This covers record, a mash note following their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction, shows the Chilis as surprisingly mutable. The jokers who once grunted "Catholic School Girls Rule" nail "A Teenager in Love" with startling tenderness, and elsewhere go mostly for accuracy: Neil Young's "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere" gets a gutterpunk edge, the Beach Boys' "I Get Around" some doo–wop color, the Stooges' "Search & Destroy" some extra groove. Only the Ramones' "Havana Affair" is flipped, from Redscare rant to Commie crush–out ballad – because absurdity is a rock tradition too.

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“Karma Chameleon”

Boy George has said this song was about standing by what you believe in. However, at the time, he was involved in a secret affair with Culture Club drummer Jon Moss. "Now people can understand the songs better," he said. "They were written about my relationship with Jon, and they were also written about being a gay man in a homophobic world." The lines "If I listen to your lies, would you say/I'm a man without conviction/I'm a man who doesn't know how to sell a contradiction," described his life at the time, he said. "I was selling this big lie."