Private Life: The Compass Point Sessions

Private Life: The Compass Point Sessions is a two disc anthology of recordings by Grace Jones

Grace Jones

Grace Jones is a Jamaican-American singer, model and actress.Jones secured a record deal with Island Records in 1977, which resulted in a string of dance-club hits. In the late 1970s, she adapted the emerging electronic music style and adopted a severe, androgynous look with square-cut hair and...

released by Island Records

Island Records

Island Records is a record label that was founded by Chris Blackwell in Jamaica. It was based in the United Kingdom for many years and is now owned by Universal Music Group...

in 1998.

Grace Jones recorded three albums with Sly & Robbie in the legendary Compass Point Studios

Compass Point Studios

Compass Point Studios were founded in 1977 by Chris Blackwell, the owner of Island Records.In the late 1970s and mid-1980s, many musical artists from across the world came to the Bahamas to record music at its facilities. Many producers, including Chris Blackwell himself, used the studio to produce...

, Bahamas during the period of 1980-1982; Warm Leatherette, Nightclubbing
Nightclubbing
Nightclubbing is the fifth studio album by Grace Jones, released in 1981. It is the second of three post-disco albums that Jones made at Compass Point Studios in the Bahamas and became Jones' commercial breakthrough and also formed the basis of her groundbreaking concept tour A One Man Show...

and Living My Life
Living My Life (album)
-Charts:AlbumSingle...

. Private Life: The Compass Point Sessions contains long and extended version of her hits, although the CD booklet claims that these haven't been issued before, most of them have in fact appeared on numerous CD re-issues around the world. Other tracks were remix

Remix

A remix is an alternative version of a recorded song, made from an original version. This term is also used for any alterations of media other than song ....

ed or re-edit

Re-edit

In popular music, a re-edit is an altered version of a recorded song created by repeating, reordering, or removing sections of the original recording - for example, making a chorus repeat several times in a row, or extending the length of a break section. Like remixes, re-edits are especially...

ed by the PolyGram

PolyGram

PolyGram was the name of the major label recording company started by Philips from as a holding company for its music interests in 1945. In 1999 it was sold to Seagram and merged into Universal Music Group.-Hollandsche Decca Distributie , 1929-1950:...

/Universal

Universal Music Group

Universal Music Group is an American music group, the largest of the "big four" record companies by its commanding market share and its multitude of global operations...

engineers

Audio engineering

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in 1998 for this particular compilation - this instead of using the many existing long or extended versions by original producers Chris Blackwell

Chris Blackwell

Christopher Percy Gordon "Chris" Blackwell is a British record producer and businessman, who was the founder of Island Records, acknowledged as the most successful and groundbreaking independent record company in history. Blackwell has been a music industry mogul for over fifty years...

and Alex Sadkin

Alex Sadkin

Alex Sadkin is best remembered as a record producer in the early 1980s, but actually got his start in the music industry as a saxophonist for the Las Olas Brass in Fort Lauderdale, Florida....

that were mixed and released on vinyl in 1980-1982. The track "Living My Life" appears as an edited remix by Paul "Groucho" Smykle - dating from 1986, which the liner notes fail to mention. Another anomaly on The Compass Point Sessions is that it concludes with "Slave To The Rhythm", a track which was recorded in 1985, in London and with British producer Trevor Horn

Trevor Horn

Trevor Charles Horn CBE is an English pop music record producer, songwriter, musician and singer. He was born in Houghton-le-Spring in north-east England....

. Also the mix used, here renamed "Hot Blooded Version", is again an alternate 1998 re-mix/re-edit of the original 12" version entitled "Blooded."

This compilation, however, collects what is generally regarded to be Jones' best work and it also offers a well-researched essay and two previously unreleased songs from the Living My Life
Living My Life
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sessions: "Man Around The House" and a demo recording of Johnny Cash

Johnny Cash

John R. "Johnny" Cash was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century...

