Jesus Loves You - Popularity Breeds Contempt (1992)

After Culture Club broke up in 1986, Boy George started a solo career, releasing his debut album 'Sold' in 1987, and issuing a number of singles from it. For his next two albums, 'Tense Nervous Headache' in 1988 and 'Boyfriend' in 1989, he wanted to break out in a new direction by dabbling in electronic dance music, but the singles taken from these albums did not gain much commercial success, even though they were often played at clubs. In order to pursue this new direction, he founded the band Jesus Loves You, as a collective project with other musicians, and they were signed to his own label More Protein, which aimed to be an underground label and was not meant to release music for the charts. He adopted the pseudonym "Angela Dust", and the first single by the new band was 'After The Love', which was about the separation from his ex-bandmate Jon Moss, drummer of Culture Club. Two more singles followed, but 'Generations Of Love' and 'One On One' had only modest success in the UK Singles Chart. On a journey across India, George became interested in the Hare Krishna movement, being particularly impressed with their philosophy, and as a result he wrote the song 'Bow Down Mister'. This was a crucial turning point for the band, because it was their first religious song, and when it was released as a single in 1991 it became a hit in the UK, peaking at number 27 in the singles chart. Because of this success, the band's debut album, 'The Martyr Mantras', was rush-released the same year, and in 1991 remixes of 'Generations Of Love' and 'After The Love' were issued as singles. In July 1992, the band played a Hare Krishna festival in Moscow, in front of an audience of 35,000, and December was to see the release of their second album, 'Popularity Breeds Contempt'. The single 'Sweet Toxic Love' was pre-released, but Virgin Records was so disappointed in its chart position that they cancelled the album and refused to release it, with the band dissolving shortly afterwards. Some of the songs from the record eventually appeared in re-mixed form on 'The Devil In Sister George' EP in 1994. and in 2005 a white label 12" of a track from the 1992 sessions called 'Love Your Brother' appeared online, but that second album has stubbornly remained lost. Recently a six track bootleg appeared on Youtube, containing recordings from the 1992 sessions, and so by adding a couple of tracks from the same time period we can approximate what the second album from Jesus Loves You could have sounded like. 

Track listing

01 Am I Losing Control
02 Sweet Toxic Love
03 If I Could Fly
04 Love Your Brother (Supalaska Mix)
05 It Doesn't Happen Every Day
06 In Maya
07 Miss Me Blind (Return To Gender Mix)
08 You Are The Deal