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.
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