grace jones

I don't think Eno and Grace Jones would be a good combination. But yeah, it seems the new album didn't come out last year like it was supposed to. I hope it's not gonna be one of those projects that's never gonna actually materialize.

i didn't know that 12" mix of 'pull up to the bumper' was larry levan... it's on one of those 12"/80s compilations and is pretty much the greatest thing ever. i don't even know what genre you'd call it.

I know nothing abt dance genres, so your guess is as good as mine. I first heard it on the Dirty Diamonds comp a couple years ago. And, yeah, it's pretty damn great!

The word is that Eno's producing Mitt Romney's next album.

coincidentally i just saw her last night in gordon's war. small role, mostly shirtless. she got to snarl and scowl though.

http://m.assetbar.com/achewood/autaux?b=M%5ea11f09b8576e606bcb5038dfdb92fb821&u=http%3A%2F%2Fachewood.com%2Fcomic.php%3Fdate%3D02122008

Glad that Strut's next comp is all about Compass Point:
http://www.amazon.com/Funky-Nassau-Compass-Point-Story/dp/B0011WMI06

What a show last night at the RFH. Awesome. Unique.

OMG, what a video, what a track

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Zjsrg7CBqI

some more great stuff here

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=grace+jones+meltdown&search_type=

re: meltdown, i hate myself for not getting in.

Her Island albums need to be reissued with all the juicy bonus tracks that were on the Private Life comp.

Album due in October apparently

Music Box:

Grace Jones is ready to eat you alive

SAVAGE GRACE - Our fav Conan The Destroyer actor Grace Jones has a new album after an almost 20 year hiatus. “Corporate Cannibal” — the lead single for her upcoming album Hurricane to release in October 2008 — features Jones through the distorted lens of director Nick Hooker. “Cannibal” debuted in London to positive reviews in June during Massive Attack’s Meltdown festival. Collaborators include Sly and Robbie, Brian Eno, and Tricky –Wait. Is this 1997? Are we stoned right now? With lyrics like “Nice to have you on my plate,” you can’t tell me that’s not the munchies talking. Video stills after the jump, for the YouTube challenged.

http://www.homo-neurotic.com/2008/07/11/music-box-grace-jones-is-ready-to-eat-you-alive/

Video here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgMn2OJmx3w

Seems pretty great all in all.

he one with the gold sleeve (Nightclubbing?) is great from start to finish. so, classic

album is simply unbelievably good. like all-time albums list good.

Hey I played that record just hours ago! Then stumbled onto the thread. I like walking in the rain too.

She was always one of the alltime great guests everytime she appeared on the old Letterman show, back when I used to watch it (mid '80s).

I was watching youtube clips of her all day yesterday just before this thread got restarted.

DJed "Use Me" and "Nightclubbing" and "Pull Up to the Bumper" on Friday night. what's great about those tracks is that they can really spring you into just about anywhere (weird rock, funk, dub, disco) afterwards.

I listened to Inside Story a few days ago.

Grace Jones is probably my favourite female singer of the 80s. All of her albums from that decade are worth a listen, even the less known Inside Story and Bulletproof Heart, which both have several great tunes on them. (I think they've both been reissued lately, so they should be easier to find these days.) Bulletproof Heart especially is a real underrated gem, the production is more mainstream R&B, but it still sounds very cool and motoric and Grace-like, and the selection of original songs (most of them co-written by Grace) is quite strong. That said, the best song on the album is probably her cover "Amado Mio", which is totally overblown and hysterical and great!

The new single sounds quite interesting, I'm definitely gonna check out the new album, if it's finally coming out. It's nice to see that with the "consumer/consumed" theme of the new song she's continuing to explore the ambivalent subject/object dynamic that's always been part of her image and style. If you take those eighties albums, on one hand the sleeve art and her general image makes her almost like an inanimate object, a piece of art molded by outside forces (photographers, artists, producers, other musicians), but then again the sheer force of her personality and her undoubtable narcissicism makes it always feel like she's ultimately the one in control, she just gets her kicks from being made into an object. I think she deals with these inherent contradictions and ambiguities in the subject/object divide in a way that's quite unique and interesting. If I wanted, I could easily write my women's studies thesis on the image of Grace Jones.

