Zack: You might be surprised to know that we
intentionally paired Wu-Tang and Culture Club together on our listening odyssey
since RZA was so inspired by Boy George. We would also be surprised to know
that, since it is not even remotely true. It’s interesting going straight from
an album crafted to sound like swords clashing to one that seems to have been
crafted to sound like androgynous lollipops. Overall, Colour By Numbers sounded
to me like the songs I like the least by The Cure. It has some really popular radio
hits, but I just found it sort of silly. It was better than a lot of the New
Wave we’ve come across before, but that’s about all I have to say about it.
Favorite Tracks: Miss Me Blind; Karma Chameleon; Stormkeeper
Emily: Culture Club put me back into more familiar territory than Wu-Tang, namely the territory of artists who showed up on I Love the '80s. Boy George had his day back when he was in Culture Club, then got into drugs and got arrested a few times and then showed up with his head painted like this on various Vh1 nostalgia shows. I think he's gotten his shit back together now, but no one really cares about that. What they do care about is Boy George circa 1983, singing and shimmying to Karma Chameleon. Songs like that, and really all of Colour By Numbers, seem to made for singing along in the car by yourself. They're kind of embarrassing to have blasting out of your speakers, but you can't help but sing and bounce along as you're driving home from work and it comes up on your local 80s-90s-and-today radio station. It's not that many people outside of 1983 would queue up by choice - most likely, anyone who listened to it in 1983 has all but forgotten about Culture Club by now - but it's a fun, welcome distraction when heard by chance.
Favorite Tracks: Karma Chameleon; Miss Me Blind; That's The Way (I'm Only Trying to Help You)
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