Released July 1983 Artist Tom Tom Club Label Sire Records | Length 37:32 Release date July 1983 Genres New wave, Funk | |
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Recorded Compass Point Studios, Nassau, Bahamas Close to the Bone
(1983) Boom Boom Chi Boom Boom
(1988) Producers Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth, Steven Stanley Similar Tom Tom Club albums, New wave albums | ||
Close to the Bone is an album by the Tom Tom Club that was released in 1983. The Club's musicians are Wally Badarou; Tyrone Downie; Chris Frantz; Roddy Frantz; Rupert Hine; Raymond Jones; Steve Scales; Steven Stanley; Alex Weir; and sisters Lani, Laura, and Tina Weymouth. The album was released on compact disc for the first time on May 19, 2009, as a part of a two-CD deluxe package with the band's first album, Tom Tom Club, as part of Universal Music's deluxe editions series.
Contents
Track listing
- "Pleasure of Love" – 6:33
- "On the Line Again" – 4:56
- "This Is a Foxy World" – 3:39
- "Bamboo Town" – 3:56
- "The Man With the 4-Way Hips" – 5:48
- "Measure Up" – 5:05
- "Never Took a Penny" – 3:33
- "Atsababy! (Life Is Great)" – 4:02
Bonus tracks:
- "The Man With the 4-Way Hips" (extended version)
- "Pleasure of Love" (instrumental)
- "The Man With the 4-Way Hips" (dub version)
- "Yella" (Mr. Yella Version)
Chart performance
The album spent 13 weeks on the U.S. Billboard album charts and reached its peak position of #73 in early September 1983.
Singles
Two tracks from the album were released as singles, "Pleasure of Love" and "The Man With The 4-Way Hips", the latter reaching number 82 in the UK Singles Chart in August 1983.
Personnel
Recorded and mixed by Steven Stanley, Benjamin Armbrister, Frank Hanna and Kendall Stubbs
Songs
1Pleasure of Love6:29
2On the Line Again4:56
3This Is a Foxy World3:36