The Crying Game

This melancholy song is a lyrical handbook for heartbreak: kiss, fall in love, break up, cry. The singer has repeated this pattern so often he feels like he's an expert in "The Crying Game."

This song was written by Geoff Stephens, a British songwriter who soon after writing this song, discovered and produced Donovan.

Boy George recorded this as the theme song to the 1992 film of the same name, starring Jaye Davidson as a transgender woman - a secret that is not revealed until the end of the film. Stephen Woolley, who produced the movie, suggested Boy George to sing the title song. Woolley had worked with the Pet Shop Boys on an earlier film called Scandal, and asked them to produce the soundtrack. Neil Tennant of the group loved how George did the title song - he thought the Culture Club frontman sounded like Roy Orbison on the track. This version was markedly different from the original, as Boy George sang it in a much higher register. George both looked and sounded like a female, which synched with the film's plot.