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It was still interesting.
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It's just that ther music though isn't that great...
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dickfreckle: Boy George's "The Crying Game" is an outstanding song. Fight me.
I'll grant you a great song and good version. He did not write it it was a cover from a 60's song. I think Dave Barry, did it, and jimmy page was apparently one of the session musicians on that recording
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dickfreckle: Boy George's "The Crying Game" is an outstanding song. Fight me.
I like the Dave Berry original better. But George has good taste in picking a cover.
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The cat ain't right.
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I used to rule the world
Seas would rise when I gave the word
Now in the morning I sleep alone
Sweep the streets I used to own
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nigeman: I think they came about as a kind of flower child gay pop group from the nascent punk scene. Got incredibly huge and undoubtedly got everything thrown at them even the humanising scene out of Commando was Arne making a joke about them, and you got relationships within the group - this all seems like fertile ground for a great documentary. And boy George seems insufferable which also helps.
It's just that ther music though isn't that great...
Some of the Culture Clubbers spent time in other high-profile groups as well, like Bow Wow Wow and maybe Adam & the Ants...picturing some of the groups revolving around Malcolm McLaren but not exactly New Romantic
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Gordon Bennett: I didn't think that he could sing that song anymore, not with the line 'I'm a man without conviction.' I suppose he could try, but 'I'm a man who a jury found guilty of assault and false imprisonment' doesn't scan.
I don't recall that, I do recall Chameleon being one biatch of an ear worm to kill.
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AliceBToklasLives: Fact: Karma Chameleon is about Reconstruction in the American South:
[Youtube-video https://www.youtube.com/embed/JmcA9LIIXWw]
no it's about the future
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AliceBToklasLives: Fact: Karma Chameleon is about Reconstruction in the American South:
[YouTube video: Culture Club - Karma Chameleon (Official Music Video)]
The song is definitely about dealing with a manipulative lover, the video is a little more interesting, for various reasons.
That said I found the video interesting personally as a white/Spanish Caribbean dude married to a black chick straight from the English Caribbean. (mostly white) People here in NY would wonder out loud why we chose New Orleans for our honeymoon spot but to us it was like of course, it's literally the epicenter of creole culture in the US, and we're mixin de pot so to speak.
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Also, Boy Georges' book "Take It Like A Man" is really interesting read.
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George was a step in the process of evolution for a lot of country kids like me in the day.
I don't identify as gay, but I always appreciate those who are different and own it. We (and sometimes I) will never not need that kind of example.
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Now, though I still listen to some music produced in the 1980's, Boy George hasn't been on the play list in decades.
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