Kissing To Be Clever (studio album)
by Culture Club

Kissing To Be Clever by Culture Club
Year: 1982
Overall rank: 15,090th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
65/100 (from 62 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1982 (229th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (2,067th)
Award Best albums of all time (15,090th)

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Culture Club bestography

Kissing To Be Clever is ranked 2nd best out of 10 albums by Culture Club on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Culture Club is Colour By Numbers which is ranked number 3425 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 432.

Culture Club album bestography « Higher ranked (3,425th)
Colour By Numbers
This album (15,090th)
Kissing To Be Clever
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Kissing To Be Clever

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  Track ratingsTrack ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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65/100 (from 62 votes)
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80/100
From 07/21/2022 01:34
Had this on cassette, used to listen to it on a blaster in my little apartment, and I thought then what I still think coming back to it now. To me, this is a really smart, fun, sophisticated album that is perfectly of its time, but also has a lot of soul to it. Got to knock some points off, though, because the production is also of its time: thin and brittle with a shallow bottom end.
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The story and personality is actually much more interesting than the music.
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From 08/05/2013 05:24
Excellent production and catchy songs makes this a memorable debut, topped only by Colour By Numbers.
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