Tom Tom Club [Deluxe Edition, Import, Original recording remastered]

Tom Tom Club | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 19, 2009)
• Original Release Date: 2009
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Deluxe Edition, Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: island/universal music
• ASIN: B00265BCXQ
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #53,206 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Wordy Rappinghood Album Version

2. Genius Of Love Album Version

3. Tom Tom Theme

4. L Elephant

5. As Above So Below

6. Lorelei Album Version

7. On On On On... Album Version

8. Booming And Zooming Album Version

9. Under The Boardwalk

10. On On On On... Remix Version

See all 14 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Pleasure Of Love Album Version

2. On The Line Again Album Version

3. This Is A Foxy World Album Version

4. Bamboo Town Album Version

5. The Man With The 4-Way Hips Album Version

6. Measure Up Album Version

7. Never Took A Penny Album Version

8. Atsababy! (Life Is Great) Album Version

9. The Man With The 4-Way Hips Extended Version

10. Pleasure Of Love Instrumental Version

See all 12 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Digitally remastered and expanded deluxe two CD edition of The Tom Tom Club's 1981 debut album including five bonus remixes plus a bonus CD that contains their 1983 sophomore album Close To The Bone (appearing for the first time on CD) alongside four bonus remixes related to that album! The Tom Tom Club are ex-Talking Heads husband and wife team Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth. They began as a side project in between Talking Heads projects and scored a huge club hit with 'Wordy Rappinghood'. Their mix of Funk, Reggae and Electronica was extremely unique at the time and unlike anything they'd recorded with David Byrne and Co. Universal.

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It's about time, but..., November 2, 2009

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Jeff S. (Canton, Ohio) - See all my reviews

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I agree wrapping Close to the Bone in this over-priced package was bad idea, and it should have been released separately.

After a 25 year wait, I have to say the release of Close to the Bone on CD was a bit of a disappointment. I knew the CD version was going to lack the warmth and depth of the analog recording, but I was not expecting it to this degree. The life has literally been squeezed out of it. What a shame.

I suppose I can get used to it, but like bad medicine, it'll go down easier if I hold my nose.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It's a Pleasure, February 10, 2010

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What a Pleasure! The Tom Tom Club Close to the Bone on cd is a long awaited pleasure, I am so happy to have received this cd after waiting so many years.
I used to play nearly every track from Close to the Bone on the college radio station at the University of Oklahoma, KGOU, in the early eighties and to have it now with the bonus tracks is fantastic! This is a foxy world!

7 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars reissued while it's still in print? Should've just issued Close to the Bone alone!, July 24, 2009

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Daniel W. Kelly (NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tom Tom Club (Audio CD)

Much like Book of Love's debut album was recently reissued while the original pressing was still in print and loaded with 12" mixes not on the reissues, this release of the Tom Tom club's debut does the same thing. In essence, if you want the alternate bonus tracks included here, you need to own both versions of the CD, because the original CD had ALL the 12" mixes from the singles.

It seems this release was a marketing scheme to get more money out of hardcore fans because they knew what we really wanted--a FIRST TIME release of the entire Close to the Bone album on CD!!! Instead of paying 15 dollars for that album alone, you're forced to pay 30 bux for that and the first album, which you pretty much already have aside from a couple of different bonus tracks. So yeah, it bites that they scammed us like this, but, hey, we FINALLY get Close to the Bone on CD, and it's done right, with the 12" mixes and b-sides as bonus tracks. Of course, considering Close to the Bone has 16 minutes of free space, the trio of bonus tracks appearing on the debut album for the first time could have just been included on the Close to the Bone CD as more bonus tracks!!!