Private Life: The Compass Point Sessions
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| Released | 16 June 1998 | |||
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| Length | 152:37 | |||
| Label | Island | |||
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Private Life: The Compass Point Sessions is a compilation album constisting of recordings by recorded by Jamaican singer and songwriter Grace Jones released in 1998 by Island Records. The two-disc anthology consists mostly of material pulled from 1980–1982 recording sessions.
Background, production and release
Grace Jones recorded three albums with
Private Life: The Compass Point Sessions contains long and extended version of Jones' hits, and although the CD booklet claims that these have not been issued before, most of them have in fact appeared on numerous CD re-issues around the world. Other tracks were
For the Brazilian edition of the album, the "Best of" title was added to the original artwork.
Critical reception
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
Tom Hull – on the Web | B+ ( )[1] |
The album receive favorable reviews from music critics. Stephen Thomas Erlewine from AllMusic website, gave the album four out of five stars and wrote that the album "unquestionably [has] Jones' best material" mainly because "she was supported by a top-notch studio band and produced by Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare". He opined that the album was of interest primarily to die-hard fans because casual hard fans will think that it has "too much Grace Jones in one place". Music critic Tom Hull gave the album a B+ (or three stars out of five) and wrote that the song "Bullshit" was the "major lost" in the album. Sasha Frere-Jones from SPIN magazine gave the album a favorable review and wrote that its songs "capture the vibe of early 1980's demilitarized zone between disco and hip hop".[2]
Track listing
Information taken from Apple Music, AllMusic and Spotify.[3][4][5]
All songs produced by Alex Sadkin and Chris Blackwell, except for "Slave to the Rhythm", produced by Trevor Horn and Stephen Lipson.[5]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Album | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Private Life" (long version) | Chrissie Hynde | Warm Leatherette | 6:17 |
| 2. | "Private Life" (dub version) | Hynde | Warm Leatherette | 8:03 |
| 3. | "Love Is the Drug" (long version) | Warm Leatherette | 8:38 | |
| 4. | "Breakdown" | Tom Petty | Warm Leatherette | 5:29 |
| 5. | "Warm Leatherette" (long version) | Daniel Miller | Warm Leatherette | 5:35 |
| 6. | "The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game" (long version) | Smokey Robinson | Warm Leatherette | 6:43 |
| 7. | "I've Done It Again" | Barry Reynolds | Nightclubbing | 3:49 |
| 8. | "Pars" (long version) | Jacques Higelin | Warm Leatherette | 5:41 |
| 9. | "Pull Up to the Bumper" |
| Nightclubbing | 4:33 |
| 10. | "Use Me" (long version) | Bill Withers | Nightclubbing | 6:10 |
| 11. | "She's Lost Control" (long version) | Warm Leatherette | 8:23 | |
| 12. | "She's Lost Control" (dub version) |
| Warm Leatherette | 8:37 |
| Total length: | 77:58 | |||
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Album | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Walking in the Rain" | Nightclubbing | 4:28 | |
| 2. | "Cry Now, Laugh Later" |
| Living My Life | 5:01 |
| 3. | "Nightclubbing" | Nightclubbing | 5:03 | |
| 4. | "The Apple Stretching" | Melvin Van Peebles | Living My Life | 7:06 |
| 5. | "Nipple to the Bottle" (long version) |
| Living My Life | 6:54 |
| 6. | "My Jamaican Guy" (long version) | Jones | Living My Life | 7:02 |
| 7. | "Feel Up" | Jones | Nightclubbing | 4:01 |
| 8. | "I've Seen That Face Before (Libertango)" |
| Nightclubbing | 4:29 |
| 9. | "Demolition Man" (long version) | Sting | Nightclubbing | 4:56 |
| 10. | "Unlimited Capacity for Love" |
| Living My Life | 5:43 |
| 11. | "Ring of Fire" | 3:56 | ||
| 12. | "Man Around the House" |
| 4:12 | |
| 13. | "Living My Life" (7" version) | Jones | 3:30 | |
| 14. | "Slave to the Rhythm" (Hot Blooded version) |
| Slave to the Rhythm | 8:18 |
| Total length: | 74:39 | |||
Charts
| Chart (1998) | Peak position |
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| New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[6] | 37 |
| UK Albums (OCC)[7] | 158 |
References
- ^ a b Hull, Tom (5 July 2021). "Music Week". Tom Hull – on the Web. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
- ^ a b Frere-Jones, Sasha (July 1998). Retro Active. SPIN Media LLC. p. 124. Retrieved 21 October 2021.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - ^ a b c Thomas Erlewine, Stephen. "Private Life: The Compass Point Sessions - Grace Jones". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 28 October 2020. Retrieved 28 October 2020.
- ^ "Private Life: The Compass Point Sessions by Grace Jones on Apple Music". Apple Music. Archived from the original on 28 October 2020. Retrieved 28 October 2020.
- ^ a b "Private Life: The Compass Point Sessions by Grace Jones on Spotify". Spotify. Retrieved 28 October 2020.
- ^ "Charts.nz – Grace Jones – Private Life - The Compass Point Sessions". Hung Medien. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
- ^ "Chart Log UK (1994–2010): Jessie J – JX". Zobbel.de. Retrieved 13 June 2012.
