Culture Club Colour By Numbers UHQCD

A catchy tune to take away, please: The first single, "Karma Chameleon", made "Colour By Numbers" from 1983 the most successful album by Culture Club, which dominated the charts for a whole year. Not least because of three more hit singles, "Miss Me Blind", "It's a Miracle" and "Victim" it became one of the most popular albums of the 80s. In a good mood, it conveys the colourful zeitgeist of the time, with the dazzling Boy George as its figurehead. 40 years after its first release, the UHQCD format brings an atmospheric reminder of an exciting decade, peppered with some bonus tracks, into your home in the best sound quality.
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. Karma Chameleon
2. It's A Miracle
3. Black Money
4. Changing Every Day
5. That's The Way (I'm Only Trying to Help You)
6. Church of the Poison Mind
7. Miss Me Blind
8. Mister Man
9. Stormkeeper
10. Victims
Bonus Tracks
11. Man-Shake
12. Mystery Boy
13. Melting Pot
14. Colour By Numbers
15. Romance Revisited
16. Karma Chameleon
17. Love Twist
18. Miss Me Blind / It's A Miracle
19. Shirley Temple Moment