Waking Up with the House on Fire
Studio album by Culture Club
Released	July 1984
Recorded	October 1983
Genre	New Wave
Length	36:52
Label	Virgin
Producer(s)	Steve Levine
Professional reviews
Robert Christgau (B) link Rolling Stone (2/5) 1984 All Music Guide link
Culture Club chronology
Colour by Numbers (1983)	Waking Up with the House on Fire (1984)	From Luxury to Heartache (1986)

Waking Up with the House on Fire is an album by New Wave band Culture Club, released in 1984 (see 1984 in music). Unlike the first two Culture Club albums, Waking Up with the House on Fire was unable to repeat the heights of previous commercial success. Despite a strong first single and video clip in "The War Song", changes in the music scene and increasing personal turmoil and pressures led significantly to the album's downturn in sales. Subsequently Culture Club decided to change direction for their next album From Luxury to Heartache by choosing a new producer and moving towards a dance-oriented direction. Image File history File links WakingUpWithTheHouseOnFire. ... A Studio Album is an album of regular studio recordings. ... Culture Club was a very popular 1980s English pop group, famous for its gender-bending frontman Boy George. ... A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Virgin Records is a British recording label founded by British entrepreneur Richard Branson, and Nik Powell in 1972. ... In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the performers, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes . ... Robert Christgau (sometimes abbreviated in print to Xgau), born April 18, 1942, is an American essayist, music journalist, and rock critic. ... This article is about the magazine. ... The All Music Guide (AMG) is a metadata database about music, owned by All Media Guide. ... Image File history File links 2_stars. ... Culture Club was a very popular 1980s English pop group, famous for its gender-bending frontman Boy George. ... Colour By Numbers is an album by New Wave band Culture Club, released in 1983 (see 1983 in music). ... From Luxury to Heartache is an album by New Wave band Culture Club, released in 1986 (see 1986 in music). ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Culture Club was a very popular 1980s English pop group, famous for its gender-bending frontman Boy George. ... See also: 1983 in music, other events of 1984, 1985 in music, 1980s in music and the list of years in music // [edit] Events January 21 - Relax by Frankie Goes To Hollywood reaches number one in the UK singles chart: it spends a total of forty-two weeks in the... From Luxury to Heartache is an album by New Wave band Culture Club, released in 1986 (see 1986 in music). ...

Track listing

All tracks composed by Culture Club

1. "Dangerous Man" – 4:14
2. "The War Song" – 4:13
3. "Unfortunate Thing" – 3:08
4. "Crime Time" – 2:59
5. "Mistake No. 3" – 4:36
6. "The Dive" – 3:47
7. "The Medal Song" – 4:15
8. "Don't Talk about It" – 3:17
9. "Mannequin" – 2:53
10. "Hello Goodbye" – 3:25
11. "La Cancion de Guerra" – 4:04 (2003 remastered CD bonus track)
12. "Love Is Love" – 3:51 (2003 remastered CD bonus track)
13. "The Dream" – 2:29 (2003 remastered CD bonus track)
14. "Don't Go Down That Street" – 6:34 (2003 remastered CD bonus track)

Personnel

• Boy George - vocals
• Mikey Craig - bass guitar
• Roy Hay - guitar, piano, keyboards, sitar, electric sitar
• John Moss - percussion, drums
• Phil Pickett - keyboards, background vocals
• Steve Grainger - saxophone
• Kenneth McGregor - trombone
• Helen Terry - backing vocals
• Imogen Exton - backing vocals
• Derrick Green - backing vocals
• Alice Kemp - backing vocals
• Andriana Loizou - backing vocals
• Alanda Marchant - backing vocals
• Nancy Peppers - backing vocals
• Louis Rogers - backing vocals
• Martin Sunley - backing vocals
• Tara Thomas - backing vocals
• Clare Torry - backing vocals

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Production

• Steve Levine - Producer, digital mixing
• Gordon Milne - Engineer
• Jon Moss - Digital mixing
• Ray Allington - Hair stylist
• Kim Bowen - Stylist
• Steve Hughes - Photography, makeup

Charts

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Singles - Billboard (North America)

Release details

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External links

• Amazon.com review
• Artist Direct review
• Buy.com review
• Rate Your Music review