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''High Hat'' is an album compiling tracks from Boy George's second and third UK and European solo albums, ''Tense Nervous Headache'' and ''Boyfriend''. ==Overview== Since neither ''Tense Nervous Headache'' or ''Boyfriend'' are any longer available, ''High Hat'' remains the only place to find any of Boy George’s songs from 1988-89. While ''High Hat'' has only ten tracks, the two other albums together included eighteen tracks: nine on the vinyl and twelve on the CD and tape for ''Tense Nervous Headache''; plus eight for ''Boyfriend'', one of which (the hi-energy remix of “No Clause 28”, also known as “Pascal Gabriel Mix”) would later re-surface on Jesus Loves You’s ''The Martyr Mantras'' album. ''Tense Nervous Headache'' was shelved in the UK shortly after release of the first single due to lack of interest (or, as George put it in his autobiography,〔Boy George with Spencer Bright (1995), ''Take It Like A Man'', London, Sidgwick & Jackson〕 after it "died a solitary death"), despite the singer getting to #1 in the UK Singles Chart the previous year with "Everything I Own". Half of the ten tracks on ''High Hat'' were quite unsuccessful singles either taken from ''Tense Nervous Headache'' or ''Boyfriend'': “Don’t Cry”, “Whisper”, “Don’t Take My Mind on a Trip”, “You Found Another Guy” and “Whether They Like It or Not”. The only track actually taken from ''High Hat'' as an independent single in America was the U.S. remix of the opener "Don't Take My Mind on a Trip", the version of which included on ''High Hat'' is slightly different from that originally opening ''Boyfriend''. “High Hat” was also released in Australia (V2555) and Mexico (LEMP-1640). “Don’t Take My Mind on a Trip” was a club hit in Canada and the US, charting at #5 on the ''Billboard'' R&B charts. "You Found Another Guy" went into the top 40 of the same charts also. ''High Hat'' nonetheless did a little better than its US predecessor ''Sold'', reaching number 126 on the ''Billboard'' charts.〔(Boy George solo discography awards )〕 Boy George was not proud of many of the tracks on that release, especially those on the ''Boyfriend'' album, which he first rejected. Finally, after the flop of ''Tense Nervous Headache'', Virgin Records didn’t ask him about the track listing of ''Boyfriend'' and ''High Hat''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「High Hat (album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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