The Amazing Grace Jones Album Poll

The pre- Warm Leatherette disco albums are pretty much unknown to me... Have any of them even be reissued besides Portfolio? Portfolio seems to be on sale for cheap, should I get it?

Nightclubbing by some miles

I have a hunch Nightclubbing might win this... It is a great album, but personally I think Living My Life is even better.

Never "got" that one, might need to try harder

I'm very fond of Inside Story, especially of "I'm Not Perfect (But I'm Perfect For You)."

Yeah, Inside Story has some cool synth disco grooves and several odd but fun tunes, like "Chan Hitchhikes to Shanghai" or "Victor Should've Been a Jazz Musician" or "Barefoot in Beverly Hills". (Great song titles too.) I think I read somewhere that Nile Rodgers didn't like working with Grace, but the results are pretty good anyway.

Warm Leatherette > Nightclubbing >>>>> [who cares]

You like those two but not Living My Life? Weird.

I mean, they all have pretty much the same sound, due to having the same band.

Will no one rep for Slave to the Rhythm? If nothing else, it's completely unique in her (or any) catalogue.

You like those two but not Living My Life? Weird.

Err, for me these two are quite distinct, whereas LML is pretty much in the vein of the rest (who cares)

Yeah, always seemed to me that LML codified into so-what mediocrity and predictability a sound and concept that was extremely interesting and weird on Warm Leatherette and somehow perfected craft-wise if not quite as weird anymore on Nightclubbing. So yeah, LML is where I got off the boat. Never cared about that album, never will. It told me nothing I didn't already know.

I might recommend a pretty awesome Aeroplane remix of Williams' Blood... a song from Jones' latest Hurricane. Makes me want to check out the rest of the album for sure.

I've heard that remix, but I didn't think it was that awesome, especially since it pretty much scraps the internal dynamic of the song, which is one of the main reasons that make it so great.

Never cared about that album, never will. It told me nothing I didn't already know.

Okay, I can sorta see the point here, but if an album is so well made as LML is, I doesn't really matter to me whether or not it tells me something new.

Though of course it might be different for someone like me who only heard this stuff 15 years after it was made.

the official remixes of williams blood aint all that are they ?
(mad professor, greg wilson, and ivor guest has another go)
probably due to the fact that the original is so good.

Is the new album any good?
There's probably a separate thread for it, I suppose. Didn't even know she'd produced another.

Here's the thread for new the album:

Grace Jones - Hurricane (2008) POLL

More discussion on it here:

grace jones

And yes, it is good.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Pretty much the expected result, but I'm glad someone voted for Hurricane and Inside Story too.

I'm surprised that Slave beat Leatherette tho

Cheers Tuomas, I've got myself a copy - haven't listened yet..

I haven't heard at least three of those albums (not counting Hurricane). This thread makes me realise how little I know about Grace Jones. Coming to ILM always makes me realise how little I know about artists I thought I knew lots about.

Got Nightclubbing for $6 at some used record shop in Long Beach that I was killing time at. They had most of her catalog there (only missing Hurricane, Portfolio and Warm Leatherette), and just from a quick needle drop sampling, Nightclubbing really is best. Sly and Robbie sound fantastic, her voice is well-balanced against a little bit of cold synth freakery, the covers are strong… I expected to like Slave to the Rhythm more, but it turned out to be one of those albums I remembered as better than it was. Title track is OK, but not as sharp/stark as I remembered it (more sonic clutter and less distinct mixing), and there's a lot of filler on that album. I probably would have bought it as a 12", but not an LP.

Plus Nightclubbing has a couple songs that I remember my dad putting on mixtapes when I was a kid—Feel Up gave me instant nostalgia blasts to cribbing his tapes for my walkman in middle school.

time for her disco era to be revived ?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Disco-Years-Grace-Jones/dp/B00RYGDNOS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1426187747&sr=8-1&keywords=grace+jones+box+set

kind of interested given that tom moulton produced them, but never heard any of this era of her catalogue.

worthy disco, or second rate disco-by-numbers ?

that said, for the price, i will probably just hit the button.

First album, Portrait, is fantastic disco. I missed the poll, but would've voted for that

Yeah, Portrait is cool. I don't think the other two have ever been available on CD, so I gotta grab this one too.

Haha, I meant Portfolio, but you knew what I was talking about