Nightclubbing | Loppylugs

Submitted by Glyn Lewis on 19 May 2015 - 9:21pm

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Artist:

Grace Jones

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Nationality:

Jamaica

Year:

1 981

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Track-listing:

Walking In The Rain*Pull Up to the Bumper*Use Me*Nightclubbing*Art Groupie*I’ve Seen That Face Before (Libertango) *Feel Up*Demolition Man*I’ve Done It Again

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Nominator:

Bean

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2 015

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Short-title:

nightclubbing

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Meeting-date:

Tuesday, 23 June 2015

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Wikipedia-URL:

Nightclubbing_(Grace_Jones_album)

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nightclubbing-deluxe-edition/grace-jones

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reviewed by

Glyn Lewis

Don’t mess around with the demolition man

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Music which captures a distinct personality or idea is always intriguing to me. The idea of this persona is conveyed very quickly and effectively – cool, detached, slick, expensive, stylised, exact.

You would think Chris Blackwell is the puppet-master, he had that Midas touch, everything he touched at Island seemed to turn to gold, great at spotting something within an act, and this might be one of the best examples – taking a fairly middling disco act and creating this powerful, brutal, androgenous figure, and the sound, the sound!! It's a really fantastic top quality, slick performance throughout from the backing group, the Compass Point All Stars, every note is just perfect, their timing faultless, in a sparse, sharp, dub-tinged sound. I remember him saying you could scratch the surface of this and underneath it just a reggae act, like many other Jamaican ones, but I’m not sure if that’s really true, this is a lot more than surface styling, this is a major rebuild. A few of these are covers from varied sources, along few new ones, but they all fit together in convincing, consistent unit.

It still sounds modern and her unique personaility still comes across as powerful and intimidating as ever.
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Richard Norbury
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reviewed by

Neil Hornsey

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