Nice!

Also, all of her albums covers are pretty awesome as such, but Bulletproof Heart is probably my favourite:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2274/2490074379_ca2866b8f4.jpg?v=0

DJed "Use Me" and "Nightclubbing" and "Pull Up to the Bumper" on Friday night. what's great about those tracks is that they can really spring you into just about anywhere (weird rock, funk, dub, disco) afterwards

Such an interesting point. Whereas some music leads you very firmly in one direction, Grace Jones' music is supple and genre-shifting enough for that simply not to be an issue.

betablog, just out of interest, do you remember what you played before and after those tracks?

New single "Corporate Cannibal" is pretty damn sweet, or "fierce," as they say. I hear some Laurie Anderson, Massive Attack, and Sussan Deyhim. "Pleased to meet you. Pleased to have you on my plate..." Nice.

betablog, just out of interest, do you remember what you played before and after those tracks?

― Daniel Giraffe, Wednesday, July 30, 2008 10:02 AM

uhhh, it's been awhile. I think I played stuff like Pere Ubu's Dub Housing, Prince Far I, and the Pilooski edit of "Stranger in the City" around them.

"Slave To The Rhythm" I feel works better as a single than as an album. It wears a bit thin to have one entire album of the same song in different versions and arrangements.

But then, she also made "Black Leatherette", which is a marvellous album from beginning until end.

Warm

Corporate Cannibal is reassuringly fierce.

"Warm Leatherette" of course, yes. Although "Black Leatherette" would have fitted with her image.

was concerned that Wall of Sound would be a bit too small scale for a star of Grace's stature, but damn, they've pulled out all the stops, this new album is one big production mutha, even out doing Trevor Horns excess for Slave...
little of the album is as fierce as Cannibal (despite the feeling that with lines re 'i'm a man eater' she's just playing up to her media image in a pantomine role), and there are times it a little too MOR, but when it is good, its really good.

Haha this is pretty awesome:

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=CrvZTxoStbM

thats the opening track. one of the good'uns.

how the hell do you embed videos?

does anyone know how to contact her label or her pr people? very important...

xpost: I don't think it understands fr.youtube.com , let's see if changing that fr into www works:

aha!

^^^ produced by tricky, no less.

This is some badass shit. Is the album coming out soon?

Observer Music Monthly: this Sunday

http://f.chtah.com/i/43/393014865/omm_oct08_header.jpg

http://obviousdiversion.com/images/medulla.jpg ?

...okay, that's not as close as it seemed a minute ago. BUT WHAT'S DONE IS DONE

The new album should be out the 31st of this month. I can't remember when I was last so excited about a forthcoming album!

!!! ??? !!! ??? :( :( :(

http://wemakeitgood.com/article/live/chris-cunningham-photographs-grace-jones

i still love you, boo

I know! I'm too excited about it, damnit. New Grace Jones plus new Cure album at same time = Bimble orgasm?

Hilarious -- I probably wouldn't pay more than five seconds' attention if this were Tricky singing. As it is, I think it's pretty fucking great.

So wait, GEIR likes Grace Jones? Did I miss her cover of "Big Barn Bed" or something?

The word is that Eno's producing Mitt Romney's next album.

This made me laugh out loud.

So wait, GEIR likes Grace Jones?

At least I really like the stuff she did with Alex Sadkin.

Does anyone know the exact date Hurricane will come out? I put it on pre-order, and the webstore I ordered it through said it'll come out the 31st of this month, but Allmusic claims it would have already come out this week.

Oh my god this fucking record. Oh man, I've tried to keep quiet. I'm trying. Oh my god. Track 6 out of 9 now and I'm still spellbound. How could anything be this good in 2008?

LOVE YOU TO LIFE OH MY GOD PEOPLE THIS IS THE DOPE GET ON BOARD NOW

I'm not feeling this as fervently as Bimble cuz I think this is true: "there are times it('s) a little too MOR." But "Williams' Blood," a pretentious, nutty, protean, thoroughly moving hymn to her non-conformity, may just be her best track ever. Amazing, Grace, amazing!

Bimble is still more goth than you.