grace jones

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!

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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.

Lol. Phyllis Diller is probably more goth than me.

you are more steely dan than bimble though

I reviewed this, think it's fantastic, but I have to be honest, I think a part of why I love it may be because the club vibe I get from it closely resembles the vibe in dance clubs when last I frequented them, i.e., twenty years ago, which is troubling to me, because nostalgia remains the basest most odious instinct of them all - but at the same time, cf. Yeats in "Beautiful Lofty Things" on the value of a clear-eyed look at important times or figures in one's own tiny personal cosmologies - when the bullseye gets hit as squarely as it does here, it's hard not to succumb

I was a big fan of Grace Jones in the 1980s but, based on the youtube examples embedded in this thread, her latest material, while lyrically and visually striking, seems cursed with musical dreariness. I really don't like those plodding, anonymous basslines and rock session drummer type funky beats (as on 'Corporate Cannibal').

Okay we all know "Hurricane" rules, right? We've established this. Right? Set in stone. As of today. Look John D.! No nostalgia! (i.e. 'Look ma, no hands!')

Okay, I'm posting these because not everyone in the world can even SEE Jools Holland, you lucky goddamn UK/Europeans! :) For the uninitiated, these are tracks from the new album. She is absolutely unfuckwithable. But also amazingly fuckable, too, and remember she's 60 years old. Sigh...

Williams Blood:

Love You To Life:

There isn't a single bad track on this album. I'm serious. I'm absolutely flabbergasted. In fact, I'm crying over all this. Sigh...and I'm not even drunk. You can also find her performance of "Pull Up To The Bumper" from Jools on You Tube in which she has yet *another* cool hat, but I'll leave it up to you if you wanna find that.

Now what is this about a Williams Blood remix? I'll have to 5l5k.

rather impressed by this new LP

She's playing a free show in the park behind the Royal Botanical Gardens in Sydney on Jan 10!

(and three $135 indoors shows)

eh, the last time i paid to see grace jones it was atrocious. free show sounds good tho :)

Seemed to me earlier tonight that there was something rather John Cale-ish about the last half of "Corporate Cannibal".

I read that as John-Cleese ish. I kinda saw that too though!

LOL!

i'm not sure about this album yet but OMG 'WILLIAMS BLOOD'

Now what is this about a Williams Blood remix?

it's talked about a bit on the balearic thread .... but yeah it's by Aeroplane and is srsly good

more revved-up and squelchy than other stuff I've heard by them

looking fwd to checking out Hurricane

ooh yeah this Aeroplane remix of William's Blood. Sorta New Ordery um yeah...holy shit, I dig. Synthesizers rule the whole goddamn disco universe, now don't they? Ask Giorgio Moroder.

I went through my new friend's entire vinyl collection tonight, LP's and 45's (well, okay I did skip a good portion of his classical/country section) and he had ONE Grace Jones record - only one - a 7" single. That was it. I'd never heard it before. It was called "That's The Trouble". It said it was from 1984 but when I played it, it sounded REALLY disco. Another cool thing about it was it came out on the Carrere label, same label as a couple of records by The Church, namely "Seance".

But anyway so yeah, my friend was like "yeah, have it, take it home, this Grace Jones single" and I was like um...wow. I was really touched by that. I'm kindof overjoyed about this right now.

I just can't imagine a Grace Jones vs. Donna Summer thread. I mean, really. Let's not go there. My head would explode.

I really like this... it's like Mezzanine, isn't it? Clearly sounding a bit like Massive Attack is the in thing for yr legendary female singers who have been away for aeons.

She's so awesome in Conan 2.

http://www.celebrityzu.com/images/grace-jones.jpg

Lately, I've been searching the net for Grace Jones remixes, and I was wondering what do others think are the finest of those? Here's my list of favourite Grace remixes I've come across so far:

Walking in the Rain (Remix) - Don't know who this is by.

Pull Up to the Bumper (Larry Levan Garage Remix) - This one's basically just an extended edit, but great anyway.

I'm Not Perfect (But I'm Perfect for You) (Latin Rascals Ultra-Perfect Dub)

Love on Top of Love (Funky Dred Mix) - This one has some extra rapping, samples from "Jones the Rhythm", and as far as I can hear, nothing from the original tune. Nice hip-house type of tune anyway.

