This Time – The First Four Years

This Time - The First Four Years

Compilation album by Culture Club

Released

6 April 1987

Recorded

1982-1986

Genre

New wave, pop, rock, reggae, country, blue-eyed soul

Length

48:07 (LP);
62:15 (CD/MC)

Label

Virgin
Epic (US)

Producer

Steve Levine

Culture Club chronology

From Luxury to Heartache (1986)

This Time - The First Four Years
(1987)

At Worst... The Best of Boy George and Culture Club
(1993)

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This Time – The First Four Years is the first official greatest hits album by British new wave group Culture Club, released by Virgin Records on 6 April 1987. Its release came one year after the band had split up.

The compilation exclusively includes, in its vinyl edition, Culture Club's most successful hits. The one track which was never available in single format is "Black Money" (originally on the band's second album, Colour by Numbers), which was intended to be released to promote this collection, but never actually came out. The album includes a wide selection of tracks taken from all their albums (including more than half the tracks from the Colour by Numbers album), as well as the group's contribution to the Electric Dreams film soundtrack; "Love Is Love". For many countries, it was the first time that their hit "Time (Clock of the Heart)" was included on an album.

Two additional tracks are featured on the CD and cassette version: the remix of "I'll Tumble 4 Ya" and a medley segueing the remixes of "It's a Miracle" and "Miss Me Blind".

The bulk of these tracks would be re-issued on numerous compilations for years after.

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