Monday, January 21, 2008

This Record Is Quite Nice, Actually: 5


Grace Jones: My Jamaican Guy (12" Mix) (Island, 1982)
It is, of course, hilarious to read how Jones allegedly bashes things up and generally acts the goat, but it's worth remembering that, oh dear me, she really was a great pop star too. Has any artist ever appeared in a more startling fashion on their own record sleeve than Lady Jonesworth? Has anyone been more fantastically paired to the material than Jones vs Sly And Robbie (as found on this excellent compilation)? Has anyone else ever behaved less appropriately at Disneyworld?

Bless her...

5 comments:

BLTP said...

Hurrah for Grace: things I love about her that I’ve just learnt from Wikki!
She’s collecting a set of Scandinavian ex bodybuilders.

Her son’s band would be called poster paint if they were English and the video for their song “boom boom sabotage” is so French it looks like a bad pastiche done by the fast show.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vhvJxivGYk

Lastly her ex beau 4th Viscount of Wimborne sounds like a Viz character “Ivor Guest“the chinless talk show host...

Brian Cleary said...

and her brother is a bishop!!!!!

Rob said...

How come everyone is related to a member of the clergy?

BLTP said...

I'm the son of a preacher man and so was Dusty!

BLTP said...

well the bloke in song who was her boy friends was not that she had boy friends.....