Boy George: A Night in With Boy George : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone

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Despite the mascara and silly hats, Boy George has always cared less about following the zeitgeist than about reining in the current moment to match his impeccable taste. A Night Out is a DJ mix of eighteen relentless dance tunes that float the former George O'Dowd's boat. It's so tasteful it should come in a Chanel bag. Sequenced along a bell curve, it oozes onto the dance floor with the smooth, pulsating "Auto-Erotic" (by O'Dowd and Dark Globe), works itself into a frenzy through the peak - Yum Yum vs. Deva's delirious "Dizzy," Menace's "Sound of the Floor" and Plump DJs' instrumental "Big Groovy Fucker" -- and boogies bar-ward during the ice-cool repetitions of "The Dealer." No rhythmic complications, no jungle friction, just beautifully produced, maddeningly body-shaking disco chosen by a master ear.

ARION BERGER
(RS 904 - September 5, 2002)