grace jones

I obsess over Grace but unfortunately find her music irrevocably watery. "Pull up to the bumper" is aii, but the rest, particularly the cod-reggae stuff is awful.

I was actually listening to the Compass Point collection just last week -- wonderful, wonderful stuff, it really is. And you do get that "Slave to the Rhythm" mix Tom mentioned as a ringer. That version of the Pretenders' "Private Life" she does is amazing.

Also, she made a great Bond villian -- too bad it was for one of the worst films (and Christopher Walken was in it too! what a missed opportunity!).

Wasn't this the point?

loads of great rekkids too - Apple stretching, pull up to the bumper, Slave to the rhythm, private life etc etc. I think I'll get a coupla CDs tomorrow.

I don't know Sean, I think the Slave to the Rhythm 12 inch is pretty astounding. I may be biased 'coz I love the go-go break in the middle.

The Compass Point comp is great if you don't already have the albums. The only key Grace song that is missing is La Vie en Rose

very dance-able

"Strange.....I've seen this place before....

Grace Jones - Breakdown
Grace Jones - La Vie En Rose
Grace Jones - Love Is The Drug
Grace Jones - Private Life
Grace Jones - Pull Up To The Bumper
Grace Jones - She's Lost Control (Long Version)
Grace Jones - The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game
Grace Jones - Warm Leatherette (Long Version)

They are very very fine though.

Crumpy, if you've got Soulseek give me a shout at username Ian SPACK and I'll stick all my Grace Jones videos online for you.

My parents bought this single saying:"She's cool! You have to listento this!"

Of course I never did. Until a few years ago. *sigh*

Following the eagerly awaited announcement of TDK Cross Central 2005, we can now officially confirm the rumours that Grace Jones will be joining us to headline Sunday 28th August. The former supermodel, Bond girl and singer will be bringing her own brazen and wholly unique sound to TDK Cross Central, giving our audience a rare chance to witness the legend in action.

What's the festival like? I don't think I've ever heard of it.

TDK Cross Central - Saturday 27 August until Sunday 28 August 2005
Main Stage
Saturday 27 August
Goldfrapp - confirmed
The Bees - confirmed
The Magic Numbers - confirmed
Optimo DJs - confirmed
Sunday 28 August
Grace Jones - confirmed
Soul II Soul Soundsystem - confirmed
Felix Da Housecat - confirmed
Killa Kela (live) - confirmed
Temposhark - confirmed
Canvas Stage 03
Saturday 27 August
The Others - confirmed
The Earlies - confirmed
Tom Vek - confirmed
Lady Sovereign - confirmed
Richard X - confirmed
Stars - confirmed
John Kennedy - confirmed
The Filthy Dukes - confirmed
Sunday 28 August
Mylo - confirmed
Tiefschwarz - confirmed
The Glimmers - confirmed
Vitalic - confirmed
Mocky - confirmed
XLover - confirmed
Gliss - confirmed
James Hyman - confirmed

its a hard life in waziristan.

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Had a very distressing moment at the weekend when a close friend said she'd never heard of Grace Jones and I had to instantly go out and buy her a copy of Island Life.

Jeez I wish I had you as a friend

well played your friend tbh

jeezuz nightclubbing. ever hear an album at EXACTLY the right time in your year/life/whatever? well, that. what an album...

yes. Slave to the Rhythm is sorta doing that for me right now.

Everytime I see this on the homepage I'm hoping someone said the two unreleased albums were leaked.

I really like the song "Typical Male" during that lost era.

it's a Consolidated cover, in case you don't know and want to know

what are the lost albums you're talking about?

there's a 1997-ish one produced by Tricky that never came out - the song Hurricane and one or two others are left over from then

are tracks out there or just words?

the OG Hurricane came out on a white label, I think one other track written around the Typical Male time got leaked a few years ago

"Typical Male" was released as a B-side to "Sex Drive"... I'd recommend anyone who likes Grace to get that single, besides "Typical Male" (which is indeed great) it also has an awesome house remix of title track by Maurice Joshua.

But yeah, it'd be nice to hear some more tunes from that era, apparently they were supposed to appear on album called Black Marilyn, which would've been awesome.

In some recent interviews Grace wanted to release the album. I'm crossing my fingers because if Q-Tip can finally release Kamal/The Abstract and David Bowie's Toy album leaked, then Grace's album has to leak right?

***Crosses Fingers***

But then again I'm also a Cassie fan, so I'm use to disappointment and frustration.

