Grace Jones Island Life EX Vinyl LP Slave to the Rythm Bowie Blondie Roxy Music
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Island Life is a compilation album by Grace Jones 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.
The 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 Musclemix".
Island Life met with a warm commercial reception worldwide. It was a major success in the UK, reaching number 4 on the UK Albums Chart in December 1985, and New Zealand, where it topped the chart in March 1986, thus becoming the only chart-topper in Jones' entire career. CD sales of the album in the United States since 1991 have reached 112,000, according to Nielsen SoundScan.[3]
In April 1996 Island Records and Universal re-released the album under the name Island Life 2. Released only in France, it featured four additional tracks: "Pars", "Feel Up" and two versions of a 1993 single "Sex Drive", intended for the Black Marilyn album, which remains unreleased to date.[4] This version retains the cover picture of the original album, with the only difference being the yellow-coloured background.
The cover picture is one of the most famous images of Grace Jones and was created by her then-partner Jean-Paul Goude. The impossibly graceful arabesque is actually a montage of separate images, following Goude's ideas on creating credible illusions with his cut-and-paint technique. The body position is "anatomically unlikely".[5] The picture was originally published in New York magazine in 1978 and subsequently used in the music video for Jones' hit single "La Vie en rose". It has been since described as "one of pop culture's most famous photographs".[6] Also included in the album sleeve are other iconic images of Jones, among them the "twins" photograph, Grace Jones in a cage and wearing a "maternity" dress.
The cover picture was featured in Michael Ochs' 1996 book 1000 Record Covers[7] and has been often imitated in works by other artists.[8] American model Amber Rose recreated the pose for her 2010 photo shoot.[9] The image was also referenced in Nicki Minaj's 2011 music video for "Stupid Hoe", with Minaj mimicking the pose.[10] The cover art for Kylie Minogue's most successful album Fever was reportedly inspired by the Island Life cover.
Side A
No. Title Writer(s) Album Length 1. "La Vie en rose" Édith Piaf, Louigny, Mack David Portfolio 7:25 2. "I Need a Man" Paul Adrian Slade, Pierre Papadiamondis Portfolio 3:22 3. "Do or Die" Jack Robinson, James Bolden Fame 3:22 4. "Private Life" Chrissie Hynde Warm Leatherette 5:10 5. "Love Is the Drug" Bryan Ferry, Andy Mackay Warm Leatherette 6:02Side B
No. Title Writer(s) Album Length 6. "I've Seen That Face Before (Libertango)" Ástor Piazzolla, Barry Reynolds, Dennis Wilkey, Nathalie Delon Nightclubbing 4:29 7. "Pull Up to the Bumper" Kookoo Baya, Grace Jones, Dana Mano Nightclubbing 3:38 8. "Walking in the Rain" Harry Vanda, George Young Nightclubbing 4:18 9. "My Jamaican Guy" Grace Jones Living My Life 6:00 10. "Slave to the Rhythm" Bruce Woolley, Simon Darlow, Stephen Lipson, Trevor Horn Slave to the Rhythm 4:22Why not look at the other items we have for sale while you're here?
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