To anyone who might have asked me about Grace Jones' albums and where to start, I would suggest a compilation called "Island Life" (the material recorded with Island) (which I notoriously don't like). However, since she did a disco-art album in Nassau with Sly and Blackwell, then there's "The Rhythm in 8 Beats," the same track presented in 8 versions produced by Trevor Horn. Then there are the covers of "Warm Leatherette," the avant-garde of "Nightclubbing," followed by a good "Inside Story" and a terrible "Bulletproof Heart," leading up to trip hop and Dub at 70 with the acclaimed "Hurricane" and its twin "(This is DUB"). If you want the covers, I warn you that they are now hard to find apart from remasterings of remasterings, etc... which are the most interesting things, for example, her in a cage with a jaguar tail, exposed with the writing "do not feed the animal," and her naked on the rooftops of New York, extremely thin with these long, skinny limbs "roaring." Phot. JJ: Goude, Mapplethorpe, and co.
Grace Jones / Private Life [Unreleased Extended Version 8 minutes]