There was also suppose to be a documentary about her life as well. Now that would be interesting considering she wrote more songs about her life on Hurricane.

http://www.factmag.com/2011/07/13/grace-jones-presents-hurricane-dub/

There's a new dub version of the whole Hurricane coming out, but you can only buy it has a double album with the original... :( I'd still love to have it, but I'm not sure if I want to pay more just to get the dub album with an album I already own.

Also, I'd love to know what the extra tenth track ("Hell Dub") is, as it apparently isn't a dub version of anything on the album.

lets see if this works

"An icon of our time, for the artwork of Hurricane Dub, Grace has once again teamed up with her once creative partner, Jean-Paul Goude, to deliver a striking cover image, wearing a trade mark Philip Treacy hat."

http://c2181912.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/17186--da30cdfe8005360e51dab949b278f2e4.jpg

the dub album was produced by ivor guest.

not a name i know much about - is it a pseudo ?

Ivor Guest produced the "real" Hurricane album too. I've no idea who he is, though.

That is one helluva of a cover...brilliant...Ivor Guest is some member of the aristocracy...a lord I think...think he was connected with Tim Simenon some years back...

yeah, landed gentry iirc, and a boyfriend of Jones' - also did programming on Barry Adamson's The Negro Inside Me

guessing that Hell Dub is a dub of the DJ Hell version of I've Seen That Face Before?

She wears that hat on stage during a song while lazers are shot into it so it refracts all over the venue. She did this at the Royal Albert Hall last year.

Costume change between every song. Amazing.

Yeah, she did the hat/laser thing at her Helsinki gig a couple of years ago too.

Also she can hula-hoop for the duration of an entire song, while singing, without appearing to move her hips. I've no idea how she managed it.

There was a gig she did I think from France/Switzerland on Sky Arts earlier in the year...absolutely stunning in every way...the band were on fire...Don-e was on keys was like a young Bernie Worrell...wanted to go to the Albert Hsll concert but prices were astranomical...regretted it very quickly...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYkVtz6ozJE

I blogged about Nightclubbing here:

http://devonrecordclub.wordpress.com/2013/05/08/grace-jones-nightclubbing-round-49-toms-selection/

It's pretty awesome I reckon.

^ Thanks for posting that!

I think the way a lot of people feel about the Daft Punk record is how I feel about Nightclubbing. The production is impeccable, the grooves irresistible, it was made by a cyborg, and my favorite song on it changes from month to month. Right now it's "Feel Up" - my god!!!!!

Cheers for the feedback TracerHand. Funnily enough one of the guys at Record Club also compared the new Daft Punk album to Nightclubbing, adding that RAM was like a not as good version!

If you like this era (the early 80s) of Grace Jone's career, I'd recommend acquiring The Compass Point Sessions compilation. It has 12 inch and dub mixes of the singles recorded in the Compass Point studio, as well as the best album tracks, and it sounds better than those 80s CDs.

Also she can hula-hoop for the duration of an entire song, while singing, without appearing to move her hips. I've no idea how she managed it.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 16:03 (1 year ago) Bookmark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdwEgzDNb2w

goddess doesnt even cover it

THat Private Life 2cd was a great find. Had been hoping for a recentish remaster of the main lps up til I found it and it seems to have the best stuff on it. Or at least has enough of the good stuff on to edit to another media or skip tracks with.

http://www.factmag.com/2014/02/24/grace-jones-iconic-nightclubbing-gets-deluxe-reissue-including-12-mixes-and-unreleased-tracks/

The bonus tracks:
01 Demolition Man (12” Version) 4.58 // Issued as A-side of 12” single 12 // WIP 6673, Feb 1981.
02 Pull Up To The Bumper (Long Version) 5.45 // Issued as A-side of 12” single // 12 WIP 6696, June 1981
03 Feel Up (Long Version) 6.14 // Issued as B-side of 12” single // 12 WIP 6696, June 1981
04 I’ve Seen That Face Before (Libertango) (12” Version) 5.32 // Issued as A-side of Dutch 12” // single 600.366, July 1981
05 Walking In The Rain (12” Version) 7.25 // Issued as A-side of 12” single // 12 WIP 6739, Oct 1981
06 Pull Up To The Bumper (Remixed Version) 7.15 // Issued as B-side of 12” single // 12 WIP 6739, Oct 1981
07 Use Me (Long Version) 6.10 // First issued on Private Life: The Compass Point Sessions
08 Pull Up To The Bumper (US Party Version) 5.00 // Issued as A-side of US promotional 12” single // PRO-A-936
09 Feel Up (Extended Version) 6.15 // Issued as A-side of US promotional 12” single // PRO-A-985
10 Pull Up To The Bumper (1985 Remix) 6.24 // Issued as A-side of cassette single // CIS 240
11 Peanut Butter (Pull Up To The Bumper Instrumental) 5.10 // Issued as B-side of cassette single // CIS 240
12 If You Wanna Be My Lover (previously unreleased) 8.00 approx
13 Me! I Disconnect From You (previously unreleased) 5.30 approx
14 Esta Cara Me Es Conocida (I’ve Seen That Face Before (Libertango) 4.32 // Issued as A-side of Spanish 7” single B-102.587

