Grace Jones Albums: 20th Century Masters - the Millennium Collection
- ISBN-10
- 1230495320
- ISBN-13
- 9781230495323
- Pages
- 26
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-09
- Publisher
- University-Press.org
- Author
- Source Wikipedia
Description
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Pages: 24. Chapters: 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Grace Jones, Bulletproof Heart, Fame (album), Hurricane (Grace Jones album), Inside Story (Grace Jones album), Island Life, Living My Life (album), Muse (Grace Jones album), Nightclubbing (Grace Jones album), Portfolio (Grace Jones album), Private Life: The Compass Point Sessions, Slave to the Rhythm, The Collection (Grace Jones album), The Grace Jones Story, The Ultimate (Grace Jones album), The Ultimate Collection (Grace Jones album), The Universal Masters Collection (Grace Jones album), Warm Leatherette (album). Excerpt: Island Life is Grace Jones' compilation album released in December 1985, summing up the first nine years of her musical career. The album sits among Jones' best-selling works. After the major commercial success Grace Jones achieved with her comeback album Slave to the Rhythm in 1985, Island Records decided to release a best-of compilation at the end of the same year. Island Life would feature songs from most of Jones' Island Records albums: Portfolio, Fame, Warm Leatherette, Nightclubbing, Living My Life, and Slave to the Rhythm. No tracks from Muse were included. Some of the songs appeared in edited forms, and a remix of "Love Is the Drug" was included. No new songs were recorded for the album. Island Life consists only of previously released material, produced by Tom Moulton, Chris Blackwell, Alex Sadkin and Trevor Horn. American writer and journalist Glenn O'Brien wrote an essay for the record sleeve. Australian LP release of the album came with a bonus 12" disc containing four songs: "My Jamaican Guy," "Pull Up to the Bumper," "On Your Knees" and "Warm Leatherette," and the 1986 UK cassette release included three bonus tracks: "Demolition Man," "Nipple to the Bottle" and "Grace Jones...
