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“Time (Clock of the Heart)” by Culture Club
From the EP Time (1983)
“Time (Clock of the Heart)” by Culture Club appears on 6 radio countdowns from 5 stations between 1996 and 2021. It was first released in 1983 on the EP Time. Its best result is #265 on the WLIR Top 300 Songs of All-Time (December 1999). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #4,178 alternative song of all time.
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"Time (Clock of the Heart)" was the single the British new wave band Culture Club had to follow "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me" with, and they did not blink. Boy George, Mikey Craig, Roy Hay and Jon Moss wrote it together, and it came out in Britain in November 1982 as a stand-alone single, reaching the US in 1983, where it was added to the North American edition of their debut album, Kissing to Be Clever, as its second single.
It climbed to number three at home, selling more than 500,000 copies there, and went to number two on the Billboard Hot 100, held off the top by Irene Cara's "Flashdance... What a Feeling". In much of the rest of the world, its first home on a Culture Club album was the 1987 hits collection This Time: The First Four Years.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 491 | Q101 | Q101 Top 500 Songs of All-Time (1996) | 500 |
| 1998 | 455 | KROQ | KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1998) | 488 |
| 1999 | 531 | Q101 | Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 1017 |
| 1999 | 265 | WLIR / WDRE | WLIR Top 300 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 300 |
| 2003 | 1524 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003) | 2044 |
| 2021 | 777 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '80s | 909 |
Also listed as: Time.
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