Culture Club Kissing To Be Clever UHQCD

Culture Clubs' debut album brought the band around the flamboyant singer Boy George abruptly into the spotlight and paved the way for them to become one of the symbolic bands of 80s pop culture. "Kissing To Be Clever" with its exciting mix of pop, rock, Caribbean sounds, soul, dance and new wave produced some danceable chart hits, but the music-historical crown clearly goes to the relaxed grooving masterpiece "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me".
UHQCD stands for Ultimate High Quality Compact Disc and is a joint development of the Japanese CD replication company Memory-Tech and the Audio Quality CD Company from Hong Kong. Unlike conventional CDs, UHQCDs are not pressed from polycarbonate, but are cast from a photopolymer and cured with UV light. To protect the softer photopolymer from scratching, another layer of high-purity polycarbonate is applied. The combination results in a significantly reduced reflection of the laser light inside the CD and an unrivalled precise edge transition between pits and lands of the CD. UHQCDs are 100% compatible with normal CD players. Musically, the result is a sound that is strongly reminiscent of analogue master tapes.
The discs offered by Universal Japan are additionally encoded with MQA (Master Quality Authenticated). If you output the digital signal from the digital output of your CD player or the previously ripped data stream of your music server to a corresponding MQA-DA converter, you can generate a 24-bit signal with up to 352 Khz sampling frequency from the CD data.
While the first UHQCD series of Universal Music Japan used the DSD data of previous SHM-SACD releases, albums that had not previously been released as SHM-SACD are now also being released with increasing popularity. Typically, the master tapes of the Universal Archive are converted to DSD and then post-processed with the appropriate MQA encoder. Thus, the UHQCDs are ideal for music lovers who want to get as close as possible to the sound of the recording, but do not have an SACD player.

Selections:

1. White Boy
2. You Know I'm Crazy
3. I'll Tuble 4 Ya
4. Take Control
5. Love Twist
6. Boy Boy (I'm The Boy)
7. I'm Afraid of Me"
8. White Boys Can't Control It
9. Do You Really Want To Hurt Me
Bonus Tracks
10. Mystery Boy
11. Love Is Cold (You Were Never No Good)
12. Murder Rap Trap
13. Time (Clock Of Heart)
14. White Boy
15. I'm Afraid Of Me
16. Do You Really Want To Hurt Me
17. Romance Beyond The Alphabet
18. White Boy
19. I'm Afraid Of Me