Victims (song)

Infobox Single
Name = Victims


Artist = Culture Club
from Album = Colour by Numbers
B-side = "Colour By Numbers"
Released = 1983
Format = 7" 12"
Recorded = 1983
Genre = New Wave
Length = 4:56
Label = Virgin Records
Writer = Culture Club
Producer = Steve Levine
Chart position = * #3 (UK Singles Chart)
Last single = "Karma Chameleon" (1983)
This single = "Victims" (1983)
Next single = "Miss Me Blind (in Americas, Japan and Australia) " (1983)

"Victims" is a single from UK band Culture Club's album "Colour by Numbers", released in 1983. As with most early Culture Club singles, the song is about Boy George's then publically unknown relationship with drummer Jon Moss.

Although previous single "Karma Chameleon" had been a huge hit single in many countries, Victims only charted in the UK, Australia, and Germany. It peaked at #3 on the UK singles chart, two places lower than "Karma Chameleon" when it entered the charts.

The single was not released in countries like United States, Canada and Japan, where they released Miss Me Blind instead.

Its B-Side was the then unreleased track "Colour by Numbers", which is the title of the album but not included on it. An instrumental version was also issued on the 12", re-named "Romance Revisited". Both extra tracks are now available on the 2003 remastered version of "Colour by Numbers"

An early demo version of the song was released re-titled "Shirley Temple Moment" on the Culture Club Box Set. The track is a candid glimpse of the relationships within the band as they argue viciously amongst one another between takes, before Boy George finally walks out. It is notable also for the different lyrics which appear in the first verse:

Boy George re-recorded the song himself, now as a solo artist, in a folk arrangement and with his older voice, in 2002. That version can be found on the Culture Club boxset that was out the same year.

Track listings

7"
A. Victims
B. Colour By Numbers (non album track)

12"
A. Victims
B1. Colour By Numbers
B2. Romance Revisited

released in UK (VS 641), Australia, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, Peru and Spain.