Grace Jones — Pull Up To The Bumper
Nightclubbing · 1981
Label: Island · Genre: Disco / Post-Disco / New Wave · From: Nassau, North America
Grace Jones recorded Nightclubbing at Compass Point Studios in Nassau, Bahamas with Sly and Robbie’s rhythm section and producer Chris Blackwell. The album fuses reggae, new wave, dub, and post-disco into something that had no genre name in 1981 and still resists one today. Pull Up To The Bumper, the third single, became her signature: a mid-tempo electro-disco groove with a double entendre so blunt it barely qualifies. Jones had trained as a model in Paris, performed at Studio 54, and appeared in James Bond films, but Nightclubbing is the record that demonstrated she was also a serious musical artist. Pitchfork later scored it 9.2. The album’s cover, shot by Jean-Paul Goude, became one of the most iconic images in pop music.
Did you know: Grace Jones was born in Spanish Town, Jamaica, moved to Syracuse, New York as a child, then to Paris as a model — she performed in four languages and used every part of that geography in her music. Nassau’s Compass Point Studios, where Nightclubbing was recorded, became one of the most important recording studios of the early 1980s because of albums like this one.
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