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Waking Up With the House
 
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Waking Up With the House [Original recording remastered]
~ Culture Club (Artist)
3.5 out of 5 stars  (4 customer reviews)
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Product details
  • Audio CD (8 Sep 2003)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Original recording remastered
  • Label: Virgin
  • ASIN: B0000C83YK
  • Other Editions: Audio CD
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 72,886 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Dangerous Man
2. The War Song
3. Unfortunate Thing
4. Crime Time
5. Mistake Number 3
6. The Dive
7. The Medal Song
8. Don't Talk About It
9. Mannequin
10. Hello Goodbye
11. La Cancion De Guerra
12. Love Is Love
13. The Dream
14. Don't Go Down That Street

Product Description
Description
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 itsrelease 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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