High Hat
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- This article refers to an album by Boy George. For the part of a drum kit, see Hi-hatHi-hatA hi-hat, or hihat, is a type of cymbal and stand used as a typical part of a drum kit by percussionists in R&B, hip-hop, disco, jazz, rock and roll, house, reggae and other forms of contemporary popular music.- Operation :...
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High Hat is an album
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
compiling tracks from Boy George
Boy George
Boy 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...
's second and third UK
United Kingdom
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and Europe
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an solo albums, Tense Nervous Headache and Boyfriend.
Overview
Since neither Tense Nervous Headache or Boyfriend are any longer available, High Hat remains the only place to find any of Boy George's songs from 1988-89. While High Hat only has 10 tracks, the two other albums together included 18 tracks: 9 on the vinyl and 12 on the CD and tape for Tense Nervous Headache; just 8 for Boyfriend, 1 of which (the hi-energy remix of "No Clause 28", also known as 'Pascal Gabriel Mix') will later re-surface on Jesus Loves YouJesus Loves You (band)
Jesus Loves You were a British band, founded by the singer Boy George. The music of the band is a mixture of electronic dance music, Indian classical music and western pop music. Their lyrics are about love, spirituality and the equality of all human beings....
's The Martyr Mantras
The Martyr Mantras
The Martyr Mantras is a 1990 album by Boy George. It was credited to Jesus Loves You worldwide, a move to help people concentrate on the music rather than on the popular artist's name, except in North America, where it was credited to Boy George upon its release there in 1991, as requested by...
album. Tense Nervous Headache was shelved in the UK shortly after release of the first single due to lack of interest (or, as George put it in his autobiography, after it "died a solitary death"), despite the singer getting to #1 in the UK Singles Chart
UK Singles Chart
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the previous year with "Everything I Own
Everything I Own
"Everything I Own" is a song written by David Gates. Originally recorded by Gates's band Bread for their 1972 album Baby, I'm a Want You, the single was recorded by The Connells, Jack Jones, Ken Boothe, Olivia Newton-John, Georgie Fame, Boy George, *NSYNC, Jude, Rod Stewart, Crystal Gayle, Nicole...
". Half of the ten tracks on High Hat were quite unsuccessful singles either taken from Tense Nervous Headache or Boyfriend: "Don't Cry", "Whisper", "Don't Take My Mind on a Trip", "You Found Another Guy" and "Whether They Like It or Not". The only one track actually taken from High Hat as an independent single in America was the U.S. remix of the opener "Don't Take My Mind on a Trip", the version of which included on High Hat is slightly different from that originally opening Boyfriend.
"High Hat" was also released in Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
(V2555)and Mexico
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(LEMP-1640).
"Don't Take My Mind on a Trip" was a club hit in Canada
Canada
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and US
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, charting at #5 on the Billboard R&B charts. "You Found Another Guy" went into the top 40 of the same charts also.
Boy George was not proud of many of the tracks on that release, especially the tracks on the Boyfriend album, which he first rejected. Finally, after the flop of Tense Nervous Headache, Virgin Records didn't ask him about the track listing of Boyfriend and High Hat.
Track listing
- "Don't Take My Mind on a Trip" (U.S. Remix) - 5:21 (Griffin)
- "Whisper" - 5:40 (O'Dowd, Maidman, Bobby Z)
- "Whether They Like It or Not" - 5:10 (Griffin, O'Dowd, Bell)
- "You Found Another Guy" - 4:27 (Griffin, Bell, Middleton)
- "You Are My Heroin" - 6:21 (O'Dowd, Maidman, Nightingale, Stevens, Fletcher)
- "I'm Not Sleeping Anymore" - 4:20 (Griffin, O'Dowd)
- "Kipsy" - 6:06 (O'Dowd, Nightingale, Dewar, Geary)
- "Don't Cry" (single version) - 4:09 (O'Dowd, Maidman, Bobby Z)
- "Girl with Combination Skin" - 6:00 (O'Dowd, Fletcher, Maidman, Nightingale)
- "Something Strange Called Love" (edit) - 3:59 (O'Dowd, Vincent, Dewar)
Tracks 2, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10
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: lead vocals; co-production on 7 & 10 - Glen Nightingale: 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...
s & other voices - Ian Maidman: bassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
, keyboards - Bobby Z.Bobby Z.Robert B. Rivkin , better known by the stage name Bobby Z., is an American musician and record producer, most known as being a member of Prince's band from 1978–1986, and as a member of The Revolution.-Biography:...
: 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 ....
; production on 2, 5, 8, 9 - Amanda Vincent, Vic Martin: 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...
- Richie Stevens: drums ("Kipsy")
- Derek Green, Carrol Thompson, Helen TerryHelen TerryHelen Terry is a British singer, known for her backing vocal work with Culture Club. As a solo performer, she scored a Top 40 hit single in 1984 with "Love Lies Lost", and released one album in 1986, Blue Notes....
, Beverley Skeete, Belva Haney, Wendell Morrison, Jr., Julliette Roberts, Nevada Cato: other voices - David Ulm, Carol Steel: 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...
- Jagdeep Singh: tablaTablaThe tabla is a popular Indian percussion instrument used in Hindustani classical music and in popular and devotional music of the Indian subcontinent. The instrument consists of a pair of hand drums of contrasting sizes and timbres...
& other voices - Simon Tyrrel, Andy Dewar: drum programming
- Anne DudleyAnne DudleyAnne Dudley is an English composer and pop musician, and was the first BBC Concert Orchestra's Composer in Association in 2001. She has worked in both the classical and pop genres. She is perhaps best known, however, as one of the core members of the synthpop band Art of Noise and also as a film...
: all stringString instrumentA string instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by means of vibrating strings. In the Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification, used in organology, they are called chordophones...
arrangements - Kenny Wellington, Dave (Baps) Baptiste, Nat Augustin, Sid Gauld: 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...
section - Ed Jones: major saxSaxophoneThe 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...
- Desmond Foster: other bass
- Caron Geary: toastin' ("Kipsy")
- Paul Lee, Iris Sutherland, Yvonne White: the choir ("Mama Never Knew")
- Jock Loveband, Alan DouglasAlan DouglasAlan Douglas is a journalist and broadcaster.Douglas was a reporter and then studio presenter on BBC Scotland's evening news programme Reporting Scotland from 1978 to 1996....
, Martin WhiteMartin WhiteMartin White is an English musician, comedian and animator. As well as performing solo with an accordion around the London comedy circuit, White also fronts the Mystery Fax Machine Orchestra and the Karaoke Circus live bands...
, Terry Reed, Paul Wright, Renny Hill, Phil Legg, Robin EvansRobin EvansRobin Evans was an architect, teacher and historian. He grew up in Essex, England, attending British state schools where he met his wife, teacher Janet Bance - before studying Architecture at the Architectural Association School of Architecture , gaining his Diploma and the Bristol Prize .Evans...
: engineers - Mike Pela: mix on 2, 5, 8, 9 for Powerplant London; co-production on 7 & 10
Tracks 1, 3, 4, 6
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: lead vocals - Lee Drakeford, Zan Marsha McClurkin, Mauricette Martin: backing vocalsBacking vocalistA backing vocalist or backing singer is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists...
- Teddy Riley: all instruments, backing vocals, arrangements
- Bernard Bell: acoustic guitar & backing vocals
- D Mitchell: 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,...
- Bill Esses: assistant engineer
- Gene Griffin: production for G.R. Productions