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Nightclubbing | 
 enlarge | Artist: Grace Jones
Label: Universal / Island
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 460
Media: Audio CD
Running Time: 38
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 842368
UPC: 042284236829
EAN: 0042284236829
ASIN: B000001FT2
Release Date: May 24, 1989
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Tracks:
| • | 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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 Slinky pop reggae September 20, 2007
So I've just moved home and my record collection is in complete disaray.
I want to listen to something before going on a big (and I mean big) night out but I can't find anything
Then I see this. I haven't listened to this for years. In fact I'm not sure I've lisened to it since I got it from a charity shop (where most of my vinyl comes from) about eight years ago.
It sounds wonderful. If you have this record I suggest that you put it on now.
Nothing needs to be said about Grace Jones, a woman whose image eventually overcame the music until all most people can remember is her attacking Russell Harty.
The music, however, is a dark slinky gem.
It undeniably pop. Sly and Robbie owe nothing to anybody and have worked on enough 'creditable' records in their time.
However with Nightclubbing, the second in a trilogy of records they produced with Jones the Voice, they really hit their stride.
There is depth of the bass, intricacy of the keyboard parts and space between each instrument and the vocals - all essential elements
The choice of songs is also masterful.
Everything comes together to suggest and night of sex, sleaze and sin - my kinda night.
Grace Kicks *ss March 12, 2007
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
This is THE best Grace Jones album which I first heard courtesy of my black stocking-clad friend Sarah Collins back in London UK in early 80's and it epitomises the dramatic world brought into view in 'Master and Servant' and 'shiny shiny leather' fetish clubs....Grace is ominous, parisienne, evocative and dangerous and makes other female singers look and sound like Barbie.. From the outrageously visualised androgyne look on the cover to the non stop darkness of tracks.. the percusion on this album is superb like Zang Tum Tumb clicks and bells and night 'cicada' sounds...
Grace paints mind pictures here which long presaged her sinisterness in the Bond movie.. she remains to this day truly mad, bad and dangerous to know and musically distinct from a smothering sea of vacuous bland female vocalists... for many years I ran my 'Open Channel D' radio show with clips of Grace as my virtual on air 'co-driver' on 'missions'... I can imagine GC as being good company in a fight or a fetish club...we need more women like this...
Buy this CD and shake up ur brain... she's as unique a voice and character as David Sylvian, Brian Ferry, Bert Jansch, David Bowie or similar unique talents..no one else like her and this is her best... spies and agents in Parisian smog, cruising cars, gloss lipstick, shiny bodywork and guns girls and a bulletproof heart... Grace must have seen the Bond film coming what a shame they pitched her against a suited woos like Roger!!..she should have been in The Matrix!!
One of my favourites here is Libertango - (I've seen this face before) where Grace relates the tale of her shadowy parisienne stalker... ha, that's me - I was that black clad gumshoe in turned up collar coat under the pale art-deco lamplight.. when Grace sings and snaps at you in French..zut alors...you know when you've been Tango'd !
1981 Studio Album May 3, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
In 1981, Grace Jones returned to the music scene with what was perharps her very best studio album, Nightclubbing. The Nightclubbing album certainly gained wide recognition from critics and was even voted as Album Of The Year by New Musical Express Magazine.
Again Grace returned to the startling format of combining Reggae, Rock, New Wave, Funk and R&B. The diverse, atmospheric arrangements are utterly compelling on all of these recordings.
Nightclubbing opens with the hypnotic, trance-like Walking In The Rain. Grace speaks and scowls through the entire recording and bizarre as it is, it still emerges as totally compelling with its blend of New Wave and Reggae.
This leads into what is her ultimate classic with the fantastic, driving R&B/Funk tune, Pull Up To The Bumper. Grace Jones delivery is highly effective on this track and has such immediacy and an infectious feel. Pull Up To The Bumper eventually became a Top 20 seller in the U.K.
Use Me is a catchy, highly effective reggae tune where Grace ignites the recording again with her diverse vocal approach whilst the title track, Nightclubbing is a bizarre cover of a David Bowie track. Synchronised sounds are combined with Graces stark delivery which surprisingly combine well together.
Art Groupie is more dated sounding though still works whilst the subtle mixture of French jazz, new wave and reggae on the startling, I've Seen That Face Before is another compelling, though blatantly weird affair. She conveys such spirit, fire and passion on her inspired re-working of Stings, Demolition Man.
The strong Jamacian vibes on the interestingly experimental, Feel Up is another cracking affair but the ultimate surprise on the album is served with the late-night jazz number, I've Done It Again. This lush, exotic number is given life by Graces exuberant delivery where I have honestly never heard her sing in such a soft soprano and sound so effeminate as on I've Done it Again.
Grace Jones, Nightclubbing became a Top 40 seller in the U.K. and stands as her best album.
CLASSIC ALBUM January 30, 2006
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
A CLASSIC ALBUM FROM 1981 ONE OF MY ALL TIME FAVOURITES.
IT TAKES ME BACK TO THAT LONG HOT SUMMER WHEN I WAS CHILLING IN AMSTERDAM.
THIS WAS THE SOUNDTRACK BLASTING FROM EVERY CAFE AND BAR.
ALTHOUGH THIS REISSUE HAS TOTALLY RUINED THE SLEEVE BY PRINTING A LARGE ISLAND LOGO ON THE FRONT.
IT IS TIME THAT THIS ALBUM WAS GIVEN THE RESPECT IT DESERVES I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A DVD WITH RARE TRACKS, LIVE FOOTAGE AND VIDEOS?
Island Lady, Number one January 25, 2004
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Grace Jones is and also will be my fave singer. I fairely enjoyed all of her albums Pre as well as post Island recordings.
[Nighclubbing] is the second in the Island Trilogy, and it's even more appealing than it's predecessor [Warm Leatherette],
The album starts out harsh and typical "Grace in your Face" style with "Walking In The Rain" [quote: Feelin' like a woman, looking like a man]how great is that. "Pull Up To The Bumper" is the next song and it's a Grace Jones classic, it launched a place in the r'n'b top five in 1981. It's a great song with a jungle rhythm that's combined with a eccentric beat of pure rhythm. "Use Me" is another very harsh song but it's perfect for the lyric theme she's got running on this album.
"Nightclubbing" another "night" song, it's almost a zombie like rhythm, and Grace's vocal is haunting and very very sexy. "Art Groupie" is up next, and I totally disagree with Grace on this one, [I'll never write my memoirs, there's nothing in my book] that's SO not true at all. "I've Seen That Face Before" is a very dark song, the Pariscian theme is well suited for the kind of horror and darkness Paris can be at night, and trust me, as beautiful as Paris is at night it's not safe at all. I would know I've been to Paris 5 times. "Feel Up" a dog breathing song that Feel's Up to the sound of an erotic stimulations (hehehe).
"Demolition Man" wow no song could be more perfectly suited for Grace than this one, she truly is a Demolition Man, and she knows it. "I've Done It Again" is a beautiful ballad song with the sentimental thoughts of being lost in time. Just Great.
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