Love on Top of Love (Funky Dred Club Mix) - This is a more conventional hip-house remix of "Love on Top of Love", I think it also has some extra vocals by Grace.

Amado Mio (The Brazilian Mix) - Nice house remix of this tune, lacks some of the dynamics of the original, but makes it easier to dance to.

Amado Mio (The 28th St. Crew Dub)

Love on Top of Love (Garage House Mix) - Very smooth house remix by Clivilles & Cole. The vocals by Grace are almost entirely different from the original, they sound kinda improvised.

Jones the Rhythm (Razormaid - Prehistoric) - Can't find any info on this, but it has more kicking drums than the original.

Slave to the Rhythm (Blooded)/(Hot-Blooded Version) - These two are pretty much the same mix.

7 Day Weekend (Club Remix)

Sex Drive (Final Master Race Mix) - This one sounds almost like it could've been on Hurricane.

Love Bites (12" Dark Night Mix)

I've Seen That Face Before (DJ Hell Vienna Mix) - DJ Hell is pretty much the perfect remixer for Grace, I like his "Vienna" mix more than the "Berlin" mix, mainly because of the awesome electro bass.

Hurricane (Danny Tenaglia Mix)

What else should I be looking for? Oh, and if any of you happens to have the extended/12" version of "Living My Life", I'd be very grateful if you'd want to share it.

Okay, after having listened to it, I'm definitely gonna add Danny Tenaglia's mix of "Feel Up" to the list.

Whhoa, Bimble - :0 - jealous!!

Bimble, I think "That's the Trouble" is originally from 1976, but your version might be this new mix from 1984. Do you by any chance have the chance to rip from vinyl to mp3? It looks like a rare release, it would be cool to hear it.

Oh my god flattery. Yes I can rip vinyl, I love to rip vinyl for my blog, but I would never have thought to rip that one. I shall get right on it, I promise, after I have finished uploading this amazing Donna Summer album "Four Seasons of Love" from 1976. Thanks!

http://topidol.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/grace_jones_99.jpg

this album cover damn so amzing

Tuomas

Love On Top Of Love [Killer Kiss] (The Cole & Clivilles Garage House Mix) ['89]

Feel Up (Larry Levan Mix)

&

Ive Seen That Face Before (Vienna Mix) (Hell & patrick pulsinger, i think)

as well as all the extended and dub version of the compass point 2CD

The DJ Hell Vienna Mix and Clivilles & Cole Garage House Mix are on my list too, they're both indeed great. Is the Larry Levan mix of "Feel Up" the same as the extended version that appears on the Feel Up promo single? I've been trying to find that one...

And the Compass Point Sessions compilation is fab, though I don't understand why they've included 12" mixes of almost all the the other singles, except for "Living My Life", which only has a 7" mix included. It's pretty hard to find the 12" mix for that one.

upload all the remixes please :D

i just played Nipple to the Bottle (Club Cut) out last week. not sure the differences right now, might just be extended

Bimble loves you

I wish they still made ads like the one she did with Adam Ant

"IT'S EASY. IT'S FAST.IT'S SEXY."

Hahahhahaha
Come on, please come to my blog. I went through hell to upload this damn thing. Seriously.
http://windyweather-bimble.blogspot.com/2008/12/grace-jones-thats-trouble-7-1984.html

Give Bimble one break.

sankyu

also anyone who wants to listen to Big Black's Atomizer can be my friend forever.I'm taking applications.

Thanks for that upload, Bimble, it's much appreciated!

PRIVATE LIFE DRAMA BABY LEAVE ME OUT

Nightclubbing

(and three $135 indoors shows)

OOOOOMMMMMGGGGGG SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GREAT

eh, the last time i paid to see grace jones it was atrocious. free show sounds good tho :)

jabba if yr up reading this at 1am it is DEFINITELY worth getting to the cheapo ticket booth at 7.30 for $25 tix. I think I'm going again tomorrow.

awww man $25?! if i'd known about that before...

i did see the free show on sat night and grace was amazing, but the crowd was so lame.

ps still tryin to decide whether to go to ATP or not. this is an expensive month in syd!

I did go again and it was awesome again!
Will try for the cheap tickets for ATP too - Saturday might not work, but Sunday's so undersold already they should have plenty to shift.