grace jones

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

Can anyone YSI this mix???

great cover, i think.

http://images.juno.co.uk/full/CS176533-01A-BIG.jpg

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.