The Grace Jones Story

Infobox Album
Name = The Grace Jones Story
Type = Compilation album
Artist = Grace Jones


Released = April 4, 2006
Recorded = 1977-1993
Genre = Urban, Dance-pop, Soul, Disco, R'n'B
Length = Disc one: 72:25
Disc two: 74:34
Label = Universal Music
Producer =
Reviews = * Pop Matters - Christian John Wikane Rate: 7/10 [http://www.popmatters.com/pm/music/reviews/grace-jones-the-grace-jones-story/ link]
Last album = The Collection
2004
This album = The Grace Jones Story
2006
Next album = Colour Collection
2006

"The Grace Jones Story" is the 2006 anthology of Grace Jones' career spanning from 1977 to 1993. "The Grace Jones Story" is Island Records/Universal Music's first attempt to create a comprehensive documentation of Jones' recording career; starting in 1977 with her debut album "Portfolio", and ending with the one-off Island Records single "Sex Drive" in 1993. The compilation however omits her biggest commercial hit, 1985's "Slave To The Rhythm", as well as other standout tracks like "Demolition Man", "Victor Should Have Been A Jazz Musician" and "Amado Mio".

Track listing

Disc one

# "That's the Trouble" (Grace Jones/Pierre Papadiamandis) - 3:39
#* From 1977 album "Portfolio"
# "I Need A Man" (Pierre Papadiamandis/Paul Adrian Slade) - 3:24
#* From 1977 album "Portfolio"
# "La Vie En Rose" (Edith Gassion/Luis/David Mack Guglielmi) - 7:28
#* From 1977 album "Portfolio"
# "Send in the Clowns" (Stephen Sondheim) - 7:35
#* From 1977 album "Portfolio"
# "What I Did for Love" (Marvin Hamlisch/Edward Kleban) - 5:17
#* From 1977 album "Portfolio"
# "Do Or Die" (7" Edit) (James Jaques Bolden/Jack Robinson) - 3:22
#* Original version appears 1978 album "Fame"
# "Fame" (Jack Robinson/Martin Slavin) - 5:36
#* From 1978 album "Fame"
# "Am I Ever Going to Fall in Love in New York City?" (James Jaques Bolden/Jack Robinson) - 5:28
#* From 1978 album "Fame"
# "Don't Mess With the Messer" (Willie Dixon) - 4:52
#* From 1979 album "Muse"
# "Sinning" (Grace Jones) - 5:06
#* From 1979 album "Muse"
# "Saved" (Grace Jones) - 5:01 (Original length 7:13; this CD inexplicably skips the first two minutes of the track, subsequently starting with the first line of the second verse)
#* Original version appears on 1979 album "Muse"
# "Warm Leatherette" (LP Version) (Daniel Miller) - 4:29
#* From 1980 album "Warm Leatherette"
# "Love Is The Drug" (LP Version) (Bryan Ferry/Andy Mackay) - 7:11
#* From 1980 album "Warm Leatherette"
# "The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game" (LP Version) (Smokey Robinson) - 3:48
#* From 1980 album "Warm Leatherette"

Disc two

# "Private Life" (LP Version) (Chrissie Hynde) - 5:13
#* From 1980 album "Warm Leatherette"
# "She's Lost Control" (Full-length long version) (Ian Curtis/Bernard Dickin/Peter Hook/Stephen Morris) - 8:23
#* From 1998 compilation "". Single B-side from the "Warm Leatherette" sessions, 1980
# "Pull Up to the Bumper" (7" Edit) (Sly Dunbar/Dana Manno/Robbie Shakespeare/Grace Jones) - 3:41
#* Original version appears on 1981 album "Nightclubbing"
# "Walking in the Rain" (Harry Vanda/George Redburn Young) - 4:20
#* From 1981 album "Nightclubbing"
# "Use Me" (Bill Withers) - 5:05
#* From 1981 album "Nightclubbing"
# "Nightclubbing" (David Bowie/Iggy Pop) - 5:06
#* From 1981 album "Nightclubbing"
# "I've Seen That Face Before (Libertango)" (Astor Piazzolla/Barry Reynolds/Dennis Wilkey) - 4:30
#* From 1981 album "Nightclubbing"
# "My Jamaican Guy" (Grace Jones) - 6:01
#* From 1982 album "Living My Life"
# "The Apple Stretching" (Melvin van Peebles) - 7:10
#* From 1982 album "Living My Life"
# "Nipple to the Bottle" (Sly Dunbar/Grace Jones) - 5:53
#* From 1982 album "Living My Life"
# "I'm Not Perfect (But I'm Perfect For You)" (Grace Jones/Bruce Woolley) - 3:59
# "Love on Top of Love" (David Cole/Grace Jones) - 6:16
#* From 1989 album "Bulletproof Heart"
# "Someone to Love" (Grace Jones/Chris Stanley) - 4:49
#* From 1989 album "Bulletproof Heart"
# "Sexdrive" (7" Edit of the Sex Pitch Mix) (Fraser/Rodriguez) - 4:00
#* 1993 non-album single

Overview

Disc one gathers tracks from her first four albums: Portfolio, Fame, Muse and Warm Leatherette.

Disc two gathers tracks from five albums, an EP and a B-side single: "Warm Leatherette", "Nightclubbing", "Living My Life", "Inside Story", "Bulletproof Heart", "Sex Drive" and a B-side of the single "Private Life", but is sorely missing out on her 1985 collaboration with Trevor Horn, "Slave to the Rhythm".