Tom Tom Club - Tom Tom Club (Deluxe Edition) (1981)

DELUXE EDITION : 2CD set. Digitally remastered in 2009! Debut 1981 album from the funky side-project of Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth from Talking Heads, reissued with 18 BONUS tracks. Includes all 8 tracks off their 1983 follow-up "Close To The Bone".

"Who needs to think when your feet just go?" So sings Tina Weymouth on Tom Tom Club's debut album. And rightly so this was the sunny break in the islands that the rhythm section of Talking Heads wanted, and they got it, away from the art-school intellectualism that had resulted in the classic but understandably very unsunny "Remain in Light".
This album, a collection of funky, sprightly little tunes recorded in Barbados with Weymouth's sisters, hubbie and drummer Chris Frantz, and several of the members of the Remain in Light tour group: Adrian Belew, guitar, and Steven Stanley, percussion. Ironically, hoping to toss off a fun album under the radar, the group came out with an album, the best tracks of which, "Genius of Love" and "Wordy Rappinghood," became enormously influential throughout the '80s and '90s, eventually getting ripped off wholeheartedly for Mariah Carey's "Daydream." The album also marks a point in music history when the New York alternative scene and the burgeoning hip-hop scene were influencing each other, when both parties were on to something new. It's a snapshot of a time, and still holds together fairly well.

Track listing

Disc 1

01.  Wordy Rappinghood  - 6:28              

02.  Genius Of Love  - 5:39               

03.  Tom Tom Theme  - 1:20               

04.  L´Elephant  - 4:49               

05.  As Above So Below  - 5:22              

06.  Lorelei (Album Version)  - 5:05             

07.  On On On On... (Album Version)  - 3:33              

08.  Booming And Zooming  - 4:34              

09.  Under The Boardwalk  - 5:46               

10.  On On On On... (Remix Version)  - 3:43              

11.  Lorelei (Remix Version)  - 6:15              

12.  Spooks  - 6:31              

13.  Elephant  - 5:11              

14.  (You Don't Stop) Wordy Rappinghood  - 4:08              

Disc 2

01.  Pleasure Of Love (Album Version)  - 6:26              

02.  On The Line Again  - 4:54               

03.  This Is A Foxy World  - 3:35              

04.  Bamboo Town  - 3:54              

05.  The Man With The 4-Way Hips (Album Version)  - 5:45             

06.  Measure Up  - 5:03              

07.  Never Took A Penny  - 3:32              

08.  Atsababy! (Life Is Great)  - 4:02              

09.  The Man With The 4-Way Hips (Extended Version)  - 7:17              

10.  Pleasure Of Love (Instrumental Version)  - 5:29              

11.  The Man With The 4-Way Hips (Dub Version)  - 7:12              

12.  Yella  - 6:59              

Released:  June 23, 1981

Genre:  New Wave, Post-Disco

Length:  2:12:57

Label:  Sire/Warner Bros. Records

Producer:  Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth, Steven Stanley

Personnel

Adrian Belew - Guitar

Monte Browne - Guitar

Tyrone Downie - Keyboards

Chris Frantz - Drums, Co-Producer

Uziah "Sticky" Thompson - Percussion

Lani Weymouth - Vocals

Laura Weymouth - Vocals

Loric Weymouth - Vocals

Tina Weymouth - Bass, Vocals, Co-Producer