Culture Club Waking Up With The House On Fire UHQCD

The third album of the 80s cult band "Culture Club" was released in 1984. After the two hits of the century "Karma Chameleon" and "Do You Really Want To Hurt Me" as well as the insane media hustle and bustle around Boy George, it slowly became a bit quieter around the band. With "Waking Up With The House On Fire", a very worth listening album with some beautiful songs like "The Medal Song", the jive-grooving "Crime Time" or the ballad "Mistake Number 3" was created, the successful single "The War Song" went platinum in the UK and the USA.
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. 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. Love Is Love
12. The Dream
13. Don't Go Down That Street
Bonus tracks
14. The War Song
15. The War Song
16. The War Song
17. The War Song
18. The Medal Song
19. The War Song