The Ultimate Collection (Grace Jones album)

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The Ultimate Collection
Compilation album by Grace Jones
Released	2006
Recorded	1976-1998
Genre	New Wave, Disco
Label	Universal Music, CCM
Grace Jones chronology
Colour Collection 2006 The Ultimate Collection 2006 Corporate Cannibal 2008

The Ultimate Collection is a a 3 CD compilation by Grace Jones, released by Universal Music Netherlands in 2006. Remastered in a 32-bit sound.

The Ultimate Collection feautures newly remastered songs from her disco period (1976-1979), most noticeably the album version of her 1978 hit "Do or Die", which is available on compact disc for the first time in over a decade. The Ultimate Collection is not intended to be a singles collection, as several single releases are missing (most notably "On Your Knees", the only single from the album Muse).

The Ultimate Collection is more or less an expanded re-issue of Universal Music's The Grace Jones Story released the same year, with a few notable changes:

Disc one omits "That's The Trouble" but adds the aforementioned album version of "Do or Die", "All On A Summer's Night" as well as the original long versions of "Private Life", "Love Is The Drug" and "Warm Leatherette". Unfortunately Universal Music haven't corrected the faulty edit of Muse track "Saved" that also appeared on The Grace Jones Story, which means that the two first minutes of the song are again left out.

Disc two uses the album version of "Pull Up To The Bumper" instead of the 7" edit as well as the original long version of "The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game". It adds "Inspiration", "Slave To The Rhythm" (sadly not the well-known single version but the album track that confusingly bears the same title) and "Victor Should Have Been A Jazz Musician", but omits "Someone To Love" and moves "She's Lost Control" and "Sex Drive" to disc three, which otherwise consists of alternate versions previously issued on 1998's Private Life: The Compass Point Sessions.

The Ultimate Collection, packaged in a double gatefold cardboard sleeve - although usually listed as a box set, was released by the Dutch label CCM, a subsidiary of Universal Music Holland. CCM has previously issued similar 3 CD Ultimate Collections by artists like Donna Summer, Barry White, Diana Ross, Kool & The Gang, Dusty Springfield and others.

[edit] Track listing

Disc 1

1. "La Vie en Rose" - 7:29
2. "Send In the Clowns" - 7:35
3. "I Need a Man" - 3:24
4. "Do Or Die" (Album Version) - 6:29
5. "All on a Summer's Night" - 4:14
6. "Fame" - 5:34
7. "Am I Ever Going to Fall in Love in New York City" - 5:27
8. "Don't Mess with the Messer" - 4:53
9. "Sinning" - 5:06
10. "Saved" - 5:00 (N.B. Original length 7:13. This CD, just like The Grace Jones Story, skips the first two minutes of the track and starts with the first line of the second verse)
11. "Private Life" (Original Long Version) - 6:18
12. "Love is the Drug" (Original Long Version) - 8:41
13. "Warm Leatherette" (Original Long Version) - 5:37

Disc 2

1. "The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game" (Original Long Version) - 6:45
2. "I've Seen That Face Before (Libertango)" - 4:29
3. "Pull Up to the Bumper" - 4:42
4. "Nightclubbing" - 5:05
5. "Walking in the Rain" - 4:20
6. "Demolition Man" - 4:03
7. "Nipple to the Bottle" - 5:57
8. "The Apple Stretching" - 7:08
9. "Inspiration" - 4:35
10. "My Jamaican Guy" - 6:02
11. "Slave to the Rhythm" (N.B. Track four on the Slave to the Rhythm CD album, not the single version) - 6:13
12. "I'm Not Perfect (But I'm Perfect For You)" - 3:59
13. "Victor Should Have Been A Jazz Musician" - 4:44
14. "Love on Top of Love" - 6:16

Disc 3 (Bonus CD)

1. "Pars" (1998 Remix/Re-edit) - 5:42
2. "Private Life" (1998 Dub Remix/Re-edit) - 8:06
3. "Use Me" (1998 Remix/Re-edit) - 6:11
4. "She's Lost Control" (1998 Remix/Re-edit) - 8:25
5. "Nipple to the Bottle" (Original 12" Version) - 6:54
6. "My Jamaican Guy" (Original US 12" Version) - 7:02
7. "Ring of Fire" (Demo) - 3:58
8. "Man Around the House" - 4:13
9. "Living My Life" (1986 7" Remix/Edit) - 3:33
10. "Slave to the Rhythm" (1998 "Hot Blooded Version") - 8:19
11. "Sex Drive" (7" Version) - 3:58