Customer Reviews

Tom Tom Club

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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.

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!

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!!!

What is it with these record companies? If you are going to release a product and label it a deluxe edition the least you could do is remaster the music to get it to 21st century standards. The 1st disc sounds identical to my old sire cd.
Not happy Jan. (old Australian proverb)

Really fun album. Something for everyone, even kids. Not all songs tolerable but the vast majority are. Great songs in here for parties. Put your dancin' shoes on!

I had been trying to get the CD for many years. I was glad that it became avaliable. The CD has the same song 4 way hips on several of the cuts which I find was used to fill the CD.