Tense Nervous Headache is the second solo studio album by English singer Boy George, released in October 1988 by Virgin Records.

He started working with Prince-collaborator Bobby Z. but was at the same time inspired by the growing acid house scene and garage music which he had already explored on his protest single "No Clause 28" (UK No.

Teddy Riley was then flown in from the US to record four new jack swing titles which Boy George was ultimately not happy with and asked to be left off the album.

Vlad Naslas wrote and produced a number of dance tracks which Boy George found difficult to write lyrics to, and as a consequence only "I Go Where I Go" made it to the final tracklist.

Mike Pela was brought in to contribute three tracks to finish off the album, including a cover version of Jimmy Ruffin's "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted".

"Finally, and too late, I was feeling the inspiration", Boy George would later tell in his biography Take It Like a Man,[4] eventually calling the album "self-indulgent, scatterbrained, and painfully out of touch."