Very Me Records Genre s: This Is What I Do leaves you spoiled for choice. All this publication's reviews Read full review. This Is What I Do is the comeback of the year. The album, then, is a bit of a mixed bag but does enough to deliver on its mission statement. Sure it's mature, soulful, and often beautiful, but it's also mostly forgettable. The songs inside are equally well groomed, yet it is a shame that the singer--not generally a man to take the easiest path--hasn't frayed their edges a little more.
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All this publication's reviews. Absolutely love this album. Very calm and relaxing. Boy George sounds great as always. Boy George's new album starts out with "King of Everything" questioning "What's the word on the street. The songs go on mirroring the reflections of his mind: Yeah, I'm a cruel chicky baby. Just 1 or 2 of the better one's "Live Your Life" and "My Star" would have added some spice to the album without killing it.
I now have a good Boy George album. This album is well done. George's voice is always soulful and full of emotion, but the album needed some editing before its release to make it even better. I gave this a "9" rating so as to reflect not only the album but all of his work - which could have been added to this album - since the release of his last album "Ordinary Aliens.
Even though I began listening to this record by plain curiosity, I was actually impressed by its quality.
And it's lyrically brilliant: There are a lot of songs on there that, as a kid, you felt like he was talking to you. I was discovering myself, living in suburbia, feeling out of place — he was a life-saver, really. When I went to see Bowie in , I must have been 12 or 13,, at Lewisham Odeon, it was a transforming experience, seeing other, older kids as immaculately dressed as Bowie.
Many years later that happened to me — I'd do gigs and there'd be people in the audience who looked better than I did! Listening to this record I just wanted to know who Bowie was… I had dinner with him in New York once, and people always say you should never meet your heroes, but he was really charming. These days, when I'm asked to do certain publicity, or anything on TV, I always think: What would Bowie do?
If I can't imagine Bowie on the show, then it's a no. Lou Reed, Transformer The Who did a massive concert at Charlton football ground with 73, people in , and Lou Reed was on the bill.
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I was 12 and was told emphatically [by my parents]: I was just amazed. After hearing Transformer , I went back to listen to the Velvet Underground and became a fan of everything Lou Reed had done. But Transformer was a great record. If you think about the music of the time, it was completely out of sync with everything else. It was vaudevillian, with songs like New York Telephone Conversation and Make Up — very much later on I discovered Tom Waits and all of that sound — but it was a sort of weird, druggy, theatrical, marching-bands-on-valium sound.
I've also chosen it because of the lyrics — particularly Walk on the Wild Side , it has such a great narrative. When you're a kid and you know you're gay, and you hear Bowie singing "a cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest, and a queer threw up at the sight of that", and then you hear Walk on the Wild Side, you know there's hope — you know you're not the only one that has these weird thoughts. Nico, Chelsea Girl This was when I had my first boyfriend. I met this guy who was the editor of a pop magazine called My Guy at a lesbian club in Swiss Cottage.
I went out with him for a while — he was older than me and had Nico's album Chelsea Girl. I never knew about Nico until him. I spent the one night at his house and he had that album on constantly, all night, so it was kind of like the soundtrack to my first real sexual experience, and I just fell in love with the record. Nico has an amazing voice a bit like Marlene Dietrich, who I also love , and I thought she was beautiful as well.
When you're a kid you devour all the information about the music you love. I went to live in Birmingham for a year when I was about 17, in I'd met this guy called Martin Degville who was in the band Sigue Sigue Sputnik — he was quite mad, used to wear fishnet tights on his face — at a punk weekender in Bournemouth. Punks at that point were the enemy of the state, no one would let us in anywhere because of the way we looked.
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We were gathering on a street corner that weekend, and there was this thing on the other side of the road, a vision: And me and my girlfriends were in awe, looking at him. I befriended him and I started to go up to Birmingham for the weekend and hang out at the clubs up there for the punk scene.
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I had this relationship with my best friend, a boy, and when that went pear-shaped, I decided to leave home and move in with Martin. We lived with two girls called Janet Doublenose and Rhonda Beyonda. Rhonda was a big Sly and the Family Stone fan, and I remember one day sitting in her room while she played their album Fresh , and the song If You Want Me to Stay came on — it's just a great song, fantastic falsetto vocals.
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It's probably one of my favourites of all time. It's got the best bass line ever, and it's Sly Stone at his peak; it's just a great, emotional piece of music. I'd play it over and over, as you do, when you're that age. Sly Stone is one of the greatest singers, you can hear it — the emotion.
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I'd love to work with him, even if he just did a little warble on one of my tracks I'd be really happy. Tubeway Army, Replicas I was always dismissive of anyone who sounded like Bowie. But I forgave Gary Numan. I bought this album when I was living in Birmingham. Me and Jeremy Healy, my mate who went on to be a successful DJ [and a member of Haysi Fantayzee], sat and listened to Replicas and loved it, even though we thought he [Numan] was a bit of a Bowie clone.
But it was a brilliant record, and he looked brilliant as well, which was very important then.