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ť This article refers to an album by Boy George. For the part of a drum kit, see Hi-hat.

High Hat is a US album compiling tracks from Boy George's second and third UK and European solo albums, Tense Nervous Headache and Boyfriend. Since those two albums are no longer available, High Hat remains the only place to find any of Boy George's songs from 1988-89, though High Hat, like Tense Nervous Headache and Boyfriend, is very difficult to find. While High Hat only has 10 tracks, the two other albums together included 18 tracks: 9 on the vinyl and 12 on the CD and tape for Tense Nervous Headache; just 8 for Boyfriend, 1 of which (the hi-energy remix of "No Clause 28", also known as 'Pascal Gabriel Mix') will later re-surface on Jesus Loves You 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, after it "died of 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 one 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.
"Don't Take My Mind On A Trip" was a club hit in Canada and USA, charting at #5 on the Billboard R'n'B charts. "You Found Another Guy" went into the top 40 of the same charts too.
Boy George wasn't proud of many of the tracks on that release, especially the tracks on the "Boyfriend" album, which he first rejected. Finally, after the flop of Tense Nervous Headache, Virgin Records didn't ask him about the tracklisting of Boyfriend and High Hat.

Track listing

"Don't Take My Mind On A Trip" (U.S. Remix) - 5:21 (Griffin)
"Whisper" - 5:40 (O'Dowd, Maidman, Bobby Z)
"Whether They Like It Or Not" - 5:10 (Griffin, O'Dowd, Bell)
"You Found Another Guy" - 4:27 (Griffin, Bell, Middleton)
"You Are My Heroin" - 6:21 (O'Dowd, Maidman, Nightingale, Stevens, Fletcher)
"I'm Not Sleeping Anymore" - 4:20 (Griffin, O'Dowd)
"Kipsy" - 6:06 (O'Dowd, Nightingale, Dewar, Geary)
"Don't Cry" (single version) - 4:09 (O'Dowd, Maidman, Bobby Z)
"Girl With Combination Skin" - 6:00 (O'Dowd, Fletcher, Maidman, Nightingale)
"Something Strange Called Love" (edit) - 3:59 (O'Dowd, Vincent, Dewar)

Musicians/Staff/Production

Tracks 2, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10

Boy George: lead vocals; co-production on 7 & 10

Glen Nightingale: guitars & other voices

Ian Maidman: bass, keyboards

Bobby Z: drums; production on 2, 5, 8, 9

Amanda Vincent, Vic Martin: keyboards

Richie Stevens: drums ("Kipsy")

Derek Green, Carrol Thompson, Helen Terry, Beverley Skeete, Belva Haney, Wendell Morrison, Jr., Julliette Roberts, Nevada Cato: other voices

David Ulm, Carol Steel: percussion

Jagdeep Singh: tabla & other voices

Simon Tyrrel, Andy Dewar: drum programming

Ann Dudley: all string arrangements

Kenny Wellington, Dave (Baps) Baptiste, Nat Augustin, Sid Gauld: brass section

Ed Jones (jazz musician): major sax

Desmond Foster: other bass

Caron Geary: toastin' ("Kipsy")

Paul Lee, Iris Sutherland, Yvonne White: the choir ("Mama Never Knew")

Jock Loveband, Alan Douglas, Martin White, Terry Reed, Paul Wright, Renny Hill, Phil Legg, Robin Evans: engineers

Mike Pela: mix on 2, 5, 8, 9 for Powerplant London; co-production on 7 & 10

Tracks 1, 3, 4, 6

Boy George: lead vocals

Lee Drakeford, Zan Marsha McClurkin, Mauricette Martin: backing vocals

Teddy Riley: all instruments, backing vocals, arrangements

Bernard Bell: acoustic guitar & backing vocals

D Mitchell: engineer

Bill Esses: assistant engineer

Gene Griffin: production for G.R. ProductionsFurther Information

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