Don't Mind If I Do [Import]

Culture Club | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 19, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: EMI Europe Generic
• ASIN: B00002ZZ2L
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (37 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #112,342 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. I Just Wann Be Loved

2. Sign Language

3. Your Kisses Are Charity

4. Strange Voodoo

5. Confidence Trick

6. Cold Shoulder

7. Mirror

8. Weep For The Child

9. Truth Behind Her Smile

10. Starman

11. Maybe I'm A Fool

12. Black Comedy

13. See Thru

14. Fat Cat

15. Less Than Perfect

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Culture Club still great!, December 4, 1999

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G KIMBERLY BRAILEY (DENTON TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Don't Mind If I Do (Audio CD)

I've been waiting for this one for a long time! It did not disappoint.Even after 13 years and many, many personal changes, the Boy[s] still sound like the old Culture Club.. just come full circle. The entire album was fabulous to listen to,Especially cuts "Starman", "Cold Shoulder"... actually hard to say which is favorite. They still make you want to get up and move or sing along! Great backup vocals as usual even w/out Helen Terry. The whole album is professionally done which should be no surprise to hard core die hard fans! Boy George still makes MAGIC with lyrics and arrangements. A MUST! Hope this is just the beginning....

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Boy is the master lyricist! A teriffic recording!!, July 15, 2003

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Mr. Stanley M. Schmidt "boymitch" (Rockford, IL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Don't Mind If I Do (Audio CD)

Why is this recording masterful? 1)The song material (lyrics, music and production) are spectacular. 2)This recording is more mainstream and mature and 3)The variety of this album is extremely pleasing.

I drove two hours into Chicago to buy this on the day it was released. I was in heaven on the drive home and this CD spun twice. I am so proud of Boy and the guys to release such a fantastically mature album that has so many highlights, it's almost like a mini-greatest hits effort. My favorite song is "Mirror". I just love the chord changes, backing vocals, tamborine line and lyrics. It's such a sassy song with a great message. My next favs are: "Your Kisses Are Charity", "Cold Shoulder", "See Thru" and the very solemn "Less Than Perfect". If I had to pick my least favorite track, it would be the remake of David Bowie's "Starman". It's an OK song, but the lyrics are not that of the Boy.

The only thing really wrong is that Virgin DID NOT RELEASE THIS IN THE USA and THEY MISERABLY PROMOTED IN THE UK. I hope that Culture Club's contract with Virgin is up and they shop around. Virgin lost tons of respect in my mind for not promoting this 80s powerhouse. Granted that times have changed, but the musical quality is better than ever. Two thumbs down to you Virgin...

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Criminally ignored, still un-released in America - HELLO VIRGIN?!, July 16, 2005

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G. Mitchell "greggmitch" (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Don't Mind If I Do (Audio CD)

This CD came out in the late 90s to coincide with their US tour, but WHAT was Virgin thinking - WHY didn't they see fit to release this amazing "comeback" CD when CC were touring America to support it? Seeing as CC basically built Virgin's fortunes from the groundfloor up, the LEAST they could do was release this extraordinary album in the U.S? HELLO?! Highlights include Boy's signature blue-eyed soul sound on SEE THRU and COLD SHOULDER, as well as the reggae/dub-tinged YOUR KISSES ARE CHARITY (the DOLLY PARTON remix/duet is smashing, too, but alas not found here!) and JUST WANNA BE LOVED. The sad bottom line is: ANY of these tracks could and should have been big U.S. hits, but without Virgin's marketing money & muscle, another brilliant CC album goes underrated and ignored in the States. Although there has been no CC follow-up in the last five+ years, you can try to search online for Boy George's own dance/electro side project THE TWIN, which is an amazing, amazing, really dark underground dance album in tribute/homage (some might say rip-off?) to the late, great LEIGH BOWERY - either way, BOY and CO. deserve much better treatment than this! Yo Virgin, while you're at it, why not re-issue back-up singer HELEN TERRY's 1987 solo album, BLUE NOTES, on CD? That's another amazing CC confection that's criminally OOP!