- Kissing To Be Clever debuts on the site with INCREDIBLE Shootout Winning Triple Plus (A+++) sound or close to it from start to finish – fairly quiet vinyl too
- Both sides of this early British pressing are big, rich and punchy with wonderfully breathy vocals, excellent clarity and a plenty of bottom end weight
- Forget the domestic pressings on Epic — again and again our notes read “dull, thin and gritty,” which is how I remember the album sounding when I bought my first copy back in 1982
- The sound varies somewhat from track to track — I hope to put something on the blog detailing the differences we heard as we spot-checked every song on both sides
- 4 stars: “Incorporating pop, rock, dance, new wave, soul, and Caribbean rhythms (an amalgamation of “cultures”), the result was a soulful, progressive pop outing that scored several landmark international hits and made a star out of the band’s outrageous frontman, Boy George.”
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