Grace Jones is releasing her first album in 19 years in October! The album is titled 'Hurricane' and the first single 'Corporate Cannibal' has arrived:

 

 

That is one hell of a video. :heehee: I'm not familiar with her work at all barr one or two of the bigger hits from the 80s, but I might delve into a Greatest Hits or something because I quite like this (bizarre) new direction.

She's a legend - and this is one helluva comeback.

 

Worth checking is her Island Life best of... it's a pretty faultless collection - there's little can hit the spot like 'Pull Up To The Bumper' (one of the best production jobs ever), 'My Jamaican Guy', 'I've Seen That Face Before', 'Private Life' or 'Slave to the Rhythm'.

 

I saw her once in London a few years back.... truly spectacular show. As was her show at the recent Meltdown festival hosted by Massive Attack - the act of the festival by all accounts.

no surprise she's been working on the Meltdown festival with Massive Attack - this sounds so much like Mezzanine-era Massive Attack.... FANTASTIC.

Whilst I am liking CC a lot, I hope there are some songs on the record with more traditional, big choruses that can't be sung along to - songs such as Pull Up To The Bumper. CC is the kind of song which is brilliant, but in isolation, not in twelve different forms on the same record...

no surprise she's been working on the Meltdown festival with Massive Attack - this sounds so much like Mezzanine-era Massive Attack.... FANTASTIC.

 

I was struggling to think what it reminded me of as I watched the video the other day, but that's it. Bizarre but eye catching video which keeps you glued.

 

She's a complete legend. Like Jark I'm not that familiar with her old music bar a couple of tracks but she's a fabulous person. I did really love her role in A View To A Kill.

I think we'll see some traditional songs on Hurricane as well as the more avant garde style of this single.

 

Grace Jones is just fabulous - thank God there are still record companies out there willing to stick their necks out for genuine art and talent like her.

She was fierce as anything in View To A Kill. Fabulous! And I love this picture of her at the signing of her record deal this year:

 

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A friend of mine worked on the coat check of a club in Amsterdam many years ago... and Grace was a regular punter.... apparently her pockets and bags were always rammed full of cocaine.... I didn't ask how he knew, though :o

:heehee: That doesn't surprise me, really. She seems like she could probably handle the white stuff better than most.

 

If he was rooting through her stuff, though, he surely ran the risk of being fired?! :lol:

oh I think he was eventually.... ;)

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She's a legend - and this is one helluva comeback.

 

Worth checking is her Island Life best of... it's a pretty faultless collection - there's little can hit the spot like 'Pull Up To The Bumper' (one of the best production jobs ever), 'My Jamaican Guy', 'I've Seen That Face Before', 'Private Life' or 'Slave to the Rhythm'.

 

do you know Strut Records? they do compilations full of stuff like 70s Nigerian funk, ZE Records and Italio-Disco...well i got the Compass Point album for £3.99 the other week - and its a great compliation of cool stuff featuring those taxi gang maestros sly and robbie (and obv was very pleased that it was £3.99 as well)

 

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but yeah - would be good to have some one like Grace Jones in the top 75 - esp since the Donna Summer album didnt do much over here...and think its good to have iconic disco divas somewhere (those around the age of 57 but not inc. Madge) in the chart...esp if they still have a 'Studio 54' glammour and grace is a very cool artist...and Grace obv is slightly a better class than either a vocodered Cher or a Liza Minnelli disco revival :lol: - the single is very cool and yeah very massive attack tho i guess seeing as tricky and bjork havent had top 75 single success recently - there is not much hope for the single - we'll have to put up with onerepublic and nickelback for another week - tho the album might get that kinda dedicated demographic (similar to those buying Sparks - lil beethoven - but not glam rock sparks fans if you see what i mean) out into buying it

Fantastic song... very dark and sinister, to be expected from Grace really :P And that video is downright disturbing. I love it!

bought the pretenders album chesp the other day - the one with stop your sobbing and brass in pocket (the one that seems to be about a skint German bloke called Dieter Leaning) and Grace Jones' Private Life turns up sung by Chrissy Hynde - didnt know that it was a Pretenders song andwith the Grace Jones version being in a similar reggae vibe to the version on the pretenders album - never have guessed - and would have expected it to sound like the kinks in the orig versh (tho i suppose since Hynde has had hits with UB40....)