Good the Bad & The Funky

Tom Tom Club | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 12, 2000)
• Original Release Date: September 12, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rykodisc
• ASIN: B00004Y24P
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #57,605 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #35 in Music > Indie Music > Alternative Rock > New Wave
  • #67 in Music > World Music > Reggae > Dub
  • #79 in Music > World Music > Reggae > Dance Hall

Track Listings

1. Time To Bounce

2. Who Feelin' It

3. Happiness Can't Buy Money

4. Holy Water

5. Soul Fire

6. She's Dangerous

7. She's A Freak

8. (C'mon) Surrender

9. Love To Love You Baby

10. Superdreaming

11. Lesbians By The Lake

12. Let There Be Love

13. Time To Bounce Dub

14. Dangerous Dub

Editorial Reviews

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Genre: Popular Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 12-SEP-2000

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tom Tom Club funkier than ever, September 12, 2000

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F. Veldkamp (Netherlands) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Good the Bad & The Funky (Audio CD)

It has been almost 20 years since Tom Tom Club topped the charts with songs like "Genius of Love" and "Wordy Rappinghood". Many artists, from Grandmaster Flash to Mariah Carey, used samples of the groundbreaking Tom Tom Club beats for their own songs and scored major hits with it.

Now, eight years after the previous their last "Dark Sneak Love Album", Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth (of Talking Heads fame) put out their best album to date. With contributions from people like Charles Pettigrew (of Charles and Eddie and the hit single "Would I Lie to You?"), DJ Kid Ginseng ("produced by Chris and Tina") and Toots Hibbert, the Club sounds funkier and hipper than ever.

"The Good the Bad and the Funky" is a melting pot of styles, where rap, reggae, dance, funk and hiphop are combined with catchy melodies and the unique breathy voice of singer/bassplayer Tina Weymouth.

The songs on the album vary from the "Genius of Love" 'sequal' "Who Feeling'It" and the amazing single "Happiness Can't Buy Money" to excellent covers of Lee Perry's "Soul Fire" and Donna Summers disco classic "Love to Love you Baby".

Time to bounce!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Could be their best ever!, March 30, 2001

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tvc215 (Philadelphia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Good the Bad & The Funky (Audio CD)

This new album from the Tom Tom Club, lead by husband and wife tean Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz, defies classification. It's beautiful, danceble, funky sound will appeal to new and old fans alike. As with their other material, the music and lyrics are completely unpretentious and fun. At the same time, the album takes on a deep funk feel in places, mixing island and urban sounds, with out losing it's playful edge.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Funky rock at its best, September 14, 2001

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Paul Doland (Houston, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Good the Bad & The Funky (Audio CD)

I'm primarily a rock guy, and of course heard of the Tom Tom Club via Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense. I can't dance, and I don't generally listen to "funky" music, but this is an exception. Who else makes music that is funky, yet rocks?