Don't Mind if I Do
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Don't Mind If I Do is the fifth and final album by new wave
band Culture Club
, released in 1999 for the Virgin label
. The album has been released only in Europe and Japan. Some promo copies circulated in Australia too.
compilation (though the single version did not in fact feature on any album). The second single "Your Kisses Are Charity" hit the Top 25, while the third single "Cold Shoulder"/"Starman" resulted in the lowest charting single ever for the group, stalling at Number 43. Also included on this single was a re-recorded version of "Your Kisses Are Charity" with Dolly Parton
.
The music on the album is an amalgam of the classic Culture Club reggae
-flavoured pop
with rock, soul
, and dance
influences, and including a couple of ballad
s. The title of the 1999 work is a British
idiom
, popularised as a catchphrase in the comedy series It's That Man Again
, though some see it as a vague reference to Boy George's famous heroin addiction story.
.
New Wave music
New Wave is a subgenre of :rock music that emerged in the mid to late 1970s alongside punk rock. The term at first generally was synonymous with punk rock before being considered a genre in its own right that incorporated aspects of electronic and experimental music, mod subculture, disco and 1960s...
band Culture Club
Culture Club
Culture Club are a British rock band who were part of the 1980s New Romantic movement. The original band consisted of Boy George , Mikey Craig , Roy Hay and Jon Moss...
, released in 1999 for the Virgin label
Virgin Records
Virgin Records is a British record label founded by English entrepreneur Richard Branson, Simon Draper, and Nik Powell in 1972. The company grew to be a worldwide music phenomenon, with platinum performers such as Roy Orbison, Devo, Genesis, Keith Richards, Janet Jackson, Culture Club, Lenny...
. The album has been released only in Europe and Japan. Some promo copies circulated in Australia too.
Overview
Don't Mind If I Do was Culture Club's comeback album of original material, the first since the band called a halt to recording, back in 1986. However, despite heavy promotion, the album was a commercial failure, only peaking at No.64 in the UK album chart. The work produced one Top 10 single, "I Just Wanna Be Loved", which was actually released almost a year earlier, and was originally included on the Greatest Moments - VH1 Storytellers LiveGreatest Moments - VH1 Storytellers Live
Greatest Moments is a greatest hits compilation by British band Culture Club. It was released in the UK on 9 November 1998, and went platinum in the UK, reaching #15 in the album charts...
compilation (though the single version did not in fact feature on any album). The second single "Your Kisses Are Charity" hit the Top 25, while the third single "Cold Shoulder"/"Starman" resulted in the lowest charting single ever for the group, stalling at Number 43. Also included on this single was a re-recorded version of "Your Kisses Are Charity" with Dolly Parton
Dolly Parton
Dolly Rebecca Parton is an American singer-songwriter, author, multi-instrumentalist, actress and philanthropist, best known for her work in country music. Dolly Parton has appeared in movies like 9 to 5, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Steel Magnolias and Straight Talk...
.
The music on the album is an amalgam of the classic Culture Club reggae
Reggae
Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...
-flavoured pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
with rock, soul
Soul music
Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of...
, and dance
Dance music
Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement...
influences, and including a couple of ballad
Ballad
A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads were particularly characteristic of British and Irish popular poetry and song from the later medieval period until the 19th century and used extensively across Europe and later the Americas, Australia and North Africa. Many...
s. The title of the 1999 work is a British
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
idiom
Idiom
Idiom is an expression, word, or phrase that has a figurative meaning that is comprehended in regard to a common use of that expression that is separate from the literal meaning or definition of the words of which it is made...
, popularised as a catchphrase in the comedy series It's That Man Again
It's That Man Again
It's That Man Again was a BBC radio comedy programme which ran from 1939 to 1949. The title was a contemporary phrase referring to ever more frequent news-stories about Hitler in the lead-up to World War II, and specifically a headline in the Daily Express written by Bert Gunn...
, though some see it as a vague reference to Boy George's famous heroin addiction story.
Track listing
All tracks composed by Culture Club, except "Starman" by David BowieDavid Bowie
David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for over four decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s...
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- "I Just Wanna Be Loved" – 4:33
- "Cold Shoulder" – 4:35
- "Maybe I'm a Fool" – 4:32
- "Sign Language" – 4:48
- "Mirror" – 4:06
- "Black Comedy" – 3:51
- "Your Kisses Are Charity" – 4:19
- "Weep for the Child" – 4:59
- "See Thru" – 4:06
- "Strange Voodoo" – 5:15
- "Truth Behind Her Smile" – 3:04
- "Fat Cat" – 3:25
- "Confidence Trick" – 4:57
- "Starman" – 5:16
- "Less Than Perfect" – 6:33
Personnel
- Boy GeorgeBoy GeorgeBoy George is a British singer-songwriter who was part of the English New Romantic movement which emerged in the early 1980s. He helped give androgyny an international stage with the success of Culture Club during the 1980s. His music is often classified as blue-eyed soul, which is influenced by...
- vocalsSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments... - Mikey CraigMikey CraigMikey Craig is a former DJ who became the bassist with Culture Club, one of the most popular bands of the 1980s.-Personal life:...
- bass guitarBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
, piano, vocal arrangement - Roy Hay - conductorConductingConducting is the art of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. The primary duties of the conductor are to unify performers, set the tempo, execute clear preparations and beats, and to listen critically and shape the sound of the ensemble...
, guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
, keyboardsKeyboard instrumentA keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
, vocal arrangements, brass arrangements - Jon MossJon MossJon Moss is an English drummer best known as a member of the 1980s pop group Culture Club. He has also played with other bands, including London, The Nips and The Damned.-Early life:...
