- The Ultimate Collection (Grace Jones album)
Infobox Album
Name = The Ultimate Collection
Type = Compilation
Artist =Grace Jones
Released =2006
Recorded = 1976-1998
Genre = New Wave,Disco
Length =
Label =Universal Music ,CCM
Producer =
Reviews =
Last album = Colour Collection
2006
This album = The Ultimate Collection
2006
Next album =Corporate Cannibal
2008"The Ultimate Collection" is a a 3 CD compilation by
Grace Jones , released byUniversal Music Netherlands in 2006.Remastered in a32-bit sound.The "Ultimate Collection" feautures newly
remastered songs from herdisco period (1976-1979), most noticeably the album version of her 1978 hit "Do or Die", which is available oncompact disc for the first time in over a decade. "The Ultimate Collection" is not intended to be a singles collection, as several single releases are missing (most notably "On Your Knees", the only single from the albumMuse )."The Ultimate Collection" is more or less an expanded re-issue of
Universal Music 's "The Grace Jones Story " released the same year, with a few notable changes:Disc one omits "That's The Trouble" but adds the aforementioned album version of "Do or Die", "All On A Summer's Night" as well as the original long versions of "Private Life", "Love Is The Drug" and "Warm Leatherette". Unfortunately
Universal Music haven't corrected the faulty edit of "Muse" track "Saved" that also appeared on "The Grace Jones Story ", which means that the two first minutes of the song are again left out.Disc two uses the album version of "Pull Up To The Bumper" instead of the 7" edit as well as the original long version of "The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game". It adds "Inspiration", "Slave To The Rhythm" (sadly not the well-known single version but the album track that confusingly bears the same title) and "Victor Should Have Been A Jazz Musician", but omits "Someone To Love" and moves "She's Lost Control" and "Sex Drive" to disc three, which otherwise consists of alternate versions previously issued on 1998's "".
"The Ultimate Collection", packaged in a double gatefold cardboard sleeve - although usually listed as a box set, was released by the Dutch label CCM, a subsidiary of
Universal Music Holland. CCM has previously issued similar 3 CD "Ultimate Collection"s by artists likeDonna Summer ,Barry White ,Diana Ross ,Kool & The Gang ,Dusty Springfield and others.Track listing
Disc 1
# "La Vie en Rose" - 7:29
#* From 1977 album "Portfolio"
# "Send In the Clowns" - 7:35
#* From 1977 album "Portfolio"
# "I Need a Man" - 3:24
#* From 1977 album "Portfolio"
# "Do Or Die" (Album Version) - 6:29
#* From 1978 album "Fame"
# "All on a Summer's Night" - 4:14
#* From 1978 album "Fame"
# "Fame" - 5:34
#* From 1978 album "Fame"
# "Am I Ever Going to Fall in Love in New York City" - 5:27
#* From 1978 album "Fame"
# "Don't Mess with the Messer" - 4:53
#* From 1979 album "Muse"
# "Sinning" - 5:06
#* From 1979 album "Muse"
# "Saved" - 5:00 (N.B. Original length 7:13. This CD, just like "The Grace Jones Story ", skips the first two minutes of the track and starts with the first line of the second verse)
#* Original version appears on 1979 album "Muse"
# "Private Life" (Original Long Version) - 6:18
#* From 1980 album "Warm Leatherette"
# "Love is the Drug" (Original Long Version) - 8:41
#* From 1980 album "Warm Leatherette"
# "Warm Leatherette " (Original Long Version) - 5:37
#* From 1980 album "Warm Leatherette"Disc 2
# "The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game" (Original Long Version) - 6:45
#* From 1980 album "Warm Leatherette"
# "I've Seen That Face Before (Libertango) " - 4:29
#* From 1981 album "Nightclubbing "
# "Pull Up to the Bumper " - 4:42
#* From 1981 album "Nightclubbing "
# "Nightclubbing" - 5:05
#* From 1981 album "Nightclubbing "
# "Walking in the Rain " - 4:20
#* From 1981 album "Nightclubbing "
# "Demolition Man" - 4:03
#* From 1981 album "Nightclubbing "
# "Nipple to the Bottle " - 5:57
#* From 1982 album "Living My Life"
# "The Apple Stretching " - 7:08
#* From 1982 album "Living My Life"
# "Inspiration" - 4:35
#* From 1982 album "Living My Life"
# "My Jamaican Guy " - 6:02
#* From 1982 album "Living My Life"
# "Slave to the Rhythm" (N.B. Track four on the "Slave to the Rhythm " CD album, not the single version) - 6:13
#* From 1985 album "Slave to the Rhythm "
# "I'm Not Perfect (But I'm Perfect For You) " - 3:59
#* From 1986 album "Inside Story "
# "Victor Should Have Been a Jazz Musician " - 4:44
#* From 1986 album "Inside Story "
# "Love on Top of Love " - 6:16
#* From 1989 album "Bulletproof Heart "Disc 3 (Bonus CD)
# "Pars" (1998 Remix/Re-edit) - 5:42
#* From 1998 compilation "". Original version appears on 1980 album "Warm Leatherette"
# "Private Life" (1998 Dub Remix/Re-edit) - 8:06
#* From 1998 compilation "". Original version appears on 1980 album "Warm Leatherette"
# "Use Me" (1998 Remix/Re-edit) - 6:11
#* From 1998 compilation "". Original version appears on 1980 album "Warm Leatherette"
# "She's Lost Control" (1998 Remix/Re-edit) - 8:25
#* From 1998 compilation "". Single B-side from the "Warm Leatherette" sessions, 1980
# "Nipple to the Bottle" (Original 12" Version) - 6:54
#* Original version appears on 1982 album "Living My Life"
# "My Jamaican Guy" (Original US 12" Version) - 7:02
#* Original version appears on 1982 album "Living My Life"
# "Ring of Fire" (Demo) - 3:58
#* From 1998 compilation "". Demo from the 1982 "Living My Life" sessions
# "Man Around the House" - 4:13
#* From 1998 compilation "". Demo from the 1982 "Living My Life" sessions
# "Living My Life" (1986 7" Remix/Edit) - 3:33
#* From 1998 compilation "". Non-album track from the 1982 "Living My Life" sessions
# "Slave to the Rhythm" (1998 "Hot Blooded Version") - 8:19
#* From 1998 compilation "". Original version appears on 1985 album "Slave to the Rhythm "
# "Sexdrive " (7" Version) - 3:58
#* 1993 non-album single
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