Close to the Bone (Tom Tom Club album)

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Close to the Bone
File:Tom Tom Club - Close to the Bone.jpg
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)Tom Tom Club1981
Close to the Bone
(1983)
Boom Boom Chi Boom Boom
(1988)Boom Boom Chi Boom Boom1988
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 3/5 stars[1]
Robert Christgau C+[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

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