Close to the Bone (Tom Tom Club album)

Close to the Bone
Studio album by Tom Tom Club
Released July 1983
Genre New wave, funk
Length 37:32
Label US: Sire/Warner Bros. Records
23916
UK: Island/PolyGram Records (non US)
Argentina: A&M
Producer Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth
Tom Tom Club chronology
Tom Tom Club
(1981)		 Close to the Bone
(1983)		 Boom Boom Chi Boom Boom
(1988)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Robert ChristgauC+[2]

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.

Track listing

  1. "Pleasure of Love" – 6:33
  2. "On the Line Again" – 4:56
  3. "This Is a Foxy World" – 3:39
  4. "Bamboo Town" – 3:56
  5. "The Man With the 4-Way Hips" – 5:48
  6. "Measure Up" – 5:05
  7. "Never Took a Penny" – 3:33
  8. "Atsababy! (Life Is Great)" – 4:02

Bonus tracks:

  1. "The Man With the 4-Way Hips (extended version)"
  2. "Pleasure of Love (instrumental)"
  3. "The Man With the 4-Way Hips (dub version)"
  4. "Yella (Mr. Yella Version)"

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.[3]

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ http://www.allmusic.com/album/close-to-the-bone-mw0000318871
  2. ↑ http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=Tom+Tom+Club
  3. ↑ "Tom Tom Club", Official Charts Company. Retrieved July 30, 2015
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