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Released
  
6 April 1987

Artist
  
Culture Club

Producer
  
Steve Levine

Recorded
  
1982-1986

Release date
  
6 April 1987

Label
  
Virgin Records

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Length
  
48:07 (LP); 62:15 (CD/MC)

This Time - The First Four Years (1987)
  
At Worst... The Best of Boy George and Culture Club (1993)

Genres
  
Pop music, New wave, Rock music, Soul music, Reggae, Blue-eyed soul, Country music

Similar
  
Culture Club albums, Pop music albums

This Time – The First Four Years is the first official greatest hits album by British new wave group Culture Club, released by Virgin Records on 6 April 1987. Its release came one year after the band had split up.

Contents

Overview

The compilation exclusively includes, in its vinyl edition, Culture Club's most successful hits. The one track which was never available in single format is "Black Money" (originally on the band's second album, Colour by Numbers), which was intended to be released to promote this collection, but never actually came out. The album includes a wide selection of tracks taken from all their albums (including more than half the tracks from the Colour by Numbers album), as well as the group's contribution to the Electric Dreams film soundtrack; "Love Is Love". For many countries, it was the first time that their hit "Time (Clock of the Heart)" was included on an album.

Two additional tracks are featured on the CD and cassette version: the remix of "I'll Tumble 4 Ya" and a medley segueing the remixes of "It's a Miracle" and "Miss Me Blind".

The bulk of these tracks would be re-issued on numerous compilations for years after.

Track listing

  1. "Karma Chameleon" - 4:01 (O'Dowd/Hay/Craig/Moss/Pickett) from Colour by Numbers
  2. "Church of the Poison Mind" - 3:31 (O'Dowd/Hay/Craig/Moss) from Colour by Numbers
  3. "Miss Me Blind" - 4:29 (O'Dowd/Hay/Craig/Moss) from Colour by Numbers
  4. "Time (Clock of the Heart)" - 3:43 (O'Dowd/Hay/Craig/Moss) from Kissing to Be Clever
  5. "It's a Miracle" - 3:25 (O'Dowd/Hay/Craig/Moss/Pickett) from Colour by Numbers
  6. "Black Money" - 5:19 (O'Dowd/Hay/Craig/Moss) from Colour by Numbers
  7. "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me" - 4:24 (O'Dowd/Hay/Craig/Moss) from Kissing to Be Clever
  8. "Move Away" - 4:10 (O'Dowd/Hay/Craig/Moss/Pickett) from From Luxury to Heartache
  9. "I'll Tumble 4 Ya" - 2:35 (O'Dowd/Hay/Craig/Moss) from Kissing to Be Clever
  10. "Love Is Love" - 3:52 (O'Dowd/Hay/Craig/Moss) from Electric Dreams
  11. "The War Song" - 3:59 (O'Dowd/Hay/Craig/Moss) from Waking Up with the House on Fire
  12. "Victims" - 4:55 (O'Dowd/Hay/Craig/Moss) from Colour by Numbers
  13. "I'll Tumble 4 Ya" (U.S. 12" Remix) - 4:40 (O'Dowd/Hay/Craig/Moss) [CD/MC bonus track] from Kissing to Be Clever
  14. "It's a Miracle/Miss Me Blind" (U.S. 12" Remix) - 9:12 (O'Dowd/Hay/Craig/Moss/Pickett) [CD/MC bonus track] from Colour by Numbers

Band/Musicians

  • Boy George: lead vocals and lyrics
  • Roy Hay: guitars, keyboards, sitar, synth guitar
  • Mikey Craig: bass
  • Jon Moss: drums and percussion
  • Helen Terry: female lead and background vocals
  • for the other musicians, see Culture Club's first four albums

    • Staff/Production

  • Steve Levine: production, except track 8
  • Arif Mardin, Lew Hahn: production on track 8
  • Assorted iMaGes: album cover
  • David Levine, Jamie Morgan, Mark LeBon, Kate Garner, Stevie Hughes: photography
  • Mitaka: booklet Japanese translation
  • for the other members of staff and production, see Culture Club's first four albums

    • Songs

    1Karma Chameleon4:02
    2Church of the Poison Mind3:31
    3Miss Me Blind4:31

    References

    This Time – The First Four Years Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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