- percussionPercussion instrumentA percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
, drumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
Additional musicians
- John Themis - guitar, vocal arrangement
- Tim Cansfield - guitar
- Tony Remy - guitar
- Steve Honest - pedal steel guitarPedal steel guitarThe pedal steel guitar is a type of electric guitar that uses a metal bar to "fret" or shorten the length of the strings, rather than fingers on strings as with a conventional guitar. Unlike other types of steel guitar, it also uses pedals and knee levers to affect the pitch, hence the name "pedal"...
- Darius Zickus - keyboards, programming
- Kevan FrostKevan FrostKevan Frost is a British Tony Award and Drama Desk Award nominated composer, musician, and record producer.He is recgonised for his work with the musical Taboo; composing the musical score for the production alongside Boy George. This earned him and his co-composer a nomination for a Tony Award for...
- keyboards - Jonathan Shorten - keyboards
- Sacha Skarbek - keyboards
- Chaz Kkoshi - hammond organHammond organThe Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond in 1934 and manufactured by the Hammond Organ Company. While the Hammond organ was originally sold to churches as a lower-cost alternative to the wind-driven pipe organ, in the 1960s and 1970s it became a standard keyboard...
- Richie Stevens - percussion, programming
- Gillian Findlay - violinViolinThe violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
- Sophie Langdon - violin
- Julian Leaper - violin
- Roland Roberts - violin
- Paul Wiley - violin
- Rolf Wilson - violin
- Kate Evans - fiddleFiddleThe term fiddle may refer to any bowed string musical instrument, most often the violin. It is also a colloquial term for the instrument used by players in all genres, including classical music...
- Chris Davis - fluteFluteThe flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...
, saxophoneSaxophoneThe saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846... - J. Neil Sidwell - tromboneTromboneThe trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player’s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate...
, brassBrassBrass is an alloy of copper and zinc; the proportions of zinc and copper can be varied to create a range of brasses with varying properties.In comparison, bronze is principally an alloy of copper and tin...
arrangement - Steve Sidwell - trumpetTrumpetThe trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...
, flugelhornFlugelhornThe flugelhorn is a brass instrument resembling a trumpet but with a wider, conical bore. Some consider it to be a member of the saxhorn family developed by Adolphe Sax ; however, other historians assert that it derives from the valve bugle designed by Michael Saurle , Munich 1832 , thus...
, brass - Paul Spong - trumpet, flugelhorn
- John Thirkell - trumpet
- London Chamber OrchestraLondon Chamber OrchestraThe London Chamber Orchestra ' is the longest established professional chamber orchestra in the UK. Based in London, LCO has a residency at St John's Smith Square in Westminster.-History:...
- strings - Robin Smith - arrangerArrangerIn investment banking, an arranger is a provider of funds in the syndication of a debt. They are entitled to syndicate the loan or bond issue, and may be referred to as the "lead underwriter". This is because this entity bears the risk of being able to sell the underlying securities/debt or the...
, programming, music direction - Paul Staveley O'Duffy - programming
- Steve Levine - programming
- Disco Dave - programming
- Adian Love - programming
- David Maurice - programming
- Mr. Spee - programming
- Emily Themis - backing vocals
- Zee Asher - backing vocals
- Angie Brown - backing vocals
- Linda Duggan - backing vocals
- Gina Foster - backing vocals
- Chyna Gordon - backing vocals
- Spencer Graham - backing vocals
- Derek Green - backing vocals
- Mary Pearce - backing vocals
- Tubbs Williams - backing vocals
- Derick Johnson - rapRappingRapping refers to "spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics". The art form can be broken down into different components, as in the book How to Rap where it is separated into “content”, “flow” , and “delivery”...
Production personnel
- Jon Themis - executive producer, music direction
- Paul Staveley O'Duffy - producerRecord producerA record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
, engineerEngineerAn engineer is a professional practitioner of engineering, concerned with applying scientific knowledge, mathematics and ingenuity to develop solutions for technical problems. Engineers design materials, structures, machines and systems while considering the limitations imposed by practicality,...
, mixing engineer - Dom T - producer, remixing
- Roy Hay - producer
- Steven Levine - producer
- John Musgrave - engineer, mixing engineer
- Chris Scard - engineer, mixing engineer
- Albert Pinheiro - engineer, assistant engineer
- Pete Lewis - engineer
- Frank Arkwright - mastering, cutting engineer
- Wing Commander Gill - assistant engineer
- Daniel Gilliland - assistant engineer
- Graham Hogg - assistant engineer
- Ian Rossiter - assistant engineer
- Ryan Tully - assistant engineer
- Roland Herrington - mixing engineer
- Richie Stevens - mixing
- Fiesta Mailing - transcriptionTranscription (music)In music, transcription can mean notating a piece or a sound which was previously unnotated, as, for example, an improvised jazz solo. Further examples include ethnomusicological notation of oral traditions of folk music, such as Béla Bartók's and Ralph Vaughan Williams' collections of the national...
- Ryan Art - design
- Paul Cox - photography
Release details
| Country | Date | Label | Format | Catalog |
| UK United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages... |
1999 | Virgin Virgin Records Virgin Records is a British record label founded by English entrepreneur Richard Branson, Simon Draper, and Nik Powell in 1972. The company grew to be a worldwide music phenomenon, with platinum performers such as Roy Orbison, Devo, Genesis, Keith Richards, Janet Jackson, Culture Club, Lenny... |
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