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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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As compilation albums go, this is a good offering. I'm not a big Grace Jones fan, and mainly bought this album for the two songs that bookend it - 'La Vie En Rose' and 'Slave To The Rhythm', two excellent songs. In between there is some vintage disco floor filler stuff, and the tongue-in-cheek 'Pull Up To The Bumper'. In summary, a worthy addition to any music collection
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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Legendary for her looks, attitude and amazing talents. Grace Jones took the universe by storm in 1977 with her musical debut "Portfolio" which included her gold selling single "La Vie En Rose." After three disco albums she changed her image with a little help from her then-husband Jean Paul Goude. The first result came in 1980, titled "Warm Leatherette" and it was a hit. Finally, Grace got the acclaim that she so richly deserved. Her amazing covers hit right between the eyes, "Private Life" is a perfect odd couple tune that Grace mastered with full capability and her rendition of the Normals "Warm Leatherette" was something comepletely new. A great addition to this "Best of" CD is the "Thorngren Remix" of "Love Is the Drug" which has not been available elsewhere. Her perhaps biggest hit album came in 1981, titled "Nightclubbing." A compilation of various of covers, everything from David Bowie to Sting. Despite Grace's amazing talent as an inpreter, her own stuff was just as stunning, an example of this can be heard in her biggest chart success "Pull Up to the Bumper." The third Sly and Robbie collaboration arrived in 1983 dubbed "Living My Life," which turned out to be last collaboration bewteen the rhythm couple and Grace. This time around, Grace was fully involved with everything; writing and even eventually co-producing each song on the album. "Living My Life" stapled Grace as a fully grown-up star; "My Jamaican Guy" is closer to Reggae than any other of her previous work and the 7" single of "Living My Life" helped Grace to become the ultimate star of music videos. After three years of playing movie parts, Grace and Trevor Horn put together a biography titled "Slave to the Rhythm" which still sounds as freash as it did back then. Legendary for her looks, attitude and amazing talents.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Grace Jones relativley short music career never really hit the heights of success it often deserved. Her first three disco albums, PORTFOLIO (1977), FAME (1978) and MUSE (1979) were fairly forgetable although they did spawn at least one memroable track per album - all of which make there way onto this definitive compilation of Grace Jones work. LA VIE EN ROSE, I NEED A MAN and DO OR DIE had that early Grace Jones disco sound which was quickly abandoned in 1980 prior to the release of one of her very best albums, WARM LEATHERETTE, which succesfully combined the sounds of New Wave, reggae, rock and funk. From the album was PRIVATE LIFE (a top 20 success in the U.K) which also is rightly included on this album as this by far is one of her greatest recordings. This condensed compilation also features tracks such as MY JAMACIAN GUY (LIVING MY LIFE;1982), WALKING IN THE RAIN (NIGHTCLUBBING;1981), SLAVE TO THE RYTHM (SLAVE TO THE RYTHM;1985) and possibly her very best recording,PULL UP TO THE BUMPER (NIGHTCLUBBING;1981). This compilation coincided with her departure from Island Records for a deal with EMI which did not bring her any of the high success she enjoyed with her time at Island. Often strange but compelling album from an equally extraordinary though blatantly weird and off-the-wall artist.
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Memory Lane
A lot of people think that I must either be gay or looney to be a Grace Jones fan. Wait, what? Why? I am neither. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Troy Oquindo
Memory Lane - but timesless
Not sure what it is I am reviewing here, the service or the product?
The service was ok in that item arrived in working order, it took over two weeks to reach me but when I... Read more
The service was ok in that item arrived in working order, it took over two weeks to reach me but when I... Read more
Published 14 months ago by Kingbitter
Amazing Grace
An excellent CD to have in my collection. Her deep and sensuous voice is just hypnotic. I LOVE ISLAND LIFE.
Published 19 months ago by evyweevy
why we LOVE Grace....
being a "certain" age ( i remember - ah i remember..) discovering this compilation of Grace's peak 80's recordings with Island records back in the late 80's (i'm usually a few... Read more
Published on 7 Oct 2009 by simon mack
item not sent
I am still waiting for Island life and it was due at the end of March no contact from the seller to my last email I'm not impressed.
Published on 16 April 2009 by Ms. S. Axon
Huh? wha? Confused ?
Even though this compilation does cover some of Grace Jones' career it lacks lots of it ass well. Her early disco years were exiting, fun and a bit quirky, she scored her first #1... Read more
Published on 12 Jan 2004 by Reno
A skimpy collection
Island Life is a collection of Grace Jones' biggest hits on the Island records label. It draws from albums like Portfolio (1977), Fame (1978), Muse (1979), Warm Leatherette (1980),... Read more
Published on 19 Nov 2003 by Pieter
Good & funky easy listening
Though I'm not a Grace Jones (the person) fan, I very much like this album. I got the LP when it was first released all those years ago & I now have the CD. Read more
Published on 19 Jun 2001
Great, even if its just for 2 tracks.
Just for balance, I disagree with the other reviewer. the tracks 'La vie en rose' and 'private life' are both must-have tracks. Read more
Published on 17 July 2000
Don't bother
This is a nice dance track, a mixture of funk and disco of the 70s and 80s. Nothing more, nothing less. Read more
Published on 16 Nov 1999
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