GARY NUMAN COVER YES

and it sounds like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0AeX8K_nlJw

jeezuz nightclubbing. ever hear an album at EXACTLY the right time in your year/life/whatever? well, that. what an album...

― scott seward, Monday, April 4, 2011 3:56 PM (3 years ago)

^^^ yeah, summer of '81, when this record was brand new, I was at a party thrown by a bunch of very arty modern dance types where this was playing. Blew my mind.

ok, just heard the numan cover.
bloody hell it's good.
has made me dig out the compass point sessions 2 cd set which has some amazing versions ..
warm leatherette (long version) : damnnnnn .. how good.
as someone has said above, she was best at the covers ..
however there were a few tracks on 'hurricane' that totally hit the spot.

This article talks about the cover of Island Life. Pretty interesting.

Have been reading her new memoirs, I'll Never Write My Memoirs. "As told to Paul Morley," so it's chatty and often repetitive, but still incredibly absorbing and detailed.

I hadn't known she comes from a strict religious (Jamaican Pentecostal) background. She ties her upbringing very clearly to the later-developed Grace Jones persona. It makes a lot of sense, without diminishing her uniqueness at all.

It's excellent for 1970s fashion industry gossip.

Her concert at The Hollywood Bowl the other night was one of the most magical concert going experiences of my life... (it was under the blood moon btw)

whoa

I hadn't known she comes from a strict religious (Jamaican Pentecostal) background.

pretty sure one of the tracks on 'hurricane' deals with this aspect of her upbringing.

and yes, seeing her under the blood moon sky must have been a borderline religious experience in itself.

Yeah, "Williams' Blood" from Hurricane is specifically about Jones' reaction against her conservative/religious upbringing. The title of the track refers to her mother's father, who was a touring musician, she suggests she inherited her rebellious nature through that bloodline, which goes against the "Jones" bloodline of her father and brother, both Christian ministers.

Right, but the mother's side was the more severe, Pentecostal side of the family. Grace's mom's uncle was a prominent bishop with an intimidating personality. Grace's father's family practiced a less severe, more traditional Anglicanism, and when her father later converted to Pentecostalism to get better access to Grace's mom when he was trying to court her, his father disapproved and wouldn't speak to his son for some time (in fact didn't want his son in religion at all).

As you say, there was the grandfather on the mother's side who seemed to be the one member of the family with a rebellious nature. The father's side was strict, but more military-strict, or strict about education than religiously strict.

her brother noah happened to be in the crowd the other night and she pulled him up during that song and sang it at him

"I told you I was gonna be naked"

lol

memoir is so much fun

“I am not well. I have been infected by bird shit!”

It’s sucks that her shitty experience making (presumably) Black Marilyn turned her off making music for so long. She doesn’t name Consolidated, but I’m guessing that who she refers to...

piscesboy wrote this on thread grace jones on board I Love Music on Aug 15, 2005

is that new that dj hell thing? it's got a fancy cover!
god i've ben caning the COMPASS POINT SESSIONS just lately,
especially 'living my life' which sounds like it came out yesterday
and 'unlimited capacity for love'. a litle bit of research into
the tracks i like best reveals to my horror that despite years of
thinking that grace was essentially all about the 'nightclubbing'
album and 'slave to the rythm' the best stuf was all on the
'living my life' album. total shocka i can tell you.

fuck the canon kids. just generally i mean.

Unlimited Capacity For Love fucking stomps. I had never really listened to Grace Jones, but I picked this up at the thrift store a while back and just kinda shelved it after a listen or two. Listening to it today, the whole thing is pretty great, but it does feel like one of those albums that pick up on Side B.