Time (Clock of the Heart)

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"Time (Clock of the Heart)"
Timeclock-CultureClub.jpg
Single by Culture Club
from the album Kissing to Be Clever (US Version)
B-side
  • "White Boys Can't Control It"
  • "Romance Beyond the Alphabet" (US version)
Released19 November 1982 (UK) / 29 March 1983 (US)
Recorded1982
Genre
Length3:42
Label Virgin, Epic
Songwriter(s) Boy George, Jon Moss, Mikey Craig, Roy Hay
Producer(s) Steve Levine
Culture Club singles chronology
"Do You Really Want to Hurt Me"
(1982)		"Time (Clock of the Heart)"
(1982)		"I'll Tumble 4 Ya"
(1983)
Audio sample

"Time (Clock of the Heart)" is a song by the British new wave band Culture Club, released as a stand-alone single in most of the world and as the second single from their debut album Kissing to Be Clever in North America. As the follow-up single to their global hit, "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me", "Time (Clock of the Heart)" peaked at #2 on the US Billboard Hot 100, kept from the #1 spot by Irene Cara's "Flashdance... What a Feeling". "Time" was also a major hit in the band's native UK, reaching #3 on the UK Singles Chart and selling over 500,000 copies in that country.

Contents

The song appears on the North American version of Culture Club's album Kissing to Be Clever. In Europe and other regions, it does not appear on the album, but instead was released as a stand-alone single in November 1982. For many of these markets, its first inclusion on a Culture Club album was on the band's 1987 greatest hits album, This Time: The First Four Years.

Cash Box said the song has "a gentle funk anchor on an otherwise airy romantic ballad." [3] In a retrospective review of the song, Allmusic journalist Stewart Mason wrote: "Of all of Culture Club's early hits, Time (Clock of the Heart) has probably aged the best. Boy George drops the cryptic self-mythology long enough to deliver a tender, heartfelt lyric on lost love." [4]

Formats and track listing

  1. "Time (Clock of the Heart)" – 3:42
  2. "White Boys Can't Control It" – 3:42
  1. "Time (Clock of the Heart)" – 3:41
  2. "Romance Beyond the Alphabet" (Time Instrumental) – 3:34
  1. A1."Time (Clock of the Heart)" – 3:42
  2. B1."White Boys Can't Control It" – 3:42
  3. B2."Romance Beyond the Alphabet" – 3:44
  1. A1."Time (Clock of the Heart)" – 3:42
  2. B1."Romance Beyond The Alphabet" – 3:42
  3. B2."I'm Afraid Of Me (Extended Version)" –
  1. A1."Time (Clock of the Heart)" – 3:42
  2. A2."White Boy (Long Version)"
  3. B1."I'm Afraid Of Me (Long Version)" –
  4. B2."Do You Really Want To Hurt Me (Dub Version)" –

Personnel

Culture Club
Additional members

Charts

Weekly charts

Certifications

CountryProviderCertificationSales/shipments
Canada CRIA Gold [22] 50,000+
United Kingdom BPI Gold [23] 500,000+

Notes

  1. ↑ Stanley, Bob (13 September 2013). "Here Comes That Feeling: New Pop". Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Modern Pop. Faber & Faber. p. 535. ISBN   978-0-571-28198-5.
  2. ↑ Sheffield, Rob (27 September 2022). "100 Best Songs of 1982". Rolling Stone . Retrieved 9 September 2023. Time (Clock of the Heart)" is a bittersweet soft-soul lament...
  3. ↑ "Reviews" (PDF). Cash Box. 16 April 1983. p. 8. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
  4. ↑ Mason, Stewart (3 November 1982). "Time (Clock of the Heart) – Culture Club : Listen, Appearances, Song Review". AllMusic. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
  5. ↑ "Radio 2 – Top 30 van zaterdag 05 februari 1983" (in Dutch). VRT Top 30. 5 February 1983. Archived from the original on 9 April 2012. Retrieved 14 February 2009.
  6. ↑ "De Nederlandse Top 40". Dutch Top 40 (in Dutch). Radio 538. 15 January 1983. Retrieved 14 February 2009.
  7. ↑ "The Irish Charts – All there is to know". Irish Recorded Music Association. 28 November 1982. Retrieved 14 February 2009.
  8. ↑ "The Official Charts Company – Culture Club – Time (Clock of the Heart)". The Official UK Charts Company . Retrieved 14 February 2009.
  9. ↑ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 . St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. ISBN   0-646-11917-6. NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1970 until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988.
  10. ↑ "Culture Club – Time (Clock of the Heart) (Song)" (in German). Ö3 Austria Top 40. 15 April 1983. Retrieved 14 February 2009.
  11. ↑ "Top Singles – Volume 38, No. 13, May 28, 1983". RPM . RPM Music Publications Ltd. 28 May 1983. Retrieved 14 February 2009.
  12. ↑ Nyman, Jake (2005). Suomi soi 4: Suuri suomalainen listakirja (in Finnish) (1st ed.). Helsinki: Tammi. ISBN   951-31-2503-3.
  13. ↑ "Chartverfolgung: Culture Club – Time (Clock of the Heart)" (in German). Media Control Charts. 21 March 1983. Retrieved 14 February 2009.
  14. ↑ "Culture Club – Time (Clock of the Heart) (Song)". Recording Industry Association of New Zealand. 15 May 1983. Retrieved 26 September 2009.
  15. ↑ "Culture Club – Time (Clock of the Heart) (Song)". Sverigetopplistan. 22 February 1983. Retrieved 14 February 2009.
  16. ↑ "Culture Club – Time (Clock of the Heart) (Song)". Swiss Charts (in German). Hung Medien. 20 March 1985. Retrieved 14 February 2009.
  17. ↑ "Hot 100: Week of Jun 18, 1983 – Time (Clock of the Heart)". Billboard . Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 18 June 1983. Retrieved 14 February 2009.
  18. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (1993). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961–1993. Record Research. p. 62.
  19. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (1996). Top R&B Singles 1942-1995. Record Research. p. 100.
  20. ↑ "Kent Music Report – National Top 100 Singles for 1983". Kent Music Report . Retrieved 22 January 2023– via Imgur.com.
  21. ↑ "Talent Almanac 1984: Top Pop Singles". Billboard. Vol. 95, no. 52. 24 December 1983. p. TA-18.
  22. ↑ "Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA)". Canadian Recording Industry Association. 1 August 1983. Archived from the original on 1 May 2010. Retrieved 14 February 2009.
  23. ↑ "Certified Awards". British Phonographic Industry. 1 January 1983. Retrieved 14 February 2009.

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