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Tom Tom Club (CD)

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Tom Tom Club Artist Snapshot:

Tom Tom Club is the funky, melting-pot side project of Talking Heads members Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz. The husband-and-wife duo formed the group in 1981 to further indulge their diverse musical interests. With a definite focus on grooves, the group mixed together everything from disco and hip-hop to Afro-beat and Latin music and managed several hits, including the heavenly dance smash "Genius of Love." The group continued to tour and record, although sporadically, into the 2000s.

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DISC 1 for Tom Tom Club (CD) Album By Tom Tom Club (Artist)
1   Wordy Rappinghood
2   Genius Of Love
3   Tom Tom Theme
4   L'Elephant
5   As Above, So Below
6   Lorelei
7   On, On, On, On...
8   Booming And Zooming
9   Under The Boardwalk - (bonus track)
10   Lorelei (remix)
11   Wordy Rappinghood (remix)
12   Genius Of Love (long version)
13   Elephant [Single Version]  
14   (You Don't Stop) Wordy Rappinghood [Single Version]  
 
DISC 2 for Tom Tom Club (CD) Album By Tom Tom Club (Artist)
1   Pleasure of Love  
2   On the Line Again  
3   This is a Foxy World  
4   Bamboo Town  
5   Man With the 4-Way Hips, The  
6   Measure Up  
7   Never Took a Penny  
8   Atsababy! (Life is Great)  
9   Man With the 4-Way Hips [Extended Version], The  
10   Pleasure of Love [Instrumental Version]  
11   Man With the 4-Way Hips [Dub Version], The  
12   Yella Mr. Yella [Version]  
 

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Review

Record Collector (magazine) (p.96) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Tom Tom Club cooked up funky grooves and quirky vocals to make their eponymous debut album....The sense of fun and the innate funk is contagious as ever."

Title Note

Tom Tom Club: Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz, Steven Stanley, Benjamin Arbrister, Adrian Belew, Loric Weymouth, Laura Weymouth, Monte Brown, Tyrone Dowrie, James Rizzi, Kendall Stubbs, Lani Weymouth.

Producers: Steven Stanley, Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz.

Following the release of the Talking Heads' fourth album, REMAIN IN LIGHT, the band's husband-and-wife rhythm section, drummer Chris Frantz and bassist Tina Weymouth, opted to record tracks in the Caribbean on the invitation of Islands Records founder Chris Blackwell, thus the Tom Tom Club was born. Joined by Talking Heads touring guitarist Adrian Belew, guitarist Monte Brown, percussionist Steven Stanley, and Weymouth's sisters, Laura and Lani, on background vocals, Frantz and Weymouth crafted a highly rhythmic, groove-laden album that incorporated world music (most obviously on the buoyant, African-tinged "L'Elephant") and hip-hop (the playful "Wordy Rappinghood," a kindred spirit to Blondie's "Rapture"). Of course, the 1981 album's most shining moment proved to be the hit single, "Genius of Love," a vibrant dance-floor classic that has been sampled ad infinitum. Issued the same year as David Byrne and Brian Eno's MY LIFE IN THE BUSH OF GHOSTS, TOM TOM CLUB was the fun and free-spirited counterpart to that experimental and cerebral outing, revealing that the Taking Heads could making fascinating music even when fragmented.

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