Music : Private Life - The Compass Point Years

Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0731452450128
Format: Box set
Label: Universal / Island
Manufacturer: Universal / Island
Number Of Discs: 2
Publisher: Universal / Island
Release Date: June 15, 1998
Running Time: 153 minutes
Studio: Universal / Island
Sales Rank: 2717
524501

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Disc 1:

1. Private Life
2. Private Life
3. Love Is The Drug
4. Breakdown
5. Warm Leatherette
6. The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game
7. I've Done It Again
8. Pars
9. Pull Up To The Bumper
10. Use Me
11. She's Lost Control
12. She's Lost Control

Disc 2:

1. Walking In The Rain
2. Cry Now - Laugh Later
3. Nightclubbing
4. The Apple Stretching
5. Nipple To The Bottle
6. My Jamaican Guy
7. Feel Up
8. I've Seen That Face Before (Libertango)
9. Demolition Man
10. Unlimited Capacity For Love
11. Ring Of Fire
12. Man Around The House
13. Living My Life
14. Slave To The Rhythm

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Rating: - Great Grace - one star lost for some omissions
This is the CD I wanted...this is the best of Grace Jones. Forget her dizzy disco phase that preceded, and forget her sell out mainstream phase that followed - here we have all the best tracks from Grace Jones' collaborations with Sly and Robbie, where she produced her most dynamic, sensual and explosive music. Just listen to that tight-as-a-drum production on tracks like "Walking in the Rain", "Private Life" and "My Jamaican Guy", Grace's music has never been better.

I was also really ... Read More

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Rating: - this music has not aged at all
It seems incredible to think that this music is already twenty years old. Grace gloried in the cutting age of pre hip hop music and married it to "gaydisco" then found Sly and Robbie and the magic that is found on this double album was made.
This is true value for money as well as essential archive material that returns directly to the "Age of Innocence" of the early 80's
Check out the notes too which are thorough, informative and bound to be of interest to any pop historian

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Rating: - undervalued
I've always loved Grace's music. During the early 80s she hooked up with the great rhythm section of Sly and Robbie, and made her trilogy of superb Island albums: "Warm Leatherette", "Nightclubbing", and "Living My life". They were the epitome of chic mainstream funk, and most of them are represented on this double release. There's no pretense with this stuff: Grace found a groove and stuck with it, but these recordings were very well made and still sound good. Not only do we get the highlights of ... Read More

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