September 19, 2002

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The Groove (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Colour By Numbers (Audio CD)

In many respects, "Colour by Numbers," the second album from Culture Club, is a perfect record. It's a crowd-pleasing mix of soul, reggae, and pop that richly deserved its multiplatinum status. There's the Motown flavor of the delectable "Church of the Poison Mind," the reggae lilt of their signature hit "Karma Khameleon," and the disco twirl of "Miss Me Blind." Boy George may have assumed top billing as the group's lead singer, but backing vocalist Helen Terry made a pretty strong impression on the album as well. Her vocal contribution to the showstopper "That's the Way (I'm Only Trying to Help You)" makes this one of the best songs Culture Club has recorded and still stands as an underappreciated album cut. For all the media attention concerning George, his turbulent relationship with drummer Jon Moss, and the reports of heroin addiction, Culture Club were among the most vibrant groups of the 1980s. Isn't it time you started to add some "colour" to your music collection?