Rediscovery: Album / CD Grace Jones nightclubbing - a still cool Gesamtkunstwerk

Rediscovery: Album / CD Grace Jones nightclubbing - a still cool Gesamtkunstwerk

Nightclubbing (1981) (Audio CD)

Customer Review

The artist was born in Jamaica and raised in New York (model among others for Yves St. Laurent and Kenzo Takada, photo model for Helmut Newton and others, as well as singer) Grace Jones is one of the icons of the 1980s club and gay scene (she was several guest star on New York's Christopher Street Parade) and has its person regularly set with an unconventional styling, as a Gesamtkunstwerk in scene.

By its fifth, published 1981 album nightclubbing put doubtless their masterpiece before, because even after more than 30 years, the work still sounds cool and relaxed. It has since become a modern classic, which simply does not age.

Without unnecessarily repeating what my fellow reviewers already wrote here very true, I would like to make a recommendation and justify briefly

when sound and songs complement so well that they flow into a musical unit together, as is the case here, then one can rightly speak of a rare stroke of luck,

if only the light has dimmed somewhat down while listening to the CD, to feel immediately put into a swanky club of 80s, then reveals the music of the album an almost magical effect on the listener, reach only a few works ...,

If while listening sets a slightly trance-like mood and relaxed you can strip the stress of the day, it becomes clear here were rounder at work.

Buy recommendation:
Who has not ever stand the CD on the shelf, should compensate for this omission now. And who, as a later-born, Grace Jones discovered just in itself, is likely to be found with this album exactly the right start.

Furthermore, since the sound quality of the CD is quite good, I can recommend buying a good conscience.

As a supplement there is the compilation Grace Jones Iceland Life on CD, which provides a good overview of the various albums of singer and including the cult title La Vie En Rose provides (ASIN: B000001FTH).

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Addendum of 10 May 2014:
My review above relates exclusively to the standard CD Album. When I wrote this text on 8 January 2014, the 2-CD deluxe version was not yet on the market. Since Amazon.com but once again mixed reviews from different CD versions here that could possibly lead to misunderstandings, for example, about the possibly different sound quality of the div. CDs.

In other words:
About the better or possibly worse sound quality of the 2-CD deluxe version, compared to the standard CD, I can not comment because I do not present this CD version. That by no means "digitally remastered" automatically means "better sound quality" can be read, for example, under the heading "Loudness War" in Wikipedia.

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