's classic "Ring of Fire

Ring of Fire (song)

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Track listing

Disc One

"Private Life" (Original Long Version) - 6:17
- Original version appears on 1980 album Warm Leatherette
"Private Life" (1998 Dub Re-Edit/Remix) - 8:04
- Original version appears on 1980 album Warm Leatherette
"Love is the Drug" (Original Long Version) - 8:38
- Original version appears on 1980 album Warm Leatherette
"Breakdown" - 5:29
- From 1980 album Warm Leatherette
"Warm Leatherette
Warm Leatherette
"Warm Leatherette" is a song by Daniel Miller.-Overview:"Warm Leatherette" was released as the B-side to "T.V.O.D.", the only single by Miller's musical project The Normal. It was the very first release on his Mute Records label, and an early example of the then-burgeoning industrial music genre....

" (Original Long Version) - 5:35
- From 1980 album Warm Leatherette
"The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game" (Original Long Version) - 6:44
- From 1980 album Warm Leatherette
"I've Done It Again" - 3:50
- From 1981 album Nightclubbing
  Nightclubbing
  Nightclubbing is the fifth studio album by Grace Jones, released in 1981. It is the second of three post-disco albums that Jones made at Compass Point Studios in the Bahamas and became Jones' commercial breakthrough and also formed the basis of her groundbreaking concept tour A One Man Show...
"Pars" (1998 Re-Edit/Remix) - 5:41
- Original version appears on 1980 album Warm Leatherette
"Pull Up to the Bumper
Pull Up to the Bumper
"Pull Up to the Bumper" was the second single released by Grace Jones from her critically acclaimed 1981 album Nightclubbing and has since come to be one of Jones' signature tunes. The song was co-written by Jones herself, Sly Dunbar, Dana Mano and Robbie Shakespeare.Upon its release, the song...

" - 4:33
- From 1981 album Nightclubbing
  Nightclubbing
  Nightclubbing is the fifth studio album by Grace Jones, released in 1981. It is the second of three post-disco albums that Jones made at Compass Point Studios in the Bahamas and became Jones' commercial breakthrough and also formed the basis of her groundbreaking concept tour A One Man Show...
"Use Me
Use Me (song)
"Use Me" is a song composed and originally recorded by Bill Withers, and was included on his 1972 album Still Bill. It is his second-biggest hit in the United States, released in September 1972, and later reaching No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart...

" (1998 Re-Edit/Remix) - 6:10
- Original version appears on 1981 album Nightclubbing
  Nightclubbing
  Nightclubbing is the fifth studio album by Grace Jones, released in 1981. It is the second of three post-disco albums that Jones made at Compass Point Studios in the Bahamas and became Jones' commercial breakthrough and also formed the basis of her groundbreaking concept tour A One Man Show...
"She's Lost Control" (1998 Re-Edit/Remix) - 8:23
- Single B-side from the Warm Leatherette sessions, 1980
"She's Lost Control" (1998 Dub Re-Edit/Remix) - 8:38
- Single B-side from the Warm Leatherette sessions, 1980

Disc Two

"Walking in the Rain
Walking in the Rain
"Walking in the Rain" was the third single from Grace Jones' 1981 album Nightclubbing. The song was originally composed and recorded by Australian band Flash and the Pan and included on their eponymous debut album....

" (1998 Remix/Re-Edit) - 4:27
- Original version appears on 1981 album Nightclubbing
  Nightclubbing
  Nightclubbing is the fifth studio album by Grace Jones, released in 1981. It is the second of three post-disco albums that Jones made at Compass Point Studios in the Bahamas and became Jones' commercial breakthrough and also formed the basis of her groundbreaking concept tour A One Man Show...
"Cry Now, Laugh Later" - 5:01
- From 1982 album Living My Life
  Living My Life (album)
  -Charts:AlbumSingle...
"Nightclubbing
Nightclubbing
Nightclubbing is the fifth studio album by Grace Jones, released in 1981. It is the second of three post-disco albums that Jones made at Compass Point Studios in the Bahamas and became Jones' commercial breakthrough and also formed the basis of her groundbreaking concept tour A One Man Show...

" - 5:03
- From 1981 album Nightclubbing
  Nightclubbing
  Nightclubbing is the fifth studio album by Grace Jones, released in 1981. It is the second of three post-disco albums that Jones made at Compass Point Studios in the Bahamas and became Jones' commercial breakthrough and also formed the basis of her groundbreaking concept tour A One Man Show...
"The Apple Stretching
The Apple Stretching
"The Apple Stretching/Nipple to the Bottle" is the second and last single from Grace Jones' album Living My Life, her 3rd and last album recorded in the famous Compass Point Studios in Nassau, Bahamas....

