Island Life

Infobox Album
Name = Island Life
Type = Compilation album
Artist = Grace Jones


Released = 1985
Recorded =
Genre = Pop
Length = 47:48
Label = Island Records
Producer =
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:ywamqjkbojaa link]
Last album = "Slave to the Rhythm" (1985)
This album = "Island Life"
(1985)
Next album = "Inside Story"
(1986)

"Island Life" was Grace Jones' 1985 compilation album, featuring songs from her Island Records albums "Portfolio", "Fame", "Warm Leatherette", "Nightclubbing", "Living My Life", and "Slave to the Rhythm". No tracks from "Muse" were included. The album was a huge success in the UK (reaching number #4 on the UK Album Chart in December, 1985), with "Pull Up to the Bumper" (#12 in the UK Singles Chart) and "Love Is the Drug" (#35) re-entering the charts a second time.

Cover

The cover is by Jean-Paul Goude. The body position is anatomically impossible. It's an example of "Goude"'s cut and paint technique, and it's from 1978.

Track listing

ide A

# "La Vie en Rose" (Mack David/Marcel Louiguy/Edith Piaf) – 7:25
#* From 1977 album "Portfolio"
# "I Need a Man" (Pierre Papadiamandis/Paul Slade) – 3:22
#* From 1977 album "Portfolio"
# "Do Or Die" [7" Edit] (Charles A. Bryant/Gerald Robinson) – 3:22
#* Original version appears on 1978 album "Fame"
# "Private Life" (Chrissie Hynde) – 5:10
#* From 1980 album "Warm Leatherette"
# "Love is the Drug" [Thorngren Remix] (Bryan Ferry/Andy Mackay) – 6:02
#* Original version appears on 1980 album "Warm Leatherette"

ide B

# "I've Seen That Face Before (Libertango)" (Natalie Delon/Astor Piazzolla/Barry Reynolds/Dennis Wilkey) – 4:29
#* From 1981 album "Nightclubbing"
# "Pull Up to the Bumper" [7" Edit] (Ron Dunbar/Grace Jones/Dana Mano/Robbie Shakespeare) – 3:38
#* Original version appears on 1981 album "Nightclubbing"
# "Walking in the Rain" (Harry Vanda/George Young) – 4:18
#* From 1981 album "Nightclubbing"
# "My Jamaican Guy" (Grace Jones) – 6:00
#* From 1982 album "Living My Life"
# "Slave to the Rhythm" [7" Edit] (Simon Darlow/Trevor Horn/Steve Lipson/Bruce Woolley) – 4:22
#* Original version appears on 1985 album "Slave to the Rhythm"

Chart positions

"La Vie En Rose" (#10 U.S Dance Chart, #1 UK)
"I Need A Man" (#1 U.S Dance Chart, #83 Hot 100)
"Do Or Die" (#3 U.S Dance Chart)
"Private Life" (#17 U.K Charts)
"Love Is The Drug (#35 U.K Singles Chart)
"Pull Up Tp The Bumper" (#12 U.K Singles Chart, #2 U.S Dance Chart, #5 R&B)
"My Jamaican Guy" (#56 UK Charts)
"Slave To The Rhythm" (#12 U.K Chart, #1 U.S Dance Chart, #20 R&B)