Living My Life (album)

Living My Life
Studio album by Grace Jones
Released 7 November 1982
Recorded 1982
Genre Reggae, Dance, Soul, New Wave
Length 37:32
Label Island
Producer Chris Blackwell, Alex Sadkin,
Grace Jones chronology
Nightclubbing
(1981)		 Living My Life
(1982)		 Slave to the Rhythm
(1985)
Singles from Living My Life
  1. "Nipple to the Bottle"
    Released: October 1982
  2. "The Apple Stretching"
    Released: October 1982
  3. "My Jamaican Guy"
    Released: January 1983
  4. "Cry Now, Laugh Later"
    Released: January 1983
  5. "Unlimited Capacity For Love"
    Released: January 1983
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Robert Christgau (B+)[2]
Rolling Stone [3]

Living My Life is the sixth album by Grace Jones, released in 1982. It was the last of three albums she recorded at Compass Point Studios in the Bahamas. This time around, Jones wrote or co-wrote every track on the album except for one, "The Apple Stretching", which was originally written by Melvin Van Peebles and used in the Broadway show Waltz of the Stork.

The album reached number #15 on the UK Album Chart in November 1982. In 1983 one report by Leo Sacks from Billboard magazine inform that the album suprassed 400,000 mark worldwide.[4]

The title track "Living My Life" was ultimately left off the album. It received a scarce 1983 release as a UK white label single and was only officially released in Portugal. Jones, however, performed the track on several TV shows and it was also included in her concert video, A One Man Show. It was later issued as the B-side of the 1986 UK re-release of "Love Is the Drug", which became a UK top 40 hit.

Further outtakes included the track "Man Around the House" (written by Jones and Barry Reynolds), and a cover of Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire". Both tracks were released on the 1998 compilation "Private Life: The Compass Point Sessions".

Contents

Track listing

Side A

  1. "My Jamaican Guy" (Grace Jones) – 6:00
  2. "Nipple to the Bottle" (Grace Jones, Sly Dunbar) – 5:55
  3. "The Apple Stretching" (Melvin Van Peebles) – 7:08

Side B

  1. "Everybody Hold Still" (Grace Jones, Barry Reynolds) – 3:10
  2. "Cry Now, Laugh Later" (Grace Jones, Barry Reynolds) – 5:00
  3. "Inspiration" (Grace Jones, Barry Reynolds) – 4:35
  4. "Unlimited Capacity for Love" (Grace Jones, Barry Reynolds) – 5:45

Personnel

Singles

Charts

Album

Year Chart Position
1982 Billboard Black Albums 19
Billboard Pop Albums 86
Sweden[5] 7
Norway[6] 13
Dutch top 40 13
UK Charts 15

Single

Year Single Chart Position
1982 "My Jamaican Guy" UK Charts 56
"Nipple to the Bottle" Billboard Black Singles 17
Billboard Club Play 2
Netherlands 7
"Cry Now, Laugh Later" Billboard Black Singles 64
Billboard Club Play 33

Notes

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ Robert Christgau review
  3. ^ Rolling Stone review
  4. ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=oSQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT49&dq=billboard+grace+jones+warm+leatherette&hl=pt-BR&ei=DQ-RTeuFI4bZgQeU9pAZ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CDwQ6AEwBTgK#v=onepage&q&f=false
  5. ^ http://swedishcharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Grace+Jones&titel=Living+My+Life&cat=a
  6. ^ http://norwegiancharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Grace+Jones&titel=Living+My+Life&cat=a
Grace Jones
Studio albums
Portfolio (1977)  · Fame (1978)  · Muse (1979)  · Warm Leatherette (1980)  · Nightclubbing (1981)  · Living My Life (1982)  · Slave to the Rhythm (1985)  · Inside Story (1986)  · Bulletproof Heart (1989)  · Hurricane (2008)
Compilations
Island Life (1985)  · The Ultimate (1993)  · Island Life 2 (1996)  · Private Life: The Compass Point Sessions (1998)  · 20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Grace Jones (2003)  · The Universal Masters Collection (2003)  · The Collection (2004)  · The Grace Jones Story (2006)  · Colour Collection (2006)  · The Ultimate Collection (2006)
Singles
"I Need a Man"  · "Sorry"  · "La Vie en rose"  · "Do or Die"  · "On Your Knees"  · "A Rolling Stone"  · "Love Is the Drug"  · "Private Life"  · "The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game"  · "Breakdown"  · "Demolition Man"  · "I've Seen That Face Before (Libertango)"  · "Pull Up to the Bumper"  · "Feel Up"  · "Walking in the Rain"  · "Nipple to the Bottle"  · "The Apple Stretching"  · "My Jamaican Guy"  · "Living My Life"  · "Cry Now, Laugh Later"  · "Slave to the Rhythm"  · "Jones the Rhythm"  · "I'm Not Perfect (But I'm Perfect for You)"  · "Party Girl"  · "Victor Should Have Been a Jazz Musician"  · "Crush"  · "Love on Top of Love"  · "Amado Mio"  · "7 Day Weekend"  · "Evilmainya"  · "Sexdrive"  · "Love Bites"  · "Hurricane (Cradle to the Grave)"  · "Corporate Cannibal"  · "Williams' Blood"  · "Love You to Life"
Filmography
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