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Summary: Warning, this is not the full album.
Comment: Please be aware that the above track listing is not correct. This is the 'Island Master' release, which has half of one song faded out, cuts to other tracks, the link sections removed, and the tracks in the wrong order.
The correct track listing should be (original track times in brackets)
1. "Jones the Rhythm" - 5:24 (6:26)
2. "The Fashion Show" - 4:05 (6:26)
3. "Operattack" - 2:16 (2:45)
4. "Slave to the Rhythm" - 6:12 (6:35)
5. "The Frog and the Princess" - 7:34 (7:04)
6. "The Crossing (Oohh the Action...)" - 4:51 (4:58)
7. "Don't Cry -- It's Only the Rhythm" - 2:53 (2:53)
8. "Ladies & Gentlemen: Miss Grace Jones" ("Slave to the Rhythm" 7" Edit) - 4:27 (5:56)
Why someone at Island decided that fans of this album would want such a travesty released on CD, I do not know. Were the original album available on CD, I would have given it four or five stars.
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Summary: Slave to the Rythm - Grace Jones
Comment: I remember listening to this when it came out, through earphones, the volume up very high and the lights turned out.....it scared the heck out of me!! Well, I was young and sensitive. Although there is seemingly very little of Miss Jones on this cd, her usual powerful vocal style still penetrates when it appears amongst the stunning effects from Trevor Horn. A couple of the tracks seem a little dated now but altogether still a fantastic collection of tracks, prose and mini-biography, the voice of Ian McShane is still goosepimply-rich and used to great effect.
I would think that true Grace Jones fans may be dissappointed with this cd, but I think that if it is the first one that you hear, as it was with me, and it then leads you on to the rest of her back catalogue, then it is a good way to come to Grace!
Enjoy,
Sally.
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Summary: GRACE JONES - WHAT A WOMAN!
Comment: I have got this Lp on cassette, but like all my other tapes, this one has started to show signs of age!. So I like this album, so much I got the Cd, it is as just as I remembered it, great vocals, and great variations on a single song, it's just brilliant piece of work, by a great and truly strong voice of a singer!. - FANTASTIC!
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Summary: Slave - Bound to Please
Comment: I've always loved this offering which I think was a 12 inch EP style on vinyl which I still have...and basically this is an ' all one track' seamless theme creation like the sound track to a fashion show, PR event, and micro movie all in one. It's a stunning bit of creative work with an engaging central theme, which re-appears and changes like the score to a good James Bond Movie..thru the entire musical experience. Grace injects some fascinating vocal segments and the narrator's breathy voice-over is almost a film noir type experience drawing you in to the project. The percussive elements and effects thru the entire soundtrack are stomping versatile ZTT Zang Tum Tumb styles and crammed with wonderful overlapping sound moments... the theme Slave to the Rhythm 'tune' re-appearing in various guises and re-workings and timings as the tracks move on...
It's a great listen if you like Grace Jones and showcases her in typical in your face mode...the producer's previous work on Frankie Goes to Hollywood is apparent with the same seamless move from track to track as part of an overall mini epic... it's not a song album more a themed work of music, a composition with Grace as the star.. an energising upbeat musical trip which embraces many styles as does most of her work.
One of my favorites of her collection...Ladies and Gentleman... Miss Grace Jones..!
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Summary: Grace or Trevor?
Comment: Grace Jones was without doubt one of the most memorable characters of the 80's. Her outrageous image, her legendary temper and of course the stunning trilogy of music she created at Island Records under the supervision of Island founder Chris Blackwell. Her appearances in blockbuster hits such as: "Conan the Destroyer" and "A View to a Kill" only further improved her already immense popularity, and even though her erratic behaviour eventually clouded her musical output, her music is still highly influential, even today. She "left" Island records after "Living My Life," and spend the next three years as a movie actress and being a TV personality. In 1985, Trever Horn approached Grace with the idea of making an autobiography, testing his new ideas about layering and juxtaposing instruments into one mass; he had already had success experimenting this new concept, producing Frankie Goes to Hollywood's first two albums. He called upon some big names such as: Steve Lipson (engineer) and Bruce Woolley (guitar, bass and keyboards), to create this new project. There's a lot of names behind this project (I actually counted around 40 musicians; producers and engineers), an awful a lot of names for one song. The album is built around one song, divided in 8 pieces; from the striking opening of "Jones the Rhythm" to the quiet hush of "The Crossing (Ooh the Action)." The album ranges from striking r'n'b grooves to soft New Age music, intertwined with interview cuts about Jones' highly fascinating life. In the end, Slave to the Rhythm isn't really that much about Jones. She provides the vocals, with her almost operatic voice, but one doesn't really notice her. The album is more a display of Trevor Horn's amazing capability as a producer.
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