The Amazing Grace Jones Album Poll

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Now that the new album has been out for a couple of weeks and everyone's probably had the chance to listen to it, I thought we might do a poll on all of Grace's albums.

Poll Results

OptionVotes
Nightclubbing (1981) 5
Slave to the Rhythm (1985) 4
Living My Life (1982) 3
Warm Leatherette (1980) 3
Inside Story (1986) 1
Hurricane (2008) 1
Muse (1979) 0
Fame (1978) 0
Bulletproof Heart (1989) 0
Portfolio (1977) 0


Tuomas, Thursday, 20 November 2008 08:26 (seventeen years ago)

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?

Tuomas, Thursday, 20 November 2008 08:32 (seventeen years ago)

Nightclubbing by some miles

baaderonixx, Thursday, 20 November 2008 09:14 (seventeen years ago)

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

Tuomas, Thursday, 20 November 2008 09:24 (seventeen years ago)

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

baaderonixx, Thursday, 20 November 2008 09:39 (seventeen years ago)

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

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 20 November 2008 13:32 (seventeen years ago)

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.

Tuomas, Thursday, 20 November 2008 15:10 (seventeen years ago)

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

xhuxk, Thursday, 20 November 2008 15:18 (seventeen years ago)

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

Tuomas, Thursday, 20 November 2008 15:19 (seventeen years ago)

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

Tuomas, Thursday, 20 November 2008 15:20 (seventeen years ago)

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

What Goes Up... (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 20 November 2008 15:34 (seventeen years ago)

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)

baaderonixx, Thursday, 20 November 2008 15:40 (seventeen years ago)

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.

xhuxk, Thursday, 20 November 2008 15:56 (seventeen years ago)

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.

okamax, Thursday, 20 November 2008 18:57 (seventeen years ago)

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.

Tuomas, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 13:34 (seventeen years ago)

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.

Tuomas, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 13:36 (seventeen years ago)

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

Tuomas, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 13:38 (seventeen years ago)

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.

mark e, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 13:55 (seventeen years ago)

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

hobart paving, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 17:49 (seventeen years ago)

Here's the thread for new the album:

Grace Jones - Hurricane (2008) POLL

More discussion on it here:

grace jones

Tuomas, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 20:04 (seventeen years ago)

And yes, it is good.

Tuomas, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 20:04 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

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

System, Thursday, 27 November 2008 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

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

Tuomas, Thursday, 27 November 2008 10:15 (seventeen years ago)

I'm surprised that Slave beat Leatherette tho

baaderonixx, Thursday, 27 November 2008 10:20 (seventeen years ago)

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.

hobart paving, Thursday, 27 November 2008 18:33 (seventeen years ago)

four months pass...

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.

THESE ARE MY FEELINGS! FEEL MY FEELINGS! (I eat cannibals), Sunday, 26 April 2009 18:38 (seventeen years ago)

five years pass...

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.

mark e, Thursday, 12 March 2015 19:17 (eleven years ago)

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

Josefa, Thursday, 12 March 2015 20:58 (eleven years ago)

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

Tuomas, Friday, 13 March 2015 07:25 (eleven years ago)

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

Josefa, Friday, 13 March 2015 14:48 (eleven years ago)


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