Colour By Numbers

Colour By Numbers is the title of the second album by British group Culture Club, released on 10 October 1983. The follow-up to their debut Kissing to Be Clever (1982), the album went straight into the UK charts at no.1 the week after its release, outselling The Jam's ''Snap!. It stayed at the top for five non-consecutive weeks, eventually outsold by Under a Blood Red Sky by U2 and Seven and The Ragged Tiger'' by Duran Duran.

Produced by Steve Levine, Colour by Numbers became the third biggest selling album of the year, beaten only by Thriller and No Parlez.

Tracklisting

 * Original LP/MC Virgin V2285

Side One Side Two Tracks 1-10 as above plus tracks 11-15:
 * 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)
 * 1) Church of the Poison Mind
 * 2) Miss Me Blind
 * 3) Mister Man
 * 4) Stormkeeper
 * 5) Victims
 * Remastered CD (2003)
 * Man-Shake / Mystery Boy (Suntori Hot Whiskey Song)  / Melting Pot / Colour By Numbers / Romance Revisited

Singles
Colour by Numbers was preceded by the release of the singles Church of the Poison Mind, no.2 in April 1983, and Karma Chameleon, the group's second no.1 single (for six weeks in September/October 1983). A third track Victims was also released as a single in November which, although it was tipped as the Christmas no.1 for 1983, only reached no.3 (kept off the top by Slade and the surprise no.1 hit, The Flying Pickets' Only You). A fourth single, It's a Miracle, was released in April 1984.
 * Church of the Poison Mind (7"/12"/ pic disc)
 * 1) Church of the Poison Mind
 * 2) Man Shake
 * 3) Mystery Boy (12" only)


 * Karma Chameleon (7"/12")
 * 1) Karma Chameleon (3:59 / 4:11)
 * 2) That's The Way (digitally recorded to stereo) (1:43) (7" only)
 * 3) I'll Tumble 4 Ya (U.S. 12" Remix) (4:38) (12" only)


 * Victims (7"/12")
 * 1) Victims (4:36)
 * 2) Colour By Numbers (3:57)
 * 3) Romance Revisited (4:54) (12" only)


 * It's a Miracle (7")
 * 1) It's a Miracle
 * 2) Love Twist (recorded live during UK tour 1983)

Miss Me Blind c/w Colour By Numbers was released as a single in the US only, in 1984.
 * It's a Miracle/Miss Me Blind (12")
 * 1) It's a Miracle/Miss Me Blind (U.S. remix)
 * 2) Love Twist (live)
 * 3) Melting Pot (live)