" - 7:05
- From 1982 album Living My Life
  Living My Life (album)
  -Charts:AlbumSingle...
"Nipple to the Bottle" (Original UK 12" Version) - 6:53
- Original version appears on album Living My Life
  Living My Life (album)
  -Charts:AlbumSingle...
"My Jamaican Guy
My Jamaican Guy
"My Jamaican Guy" was the lead single to Grace Jones' 1982 album Living My Life, her third and last album recorded in the Compass Point Studios in Nassau, Bahamas. The single was released in January 1983....

" (Original US 12" Version) - 7:01
- Original version appears on album Living My Life
  Living My Life (album)
  -Charts:AlbumSingle...
"Feel Up" - 4:02
- From 1981 album Nightclubbing
  Nightclubbing
  Nightclubbing is the fifth studio album by Grace Jones, released in 1981. It is the second of three post-disco albums that Jones made at Compass Point Studios in the Bahamas and became Jones' commercial breakthrough and also formed the basis of her groundbreaking concept tour A One Man Show...
"I've Seen That Face Before (Libertango)
I've Seen That Face Before (Libertango)
"I've Seen That Face Before " is the third single from Grace Jones' album Nightclubbing. The song juxtaposes "Libertango", an Argentine tango classic, written by bandoneonist Ástor Piazzolla and first recorded by the composer himself in 1974, against a reggae arrangement and new lyrics penned by...

" - 4:29
- From 1981 album Nightclubbing
  Nightclubbing
  Nightclubbing is the fifth studio album by Grace Jones, released in 1981. It is the second of three post-disco albums that Jones made at Compass Point Studios in the Bahamas and became Jones' commercial breakthrough and also formed the basis of her groundbreaking concept tour A One Man Show...
"Demolition Man
Demolition Man (Grace Jones)
"Demolition Man" is a song performed by Grace Jones, released as a single from her 1981 album Nightclubbing. The song was written by Sting of The Police.-Meaning and Composition:...

" (Original Long Version) - 4:56
- Original version appears on 1981 album Nightclubbing
  Nightclubbing
  Nightclubbing is the fifth studio album by Grace Jones, released in 1981. It is the second of three post-disco albums that Jones made at Compass Point Studios in the Bahamas and became Jones' commercial breakthrough and also formed the basis of her groundbreaking concept tour A One Man Show...
"Unlimited Capacity for Love" - 5:44
- From 1982 album Living My Life
  Living My Life (album)
  -Charts:AlbumSingle...
"Ring of Fire" (Demo) - 3:56
- Demo from the 1982 Living My Life
  Living My Life (album)
  -Charts:AlbumSingle...
  
  sessions
"Man Around the House" - 4:12
- Demo from the 1982 Living My Life
  Living My Life (album)
  -Charts:AlbumSingle...
  
  sessions
"Living My Life
Living My Life (song)
"Living My Life" is a Grace Jones song released as a single in 1983. It was originally recorded for the album of the same name, but for unknown reasons it did not make the final cut. The music video for "Living My Life" was also included in Jones' concert film, A One Man Show.A remixed version was...

" (1986 7" Remix Edit) - 3:31
- Non-album track from the 1982 Living My Life
  Living My Life (album)
  -Charts:AlbumSingle...
  
  sessions
"Slave to the Rhythm
Slave to the Rhythm (song)
"Slave to the Rhythm" was the first single from Grace Jones' album of the same name, which was released in 1985. The song and the album was written by Bruce Woolley, Simon Darlow, Stephen Lipson and Trevor Horn and was produced by Horn...

" (1998 "Hot Blooded Version") - 8:18
- Original version appears on 1985 album Slave to the Rhythm
  Slave to the Rhythm
  Slave to the Rhythm is the seventh album by Grace Jones. It was produced by Trevor Horn and released in 1985. The album was written by Bruce Woolley, Simon Darlow, Stephen Lipson and Trevor Horn...

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