Grace Jones - 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Grace Jones

Skimpy Collection

Although all of these tracks are very good, there are many Grace Jones compilations that are more comprehensive. La Vie En Rose is the only track from her 1970s disco trilogy, from the debut album Portfolio. The albums Fame and Muse are not represented at all.

The other songs are from the 1980s albums Warm Leatherette, Nightclubbing and Living My Life. Brilliant albums like Bulletproof Heart and Inside Story are completely ignored although they contain some of her most melodious and memorable songs like Amado Mio, Someone To Love, I'm Not Perfect and Inside Story.

As regards the other compilations, I recommend The Collection or The Grace Jones Story and for Grace Jones completists, The Ultimate Collection, a 3-disc set. Having said that, this Millennium Collection includes great songs like the awesome Warm Leatherette, the evocative Walking In The Rain, the risque Pull Up To The Bumper, the charming Libertango and the rhythmically innovative My Jamaican Guy. It showcases only a very small part of the genius of this remarkable artist.
February 3, 2007

Grace Jones - sanitized and bubblewrapped

The titles included in this CD are indeed a good representation of Grace Jones's work. The 'remastering', however, is not.

Every single track on this compilation has been reworked to dull down Grace's raw, edgy power. It's as though a roomful of suit-and-tie record executives lifted Grace's vocals and laid them across Lawrence Welk arrangements, the result being that everything that makes Grace Jones blow your mind has been comfortably pasteurized for the coffeetable chitchat set.

God forbid Grace should make anyone uncomfortable, or challenge their perceptions in any way. No, let's just turn down the volume and put a nice, safe audio bow on her.

Save your money, buy the original recordings, and pull up to the bumper, baby. November 13, 2005

GRACE JONES PERSONIFIES ETHNIC BEAUTY LIKE LAURYN HILL & ERYKAH BADU "I LOVE THEM"!!!!

GRACE JONES' & SADES' MUSIC IS SENSUAL... YOU CAN DANCE OR MAKE LOVE 2 THEIR MUSIC!! THEY MUST BE ON CRACK IF GRACES' MUSIC IS WEAK, HER PRESENCE & HER VOICE IS STRONG!!... SHE DEMANDS THE LISTENERS' "ATTENTION"! ON ALBUM COVERS OR ON SCREEN SHE DISPLAYS THAT IT'S COOL AT THE SAME TIME SEXXY 4 A FEMALE 2 BE "BOISTEROUS"! SHE MAY COME OF 2 SOME AS "scary" BECAUSE SHE'S MYSTERIOUS, BUT GRACE IS A "SEX-SYMBOL"!!

GRACE REPRESENTS "BEAUTY" SHE DOESN'T HAVE 2 BE "bleached-blonde" LIKE THAT LEAD SINGING CHICK FROM destinys' child!!!! SEEING & HEARING GRACE BRINGS BACK THE SAYING "THE BLACKER THE BERRY, THE SWEETER THE JUICE"! *(THAT'S 4 DAMN SURE)* GRACE JONES HAS PAID HER DUES DECADES AGO... SO IT'S LONG OVER DUED 4 HER 2 GET "HER RESPECT"!

GRACES' MUSIC IS DEFINENTLY "INFLUENCIAL" BECAUSE OTHER MUSICIANS HAS SAMPLED HER SONGS... SUCH AS LL COOL Js' "Doing it Wild" WITH GRACES' "MY JAMAICAN GUY" & SHYNES' "Bonnie & Shyne" WITH "LA VIE EN ROSE"! GRACE PRODUCE THOSE SONGS PROBABLY BEFORE HALF OF THE WORLD WAS CONCEIVED & THEY'RE STILL HITS TODAY!!!!
***WELL IF YOU DON'T HAVE GRACE JONES' COLLECTION THEN BUY A COPY A S A P!!!!*** June 29, 2005

Millenium Series is weak

BUT this one is relatively OK. Still, If you like Grace at all, "Island Life" Gives a more rounded portrait, with early disco tracks and also "Slave to the Rhythm." (Don't get both--too much overlap.)
I personally think that "Private Life: Compass Point Sessions" is a great deal--$15.00 for two CDs of the reggae influenced material. If you like the mood of those tracks, it's worth it.
"Nightclubbing" is also a great place to start. In my opinion, one cannot go wrong with that album, "Warm Leatherette," or "Living My Life"--all solid albums. April 8, 2005

Free-Line B*, Soda Drinkin' Man, A Walking Disaster...

...Demolition (Wo)man.

Get it for that cut alone. The decadently droning electrosynth, the whip and tickle whiplash percussions, the 80's rock punk guitars...cool. Get it if only to hear Gracie's S&M Dietriching about drawing folks to her like a moth to a flame and 'you kept on coming, you should have ran...' on that cut. Deliciously wicked. Blast that one, Walkin' In the Rain and WARM!...Leatherete.

Missing from the overall mix: The great "Pars" and "I'm not Perfect (But I'm Perfect For You)". But it's still a good product. Get it and Enjoy the Mistress. And don't forget to bring your ace bandages and carbonated beverages. October 11, 2004

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